On Thursday, Google announced that “commercially motivated” actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI ...

OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark promises ultra-fast, conversational AI coding, if you can tolerate a few trade-offs.

OpenAI's Open Responses standardizes agentic AI workflows, tackling API fragmentation and enabling seamless transitions ...

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after the largest ...

DeepSeek debuted Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections, or mHCs. They offer a way to scale LLMs without incurring huge costs. The company postponed the release of its R2 model in mid-2025. Just ...

Young train enthusiasts had a chance to become railroad conductors last weekend during the Historic Pullman Foundation Model Train Experience. But the youngsters weren’t the only ones enthralled by ...

Z80-μLM is a 'conversational AI' that generates short character-by-character sequences, with quantization-aware training (QAT) to run on a Z80 processor with 64kb of ram. The root behind this project ...

The next step in the evolution of generative AI technology will rely on ‘world models’ to improve physical outcomes in the real world. Tesla’s viral videos show its Optimus humanoid robot serving ...

Several new start-ups are building replicas of sites so A.I. can learn to use the internet and maybe replace white-collar workers. John Qian, a co-founder of Matrices. The new shadow sites are part of ...

For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou. Now, one small U.S. company is pushing back. Today, ...

In 2024, Microsoft introduced small language models (SLMs) to customers, starting with the release of Phi (opens in new tab) models on Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab), as well as deploying Phi ...

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