OpenAI has disrupted a covert Russian influence campaign that used ChatGPT to generate social media posts by banning a cluster of accounts. The operators…
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OpenAI’s first custom chip “Jalapeño” reportedly beats Nvidia’s Blackwell and Rubin in inference benchmarks
OpenAI showed off “Jalapeño,” its first in-house inference chip, with benchmarks at the Hot Chips conference. According to SemiAnalysis tests, the chip…
Sam Altman says OpenAI will have AGI by the end of 2026 if you accept his definition
OpenAI’s leadership believes AGI is within reach, according to a TIME report. The company’s upcoming model Astra already works as an automated research…
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting “ultimate cost efficiency”
Alibaba’s Qwen team is previewing the Qwen4 architecture with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activates just 6 out of 125 billion…
Employee revolt and failing agents forced Meta to scrap its AI layoff plan
Meta wanted to replace far more of its workforce with AI than previously known, according to Reuters, but the plan collapsed under rebellious employees…
Pro-Kremlin deepfakes put surrender rhetoric in the mouths of Ukrainian lawmakers
Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels are spreading AI-generated deepfake videos of two Ukrainian lawmakers who appear to call for peace talks. The clips racked…
Chinese Moonshot AI negotiates hosting deals with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google
A Chinese AI company could land its model on major US cloud platforms for the first time, taking a cut of the revenue. The article Chinese Moonshot AI…
IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0
IBM is releasing its Granite 4.2 language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, trained on about 15 trillion tokens with a context window of up to 512,000…
Bill Gates warns AI is more dangerous than the tech industry will admit
Bill Gates warns in an essay and an NYT interview about mass unemployment and easier bioterrorism through AI, and he accuses his own industry of…
Anthropic sees a market opportunity of more than $30 trillion ahead of its IPO
Anthropic wants to sell investors on a theoretical market opportunity worth more than $30 trillion ahead of its planned IPO. The article Anthropic sees a…