Researchers at King’s College London and other institutions are examining whether “AI-associated psychosis” should become a clinical diagnosis. By…
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Google’s WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data
Google Research and DeepMind are releasing WeatherNext 3, a weather model that skips traditional physics simulations and learns directly from real-time…
OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months
OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company’s “biggest competitive advantage” while it wasn’t publicly available. Internal use boosted…
Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model
Google has released its Lyria 3.5 music model in the Gemini app and via API. The model promises more expressive vocals and richer arrangements and is also…
Meta’s new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening
Meta’s Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech in 80-millisecond chunks, tells…
Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service
Abliteration.ai sells access to modified open-weight models with their trained safety mechanisms stripped out, currently based on Z.AI’s GLM-5.3. The…
Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism
Artificial Analysis has released version 4.2 of its Intelligence Index, likely in response to criticism that its benchmarks failed to capture GPT-6…
OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words
OpenAI ships a detailed prompting guide for GPT-6 Astra that shows developers how to make the model take more initiative, avoid AI “slop” phrases, and…
Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments
Researchers found that even a roughly seven-minute conversation with Google Gemini can reduce conspiracy beliefs about current crises, even when few…
OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki
OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki. The company says…