
Latham & Watkins buys Nvidia servers to set up in-house AI systems
Law firm is customising open-weight models as alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic

Law firm is customising open-weight models as alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic

Highlights from our interview about the company’s new report on the possibility of explosive economic growth

The Pisa results sound the alarm on the disastrous impact of tech on our basic skills

Commercial AI tools failed to defend the platform against the attack — the solution lies in open-weight models

DigitalBridge-backed firm taps new investors for AI infrastructure as Wall Street banks limit exposure

L’Oréal’s global talent acquisition lead says employers must create room for growth, experimentation and belonging.
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The EU AI Act does not care where your company is headquartered; companies will have to abide by the rules when it comes to fair hiring.
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California passed a bill barring employers from using AI to track employee emotions or neural data at work.
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The benefits can also help fill the gaps created by shrinking major medical coverage, insurers say.
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The new AI Leadership Council looks to uncover data about AI and women, and offer practical frameworks that can open up opportunities for women in the workforce.
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The terrorist attacks happened as the HR Tech conference was getting underway in 2001. Former and current staffers share their experiences.
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On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…

Long-horizon agents have turned LLM serving into an input-heavy workload. Repeated prefills and million-token contexts leave KV caches that strain HBM, SSD capacity, and bandwidth. DeepSeek AI built its newest release around that exact bottleneck. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 552B backbone parameters, 196B additional Engram parameters, and a 1M-token context window. It […]
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GPT‑Live‑1 brings natural, full-duplex voice conversations to the API, with stronger instruction following, custom voices, and telephony support.

OpenAI and GSA will offer eligible federal, state, local, and tribal governments $0 license fees, 50% off usage, and expanded cyber defense support.

Meet the Data agent in ChatGPT Work. Connect company data, uncover insights, and build interactive dashboards with AI using natural language.

César de la Fuente’s lab uses Codex and ChatGPT to search living and extinct genomes for antimicrobial candidates to fight drug-resistant infections.

InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.

When iOS 27 arrives, it will bring with it a fully revamped assistant for your iPhone.

A total of 29 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, adding around $63 billion in value to the board. More than a third of the companies to join last month were under 3 years old, underscoring how quickly some of today’s best-funded startups are reaching multibillion-dollar valuations.

JD.com is expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network under a new Physical AI Acceleration Plan, while reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles, and 100,000 delivery drones. The company launched the plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing. JD Logistics also unveiled its industrial Wolf Robot series, designed […]
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Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company’s models benefited from unpublished work, a second mathematician has come forward accusing the AI giant of unethical and “dishonest” behavior and a lack of transparency about the origins […]

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer. And I’m joined by our brand-new supervising producer, Greg Ott. Greg Ott: Good day, everyone. And Hi, Nilay. Nilay is here too. He is […]

Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.

New planning tools help people avoid the pitfalls of leaving corporate life with no idea what comes next

Paul Christiano says technology could ‘kill most people’ without stronger safety features

Proposals following national consultation on health tech regulation call for live monitoring as AI moves deeper into patient care

Google has open-sourced Mantis, a stack-agnostic toolkit of security review skills for AI coding agents. It runs the full vulnerability lifecycle: sweep the code, filter false positives, reproduce the bug in a sandbox, patch it, re-attack the patch, then score the risk. Apache 2.0, and documented as demonstration-only.
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LandingAI has shipped Agentic Document Extraction Gen2, a rebuild of its document stack on the DPT-3 model family. Chunks are retired in favor of a document, page and block tree. DPT-3 Pro grounds to the line, DPT-3 Verity grounds to the word with a confidence score, and Parse billing now counts output characters instead of flat pages. Gen1 code will not run against Gen2 endpoints.
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Meet GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s most capable model for business, with advanced reasoning, computer use, and stronger writing and design judgment.

Chris Lehane argues that stronger AI capabilities require stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable policy action while the policy window remains open.

Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.

After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure.

The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.

Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.

Microsoft agreed to a set of safety and privacy principles for AI in schools a week after two major school systems announced a ban on student-facing AI. In a new agreement with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the US, and its New York City affiliate the United Federation of […]