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4 articlesHow an astrophysicist uses Codex to help simulate black holes
Discover how astrophysicist Chi-kwan Chan uses Codex to build black hole simulations, helping scientists study extreme physics and test Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Access OpenAI models and Codex through your Oracle cloud commitment
Access OpenAI models and Codex through Oracle Cloud, using existing commitments to build and deploy AI with enterprise security and governance.
DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation
An overview of DiffusionGemma, an exceptionally fast text generation model with up to 4x faster speeds.
PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US
A new report from OpenAI details PRC-linked influence operations using AI to target U.S. tech debates, data center narratives, tariffs, and false claims about ChatGPT.
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32 articlesxAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims
A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.
Trump Muses About Government Taking a Piece of A.I. Companies
President Trump touched on what is an increasingly hot topic in Washington: how average Americans can get a piece of the tech industry’s A.I. windfall.
Investors Feed A.I. Firms’ Voracious Appetite for New Money
In the race to dominate the artificial intelligence industry, companies like SpaceX and Alphabet are borrowing cash and raising equity from investors at the fastest pace in decades.
Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues
Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing.
A.I. Chatbot Helps a $100 Thrift Store Painting Sell for Over $250,000
When a son got curious about the origins of a painting his mother bought at a secondhand shop decades ago, Google Gemini had some intriguing thoughts.
Texas Governor Seeks New Limits on Data Centers
Gov. Greg Abbott is urging tighter controls and a repeal of financial incentives for data centers, which have drawn complaints in rural Republican areas of Texas.
Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster
Another day, another AI model from Google. This time, Google DeepMind has released a new member of the Gemma 4 open model family , but it's fundamentally different from the rest of the lineup. DiffusionGemma doesn't generate outputs linearly like most AI models. Instead, it can produce an entire block of text in parallel. Google says this makes it faster and more efficient when running on local hardware like an Nvidia DGX or a humble gaming GPU. Most AI models are designed to be autoregressive—they generate text left to right one token at a time. DiffusionGemma has more in common with image generation models, which start with static and then denoise it to create the desired content. This model takes a field of placeholder tokens running over the canvas multiple times to generate likely…
Claude Fable won’t answer basic biology questions
Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5 , calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and praising its skills in biology, among others. But the model won't answer basic biology questions - the kind you'd expect a high schooler to handle. Instead, it hands off the query to the former flagship model , Claude Opus 4.8. It isn't because Fable doesn't know the answers. It's because Anthropic won't let it, by design. Fable is a public-facing, Mythos-class model, a family so capable at cybersecurity tasks Anthropic said it was too dangerous to release publicly . But while Anthropic has spent much of the extended Mythos rol … Read the full story at The Verge.
Why the Real A.I. Threat Is in the Back Office
As artificial intelligence spreads, millions of middle-class jobs in human resources, billing and payroll could be at risk. Most are held by women.
Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI . Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from graduation ceremonies, like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt getting an earful at the University of Arizona , or the speaker in Florida who seemed surprised when students booed at the mention of AI as "the next industrial revolution." The videos speak to a broader societal sentiment around AI - the technology is deeply unpopular even as technology compani … Read the full story at The Verge.
The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows
(L-R) Sen. Mike Rounds, Pamela Brown, Chris Malachowsky, Kevin O'Leary, Gabriele Caccia, Tammy Haddad, Michele L. Jawando, Sen. Mark Warner, Michael Kelly and Major General Patrick Ellis attend the Second Annual AI Honors. | Getty Images for Washington AI N Hello and welcome to Regulator , a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politics, tech influence, and tech shenanigans in Washington, DC. (If you're not a subscriber, you can get on board here .) We're back after a two-week hiatus, during most of which I was gallivanting in the Netherlands for a family wedding, and a trip to the Heineken Experience, which is, truly, an ~experience~ . Before I left, I asked everyone in Washington to please chill out while I was gone. This clearly did not happen, and I have returned to a political…
Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI
A group of independent musicians is suing Google claiming it trained Lyria on their uploads. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won't admit it right now. A group of independent musicians is suing Google , claiming that it illegally used songs they uploaded to YouTube to train its Lyria 3 model. Google has filed a motion to dismiss the case, saying: Their lawsuit is based on the unsupported hypothesis that Google trained on their specific works. Even accepting their untested allegations as fact, the Complaint cannot stand. Plaintiffs each granted YouTube, and Google - which provides the service-a broad license to use the uploaded con … Read the full story at…
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews. The preliminary ruling came in a case flagged by The Decoder , where two publishers found that Google's AI Overviews incorrectly linked them to scams and other sketchy business practices. After smearing publishers by making affirmative statements like "Yes, [it] is known for dubious business practices and is often perceived as a scam," Google failed to correct the misleading output, even after the publishers sent a cease-and-desist letter earlier this year. Google tried the usual arguments to shield itself from liability for false statements in AI Overviews, such as arguing that most users understand that AI…
‘AI-pilled’ firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI
The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more than an engineer's salary — yet.
Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns
Anthropic released Claude Fable , its first Mythos-class AI model, yesterday and it's already causing concerns inside Microsoft. Sources tell me that Microsoft is limiting the use of Claude Fable 5 for employees because of Anthropic's new data retention requirements. While Microsoft quickly rolled out Claude Fable 5 to its GitHub Copilot and Foundry customers, I'm told the model isn't available in the model picker that Microsoft employees use for internal versions of GitHub Copilot. All other Claude models are still available internally at Microsoft, because they operate under Zero Data Retention (ZDR) rules. I understand that Microsoft ha … Read the full story at The Verge.
Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training
Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new "Search Services History" setting . That includes the images you search for with Google Lens, recordings from its real-time Search Live tool , voice searches, and phrases spoken into Translate, according to an update on the company's website . You can switch off the Search Services History setting and disable the "Save Media" option if you don't want Google to save these interactions. Google says it will use your Search Services History to "provide, d … Read the full story at The Verge.
How memory tools can make AI models worse
New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.
Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable
Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in
AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.
The three hard-tech moonshots fueling SpaceX’s unbelievable IPO
Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.
Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI
Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.
The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Retirement Account
The public is about to buy into A.I.’s trillion-dollar promises. Are they worth the price?
Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID.
China Opens World’s First Wind-Powered Underwater Data Center
With an initial capacity of 24 megawatts, the innovative data center uses seawater as a natural cooling system.
Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business
The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.
Cyera, a Cybersecurity Start-up for the A.I. Era, Raises $600 Million
The five-year-old company is now valued at $12 billion.
Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats
Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.
Markets Brace for an Inflation Surprise
New data is putting investors on edge, especially over the prospect that the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates to blunt rising prices.
Artificial Intelligence Sneaks Into the World Cup Thanks to Google Gemini
The Argentine national team will be Google’s test bench and technological showcase during the World Cup.
Is A.I. affecting your career? We want to hear from you.
The New York Times wants to talk to workers about what they think artificial intelligence will mean for their careers, and how they are navigating this uncertain period.
A.I. Loves the Em Dash. What’s a Human Writer to Do?
Chatbots are appropriating our most common rhetorical tics. Yet when it comes to language, human creativity can’t be beat.
Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance
The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta's global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time.