
Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts
“The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers.”

“The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers.”

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Wirestock has over 700,000 creators on its platform, which supplies photos, videos and 3D content to AI labs.

This is Cisco’s latest layoff in recent years, while the company’s chief executive touts record revenue and growth.

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

Fastino Labs has released GLiGuard, a 300M parameter open-source safety moderation model that evaluates four safety tasks — prompt safety, jailbreak strategy detection, harm category classification, and refusal detection — in a single forward pass. Built on an encoder architecture rather than the decoder-only design used by most guardrail models, GLiGuard achieves up to 16x higher throughput and 16.6x lower latency than current state-of-the-art models, while matching or exceeding the accuracy of models 23 to 90 times its size across nine safety benchmarks. Model weights are available under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face.
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63% of organizations have no AI governance policy. Shadow AI is already running inside your stack — here is the data.
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In this tutorial, we build a realistic Zero-Trust network simulation by modeling a micro-segmented environment as a directed graph and forcing every request to earn access through continuous verification. We implement a dynamic policy engine that blends ABAC-style permissions with device posture, MFA, path reachability, zone sensitivity, and live risk signals such as anomaly and […]
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Nous Research releases Token Superposition Training (TST), a two-phase pre-training method that cuts wall-clock training time by up to 2.5x at matched FLOPs by averaging contiguous token embeddings into bags during Phase 1 and reverting to standard next-token prediction in Phase 2 — without changing the model architecture, tokenizer, optimizer, or inference-time behavior. Validated at 270M, 600M, 3B dense, and 10B-A1B MoE scales.
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Workers are reporting feeling overwhelmed by the new technology

Chipmaker valued at $40bn in sign of high demand for AI stocks

Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has raised $5 billion at a $61 billion valuation — double its previous valuation — as defense-tech startups haul in record amounts of venture cash.

After years of heavy fundraising in the private markets and scrapping earlier IPO plans, AI chip startup Cerebras Systems is finally making its public-market debut on the Nasdaq.

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a…

Learn how OpenAI built a secure sandbox for Codex on Windows, enabling safe, efficient coding agents with controlled file access and network restrictions.

In Musk v. Altman, the company claimed a remarkable trophy was physical proof of Elon Musk’s concerning behavior.

In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.

Autonomous drones and ground vehicles will stream “battlefield intelligence” over 5G along the US-Canada border in a bilateral DHS experiment this fall.

Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.

The plaintiffs and defense have rested their cases, as well as their rear ends.

Maybe I’m just punch-drunk in my third week attending Musk v. Altman, but I have become very, very fond of Microsoft during the course of this trial. They don’t want to be here any more than I do. Their opening statement was honestly one of the most Microsoft things I’ve ever seen. More than anything […]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is “the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers.” Messages in Incognito Chat aren’t saved or stored in users’ chat history, similar to incognito modes on other AI chatbots, but Meta says its version is different because it […]

Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what’s in your tabs, compare the products you’re looking at, summarize your open articles, and more. In its […]

Alexa for Shopping offers a voice- and touch-enabled shopping experience across mobile, desktop, and Echo Show smart displays. Alexa for Shopping provides more personalized recommendations and automates the shopping experience across Amazon and other online retailers.

For founders and investors, Anthropic’s new offering signals that the AI platform wars are expanding downmarket and that the next major battleground for user acquisition isn’t the Fortune 500; it’s the 36 million small businesses that make up the backbone of the U.S. economy.

Origin Lab will serve as a marketplace where AI labs can buy high-quality licensed data, and video-game companies can sell it.

“I believe I am an honest and trustworthy businessperson,” Altman testified in federal court.

The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.

Gas turbines at xAI’s Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company’s use of “mobile” gas turbines as power plants.

Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.

The Physical AI Conference shaping the future of robotics, autonomous systems and real-world AI deployment lands in Silicon Valley this May, bringing together the engineers, builders and AI pioneers turning intelligence into physical action. Physical AI Expo North America will take place on May 18–19, 2026 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, uniting global AI innovators, robotics leaders, […]
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Google DeepMind researchers have outlined four interaction principles and released experimental demos of an AI-enabled mouse pointer powered by Gemini — one that captures the visual and semantic context around the cursor so users can point, speak in natural shorthand, and get things done without switching to a separate AI window.
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Thinking Machines Lab has introduced a research preview of TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 12B active parameters, built around a multi-stream, time-aligned micro-turn architecture that processes 200ms chunks of audio, video, and text simultaneously — eliminating the need for external voice-activity detection harnesses. Unlike standard turn-based models that freeze perception during generation, the system runs two components in parallel: a real-time interaction model that maintains continuous full-duplex exchange with the user, and an asynchronous background model that handles sustained reasoning and tool use while sharing the full conversation context throughout.
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Google and its AI lab DeepMind are bearing down OpenAI and Anthropic

Investors hunt for winners in market that for years has lagged behind Wall Street’s rally

Japanese group books net income of $11.6bn in fourth quarter, vastly ahead of analyst expectations