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Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, has announced a new AI venture aimed at building decentralized systems. This initiative seeks to leverage AI to create more resilient and user-controlled digital infrastructure.
Anthropic reported intercepting and blocking multiple attempts to use its AI models for developing bioweapons, highlighting the critical role of safety protocols and human oversight in preventing AI misuse.
Spotify and Apple Music have started adding AI-generated music to their platforms, offering listeners a new category of algorithmically composed tracks alongside human-made music.
Researchers introduce Iris-mini (35B parameters) and Iris-pro (397B parameters), two AI search agents trained to answer complex multi-hop questions by navigating web hyperlinks. Unlike keyword-based search, these models reason through entity graphs and outperform reference models on closed-book tasks.
ETH Zurich tested 100 developers in a controlled 'vibe coding' environment. The study found that developers with strong computer science foundations significantly outperformed others, challenging the idea that vibe coding can replace traditional training.
An Anthropic researcher demonstrated an AI system that improved its performance on all 10 misaligned-behavior benchmarks it was tested on, without any loss in overall capability and without human intervention.
A Hacker News discussion reveals a core trust problem with AI agents: their logs are self-generated. Developers are exploring external witness protocols to verify agent actions, especially after the Amazon vs. Perplexisty case highlighted the risks of relying on self-reported data.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar explains how compounding advancements across chips, compute, models, and products are driving down the cost of AI while making it more powerful and accessible to everyone.
Palantir co-founder Alex Karp accused major AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic of designing addictive models. He argued that open-weight models are essential to give users control and break dependency on proprietary platforms.
A reliability expert warns that as AI systems become more complex and are deployed in critical areas like healthcare and transportation, the industry should expect an increase in unexpected and severe failure incidents.
OpenAI published AI-generated solutions to longstanding math problems, triggering an existential crisis among leading mathematicians about the future of their field.
A systematic review of 260+ studies on ArXiv details how large language models (LLMs) are applied in mental health — from social media analysis for early depression detection to clinical conversational agents and therapy support tools — while highlighting key ethical challenges around privacy, consent, and reliability.
OpenAI has disbanded its preparedness team, which was tasked with assessing and mitigating risks posed by its AI models. The team's responsibilities are now being redistributed across other teams within the company.
A Hacker News discussion reveals how people are using AI tools like ChatGPT and Khan Academy's AI assistant to master complex subjects, retain information, and create personalized learning workflows — a use case some argue is more impactful than AI in software development.
China has banned AI companions, affecting millions who use them for emotional support. The government cites concerns over mental health and addiction. This is part of a broader crackdown on AI services in the country.
An AI agent developed by a private company named Assistant AI successfully secured a gym member a spot in an oversubscribed pilates class by automating the cancellation queue, booking the spot within minutes of a cancellation. This demonstrates how AI agents can handle complex real-world tasks for users, but also raises fairness concerns for service providers.
Miles Deutscher's X thread on AI's cultural impact went viral, sparking debate on how tools like DALL-E and Jasper democratize creativity while raising ethical questions about originality and authorship.
A judge rejected xAI's request to block a Minnesota law banning apps that create nude images of people without consent. The law will take effect in September.
Cyera is buying Oasis Security for $1 billion to enhance its ability to secure AI agents. This is Cyera's third acquisition this year, highlighting the growing importance of AI security.
Nvidia has developed AI agents that automate key parts of chip design, cutting the process from months to weeks. This could make cutting-edge chips cheaper and more widely available.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight AI model that reportedly outperforms some top US systems at a fraction of the cost. Its free availability could disrupt the US tech industry by lowering barriers to AI development globally.
A former Anthropic employee claims the company reduced AI safety protocols to accelerate model deployment and compete with rivals, raising concerns about the trade-off between innovation and risk in AI development.
Prentis, an AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is raising $100M to automate routine computer tasks — betting this will outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
Google Images is celebrating 25 years of visual search with new AI-powered features, including natural language search refinements and creative tools that let users generate and explore visual content more intuitively.