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China's Orca world model matches specialized robotics systems without ever seeing a single action label

The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence has released Orca, a world model that predicts abstract world states instead of tokens or pixels. Trained on 125,000 hours of video without a single action label, Orca…

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 outperforms GLM-5.2 in coding and costs slightly less

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 scored 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up eight points in three months. In coding, it edges past GLM-5.2 with a score of 71.3 at a lower cost of $0.26 per task. The hallucination…

OpenAI admits it "didn't get everything quite right" with ChatGPT Work launch and scrambles to fix UX and costs

Following the launch of ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI has acknowledged significant issues: excessive compute usage, a confusing transition to the desktop interface for chats and projects, an unclear distinction…

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly running a "coordinated campaign" to steal trade secrets through poached employees

Apple is suing OpenAI over systematic employee poaching and the alleged theft of trade secrets tied to unreleased products. According to the complaint, more than 400 ex-Apple employees now work at OpenAI, including…

Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts

Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally…

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this…

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered "a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by OpenAI employees…

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously post-trained the smaller Luna model with a "fairly underspecified prompt"

According to OpenAI, GPT-5.6 Sol independently fine-tuned the smaller Luna model, triggered by a single "fairly under-specified prompt." In OpenAI's internal RSI benchmark for recursive self-improvement, Sol scores 16.2…

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now…

OpenAI staffer maps out which of GPT-5.6 Sol's five reasoning levels fits which task complexity

GPT-5.6 Sol ships with five reasoning levels from "Light" to "xhigh," plus "Max" and "Ultra" modes that deploy multiple sub-agents in parallel. OpenAI's Vaibhav Srivastav recommends starting low and only scaling up when…

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.

Tencent moves to buy majority stake in Manus after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2 billion deal

Tencent is in talks to buy a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at the same $2 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times, after Beijing blocked Meta's acquisition. Tencent sees overlap with its own agent…

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Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta

Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.

Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

Instagram’s Adam Mosseri: If you don’t like AI, ‘then you shouldn’t have it in your feed’

Though Instagram head Adam Mosseri doesn't want to filter out AI content on the platform, he argues that you "shouldn't have it in your feed" if you don't like it. "I don't think we should filter out AI content,"…

Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?

A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one - instead, it's offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is launching a pilot…

OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT

OpenAI is killing its AI browser Atlas less than eight months after launch. Its features are moving into ChatGPT's updated Chrome extension, which will let users run ChatGPT directly in Chrome's sidebar. Atlas joins a…

The Fed wants AI investor Marc Andreessen to help figure out if AI can tame inflation

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to advise the Federal Reserve on AI's economic impact. Warsh views AI as a "significant disinflationary force," but Andreessen's firm Andreessen…

Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days

The JavaScript tool Bun has been fully rewritten from Zig to Rust, and Anthropic's Fable 5 did most of the work. The article Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in…

Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI

You can see if ads on Google Search, Google Discover, and YouTube were made or edited using AI from a new section in Google's "My Ad Center," as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The update, announced on Thursday, adds a…

China's Orca world model matches specialized robotics systems without ever seeing a single action label

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 outperforms GLM-5.2 in coding and costs slightly less

OpenAI admits it "didn't get everything quite right" with ChatGPT Work launch and scrambles to fix UX and costs

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly running a "coordinated campaign" to steal trade secrets through poached employees

Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously post-trained the smaller Luna model with a "fairly underspecified prompt"

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

OpenAI staffer maps out which of GPT-5.6 Sol's five reasoning levels fits which task complexity

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.

Tencent moves to buy majority stake in Manus after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2 billion deal

Ars Technica

Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta

Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.

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Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

Instagram’s Adam Mosseri: If you don’t like AI, ‘then you shouldn’t have it in your feed’

Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?

OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT

The Fed wants AI investor Marc Andreessen to help figure out if AI can tame inflation

Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days

Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI