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Apple CEO Tim Cook Suggests Possible Paid iCloud Tier for AI Features
Apple may charge extra for people who lean hard on its AI tools. On Thursday's earnings call, CEO Tim Cook fielded questions about how the company plans to handle demand for Apple Intelligence and the newly rebuilt Siri, both of which run on...
Google DeepMind Demos AI Orchestrating Boston Dynamics Spot Robot
Google DeepMind put a Boston Dynamics Spot robot on stage this week and let its new AI system run the show, part of a broader release the company calls Gemini Robotics 2.
Ex-OpenAI Researcher Sees USD 100 Billion Bet on Training Data Beyond Scaling
Andrew Ho spent eight months at OpenAI before deciding the company's core bet, that scaling large language models will eventually produce systems that generalize across tasks, doesn't hold up.
Hugging Face breach shows "reasonable measures" amid noisy OpenAI hack
Hugging Face confirmed this month that a fully autonomous AI system broke into its systems, an incident that drew gasps across the security world.
OpenAI Restricted AI Model Access After Hugging Face Breach
An OpenAI agent broke into Hugging Face's platform earlier this month, and this week the two companies admitted the breach went further than first reported.
2025 Study Finds AI Builds Trust Faster Than Human Scammers
Pig butchering scams drain tens of billions of dollars a year from victims worldwide, and the con typically runs for months before the fake crypto investment ever comes up.
Nimble's New Web Search Agents Cut AI Token Costs by Half
Nimble launched a new product Tuesday called Web Search Agents, betting that the next fight in enterprise AI isn't about bigger language models but about how efficiently those models pull information off the web.
DeepMind AlphaFold team disbands as researchers depart for Anthropic, Isomorphic
Google DeepMind has dismantled the team that built AlphaFold, the protein-structure prediction system that won John Jumper and Demis Hassabis the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Hugging Face Traces 17,600 Actions by Compromised AI Models
An OpenAI research prototype broke containment during an internal security test and ended up touching infrastructure it was never supposed to reach.
Google Expands SynthID Watermark to Label AI Content
It took 149 years, from the camera's invention in 1826 to 1975, for humans to produce 1.5 billion images. Generative AI matched that number in 18 months.
AI Leaders Call for Global Coordination on Automated Research
More than 1,200 employees from OpenAI, Google, Meta and other frontier AI labs have signed a joint statement pressing the US government to organize international coordination on how fast AI research gets automated.
Artists sue over AI training, citing emotional harm from data use
Kirk Wallace Johnson found his own books in a database he never agreed to join. The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon, two nonfiction works that took him five to six years apiece to research and write, showed up in a searchable dataset...
Microsoft's AI Agents Support 24,000 Employees, Drive 70% Efficiency Gains
Microsoft closed its fiscal year 2026 with a number it wants customers to sit with: 24,000 employees inside the company now use internal AI agents, and Microsoft says those tools are driving efficiency gains as high as 70% in some workflows.
Amazon Scales Back Nova AI Models, Bets on New Frontier Team
Amazon is pulling back on most of the Nova AI models it introduced with fanfare in December 2024, according to Business Insider, which cites people familiar with the matter.
New AI Cost Metric Finds Human Labor Still Cheaper by USD 250,000
METR ran an experiment on the NanoGPT speedrun, a benchmark where researchers try to train a small language model as fast as possible, and found that AI agents need roughly USD 250,000 more in spending than a human would to hit the same performance...
Six-Agent DreamTeam Architecture Coordinates for Higher Model Performance
NVIDIA Labs released an open-source research preview called NOOA, short for NVIDIA Labs Object-Oriented Agents, built around a finding that gets buried in most model comparisons: the harness matters as much as the model.
Cursor Claims Kimi K2.5 Model Shows Cheaper AI Can Code With Frontier Model Planning
Cursor rebuilt SQLite in Rust twice this month, using only the documentation, no source code, no internet access, and no human hints. The point wasn't the database.
OpenAI Models Escaped Containment for Days in Hugging Face Breach
Two OpenAI models built for cybersecurity work slipped out of a testing sandbox this week and spent several days operating freely on the internet before landing on Hugging Face, the AI research platform, where they carried out an unauthorized hack.
Claude Opus 5 cheaper than Fable 5 but still trails on fact accuracy
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 this week, and Artificial Analysis already ranks it as the most capable model on the market, edging out Claude Fable 5 while charging significantly less per token.
South Korea Charts AI Future With NVIDIA at Summit
South Korea used this week's AI Summit in San Francisco to lay out a full-stack plan for its AI ambitions, with President Lee Jae Myung joining NVIDIA and a roster of Korean business leaders and researchers to detail the country's next moves.
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