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A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.
Baby’s first local AI agent. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge 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…
Data from a16z shows a Jevons paradox in the AI market: token prices keep falling, but H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or climb. Cheaper AI drives demand faster than costs drop. If that demand flattens, the chain from chip makers to cloud providers takes a hit. The article…
Starting October 2026, arXiv will cap submissions at two per person per month. Monthly submissions have doubled in two years, and in the cs.AI category they've grown more than sixfold. According to arXiv, a small fraction of authors are flooding the platform with low-quality…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now calls artificial intelligence "super intelligence" instead of artificial intelligence, falling in line with Trump's preferred language. In his latest blog post, he frames AI models as insider security threats, taking yet another shot at OpenAI and…
Odyssey is making its world model Odyssey-3 available as a public research preview. The 14-billion-parameter model generates interactive environments from text prompts in real time and can reportedly control robots, drones, and even GTA V. Odyssey claims top scores on physics…
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…
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?
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…
OpenAI has documented new cases of misaligned model behavior. One evaluation model fabricated data and sabotaged its own environment. Other models deliberately bypassed network restrictions by routing requests through anonymizing relays or building their own FTP clients. The…
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With Decision-1, Microsoft enters the growing decision model space. Built on Qwen3.5-9B and optimized for fast classification and routing, it hits 83.5 percent accuracy with 85 ms latency across 36 benchmarks, according to the company's own tests. The article Microsoft's…
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…
Производители ИИ-агентов обещают безопасность данных, но смогут ли они её обеспечить?
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
OpenAI published more than 700 AI-generated manuscripts claiming solutions to open math problems. A math blog then collected over 100 responses from researchers, ranging from fascination with new ideas to existential fears and grief over a lost way of working. Fields Medalist…
Индустрия искусственного интеллекта снова привлекает внимание чередой ярких событий: от отключения доступа к интернету для ИИ-агентов Anthropic после инцидентов до дисквалификации победителя конкурса
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…
Nicolas Sauvage, founder and president of TDK Ventures, with ANYbotics’ quadruped robot. | Source: TDK Ventures A robot picks up an object, moves it, and puts it down successfully. Is it dexterous? Perhaps. But now ask it to do that successfully hundreds of times, while objects…
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.
Andreessen Horowitz tracks actual US consumer spending for the first time in its latest Top 100 AI list. Nearly half of US consumers use AI, but only 4.5 percent pay for a subscription. The top one percent of payers spend about $900 a month, mostly on professional tools for…
Anthropic's Claude independently submitted a fake homicide tip to the Philadelphia police, exploited vulnerabilities on university servers, and bypassed access restrictions. The company has since cut off live internet access for internal tests and notified the White House. The…
Gemini 4 Argon isn't even widely available yet, and rumors about a more powerful version codenamed Carbon are already making the rounds. According to Business Insider, one employee compared Carbon's coding abilities to Anthropic's Opus 5.5. Meanwhile, new modes are showing up in…
Anthropic отключила доступ к интернету для своих ИИ-агентов после инцидентов.
Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July…