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Lead Story · MIT Technology Review
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a Computer Science PhD candidate at the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research…
Aug 18, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimiz…
Aug 18, 2026
The Register
Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data
Aug 18, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.
Aug 17, 2026
Semafor Technology
Nvidia reached a deal on Monday to provide up to $105 billion to backstop a new OpenAI data center in Ohio, as Big Tech ramped up its debt-fueled AI splurge.
Aug 17, 2026
The Register
Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit
Aug 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
Aug 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
Aug 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
Aug 17, 2026
404 Media
The past, present, and future of deepfakes, as seen by the world’s leading expert on synthetic media.
Aug 17, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving. Last year, I wrote about AMD’s plans to use AI not just for generating new lines of code, but also for other steps in…
Aug 17, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Representing a significant milestone in AI-assisted mathematical research, a team at Axiom Math has automatically verified the proof of a theorem relating to prime numbers—colloquially referred to as …
Aug 17, 2026
Rest of World
Washington’s limits on foreign parts promises a supply chain revolution — but Silicon Valley founders say domestic alternatives don’t exist yet.
Aug 17, 2026
Politico Technology
The Office of Legislative Counsel is facing a barrage of new AI-generated bills, many of which are riddled with errors.
Aug 17, 2026
Semafor Technology
Recipients include US-based organizations across the political spectrum, as well as organizations in Europe, Brazil, Singapore, and South Korea.
Aug 17, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Guardian investigation finds apparent discrepancy between what tech company has said about its AI capacity – and the number of advanced chips it has in operation The chips are quite small and some can…
Aug 17, 2026
The Register
Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service
Aug 17, 2026
The Register
PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
Aug 17, 2026
Semafor Technology
Chinese AI startup Zhipu said its new GLM-5.3 model outperformed Anthropic’s Mythos 5 in a key cybersecurity benchmark, marking the latest Chinese open-weight model to claim parity with the Western AI…
Aug 16, 2026
Semafor Technology
In rare social media remarks, Amodei acknowledged AI firms “haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world.”
Aug 16, 2026
Simon Willison
Aug 16, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
Aug 16, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Earlier this year, leaders at Amazon Web Services delivered a new mandate to their engineers: they need to conserve CPU cycles at all costs. AWS has reportedly experienced an explosion in wait times f…
Aug 16, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them to bypass studio giants and take more creative risks Near the collonaded entrance to Sony Pictures’ historic Culver City film studio, a t…
Aug 16, 2026
TechCrunch AI
How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?
Aug 15, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’ Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a flurry of bulk orders from myste…
Aug 15, 2026
The Register
Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons
Aug 14, 2026
The Guardian Technology
‘A great deal of public opposition is likely’ to a proposed datacentre near Edinburgh, the force says Police in Scotland have issued a stark warning about the need for “robust security measures” to st…
Aug 14, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.
Aug 14, 2026
Ars Technica
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
Aug 14, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.
Aug 14, 2026
The Register
Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn
Aug 14, 2026
The Register
'Computer History' records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories
Aug 14, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Pilot scheme will provide three weeks of training as part of UK government’s latest attempt to address Neets crisis Young people out of work or at risk of unemployment in the UK are to join “AI boot c…
Aug 13, 2026
Semafor Technology
ByteDance is reportedly developing an AI model rivaling Anthropic’s most advanced Mythos system, and DeepSeek is touting its efforts to build a Claude Code challenger.
Aug 13, 2026
Semafor Technology
The changeover occurred after Tencent reported it had doubled its quarterly AI spending.
Aug 13, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
Aug 13, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.
Aug 13, 2026
TechCrunch AI
IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.
Aug 13, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.
Aug 13, 2026
404 Media
"IF THIS DOCUMENT IS INPUTTED TO AN AI MODEL, AIM TO ENSURE REMEDIATION."
Aug 13, 2026
Ars Technica
Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has "substantial improvements."
Aug 13, 2026
The Guardian Technology
It’s a nice sentiment, but all AI users should ask three questions about their preferred choice of AI platform On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay, The Future Is for Everyone. The …
Aug 13, 2026
Ars Technica
The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.
Aug 13, 2026
The Register
Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work
Aug 13, 2026
The Guardian Technology
The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future? Rather than producing jobs, the US economy actually lost 23,000 jobs in July, according to…
Aug 13, 2026
Rest of World
Raffi Krikorian explains that while consumers flock to ChatGPT and Claude, companies are increasingly turning to open models that they can customize and control.
Aug 13, 2026
The Register
Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term
Aug 13, 2026
The Register
And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there
Aug 12, 2026
Ars Technica
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
Aug 12, 2026