Anthropic employees donated $540 million in 2025 alone, nearly five times as much as the next-largest Fortune 500 donors, thanks to a company program that…
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Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an open-weight model that makes the case for European AI sovereignty
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a German-English mixture-of-experts model with 78 billion parameters, about three billion of which are active per token.…
ChatGPT’s new ad format fills the image generation loading screen with product carousels
ChatGPT users in the US will soon see display ads while the chatbot generates an image for them. The article ChatGPT’s new ad format fills the image…
AI is eroding office hours, study groups, and the trust between faculty and students, MIT report finds
An MIT expert committee warns that AI is eroding key parts of the college experience: office hours, study groups, and the school’s flagship research…
Trump launches “Super Intelligence Force” that has nothing to do with actual superintelligence
Donald Trump has established a “Super Intelligence Force.” “Superintelligence” is his term for artificial intelligence. The unit is led by Director of…
Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests
Self-improving AI agents tend to memorize their test tasks, so their gains shrink or disappear on new ones. RRSI, a new method from Google researchers,…
NASA and IBM’s open source lunar model turns 17 years of orbiter data into a foundation for lunar science
NASA and IBM have released the Lunar Foundation Model, one of the first open-source AI models for lunar science. Trained on nearly 2 million tile bundles,…
Chinese AI models parrot state doctrine or refuse to answer on sensitive topics
Chinese AI models often follow the party line on politically sensitive questions, according to an Aleph Alpha study that rated only 17 to 41 percent of…
Google’s new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro
Starting in October 2026, Google will cut free access to its Gemini models. Users without a subscription will only get the smallest model, Flash-Lite,…
Apparently, OpenAI isn’t trying to build “magic intelligence in the sky” anymore
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns against attributing religious power to AI models, calling it a “real safety issue.” His comments follow reports on Anthropic’s…