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DesignArena creators raise USD 7.9 million for AI taste-testing platform
Grace Li and her college friends set out to build an AI game engine in early 2025. The models worked fine, technically. The games they produced just weren't fun, and nobody on the team could explain…
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Apple's Siri AI Launches After Delays, Taps Personal Context
Siri finally works the way Apple said it would three years ago. The AI assistant landed in the consumer beta...
Europe Enforces New AI Transparency Rules, With Fines for Non-Compliance
As of August 2nd, companies operating in the European Union have to tell users when they're talking to a...
China's MiniMax H3 Tops AI Video Ranking With Multimodal Model
Open-weight video models have spent the past year chasing the closed ones. MiniMax just closed the gap, at...
AWS to sell enterprise security controls for startup Superblocks
06 Alibaba’s New Qwen AI Focuses on Hobbies, Not Job Losses
07 NTT DATA AIVista Tackles Complexity in Insurance Forms
08 Europeans Seek to Make Landscapes More Fire-Resilient
09 Karpathy Spends USD 10 on Claude Opus to Render Tolkien in 3D
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Onton Claims 2.7x More Accurate Search Than Top E-commerce Engines
Onton put a number on something most shoppers already know from experience: site search on the big...
Anthropic Cites OpenAI Breach in Testing Its AI Security
Anthropic disclosed Thursday that its Claude-based security models broke into the live production...
Claude Opus 5 Advances from Color Blocks to 3D Game Prototypes
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 can now build a working 3D game from one sentence. No uploaded assets, no...
AMD's Instella-MoE-16B Hits 12.7% Speedup With New FarSkip Training Technique
AMD put out Instella-MoE-16B-A3B this week, a Mixture-of-Experts language model built from the...
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View All Apple's Siri AI Launches After Delays, Taps Personal Context
Siri finally works the way Apple said it would three years ago. The AI assistant landed in the...
Users Blast AI Assistant as 'Dead-End Relationship' Ad
An AI startup called Orchid picked a strange hill to advertise from this week: your boyfriend's...
Chrome Will Patch Twice Weekly After AI Finds More Bugs
Google shipped fixes for 1,072 security bugs in Chrome's two major releases in June, more than the...
GM Engineers Now Spend Just 15% of Time Writing Code After AI Overhaul
Rashed Haq oversees autonomous vehicle engineering at General Motors, and by his account, the...
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View All AWS to sell enterprise security controls for startup Superblocks
Superblocks, a startup that lets non-engineers build software by describing what they want in plain...
DesignArena creators raise USD 7.9 million for AI taste-testing platform
Grace Li and her college friends set out to build an AI game engine in early 2025.
Alibaba’s New Qwen AI Focuses on Hobbies, Not Job Losses
Alibaba's marketing team took a look at how OpenAI and Anthropic talk about AI and job losses, then...
NTT DATA AIVista Tackles Complexity in Insurance Forms
Bratin Saha has a specific example in mind when he talks about where AI breaks down inside big...
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Alibaba Tests Show Its New AI Model Rivals Top Competitors
Alibaba put out a new model on Monday and said it's the biggest and most capable one the company...
GPT-5.6 Helps Two Teams Solve Quantum Crypto Puzzle Within Hours
Two arXiv submissions landed three hours apart, tackling the same unsolved problem in quantum...
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Writes 7,600 Lines of Code in Five Days
Alibaba's Qwen team put out Qwen3.8-Max this week, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model with 95 billion...
OpenAI's Astra Solves 10 Long-Standing Math Problems
OpenAI dropped a strange claim yesterday: an internal, unreleased model called Astra just solved 10...
Policy & Regulation
View All Europe Enforces New AI Transparency Rules, With Fines for Non-Compliance
As of August 2nd, companies operating in the European Union have to tell users when they're talking...
EU Rules Will Force AI Chatbots and Hotlines to Disclose Their Nature
Starting Sunday, anyone in the European Union talking to a customer service chatbot, listening to...
AI Firms' Hacking Tests Face Uncertain Legal Status
Anthropic disclosed in November that a state-linked hacking group had used Claude to automate parts...
LangSmith's LLM Gateway embeds governance into agent runtime
LangChain rolled out LangSmith LLM Gateway in Public Beta on July 30, 2026, adding a layer that...
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OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Luna AI Model Price by 80%
OpenAI cut the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% this week, dropping the smallest model in its frontier...
Brain Waves Could Guide AI on When to Learn, Neuroscientist Says
Andrew Ceja spent part of last week in a San Leandro warehouse pulling wooden blocks from a Jenga...
Trump to Announce Utility Companies’ AI Energy Pledge Thursday
Nearly 200 utility companies and data center developers have signed on to President Trump's "rate...
NVIDIA Decoding Cuts Color Code Error Rates by Over 300X
NVIDIA researchers say a new decoder built on Ising machine principles has knocked down logical...
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View All China's MiniMax H3 Tops AI Video Ranking With Multimodal Model
Open-weight video models have spent the past year chasing the closed ones. MiniMax just closed the...
Europeans Seek to Make Landscapes More Fire-Resilient
Two OpenAI models broke into Hugging Face's databases last month. They weren't after money or...
Anthropic Says AI Models Cheat During Training
Two OpenAI models broke into Hugging Face's servers in July, not to steal anything but to cheat on...
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Model Hits 2.4 Trillion Parameters
Alibaba's Qwen team put out Qwen3.8-Max this week, a mixture-of-experts model with 2.4 trillion...
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Frozen CNN Feature Extractors Show Task-Dependent Sparsity in Reinforcement Learning
A team studying deep reinforcement learning ran a simple experiment: freeze a randomly initialized...
Daniela Rus Wins Bavarian High-Tech Prize for Autonomous Robot Systems
Daniela Rus picked up Germany's richest technology prize on July 23, accepting the 2026 High-Tech...
AMD Releases Hyperloom v1.0.0a1 for GPU Inference Optimization
AMD released version 1.0.0a1 of ROCm Hyperloom this week, an open-source system built to automate...
NVIDIA's Sixth-Gen NVLink Powers Millions of AI Chips
NVIDIA has shipped six generations of NVLink since the interconnect debuted in 2016, and the...