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- Industry news — funding rounds, product launches, acquisitions and AI policy, from TechCrunch AI, The Verge AI and Ars Technica.
- Models and research — new model releases, benchmarks and lab announcements, from MIT Technology Review, the Google AI blog and the AWS Machine Learning blog.
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Meta is making another push to bring artificial intelligence to the masses with Muse, a personal assistant it says can put AI in the hands of virtually anyone. The product is the latest step in a multi-billion dollar strategy overhaul designed to revitalize the company's ailing position in the AI race and help it catch […]
The Verge AIENSep 8
Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.
Ars Technica AIENSep 8
Like traditional weather models, it benefits from an expanded set of inputs.
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There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
TechCrunch AIENSep 8
Anthropic says power users are key to its business - it's prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw. But some of these same customers say Anthropic misled them into believing they'd get more out of a top-tier pricing subscription than they did. In an expanded class action lawsuit filed […]
The Verge AIENSep 8
Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.
TechCrunch AIENSep 8
Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.
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The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equity.
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Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI tool that its scientists claim could help unravel the mysteries of the human genome and transform our understanding of biology, accelerating scientific research and ultimately paving the way for new treatments for diseases. The platform, called AlphaGenome Atlas, contains a "predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in […]
The Verge AIENSep 8
Adobe is overhauling how editors interact with AI in its Premiere professional video editing software. Its new Generative Media tool makes it easier to generate video, sound effects, music, and soundscapes without ever leaving the project timeline. The generators themselves aren't entirely new; the big change is how easily you can access them without breaking […]
The Verge AIENSep 8
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
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When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
Ars Technica AIENSep 7
The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user queries. This is similar to lawsuits filed by […]
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Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.
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The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."
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Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
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The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."
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OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.
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OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the "'wiki incident,' where our agents wrote to several internet sites," OpenAI wrote […]
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The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
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OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
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In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Ars Technica AIENSep 4
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
TechCrunch AIENSep 4
It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 "Palettes," which are essentially themed collections of musical ideas sorted by genre. You can start from […]
The Verge AIENSep 4
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
Ars Technica AIENSep 4
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]
TechCrunch AIENSep 4
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
Ars Technica AIENSep 4
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
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Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times and book authors. As part of the lawsuit's discovery, Microsoft provided 8.2 million Copilot […]
The Verge AIENSep 4
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]
TechCrunch AIENSep 4
Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
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A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials staying quiet about the incident for weeks as the company prepared to launch its most advanced model yet, Astra. The finding adds to intensifying concern surrounding oversight at frontier AI […]
The Verge AIENSep 4
Instagram's visible AI labels are supposed to help people quickly spot synthetically generated content at a glance. Over the last few weeks, however, users have been reporting that the system has gone haywire. They say Meta has been automatically applying an "AI Content" label to images that they didn't create or edit using generative AI […]
The Verge AIENSep 4
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
TechCrunch AIENSep 4
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
TechCrunch AIENSep 4
Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.
Ars Technica AIENSep 3
Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
Ars Technica AIENSep 3
Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.
Ars Technica AIENSep 2
Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.
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Frequently asked questions
How often is this AI news feed updated?
The three streams are rebuilt during every site deployment and refreshed directly in your browser through our feed proxy. In practice, new items appear within a few hours of publication on the source site.
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We subscribe to the official RSS and Atom feeds of TechCrunch AI, The Verge AI, Ars Technica, MIT Technology Review, the Google AI blog, the AWS Machine Learning blog, Simon Willison, The Decoder and MarkTechPost.
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Sources: TechCrunch AI, The Verge AI, Ars Technica AI, MIT Technology Review AI, Google Blog AI, AWS Machine Learning Blog, Simon Willison, The Decoder, MarkTechPost. Headlines and opening summaries are republished from each publisher’s RSS feed under fair use, with a direct link back to the original article. 120 items currently tracked.