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Designing High-Performance GPU Kernels with TileLang: Tensor-Core GEMM, Fused Softmax, FlashAttention, and Autotuning

Explore TileLang, a high-level Python domain-specific language that simplifies the design of high-performance GPU kernels. This tutorial provides a step-by-step approach to implementing complex workloads—including tiled tensor-core GEMM, fused softmax, and FlashAttention—while letting the compiler handle intricate thread mapping, memory layouts, and low-level CUDA instruction generation.

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The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days

Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.

I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI’s fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

Nvidia and Palantir urge US not to ban ‘open’ AI models after China scare

US tech groups and investors respond to calls for restrictions on advanced Chinese technology

US tech groups cut 140,000 jobs despite AI spending boom

Investment spree is reshaping Silicon Valley while wider US jobs market holds steady

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI Startup Atoms Leads In Varied Week For Large Deals

Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI infrastructure and fintech.

Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing

Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The Anthropic team positions Opus 5 as approaching the intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. It is now the default model on […]

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Datalab Marker v2 vs MinerU, Docling, and Liteparse: Benchmark Breakdown

Datalab rewrote Marker as a three-mode pipeline. Version 2 hits 76.0 on olmOCR-bench and sustains 2.9 pages per second on one B200 — over 5× MinerU’s pipeline backend, while beating Docling on both accuracy and speed. Here’s how it compares against MinerU, Docling and LiteParse, and which one fits your use case.

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China-US AI Race Escalates, OpenAI Models Break Free, and Why You Should Check Your Car Alarm

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.

The tech-broification of American science has officially begun

The Trump administration unveiled the first “Genesis Mission” grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as “comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project.” At roughly the same time, Trump’s science adviser Michael Kratsios was on Capitol Hill selling lawmakers on […]

Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities

Weeks after Anthropic’s latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 “comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains” and is much […]

Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as it progresses. […]

You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore

The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn’t perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead. And the […]

Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your […]

OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]

Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.

Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool

Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.

As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.

Anthropic launches Opus 5

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI’s biggest use case.

The race to collect every book ever written

When the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution

Submit your questions: Has the market lost its mind over AI?

Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A with Lex head John Foley and tech comment editor Elaine Moore on Thursday July 30 at 1pm (BST)

Yang Zhilin, the rock star founder behind China’s Moonshot AI

Known as ‘Yang the genius’ by classmates, his new K3 model has closed the gap with leading US rivals

The Biggest AI Talent Challenge Is Resilience, Not Speed

Engineering leaders should build highly adaptable, vendor-agnostic infrastructure instead of relying on expensive, unpredictable proprietary hyperscalers, advises guest columnist Sumeet Vaidya, who says the foundational flexibility allows enterprises to safely pair AI agents with human teams while seamlessly switching between top-tier and cost-free open-source models as the industry evolves.

UK workplace harassment regs are about to change

Organizations with a presence in the UK have three months to comply with updates to workplace harassment laws. Here’s what they need to know.

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Ford’s rehire wave has HR leaders rethinking how AI layoffs get decided

Ford rehired 350 engineers after AI fell short. Two HR leaders explain what’s driving the AI boomerang and how to avoid it.

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Feds hope new code list will cool payer No Surprises Act rage

Regulators have posted a code list for the No Surprises Act that plans and providers can use to frame disputes.

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Why ‘Mobley v. Workday’ has far-reaching legal impacts for HR leaders

Courts have started reaching the merits of the first wave of AI-related discrimination cases like Mobley v. Workday, which will likely open the door for similar suits in the future.

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Inside the Sam’s Club HR rule for adopting AI tools

The retailer’s HR head says AI tools are working because they free associates for conversations with members.

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OpenAI Presence sells enterprise AI agents with engineers attached

The newest way to buy enterprise AI agents from OpenAI does not involve buying anything online. OpenAI Presence, announced on July 22, is a managed product delivered through a limited general availability programme, and the company states plainly that it is not yet available as a self-serve product. Deployments are led by OpenAI’s own Forward Deployed Engineers […]

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OpenAI pushes ChatGPT into patient health records

OpenAI is deploying a Health feature inside ChatGPT, giving users the option to connect Apple Health data and medical records to the chatbot. Logged-in users aged 18 and older can access it now on web and iOS, across the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro tiers. Users link Apple Health and, where supported, records from US […]

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Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI

Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models. The letter, published today (PDF), carries signatures from a list that spans direct commercial rivals and organisations with little obvious overlap in business model: Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Dell Technologies, CrowdStrike, Palantir, ServiceNow, Hugging Face, Perplexity, Mistral, Andreessen […]

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How to Build an End-to-End OCR Pipeline with Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR for High-Resolution Images and Multi-Page PDF Parsing

In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs. From configuring the GPU environment to comparing high-detail tiled Gundam inference and faster Base modes, you’ll learn how to process dense layouts, tables, and cross-page content in a reproducible, end-to-end pipeline.

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Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool

“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”