Google is making Gemini 4 Carbon generally available after a two-week testing phase. The model ranks first in several benchmarks, in some cases ahead of…
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Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2.5 scores 96 percent sorting metal parts in a Mercedes-Benz assembly pilot
Google Deepmind introduced Gemini Robotics 2.5, a new control model for robots, and tested it with Apptronik on active Mercedes-Benz production lines in…
Google ships four TPU variants in one year as it ramps up competition with Nvidia
Google is expanding its TPU 8 family with two specialized variants: the TPU 8tx keeps sensitive data encrypted even during processing, while the TPU 8i…
Nvidia espionage scandal weakens Huang’s lobby against tighter AI chip export controls
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to an extramarital affair with a woman US intelligence agencies classify as a suspected Chinese informant. The board…
Anthropic’s Fable 5.2 completes 41 percent of real freelance jobs, up from 2.5 percent a year ago
Anthropic’s Fable 5.2 completes 41.3 percent of real freelance jobs at professional quality on the Remote Labor Index, more than double the next-best…
Eight countries and top AI labs agree to shutdown mechanisms in new Paris declaration
Eight countries along with representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Mistral AI have signed the “Paris Call for AI Safety and Security” at…
Anthropic kicks off IPO roadshow, offering shares at $70 to $78 and targeting a trillion-dollar valuation
Anthropic is kicking off its IPO roadshow, targeting a valuation of up to $1.02 trillion. Beyond the public offering of up to $64.4 billion, the company…
The brain-as-computer metaphor shaped modern AI but may be misleading the consciousness debate
Consciousness researchers Anil Seth, Ned Block, and Giulio Tononi argue in a Nature commentary that today’s AI systems aren’t conscious and won’t become…
The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton reaffirms that raw compute alone isn’t enough for intelligence and that fundamentally new learning methods are needed.…
Andrej Karpathy built a curated video platform in a weekend using Claude and 20 years of Hacker News
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy used Claude’s Opus 5.5 to filter 43 million Hacker News comments into 6,454 curated videos. The result beats YouTube’s…