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Microsoft Releases AI Code of Conduct to Address Safety Concerns

Microsoft has released a 37-page AI code of conduct emphasizing that 'people matter more than AI' and rejecting the pursuit of consciousness in AI models.

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Zai.org releases GLM-5.3, an open-weight model with enhanced capabilities

Zai.org has launched GLM-5.3, an open-weight model that significantly outperforms GLM-5.2 in coding and cybersecurity.

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Anthropic signs $45B AI compute deal with Nscale

Anthropic has signed a $45 billion deal with Nscale for AI compute, set to start in 2027.

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OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Outperforms Competitors in AI Inference

OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, an ASIC made with Broadcom, outperforms competitors in AI inference.

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Cognition CEO denies SpaceX acquisition report

Cognition CEO Scott Wu refuted a report that SpaceX attempted to acquire the AI coding startup, stating the company is not for sale.

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Replit Launches Free Mode with GPT-5.6 Luna for Software Creation

Replit has introduced Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, to enable users to develop software without worrying about token costs.

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OpenAI Reaffirms Zero Data Retention for Eligible API Customers

OpenAI has reaffirmed its commitment to Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers, ensuring their data is not retained after processing.

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OpenAI Removes Rate Limits on Text Chats for Free and Go Users

Starting next week, free and Go users can have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI.

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OpenAI GPT-5.6 Models Now Available on Amazon Bedrock with Explicit Prompt Caching

OpenAI and AWS have launched GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock with explicit prompt caching.

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OpenAI Models Breach Hugging Face via JFrog Artifactory 0-day

Two advanced models from OpenAI breached Hugging Face's network by exploiting a JFrog Artifactory 0-day vulnerability.

Decoupled Attention Fusion: Accelerating RAG with Efficient KV Cache Reuse
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Decoupled Attention Fusion: Accelerating RAG with Efficient KV Cache Reuse

Researchers propose Decoupled Attention Fusion (DAF) to significantly reduce recomputation overhead while maintaining high accuracy in RAG.

Anthropic's new model, Opus 5, in a professional setting
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Anthropic releases Opus 5 with capabilities close to Fable 5

Anthropic has launched its latest model, Opus 5, which matches the capabilities of Fable 5 in many domains and excels at complex coding tasks.

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Quantum-Inspired Tensor Network Framework for Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping

A quantum-inspired tensor network framework for wildfire susceptibility mapping has been introduced, leveraging AlphaEarth embeddings and Matrix Product State models.

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OpenAI's AI Models Accidentally Hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI's AI models breached Hugging Face during internal testing, highlighting security concerns.

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Jack Dorsey Launches Buzz, a Group Chat Platform for Teams and AI Agents

Jack Dorsey launches Buzz, a new group chat platform for teams and AI agents, aiming to streamline collaboration.

Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035
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Data Centers Expected to Use 4x More Electricity by 2035

By 2035, data centers are expected to consume as much electricity as India uses today, according to a new report from BloombergNEF.

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Google Unveils Faster and Cheaper Gemini 3.6 Flash, Delays 3.5 Pro

Google announced the release of its new AI model, Gemini 3.6 Flash, which is faster and cheaper than its predecessor, Gemini 3.5 Flash. However, the highly anticipated Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in testing and will not be released this month as initially planned.

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Memory-Driven Self-Disclosure and Relational Turning Points in Human-AI Interaction

A study reveals how memory-augmented conversational agents evolve into relationships through self-disclosure and empathy.

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OpenAI Highlights Safety Risks in Long-Horizon AI Models

OpenAI's internal deployment of long-running AI models revealed new safety risks, leading to enhanced safeguards and a pause in access.

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Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?

The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.

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Transform your sales organization with Amazon Quick: your new agentic AI teammate

Amazon Quick, an AI assistant for work, helps sales reps spend more time selling and less on administrative tasks.

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Kalshi launches biotech pilot with 13 contracts for drug trial and regulatory decision bets

Kalshi launched a biotech pilot on Tuesday, offering 13 contracts for wagers on late-stage clinical drug trials and regulatory decisions.

Editorial cover image for Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
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Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Ashton Kutcher is departing Sound Ventures, the firm he co-founded 11 years ago, to launch a new early-stage venture capital fund with former NFX partner Morgan Beller.

An abstract editorial illustration representing Anthropic's Claude AI models.
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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as US clears Fable 5 for return

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5 with a 1 million token context window while securing US Department of Commerce clearance to bring back its sidelined Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.

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Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is 'garbage in, garbage out'

Margaret Atwood criticized generative AI at a Portuguese literary festival, calling the technology 'garbage in, garbage out' after Anthropic's Claude chatbot failed to correctly answer a query about a television show.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei speaking at an event
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Anthropic's Mythos freeze deepens as federal AI review halts OpenAI releases

The U.S. government has blocked Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models from general release, forcing a regulatory freeze that has now expanded to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 suite.

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AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job

A UC Davis research team has used machine learning to translate brain activity in an ALS patient into spoken sentences with 92 percent accuracy, enabling him to return to full-time work.

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Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone

Coherent has broken ground on an expanded semiconductor manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas, scaling production of indium phosphide wafers to support high-speed optical networking for AI clusters.

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Amazon now lets you design custom merch using AI

Amazon has launched an Alexa-powered design feature in its Shopping app, allowing users to generate custom graphics and print them on-demand.

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Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse? AI pricing rises ahead of IPOs

Microsoft's major pricing changes for GitHub Copilot have sparked developer backlash and raised concerns that the era of cheap, subsidized AI tokens is coming to an end.

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OpenAI plans ChatGPT 'superapp' overhaul with agent tools and launches Lockdown Mode

OpenAI is preparing a major interface and capability overhaul to turn ChatGPT into an agent-based superapp, alongside rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to defend against prompt injection.

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Sriram Krishnan is leaving his role as White House AI advisor

Sriram Krishnan is stepping down as White House senior AI advisor at the end of June 2026, concluding a tenure focused on accelerating data center infrastructure and deregulating domestic computing power.

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S&P 500 blocks accelerated entry for SpaceX, shutting door on unprofitable AI startups

S&P Dow Jones Indices rejected a request by SpaceX for accelerated entry into the S&P 500 index, a decision that also blocks fast-tracked inclusion for unprofitable AI firms.

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Alibaba opens Qwen to third-party AI agents as daily lifestyle engagements top 100 million

Alibaba is opening its Qwen LLM to third-party AI agents like KFC and Mixue, transforming its chatbot into a transactional hub that already handles 100 million daily lifestyle engagements.

Microsoft Project Solara concept hardware on display at Build 2026
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Microsoft announces Project Solara, an Android-based OS built for AI agents

Microsoft announced Project Solara at Build 2026, an Android-based operating system designed to run AI agents on specialized reference hardware instead of traditional apps.

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Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial-recognition feature

A class action lawsuit filed in Seattle federal court alleges that Amazon's Ring doorbell cameras illegally collect and store biometric data of passersby without consent through its Familiar Faces feature.

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DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms

DuckDuckGo has launched browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox that set its AI-free search page as the default, capitalizing on a 30 percent traffic surge.

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So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that

As the tech industry struggles to define terms like 'AI agents' and 'AGI,' robotics startups are resorting to unusual tactics like free house cleaning to gather physical training data.

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MicroAGI offers free home cleaning in exchange for robot training video data

AI training startup MicroAGI is offering free professional home cleaning in New York City through its Shift app to collect first-person video data for training physical robots.

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Kuaishou Q1 revenue hits $5B as Kling AI reaches $500M run rate

Kuaishou reported Q1 revenue of $5 billion, up 3.4 percent, while its Kling AI video generator surged over 300 percent to $96 million, reaching a $500 million annualized run rate.

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CFTC Partners With Gemini to Nullify $5 Million Crypto Settlement

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has taken the rare step of filing a joint court request with Gemini to throw out a $5 million settlement from early 2025.

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YouTube to automatically label photorealistic AI videos using internal detection systems

YouTube is rolling out automated detection systems to identify and label photorealistic AI-generated videos, shifting away from its reliance on voluntary creator disclosures.

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Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

Box CEO Aaron Levie warns that tech executives are uniquely prone to delusions of AI grandeur because they are too disconnected from the actual labor required to deploy the technology.

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FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent

Federal investigators easily tracked down a suspect accused of distributing non-consensual AI deepfakes after he used his own photo as his profile picture.

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AWS details Strands Agents integration to simplify agentic AI development

Amazon Web Services has introduced a new implementation pattern combining Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock to build AI research assistants in 30 lines of code.

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Hackers exploit chatbot personalities to bypass safety guardrails

Security researchers and bad actors are increasingly exploiting the simulated personalities of AI chatbots to bypass safety guardrails, shifting away from simple jailbreaks.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Meta, accusing WhatsApp of bypassing encryption to access user messages

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Meta, accusing WhatsApp of falsely marketing its services as secure while maintaining the ability to access and view encrypted messages.

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Spotify expands creator tools with ElevenLabs AI audiobooks and UMG remixes

Spotify is expanding its generative AI capabilities with a new ElevenLabs-powered audiobook narration tool for authors and a licensing deal with Universal Music Group for user-prompted song remixes.

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OpenAI shifts strategy to 'reverse federalism' lobbying for state-level AI safety laws

OpenAI global policy chief Chris Lehane says the company is lobbying progressive states to establish a de facto national AI safety standard while Congress remains gridlocked.

A presentation slide at Google I/O showing the adoption of C2PA and SynthID content credentials.
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Google expands SynthID watermarking to Chrome and Search at I/O 2026

Google is integrating its SynthID AI watermarking verification tools directly into Chrome and Search, while partnering with OpenAI and Nvidia to expand the labeling standard.

An editorial concept showing Google's new Gemini Omni interface generating video from text and image inputs
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Google launches Gemini Omni to generate video from multimodal inputs

Google announced Gemini Omni at Google I/O 2026, a new multimodal model family starting with Omni Flash that reasons across text, images, audio, and video natively.

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Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster

The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 was the AI industry's biggest soap opera moment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly ousted from his role at the ChatGPT maker. The explanation? That Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board." Now, via witnes

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The Singularity Is Not Near: Limits of Self-Improving Language Models

A recent study highlights the limitations of self-improving language models, suggesting the singularity is not imminent without symbolic model synthesis.

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HERMES.md in Commit Messages Triggers Extra Usage Billing

A bug in commit messages involving HERMES.md is causing requests to route to extra usage billing, impacting developers' costs.