“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-w…
Kling AI drops version 4.0 with stereo audio, multilingual lip sync, and a lighter Flash variant
Kling AI has released version 4.0 of its video generator with support for clips up to 30 seconds, ten keyframe images as input, and prompt comprehension expanded to 8,000 tokens. …
Tennessee sued over ‘secrecy’ surrounding classroom AI policy meetings - WKRN News 2
Tennessee sued over ‘secrecy’ surrounding classroom AI policy meetings WKRN News 2
People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
UO discusses move towards university-wide AI policy - Daily Emerald
UO discusses move towards university-wide AI policy Daily Emerald
City of Bentonville’s AI Policy Doesn't Apply to Flock - The Bentonville Bulletin
City of Bentonville’s AI Policy Doesn't Apply to Flock The Bentonville Bulletin
Stripe says AI agent purchases are adding up, but it won't share the numbers
AI agents are increasingly using Stripe's payment service Link to shop for their users, Upstarts Media reports. The article Stripe says AI agent purchases are adding up, but it wo…
MiniMax Just Launched M3.1 Flash: 428B MoE Agentic Model at $0.15/M Input
MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a 428B-parameter MoE model with about 23B active parameters and a 1M-token context. API pricing is $0.15/$0.60 per 1M tokens, with weights due Oct…
The Download: preserving the Arctic permafrost, and playful AI agents
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires a…
The neocloud shakeout is coming, and Nvidia has the most to lose
After stock crashes and Firmus's scrapped IPO, industry executives expect only seven to ten of the hundreds of AI cloud providers to survive. CoreWeave lost a quarter of its marke…
Anthropic plans fund for workers threatened by AI, Musk counters with SpaceX shares for children
Anthropic wants to put five percent of its shares into a new public benefit fund that will also look into direct payments to workers at risk of losing their jobs. The fund is a co…
Anthropic cushions its upcoming IPO with a discretionary fund for workers its models might replace
Anthropic wants to put five percent of its shares into a new public benefit fund that will also look into direct payments to workers at risk of losing their jobs. The fund is a co…
The EU AI Act and UK AI regulation: A product law perspective - Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
The EU AI Act and UK AI regulation: A product law perspective Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon
In the middle of an especially warm July in 2021, a wildfire ignited in a thick forest of black spruce and peeling paper birch trees on the northern campus of the University of Al…
AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in…
How far can we push computing?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the s…
To AI or not: 4 Maryland school districts to miss state policy deadline - Capital Gazette
To AI or not: 4 Maryland school districts to miss state policy deadline Capital Gazette
To AI or not: 4 Maryland school districts to miss state policy deadline - Baltimore Sun
To AI or not: 4 Maryland school districts to miss state policy deadline Baltimore Sun
Illinois Governor Creates Cabinet to Explore AI Regulation - Insurance Journal
Illinois Governor Creates Cabinet to Explore AI Regulation Insurance Journal
NVIDIA Open Sources Run:ai Under Apache 2.0 for Kubernetes GPU Orchestration
NVIDIA has released the full Run:ai GPU orchestration platform as open source under Apache 2.0. The release includes KAI Scheduler, CUDA 13.4 GPU fractioning, quota management, an…
Mistral AI Releases Timestral: A 209M Forecasting Model Family That Outperforms Google’s TimesFM-3
Mistral released Timestral, a time series foundation model family from 5M to 209M parameters. The 209M model leads GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench among zero-shot models and runs on…
British and Irish Students Express Concern Over Turnitin AI Policy - The University Times
British and Irish Students Express Concern Over Turnitin AI Policy The University Times
TinyFish Makes Search Free: What It Really Costs an AI Agent to Read the Web
An AI agent that reads the web pays 2 kinds of cost. The first is the retrieval charge: what a search or fetch API bills per request. The second is model processing: content passe…
What a Good “AI” Policy Looks Like - John Scalzi's Whatever
What a Good “AI” Policy Looks Like John Scalzi's Whatever