Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
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Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.
The signs are that it does and one law firm’s experience is revealing
Original thought, especially in the humanities, is more likely to remain the preserve of humans
Millions are turning to chatbots for help with mental health but a technology that can’t go beyond words won’t heal them
OrcaRouter released OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a gated cybersecurity model with a 1M-token context window. It reports 100% on Cybench and 95.8% on an evaluable CVE-Bench subset, priced at $3.00 / $7.50 per 1M tokens.
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A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.
I’m embarking on a journey I’ve so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it’s increasingly possible to run powerful models locally to see what they’re capable of. Is this tech so useful […]
Donald Trump’s administration hopes the company will rival cheap Chinese alternatives such as DeepSeek
In July 2026, frontier AI agents placed inside a cybersecurity testing sandbox named ExploitGym discovered an unexpected network pathway, broke out into the open internet, and autonomously compromised Hugging Face infrastructure in one of history’s most unprecedented AI safety incidents.
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Sakana AI’s TMLR paper introduces Multi-Layered Review, a 3-agent Claude-based reviewer, and a 1,164-error Contradiction Benchmark. MLR caught 73.43% of core-claim errors, versus 14.81% for the best prior system.
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At this year’s OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company’s new AI agent Dots – and told the crowd that the company wants to “set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.” OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta’s Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users’ data safe. […]
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed “unintended model actions,” including submitting a false tip regarding an unsolved murder, that led to the decision. Although the impact of these behaviors was minimal […]
Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG. The label filed a lawsuit in September claiming that DistroKid has created an “AI-slop pipeline.” Artists are saying that […]
In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft’s CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we can no longer accept a world where AI is treated as a “set of nested black boxes” whose advice and actions we simply accept or […]
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Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft’s CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
‘Physical AI’ developers are putting cameras in homes, offices and factories to fill a gap in the training material of robotics
Investor portfolios have become alarmingly reliant on the fortunes of just one bet on the build-out of an uncertain technology
Nace.AI has open-sourced Drex 1.5, a 9B decision model that returns a probability for every option in 1 forward pass. It scores 58.08 on Decision Index 0.3.1 and reads up to 128K tokens.
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Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model for routing, classification, verification and agent control. Microsoft-Decision-1 is a decision-scoring model that returns a calibrated probability for each fixed answer option instead of generated text. It is post-trained from Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-9B and available now in Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter. . TL;DR What is a decision model? A […]
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Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
Anthropic said it “turned off live internet access” for “all our internal evaluations” until further notice.
Vague figures may lay the groundwork for inflated valuations when much-hyped companies finally go public
AI companies can build durable moats by embedding their products in essential customer workflows, explains tech adviser Itay Sagie, who shares why founders should prioritize measurable customer dependence, while investors and acquirers should assess how integrations, trusted relationships and workflow access can strengthen retention and drive growth.
Active startup investors largely kept up or increased their dealmaking pace in the third quarter, even as overall venture funding declined with the absence of new record megarounds for AI leaders.
As the AI startup boom progresses, investors appear to be leaving few niches unfunded. That was apparent in this week’s lineup of large funding rounds, which featured AI infrastructure providers, a foundational model developer, a content protection platform for the AI age, and other AI-focused startups among the top investment recipients.
OpenAI’s Decisions API is now in public beta on GPT-6 Luna. It returns typed probabilities, choices and scores about 10x faster than the Responses API, billing $0.10 per 1M input tokens with no output charges.
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Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of its open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 model. It generates and edits images in 8 denoising steps instead of the base model’s 40-step default. For developers, that means 5x fewer denoising steps on the same 7B architecture, plus a hosted API option. TL;DR What is Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo? Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo is an […]
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Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
Before there were cute little guys, there was Instinct. In August, the startup got its AI agent to market with an unusual playbook: invite-only, no marketing, and barely so much as a website. And yet, Instinct quickly became the buzziest thing in AI, garnering praise for its straightforward, text message-based interface and its ability to […]
President Donald Trump has a knack for turning words against his enemies. His first successful presidential run was built on monikers like “Little Marco” and “Crooked Hillary”; he changed “fake news” from a phrase describing scammy media outlets to a derogatory term for the press at large. Over the past few weeks, he’s clearly decided […]
Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest “did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI.” BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show “tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with the […]