OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI…
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Germany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: How NVIDIA Will Help
In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO…
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash shows China's AI price race has no floor in sight
MiniMax's M3.1 Flash jumps 13 points over its predecessor to 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, at half the cost…
Kling AI drops version 4.0 with stereo audio, multilingual lip sync, and a lighter Flash variant
Kling AI has released version 4.0 of its video generator with support for clips up to 30 seconds, ten keyframe images as input…
Fish Audio released Drama 3's weights. Is voice AI getting its DeepSeek moment?
Fish Audio just released Drama 3's weights. You can direct how a line is performed in plain language, including changing the…
Maxwell: a new model that speeds up AI models like Whisper and LTX-2 by rewriting their binaries [D]
Came across this today and haven't seen it discussed here yet. It's apparently a new type of model (called Maxwell) that sits…
Accelerating Mamba-2 with High-Performance Forward Pass Kernels in NVIDIA CUDA Tile
NVIDIA CUDA Tile (cuTile) is a Python-based DSL and parallel programming model for NVIDIA GPUs that automatically leverages…
Push-based KV transfer to improve TTFT and TPOT for disaggregated inference in vLLM
vLLM's prefill-decode disaggregation splits LLM inference across engine instances but must transfer the KV cache between them…
AI this week (Oct 12–18): Meta ships new models, Character.AI files for bankruptcy with Disney as opening bidder, Gemini 4 Argon goes wide
I track AI news across ~150 sources and rank topics by trend score. Here's what stood out this week (4,533 articles analyzed)…
No coding background: how I built two music guessing games with Claude, starting as a game for my sister
Less than a year ago, my sister Shani was diagnosed with cancer. She spent almost three months in the hospital, and to give us…
The neocloud shakeout is coming, and Nvidia has the most to lose
After stock crashes and Firmus's scrapped IPO, industry executives expect only seven to ten of the hundreds of AI cloud providers…
Google AI Mode Citations With Preferred Source Preferences
Google is testing letting users view and modify their preferred sources list directly from within the AI Mode citations sidebar…
Anthropic plans fund for workers threatened by AI, Musk counters with SpaceX shares for children
Anthropic wants to put five percent of its shares into a new public benefit fund that will also look into direct payments to…
AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’
The $48bn giveaway comes amid concerns about the tech and as the company prepares for a stock market listing Anthropic has said…
Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
The company offered some broad-strokes ideas for how this money might actually be used, such as “large donations to traditional…
Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
The outside watchdog can publish its findings without Anthropic's approval.
What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?
The tech company says successful AI worms need more capability on less powerful devices, but current trends make that feasible by…
OpenAI’s API Only Partly Matched ChatGPT’s Citations, Paper Finds
A paper tested whether Google results and OpenAI's API can stand in for ChatGPT's citations. They matched cited sites more often…
Gemini just hallucinated for three days about Google products, and I am left confused. Is it me or the AI?
I am asking 2 questions. This situation seems unusually weird (over multiple sessions)is the AI hallucinating about its own…
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