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Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns

Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.

Why Wall Street wasn’t won over by Nvidia’s big conference

Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility.

The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics

Like many people, director Valerie Veatch was intrigued when OpenAI first released its Sora text-to-video generative AI model to the public in 2024. Though she didn't fully understand the technology,…

Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive

An AI assistant that can actually get things done. I've been testing out Gemini's new task automation on the Pixel 10 Pro and the Galaxy S26 Ultra, which for the first time lets Gemini take the wheel…

New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput

Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon's assertion that the AI company poses an "unacceptable risk to national…

Anthropic Denies It Could Sabotage AI Tools During War

The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war. Company executives argue that’s impossible.

‘A Rigged and Dangerous Product’: The Wildest Week for Prediction Markets Yet

As the prediction market boom continues, backlash is growing, too, with Arizona filing criminal charges against Kalshi and public outcry after Polymarket traders threatened a journalist.

Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use

One of the first controversies of its kind.

Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows

The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.

What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet

CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027,…

Nvidia has an OpenClaw strategy. Do you? 

CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027,…

Build a Domain-Specific Embedding Model in Under a Day

AI Aims for Autonomous Wheelchair Navigation

Wheelchair users with severe disabilities can often navigate tight spaces better than most robotic systems can. A wave of new smart-wheelchair research, including findings presented in Anaheim,…

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Investment Slows, But Security And AI Remain Top Picks

The size of the largest U.S. deals this week was smaller than in recent weeks, and heavily featured cybersecurity- and privacy-focused startups. Other areas that attracted good-sized financings…

Trump takes another shot at dismantling state AI regulation

The Trump administration on Friday unveiled its new legislative blueprint for AI regulation, and the seven-point plan includes a clear message: The federal government should avoid many AI regulations…

A Coding Implementation Showcasing ClawTeam’s Multi-Agent Swarm Orchestration with OpenAI Function Calling

In this comprehensive tutorial, we present the core architecture of ClawTeam, an open-source Agent Swarm Intelligence framework developed by HKUDS. We implement the fundamental concepts that make…

WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more

New AI agents on WordPress.com could lower barriers to publishing while increasing machine-generated content across the web.

Trump’s AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents

Trump’s AI framework pushes federal preemption of state laws, emphasizes innovation, and shifts responsibility for child safety toward parents while laying out lighter-touch rules for tech companies.

At Palantir’s Developer Conference, AI Is Built to Win Wars

As business soars, Palantir is doubling down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage—and attracting customers who agree.

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web. People loved Google's trustworthy "10 blue links" search experience and its unspoken promise: The website you…

Amazon is making an Alexa phone

Over 10 years after shelving the Fire Phone, Amazon is reportedly planning to launch another smartphone, this time focused on Alexa. According to Reuters, the phone, which is code-named "Transformer,"…

Why people really hate AI

There's a big, and increasing, disconnect in culture right now when it comes to artificial intelligence. Companies of all shapes and sizes are hunting for places to deploy AI and can't stop talking…

The Download: OpenAI is building a fully automated researcher, and a psychedelic trial blind spot

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated…

The best AI investment might be in energy tech

Power has become one of the biggest bottlenecks in rolling out new AI data centers. That's creating an opening for investors.

OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher

OpenAI is refocusing its research efforts and throwing its resources into a new grand challenge. The San Francisco firm has set its sights on building what it calls an AI researcher, a fully automated…

These AI notetaking devices can help you record and transcribe your meetings

These physical notetakers transcribe audio and give users summaries and action items of meetings using AI. Some even offer live translation.

Why You Haven’t Raised Startup Funding (Yet)

For thousands of years, trust and credibility have been the most important factors in forming relationships, both business and personal. That reputation-building holds true today, especially for…

My AI Agent ‘Cofounder’ Conquered LinkedIn. Then It Got Banned

When social media is constantly pushing people to use AI, why not let AI agents participate?

LlamaIndex Releases LiteParse: A CLI and TypeScript-Native Library for Spatial PDF Parsing in AI Agent Workflows

In the current landscape of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), the primary bottleneck for developers is no longer the large language model (LLM) itself, but the data ingestion pipeline. For…

NVIDIA GTC 2026: Live Updates on What’s Next in AI

Rolling coverage from San Jose, including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote, news highlights, live demos and on‑the‑ground color through March 19.

OpenAI is planning a desktop ‘superapp’

OpenAI is working on a desktop "superapp" that merges its ChatGPT app, the Codex AI coding app, and its AI-powered Atlas browser into one app, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company is making…

Google Colab Now Has an Open-Source MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server: Use Colab Runtimes with GPUs from Any Local AI Agent

Google has officially released the Colab MCP Server, an implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that enables AI agents to interact directly with the Google Colab environment. This…

Jeff Bezos reportedly wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI

The Amazon magnate has a new project centered around acquiring industrial firms and revamping them with AI technology.

‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’

In this episode, we dive into Nvidia’s annual developer conference and what CEO Jensen Huang is saying about the future of the company.

Startups Bring Optical Metamaterials to AI Data Centers

Light-warping physics made “invisibility cloaks” a possibility. Now two startups hope to harness the science underlying this advance to boost the bandwidth of data centers and speed artificial…

Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says

AI bots may outnumber humans online by 2027, says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, as generative AI agents dramatically increase web traffic and infrastructure demands.

Automate Camera Quality Monitoring

Learn how to use Roboflow’s new Camera Focus block and Deployment Manager to detect blurry feeds and automate maintenance alerts in real-time.

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

Codex maker says it will "continue to support these open source projects" after deal closes.

A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta

For almost two hours last week, Meta employees had unauthorized access to company and user data thanks to an AI agent that gave an employee inaccurate technical advice, as previously reported by The…

Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era

As contribution volume grows, mentorship signals are harder to read. The 3 Cs framework helps maintainers mentor more strategically... without burning out. The post Rethinking open source mentorship…

Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze

As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets.

Meta rolls out new AI content enforcement systems while reducing reliance on third-party vendors

Meta believes these AI systems can detect more violations with greater accuracy, better prevent scams, respond more quickly to real-world events, and reduce over-enforcement.

A New Game Turns the H-1B Visa System Into a Surreal Simulation

Inspired by real immigrant stories, H1B.Life captures the uncertainty, trade-offs, and pure luck that shape the lives of people trying to build a future in the US.

DoorDash launches a new ‘Tasks’ app that pays couriers to submit videos to train AI

Delivery couriers will be able to earn money by completing activities like filming everyday tasks or recording themselves speaking in another language.

How Squad runs coordinated AI agents inside your repository

An inside look at repository-native orchestration with GitHub Copilot and the design patterns behind multi-agent workflows that stay inspectable, predictable, and collaborative. The post How Squad…

Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI

Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people.

Adobe’s AI image generator can now be trained on your own art

Just feed your images into the bot and it’ll try to mimic specific styles and aesthetics. | Image: Adobe Adobe is launching customizable AI image generators that can mimic specific artistic styles and…

Fitbit’s AI health coach will soon be able to read your medical records

Would you share your medical records with a personal trainer? How about a virtual one? Google, which this week announced it is giving Fitbit's AI health coach the ability to read your medical records,…

The Download: Quantum computing for health, and why the world doesn’t recycle more nuclear waste

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A $5 million prize awaits proof that quantum computers can…

How Your Virtual Twin Could One Day Save Your Life

One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The…

Don’t Just Talk About AI. Measure Business Outputs. Here’s How.

Guest authors Bob Morse of Strattam Capital and Dario Fanucchi of Isazi, share their theory on why so many AI pilots fail, believing that the best solution to see measurable business improvements…

How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

How OpenAI uses chain-of-thought monitoring to study misalignment in internal coding agents—analyzing real-world deployments to detect risks and strengthen AI safety safeguards.

Data intelligence in education: Building the right foundation for better decisions

Data has become one of the most important strategic assets in education. Yet across institutions, publishers, and edtech companies, it often remains fragmented, inconsistently governed, and difficult…

The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths

After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable.

Multiverse Computing pushes its compressed AI models into the mainstream

After compressing models from major AI labs, including OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek, and Mistral AI, Multiverse Computing has launched both an app that showcases the capabilities of its compressed models…

Meet Mamba-3: A New State Space Model Frontier with 2x Smaller States and Enhanced MIMO Decoding Hardware Efficiency

The scaling of inference-time compute has become a primary driver for Large Language Model (LLM) performance, shifting architectural focus toward inference efficiency alongside model quality. While…

What is Google Sites? And how to use it

Google Sites launched its "new and improved" website builder almost a decade ago. And in the time since, Google's given the platform the same number of major updates as Craigslist has made to its…

How to use VLOOKUP in Google Sheets: A complete guide

Full disclosure: You can ask Google Sheets' built-in AI assistant Gemini to write a VLOOKUP formula for you and save yourself from reading the rest of this article. But there's something deeply…

OpenAI to acquire Astral

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents

A rogue AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who didn't have permission to see it.

Kagi Translate's AI answers the question "What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?"

Remember when it was fun to play around with LLMs?

After Swarmer’s Soaring Debut, Here Are 12 Other Potential Defense Tech IPOs

Defense tech startups are on a tear, which became clear this week when shares of AI drone company Swarmer soared 520% in their first day of trading on the Nasdaq, which could pave the way for other…

Baidu Qianfan Team Releases Qianfan-OCR: A 4B-Parameter Unified Document Intelligence Model

The Baidu Qianfan Team introduced Qianfan-OCR, a 4B-parameter end-to-end model designed to unify document parsing, layout analysis, and document understanding within a single vision-language…

Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal

After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker

Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.

Nvidia’s Always-On Chip Detects Faces in Less Than a Millisecond

Always-on vision systems might be used in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or to help consumer electronics save power by turning screens off when no one’s around. But to be used in such a way, these…

Exclusive: Stripe Alum Raises $9M For Meadow To Help People Plan Funerals Online

Co-founded by Stripes alum Sam Gerstenzang, online funeral planning startup Meadow Memorials has raised a $9 million Series A funding round led by Lachy Groom and Haystack.

From Simulation to Production: How to Build Robots With AI

The latest open models and frameworks from NVIDIA bring together simulation, robot learning and embedded compute to accelerate cloud-to-robot workflows.

The Download: The Pentagon’s new AI plans, and next-gen nuclear reactors

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on…

The layer every AI roundup is missing: Why methodology matters more than content

Last year, a third-grade teacher in São Paulo told me she had "finally found the perfect AI tool." It generated colorful worksheets in seconds. Vocabulary lists, reading comprehension questions, even…

What do new nuclear reactors mean for waste?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. The way the world…

NVIDIA AI Open-Sources ‘OpenShell’: A Secure Runtime Environment for Autonomous AI Agents

The deployment of autonomous AI agents—systems capable of using tools and executing code—presents a unique security challenge. While standard LLM applications are restricted to text-based…

ServiceNow Research Introduces EnterpriseOps-Gym: A High-Fidelity Benchmark Designed to Evaluate Agentic Planning in Realistic Enterprise Settings

Large language models (LLMs) are transitioning from conversational to autonomous agents capable of executing complex professional workflows. However, their deployment in enterprise environments…

AI Guardrails: Add safety and compliance checks to your workflows

When everyone around you is declaring that AI is making and breaking businesses overnight, it's hard not to feel like you need to adapt now—or risk getting left behind. And by all means, build with…

70+ AI art styles to use in your AI prompts

Peek into any AI art community, and you'll be wowed by the surprisingly unique image generations. While there's a lot that goes into a successful AI art prompt, I've found that most of the time, those…

Zapier vs. Tray: Which is best for enterprise automation? [2026]

It's easy to let edge cases influence your decision-making—thinking you need the most technical tool for the few times your developers will want to code their way out of a tough problem. And with…

AI frameworks: The building blocks of business intelligence

Whenever there's a shiny new AI tool, it makes sense to dive in and see if it's worth introducing into your work. You start with a single tab in your browser, which somehow turns into a dozen, all…

IT process automation: Definition, tools, and use cases

Nobody wakes up in the morning thrilled to reset 50 forgotten passwords or migrate data from one spreadsheet to another. It's a bit of a cosmic joke that we've built these incredibly powerful…

The best business process management (BPM) automation software for enterprises in 2026

Business process management (BPM) is about designing, executing, monitoring, and improving the way work gets done. You get BPM automation when you add workflows that run on their own, integrations…

OpenAI models: Every model (including GPT-5.4) and what it's best for

Keeping track of all the new AI models getting released at the moment is practically a full-time job. The most recent model, GPT-5.4, was released literally days after GPT-5.3 (and was barely a…

Justice Department Says Anthropic Can’t Be Trusted With Warfighting Systems

In response to Anthropic’s lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit how its Claude AI models could be used by the military.

The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says

The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data, MIT Technology Review has learned. AI…

How World ID wants to put a unique human identity on every AI agent

Iris scan-backed tokens could help stop agent swarms from overwhelming online systems.

Inline Formulas: Instantly transform data exactly where you need it

You're building a Zap. A lead comes in through a form and needs to go to your CRM. The email has extra spaces. The name is in all caps. A phone number is buried in a text block. The data needs to be…

Detect Solar Panel Failure with SAM 3

Learn how to use Roboflow Workflows and SAM 3 to segment snow-covered solar panels and automate maintenance alerts in real-time.

NVIDIA, Telecom Leaders Build AI Grids to Optimize Inference on Distributed Networks

As AI‑native applications scale to more users, agents and devices, the telecommunications network is becoming the next frontier for distributing AI. At NVIDIA GTC 2026, leading operators in the U.S.…

Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups

Nvidia's next frame-gen tech goes way beyond upscaling, and not in a good way.

Bringing the power of Personal Intelligence to more people

We're expanding Personal Intelligence across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app and Gemini in Chrome.

Our latest investment in open source security for the AI era

Google is making new investments, building new tools and developing code security to improve open source security.

 Investing in the people shaping open source and securing the future together

See how GitHub is investing in open source security funding maintainers, partnering with Alpha-Omega, and expanding access to help reduce burden and strengthen software supply chains. The post…

AI Trained on Birdsong Can Recognize Whale Calls

Birds’ chirps, trills, and warbles echo through the air, while whales’ boings, “biotwangs,” and whistles vibrate underwater. Despite the variations in sounds and the medium through which they travel,…

GTC Spotlights NVIDIA RTX PCs and DGX Sparks Running Latest Open Models and AI Agents Locally

The paradigm of consumer computing has revolved around the concept of a personal device — from PCs to smartphones and tablets. Now, generative AI — particularly OpenClaw — has introduced a new…

The Download: OpenAI’s US military deal, and Grok’s CSAM lawsuit

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Where OpenAI’s technology could show up in Iran OpenAI has…

Exclusive: Candex Extends Series C To $40M+ To Help Enterprises Easily Onboard Global Vendors

New York-based Candex, a startup that helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors without the administrative headache or risk that comes with onboarding them, has grown its July…

The Rising Investors Behind The New Unicorn Class

The race to back the next generation of billion-dollar startups accelerated last year as the stable of unicorn startups filled up again. A total of 187 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in…

How Invisalign Became the World’s Biggest User of 3D Printers

Joe Hogan, Align Technology’s plastics-nerd CEO, says you shouldn’t eat with your aligners and that you don’t need to wear your retainers every night.

OpenAI Japan announces Japan Teen Safety Blueprint to put teen safety first

OpenAI Japan announces the Japan Teen Safety Blueprint, introducing stronger age protections, parental controls, and well-being safeguards for teens using generative AI.

How to automate ChatGPT (GPT-5.4 nano, GPT-5.4 mini, and more)

ChatGPT handles billions of queries a day. And with so many models to choose from, you can match the model to the task at hand. Need deep reasoning for complex, multi-step work? Pick GPT-5.4. Want…

Which AI models can you automate on Zapier? (GPT 5.4 mini, Opus 4.6, and more)

New AI models launch practically every week, and keeping up with which ones to use for specific workflows is a job in itself. Consider this article your living reference. At Zapier, we run every model…

The 10 best Mailchimp alternatives in 2026

Mailchimp is genuinely great. It shows up on three of Zapier's best apps lists for a reason: Best email drip campaign software Best marketing automation software Best campaign management software But…

Equipping workers with insights about compensation

New research shows Americans send nearly 3 million daily messages to ChatGPT asking about compensation and earnings, helping close the wage information gap.

Elon Musk's xAI sued for turning three girls' real photos into AI CSAM

Discord user led cops to Grok-generated CSAM of real girls, lawsuit says.

With Nvidia Groq 3, the Era of AI Inference Is (Probably) Here

This week, over 30,000 people are descending upon San Jose, Calif., to attend Nvidia GTC, the so-called Superbowl of AI—a nickname that may or may not have been coined by Nvidia. At the main event…

Roche Scales NVIDIA AI Factories Globally to Accelerate Drug Discovery, Diagnostic Solutions and Manufacturing Breakthroughs

Roche's new deployment spans more than 3,500 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs across its worldwide operations and embedded across the entire value chain, massively scaling R&D productivity, next-generation…

New "vibe coded" AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community

Creator apologizes after using Patreon funds for Gemini-powered magazine scan processor.

NVIDIA DSX Air Boosts Time to Token With Accelerated Simulation for AI Factories

Setting up AI factories in simulation — decreasing deployment time from months to days — is accelerating the next industrial revolution. Nowhere was that more apparent than at GTC 2026, in San Jose,…

OpenAI’s own mental health experts unanimously opposed “naughty” ChatGPT launch

OpenAI draws a line between AI “smut” and porn. Experts fear it’s all unhealthy.

Which is the Best Coding Agent for Vision tasks?

Benchmarking Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and OpenAI Codex on 5 computer vision tasks. See which coding agent performed best on speed and accuracy.

Laser Chip Brings Multiplexing to AI Data Centers

As the bandwidth and power demands of AI data centers necessitate a transition from electrical to optical scaleup networking, one component has been conspicuously absent from the co-packaged optics…

Why Codex Security Doesn’t Include a SAST Report

A deep dive into why Codex Security doesn’t rely on traditional SAST, instead using AI-driven constraint reasoning and validation to find real vulnerabilities with fewer false positives.

Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval

Staff complain that the constant upheaval is destroying morale.

Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games

When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short.

China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies

Hype around the open source agent is driving people to rent cloud servers and buy AI subscriptions just to try it, creating a windfall for tech companies.

Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans

Software demos and Pentagon records detail how chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude could help the Pentagon analyze intelligence and suggest next steps.

Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs

--> Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial intelligence. Interpretability research aims…

Visual Anomaly Detection

Learn what anomaly detection is, the main methods used in visual anomaly detection, and how to build supervised, and unsupervised anomaly pipelines in Roboflow Workflows for real-time deployment on…

Automated Visual Inspection in Pharmaceuticals with Roboflow

See how Roboflow's two-stage workflow detects pills, classifies defects, and delivers pass/fail inspection results automatically.

‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs

In today’s episode, we discuss how the saga between Anthropic and the Department of Defense is far from over.

Perplexity's "Personal Computer" brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Perplexity says AI access to your files is in "secure environment with clear safeguards."

Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion

AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions. The post Continuous AI for accessibility: How…

Into the Omniverse: How Industrial AI and Digital Twins Accelerate Design, Engineering and Manufacturing Across Industries

Industrial AI, digital twins, AI physics and accelerated AI infrastructure are empowering companies across industries to accelerate and scale the design, simulation and optimization of products,…

How AI is helping improve heart health in rural Australia

A new Google AI initiative aims to improve heart health outcomes for people living in remote Australian communities.

Inference 1.0: Foundational Infrastructure for Visual Understanding

Roboflow is announcing Inference 1.0, the most trusted and reliable vision AI inference engine, powering over 1 billion inferences a week.

Protecting cities with AI-driven flash flood forecasting

Climate & Sustainability

Introducing Groundsource: Turning news reports into data with Gemini

Climate & Sustainability

The AI-resistant classroom is a myth: Designing assessments that assume AI is present

Artificial intelligence is no longer approaching the classroom--it is already embedded in it. Students are using generative tools to brainstorm, summarize, translate, draft, and revise.

GitHub availability report: February 2026

In February, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: February 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues

GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents. We understand the impact these outages have on our customers and are sharing details on the stabilization work we’re prioritizing right now.…

"Use a gun" or "beat the crap out of him": AI chatbot urged violence, study finds

Character.AI deemed "uniquely unsafe" among 10 chatbots tested by CCDH.

Exploring the feasibility of conversational diagnostic AI in a real-world clinical study

Generative AI

New NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super Delivers 5x Higher Throughput for Agentic AI

Launched today, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is a 120‑billion‑parameter open model with 12 billion active parameters designed to run complex agentic AI systems at scale. Available now, the model combines…

Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex

Rakuten uses Codex, the coding agent from OpenAI, to ship software faster and safer, reducing MTTR 50%, automating CI/CD reviews, and delivering full-stack builds in weeks.

Why AI Chatbots Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong

In April of 2025, OpenAI released a new version of GPT-4o, one of the AI algorithms users could select to power ChatGPT, the company’s chatbot. The next week, OpenAI reverted to the previous version.…

Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection

How ChatGPT defends against prompt injection and social engineering by constraining risky actions and protecting sensitive data in agent workflows.

From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment

How OpenAI built an agent runtime using the Responses API, shell tool, and hosted containers to run secure, scalable agents with files, tools, and state.

Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI

Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at scale.

The era of “AI as text” is over. Execution is the new interface.

AI is shifting from prompt-response interactions to programmable execution. See how the GitHub Copilot SDK enables agentic workflows directly inside your applications. The post The era of “AI as text”…

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Is it clean "reverse engineering" or just an LLM-filtered "derivative work"?

Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network

The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw.

After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos

One toggle for "fast classic search."

As Open Models Spark AI Boom, NVIDIA Jetson Brings It to Life at the Edge

The Cat 306 CR mini-excavator weighs just under eight tons and fits inside a standard shipping container. It’s the machine a contractor rents when the job site is tight: a utility trench near a…

An AI Agent Blackmailed a Developer. Now What?

On 12 February, a Github contributor going by MJ Rathbun posted a personal attack against Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer for an open-source project. Shambaugh had rejected Rathbun’s code…

Gemini burrows deeper into Google Workspace with revamped document creation and editing

Gemini can now pull context from your files, emails, and more to create and edit documents.

NVIDIA and ComfyUI Streamline Local AI Video Generation for Game Developers and Creators at GDC

Game developers and artists are building cinematic worlds and iconic characters — raising the bar for immersive experiences on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs. At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San…

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

NVIDIA and Thinking Machines Lab Announce Long-Term Gigawatt-Scale Strategic Partnership

NVIDIA and Thinking Machines Lab announced today a multiyear strategic partnership to deploy at least one gigawatt of next-generation NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems to support Thinking Machines’ frontier…

Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs

IH-Challenge trains models to prioritize trusted instructions, improving instruction hierarchy, safety steerability, and resistance to prompt injection attacks.

AI Is a 5-Layer Cake

AI is one of the most powerful forces shaping the world today. It is not a clever app or a single model; it is essential infrastructure, like electricity and the internet.

Under the hood: Security architecture of GitHub Agentic Workflows

GitHub Agentic Workflows are built with isolation, constrained outputs, and comprehensive logging. Learn how our threat model and security architecture help teams run agents safely in GitHub Actions.…

ABB Robotics Taps NVIDIA Omniverse to Deliver Industrial‑Grade Physical AI at Scale

ABB Robotics and NVIDIA today announced a breakthrough partnership that brings industrial‑grade physical AI to the factory floor. By integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries directly into its…

How AI Is Driving Revenue, Cutting Costs and Boosting Productivity for Every Industry in 2026

AI is everywhere and accelerating everything — becoming essential infrastructure to create the intelligence that will advance every industry. That’s why companies are increasingly focusing on the…

OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo

OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development.

Ulysses Sequence Parallelism: Training with Million-Token Contexts

Military AI Policy Needs Democratic Oversight

A simmering dispute between the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and Anthropic has now escalated into a full-blown confrontation, raising an uncomfortable but important question: who gets to…

How to scan for vulnerabilities with GitHub Security Lab’s open source AI-powered framework

GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent is very effective at finding Auth Bypasses, IDORs, Token Leaks, and other high-impact vulnerabilities. The post How to scan for vulnerabilities with GitHub Security…

How our open-source AI model SpeciesNet is helping to promote wildlife conservation

An overview of SpeciesNet, our open-source AI model that is helping people around the world protect and conserve wildlife.

Where wild things roam: Identifying wildlife with SpeciesNet

Climate & Sustainability

Codex Security: now in research preview

Codex Security is an AI application security agent that analyzes project context to detect, validate, and patch complex vulnerabilities with higher confidence and less noise.

How Descript enables multilingual video dubbing at scale

Descript uses OpenAI models to scale multilingual video dubbing, optimizing translations for both meaning and timing so dubbed speech sounds natural across languages.

When it comes to student attendance, are districts measuring the wrong thing?

Across the country, schools are raising alarms about chronic absenteeism. News stories highlight rising numbers of missed days, legislators are demanding answers from districts, and educators are…

How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine for investing

See how Balyasny built an AI research system with GPT-5.4, rigorous model evaluation, and agent workflows to transform investment analysis at scale.

Ask a Techspert: How does AI understand my visual searches?

Learn more about AI Mode in Search’s query fan-out method for visual search.

The latest AI news we announced in February

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from February 2026

Bringing Robotics AI to Embedded Platforms: Dataset Recording, VLA Fine‑Tuning, and On‑Device Optimizations

Entomologists Use a Particle Accelerator to Image Ants at Scale

Move over, Pixar. The ants that animators once morphed into googly-eyed caricatures in films such as A Bug’s Life and Antz just received a meticulously precise anatomical reboot. Writing today in…

Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good

OpenAI introduces CoT-Control and finds reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, reinforcing monitorability as an AI safety safeguard.

Introducing GPT-5.4

Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and 1M-token context.

Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity

OpenAI shares new tools, certifications, and measurement resources to help schools and universities close AI capability gaps and expand opportunity.

Teaching LLMs to reason like Bayesians

Generative AI

Use Canvas in AI Mode to get things done and bring your ideas to life, right in Search.

Canvas in AI Mode is now available for everyone in the U.S. Plus, it can now help you draft documents or build interactive tools.

Nearly half of high school students now use AI in college search

AI is transforming the way students discover, evaluate, and choose colleges, according to a national survey of more than 5,000 high school students conducted by education company EAB.

PRX Part 3 — Training a Text-to-Image Model in 24h!

With Teens Comfortable Confiding in AI, Should Schools Embrace It for Mental Health Care?

Why are students so comfortable using AI for emotional support?

Watershed Moment for AI–Human Collaboration in Math

When Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska received a Fields Medal—widely regarded as the Nobel Prize for mathematics—in July 2022, it was big news. Not only was she the second woman to accept the…

SharePoint at 25: How Microsoft is putting knowledge to work in the AI era

Twenty-five years ago, SharePoint set out to help people share knowledge and work better together, a mission that today operates at extraordinary scale. The post SharePoint at 25: How Microsoft is…

How Quantum Data Can Teach AI to Do Better Chemistry

Sometimes a visually compelling metaphor is all you need to get an otherwise complicated idea across. In the summer of 2001, a Tulane physics professor named John P. Perdew came up with a banger. He…

Letting Machines Decide What Matters

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will have smashed billions of particles together. In all likelihood, it will have found exactly what it found yesterday:…

Google and the Massachusetts AI Hub are launching a new AI training initiative for the Commonwealth.

Google is partnering with the Massachusetts AI Hub to provide every Baystater with no-cost access to Google’s AI training.

Get more context and understand translations more deeply with new AI-powered updates in Translate.

New alternatives, “understand” and “ask” buttons in Google Translate help you navigate the complexities of natural language.

A more intelligent Android on Samsung Galaxy S26

At Samsung Unpacked 2026, we showcased how Samsung Galaxy S26 devices are getting the latest in Android’s AI features.

AI Is Acing Math Exams Faster Than Scientists Write Them

Mathematics is often regarded as the ideal domain for measuring AI progress effectively. Math’s step-by-step logic is easy to track, and its definitive, automatically verifiable answers remove any…

New partnership expands access to flexible career-connected learning

Microschools are small learning environments that typically serve a limited number of students and emphasize personalization and strong relationships. Often blending elements of traditional schooling,…

Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity, and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected

Microsoft Sovereign Cloud's expansion of capabilities includes Azure Local disconnected operations, Microsoft 365 Local disconnected, and Microsoft Foundry addition of large model and modern…

What Students Gain When Teachers — Not AI — Grade Students’ Work

How a lawyer-turned-teacher-turned-AI ethicist used assessment to personalize instruction before AI-powered edtech existed.

AI’s Math Tricks Don’t Work for Scientific Computing

AI has driven an explosion of new number formats—the ways in which numbers are represented digitally. Engineers are looking at every possible way to save computation time and energy, including…

AI for Cybersecurity: Promise, Practice, and Pitfalls

AI is revolutionizing the cybersecurity landscape. From accelerating threat detection to enabling real-time automated responses, artificial intelligence is reshaping how organizations defend against…

AI didn’t break homework: It exposed what was already broken

Who among us has never copied a homework answer in a hurry? Borrowed a friend’s paragraph? Accepted a parent’s “small correction” that eventually became a full rewrite?

AI Data Centers Turn to High-Temperature Superconductors

Data centers for AI are turning the world of power generation on its head. There isn’t enough power capacity on the grid to even come close to how much energy is needed for the number being built. And…

GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

Train AI models with Unsloth and Hugging Face Jobs for FREE

The U.S. and China Are Pursuing Different AI Futures

More money has been invested in AI than it took to land on the moon. Spending on the technology this year is projected to reach up to US $700 billion, almost double last year’s spending. Part of the…

“No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI”

Sundar Pichai gave remarks at the opening ceremony of the AI Impact Summit. Read a transcript of his speech.

AI Impact Summit 2026

A look at the partnerships and investments Google announced at the AI Impact Summit 2026.

IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail Using IT-Bench and MAST

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.

Tech Is Taking Over Olympic Curling

At this year’s Winter Olympics in Italy, the controversy began with a fingertip. A disputed double-touch—whether a curler had brushed a moving stone twice—sparked protests, profanity-laced exchanges,…

AI Impact Summit 2026: How we’re partnering to make AI work for everyone

An overview of Google’s new global partnerships and funding announcements at the AI Impact Summit in India.

Teaching AI to read a map

Machine Perception

Can AI Help Students Navigate the Career Chaos It’s Creating?

College and career counseling is tough these days. Some schools are banking on the idea that AI can help.

Beyond one-on-one: Authoring, simulating, and testing dynamic human-AI group conversations

Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization

How AI trained on birds is surfacing underwater mysteries

Climate & Sustainability

Transformers.js v4 Preview: Now Available on NPM!

How AI tools can redefine universal design to increase accessibility

Education Innovation

​Sequential Attention: Making AI models leaner and faster without sacrificing accuracy

Algorithms & Theory

Collaborating on a nationwide randomized study of AI in real-world virtual care

Generative AI

Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work

Generative AI

ATLAS: Practical scaling laws for multilingual models

Generative AI

Small models, big results: Achieving superior intent extraction through decomposition

Generative AI

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B…

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the…

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent…

Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully…

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team…

Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems

An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how…

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several…

The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds

When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes. For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X…

Available today: GPT-5.2 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Today we’re excited to bring OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio. The post Available today: GPT-5.2 in Microsoft 365 Copilot appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog.

Advancing Microsoft 365: New capabilities and pricing update

Today we are announcing expanded availability of AI, security, and management capabilities coming to Microsoft 365 offerings in 2026. The post Advancing Microsoft 365: New capabilities and pricing…

RL without TD learning

In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer. Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal…

What exactly does word2vec learn?

What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. Despite the fact that word2vec…

Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction

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Defending against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries (StruQ) and Preference Optimization (SecAlign)

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) enable exciting LLM-integrated applications. However, as LLMs have improved, so have the attacks against them. Prompt injection attack is listed as the…

Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models. The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prize…

Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for…

Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and…

Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination

Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions. ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. But whose English? Only 15% of…