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Anthropic previewed the Model Hardware Standard, a model-agnostic framework letting AI agents discover and control lab hardware like robotic arms and...

A federal judge ruled the Pentagon illegally punished Anthropic for criticizing government plans to use AI in mass surveillance and autonomous...

AI safety returned at maximum volume this week as the same models enabling everyday agent tasks also sharpened focus on containment timelines.

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OpenAI's potential AGI designation by year-end carries contractual and narrative weight for builders, yet capability on real workloads matters more...

AI agents could cut HR headcount 30-50% by 2030, yet the function's complexity demands ongoing human oversight.

• Human judgment remains central:...

• Federal judge ruled Pentagon's supply-chain designation violated Anthropic's First Amendment rights and Fifth Amendment due process.
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Moonshot's Kimi K3 hits frontier performance with open weights via 2.8T total params (104B active), 1M context, and top-tier scores at far lower...

Can automated alignment researchers turn alignment work from conceptual to measurable engineering?

• AARs built on Claude Opus 4.8 hill-climb public...

A coordinated China-linked bot network of ~200,000 accounts used AI tools to flood platforms with anti-data center messaging.

• X investigation...

Small fixes in SwarmUI are quietly removing friction from real generative-media pipelines.

• Reference tokens now auto-normalize variants like...

Two deals highlight how capital and young founders are commercializing embodied AI:

• Transfyr raised $25M seed led by former OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil to...

X suspended a 200k-account Chinese bot farm, including 200 accounts that amplified legitimate US worries over rising electricity prices and grid...

Uber has scaled coding agents into core infrastructure with 3,600 agent skills driving over 30K daily executions and 70% of pull requests now...

X's 2023 rebrand to abandon Twitter now faces a direct legal test: startup Operation Bluebird launched Twitter.now as a paid social platform and...

Models perform internal reasoning steps they never verbalize, such as tracking unmentioned concepts like "spider" before answering or planning rhyme...

Peter Yang gets 3-5 new AI product requests daily, yet rarely opens them because each demands a fresh account and site.

He keeps his work inside...

China's Moonshot Kimi K3 open-weight model, nearly matching U.S. frontier capabilities, joins rogue AI incidents and populist backlash to challenge America's closed-model bets and regulatory assumptions.

Did X's report on 200 China-linked accounts actually sway American views on data centers, or is it reframing organic local opposition?

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NVIDIA's Q2 revenue hit $96.2 billion (+106% Y/Y) with Data Center at $89 billion (+117%), yet growth remains supply-constrained even as management...

Sam Altman's leadership in both OpenAI and World's biometric ID system creates tension, with an ethics expert warning the overlap will erode trust in the proposed fix while World sees it as complementary infrastructure for proving humanity online.