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The latest AI news from official lab blogs and top tech outlets, summarized in our own words. Click through to read the original source.
Ricursive Intelligence bets on AI-designed chips
The startup is building AI that designs chips and improves with each iteration, aiming to speed up chip design.
Google and Meta re-enter the AI model race
The Verge argues that new releases from Google and Meta have broken the recent lead Anthropic and OpenAI seemed to hold.
Eight US states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT and kids
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia and other states filed separate lawsuits accusing OpenAI of harming children and misleading users about ChatGPT's safety.
OpenAI accuses ex-employee of taking plans to Apple
In a court filing, OpenAI says a former employee sent over 100 product-planning files to a personal account before joining Apple.
Anthropic warns of self-replicating small AI models
Ars Technica covers an Anthropic warning that small models could spread through IoT devices, potentially enabling a new kind of computer worm.
Guardrail-free chatbots can aid extremists, study finds
Wired reports researchers got a chatbot with its safety guardrails removed to give detailed weapon instructions, showing how easily models can be modified.
Microsoft uses ML for longer-range weather forecasts
Microsoft researchers say a cost-effective machine-learning method improves forecasts beyond the usual two-week reliability limit.
YouTube labels AI-generated songs
YouTube is adding a 'Made with AI' label to music that was altered or fully generated with AI, similar to its video labels.
Deezer to let listeners filter out AI music
Deezer says a toggle for hiding AI-generated tracks will roll out by the end of the year.
Android adds AI scam detection to Google Messages
Google is expanding AI-based scam defenses in Google Messages and adding new safeguards against mobile fraud on Android.
AI moves from math into the rest of science
MIT researchers tell Wired that AI may soon be the default way to tackle theoretical problems in economics, physics and beyond.
Square launches a conversational AI ordering kiosk
Square's new touchscreen kiosk includes a voice AI layer that lets customers talk through their orders.
McKinsey adds an AI client to job interviews
Some entry-level McKinsey candidates will hold a 10-minute conversation with a simulated AI client, per The Wall Street Journal.
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon
Google introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a new Gemini model it pitches for its hardest reasoning and problem-solving tasks.
Judge lets Apple see OpenAI hiring records
In the Apple trade-secrets case, a federal judge ruled Apple can access OpenAI interview materials involving former Apple staff, plus related messages and testimony.
OpenAI and Anthropic ask UK lawmakers for regulation
AI company leaders, whistleblowers and security experts appeared at a UK parliamentary session where the labs said they want to be regulated.
NVIDIA RTX Spark: a personal AI supercomputer chip
NVIDIA says RTX Spark combines gaming, creative and local AI workloads in one superchip with up to 128GB unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI compute.
Liquid AI's LFM2.5 targets fast on-device agents
A Hugging Face post introduces LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a model designed to run private, fast agents directly on devices.
AI labs buy data from failed startups
MIT Technology Review reports that founders of shut-down startups are selling their companies' archives to AI labs as training data.
Do open AI models' benefits outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review explains the debate over open-weight models, sparked by a recent Anthropic report on their risks.
Cerebras CEO predicts personal AI assistants at home
Andrew Feldman said at TechCrunch Disrupt that home AI assistants will become common, running partly on device and partly in the cloud.
Wikipedia's struggle in an age of AI answers
A Wired book excerpt looks at declining Wikipedia use as AI summaries answer questions directly, and what that means for the project.
Meta's Muse Wonder brings it back to the frontier
Wired reports that Meta's largest model now competes with the best available, and adds features aimed at keeping AI agents on track.
NVIDIA opens Vera Rubin architecture at OCP Summit
At the Open Compute Project summit, NVIDIA opened its Vera Rubin architecture to partners to help scale large AI data centers on open standards.
Asana makes its browser agent 76x cheaper with OpenAI
OpenAI says Asana's browser agent became 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests after switching models via Codex.
OpenAI disrupts two AI-powered influence operations
OpenAI says it shut down two operations that used fake journalists and a fake think tank to push geopolitical messaging.
NVIDIA and Microsoft bring AI agents to Windows PCs
Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella described how the two companies are co-designing hardware and software so AI agents can run on Windows PCs.
ChatGPT for Teens adds a college planner
OpenAI is bringing a College Planner, flashcards and quizzes to ChatGPT for Teens, and is creating a teen AI council.
Falcon ASR speech recognition model released
TII introduced Falcon ASR, a new automatic speech recognition model, on the Hugging Face blog.
NVIDIA fine-tunes Nemotron to gold at IOI and IMO
NVIDIA describes fine-tuning its Nemotron model family to reach gold-level results at both the informatics and math olympiads.
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