After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable.

How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out Chen Liang, the founder of Guchi Robotics, an automation company headquartered in Shanghai, is a tall, heavy-set man in his mid-40s with square-rimmed glasses. His everyday manner is calm and understated, but when he is in his element – up close with the technology he buil

These physical notetakers transcribe audio and give users summaries and action items of meetings using AI. Some even offer live translation.

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says AI companies should pay creators for training data, arguing their fair use defense falls apart when they license content from major publishers.

Yotta Data Services Pvt., the data center operator that runs India’s largest cluster of Nvidia Corp. AI processors, is seeking to raise fresh capital at a valuation of about $4 billion as it prepares to file its draft prospectus for an initial public offering.

On evaluating and understanding the frontier of agents, and why I still turn to Claude.

Nvidia Corp.’s $20 billion licensing deal with artificial intelligence startup Groq is being probed by a pair of Democratic senators over whether it violates antitrust laws by improperly avoiding a merger review and illegally consolidating its power in the market for AI computing.

arXiv:2603.18048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Audio Multimodal Large Language Models (Audio MLLMs) demonstrate impressive performance on speech benchmarks, yet it remains unclear whether these models genuinely process acoustic signals or rely on text-based semantic inference. To systematically study this question, we introduce DEAF (Diagnostic Evaluation of Acoustic Faithfulness), a benc

As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets.

Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people.

With its Series A, Sequen is bringing its proprietary AI ranking and personalization technology to large consumer business.

The US charged a Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder with illegally diverting billions of dollars in Nvidia Corp.-powered servers to China, initiating its highest-profile case against alleged smuggling of restricted AI technology to the Asian country.

arXiv:2603.18073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern language model-based AI systems are remarkably powerful, yet their capabilities remain fundamentally capped by their human creators in three key ways. First, although a model's weights can be updated via fine-tuning, acquiring new knowledge from small, specialized corpora after pretraining remains highly data-inefficient. Second, the training

Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one podcasting tool that allows creators to record podcasts, edit, clip content for social, and publish episodes, all without ever leaving the platform.

Academics discover black people ‘significantly more likely’ to be identified when compared with other ethnic groupsEssex police have paused the use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study found cameras were significantly more likely to target black people than people of other ethnicities.The move to suspend use of the AI-enabled systems was revealed by the Information Commissione

arXiv:2603.18085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent incidents have highlighted alarming cases where human-AI interactions led to negative psychological outcomes, including mental health crises and even user harm. As LLMs serve as sources of guidance, emotional support, and even informal therapy, these risks are poised to escalate. However, studying the mechanisms underlying harmful human-AI in

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and infuse them with artificial intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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I know about the `silverware`, weird looking candle, necklace, should have iterate a few times but this is a `zero-shot` approach, with no quality check, no `re-do`, lol. Setup is nothing special, all comfyui default settings and workflow. The model I used was `Distilled fp8 input scaled v3` from

Dr Simon Williams says the UK is trying to build a quantum ecosystem while hollowing out the academic pipeline that produces the talentLiz Kendall is right to warn that the UK must not let quantum computing talent slip through its fingers (UK must learn lessons from AI race and retain its quantum computing talent, says minister, 17 March).However, UK Research and Innovation’s current funding decis

With this new technique, a robot could more accurately detect hidden objects or understand an indoor scene using reflected Wi-Fi signals.

Paul Griggs says senior staff at consulting firm who are not ‘paranoid about being AI-first’ are likely to be replacedBusiness live – latest updatesThe US boss of PricewaterhouseCoopers has warned that partners who do not get to grips with AI have no future at the consulting firm.Paul Griggs said senior staff who were not “paranoid about being AI-first” would probably be replaced by others who wer

A Co-Written Essay with General Intuition's Pim DeWitte

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says The Pentagon plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions of their…

This new metric for measuring uncertainty could flag hallucinations and help users know whether to trust an AI model.

University professors and Amazon workers are wrestling with profound shiftsHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, chuffed about One Battle After Another’s big win at the Oscars. This week, we’re examining how artificial intelligence is changing the everyday reality of white-collar work in the US, the roots of the current appetite for AI in war, and the United Kingdom’s p

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FT AI correspondent Melissa Heikkilä steps inside the world of deepfakes

It’s expanding the scope of research but challenging the profession’s process of weeding out mistakes

Jensen Huang of Nvidia has outlined a future based around the production, consumption and monetisation of output units

A bipartisan House Homeland Security Committee briefing with Anthropic's Jack Clark was held behind closed doors on Wednesday, per sources familiar with the meeting, and only briefly touched on the company's fight with the Pentagon.Why it matters: Anthropic — which is suing the federal government over its designation as a supply chain risk — is engaging with lawmakers on national security and AI,

An explosion in industry salaries has resulted in top talent leaving the public sector

I saw someone say recently something to the effect of: “that man is a working dog. if you don’t give him a job, he’ll tear up the furniture.” Qwen3.5 is a working dog. I’ve been working with this model a lot recently. I’ve baked three dozen custom quantizations. I’ve used three different execution

The White House is expected to send Congress its ideas for regulating AI on Friday, sources familiar with the matter told Axios, but policy disagreements on the Hill are far from resolved.Why it matters: Republicans are looking to the White House for direction on AI, but its plan is likely to run into the same sticking points that have stalled action for years.Those include how to protect children

Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.

The thing that brought me to LLMs 3 years ago, was the ability to obtain custom-fit knowledge based on my context, avoiding the pathetic signal-to-noise ratio that the search engines bring. The main focus now even with the huge models, is to make them as agentic as possible, and I can't help but th

The Pentagon is highlighting new national security concerns about Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, according to a court filing.Why it matters: The Defense Department is raising red flags about a key element of the AI industry — its reliance on global talent — as it moves to dismiss Anthropic's lawsuit.What they're saying: "Anthropic employs a large number of foreign nation

**LoRA** designed to reduce the typical *smooth/plastic AI look* and add more **natural skin texture and realism** to images. It works especially well for **close-ups and medium shots** where skin detail is important. **V2** for more real and natural looking skin texture. It is good at preserving s

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said tech leaders need to be careful not to scare people about artificial intelligence, in response to a question about how Anthropic PBC could have better handled messy contract negotiations with the Pentagon.

How OpenAI uses chain-of-thought monitoring to study misalignment in internal coding agents—analyzing real-world deployments to detect risks and strengthen AI safety safeguards.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. aims to quintuple cloud and AI revenue to $100 billion annually in five years, setting a high bar for its artificial intelligence endeavors to offset the plateauing of a once pre-eminent e-commerce empire.

arXiv:2603.18122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skele-Code is a natural-language and graph-based interface for building workflows with AI agents, designed especially for less or non-technical users. It supports incremental, interactive notebook-style development, and each step is converted to code with a required set of functions and behavior to enable incremental building of workflows. Agents ar