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Congress might block state AI laws for a decade. Here’s what it means.

27 June 2025 at 21:20
A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its inclusion into a GOP megabill ahead of a key July 4 deadline.Β Here's what's at stake.

Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail

20 June 2025 at 19:17
Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is more widespread among leading AI models. On Friday, Anthropic published new safety research testing 16 […]

Snap plans to sell lightweight, consumer AR glasses in 2026

10 June 2025 at 17:10
Snap is back with a new pair of AR smart glasses, and for the first time in years, it’s ready to sell them to consumers. The company plans to sell these new glasses, called Specs, to consumers starting in 2026, CEO Evan Spiegel announced on Tuesday during the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. […]

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models

4 June 2025 at 00:48
Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, says Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to its Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models. Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan said in a post on X Tuesday that Anthropic gave Windsurf little notice for this change, and the startup now has […]

Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety lab

3 June 2025 at 17:33
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is launching a nonprofit AI safety lab called LawZero to build safer AI systems, he told the Financial Times on Monday. LawZero raised $30 million in philanthropic contributions from Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn, former Google chief Eric Schmidt, Open Philanthropy, and the Future of Life Institute, among others. The […]

Jony Ive to lead OpenAI’s design work following $6.5B acquisition of his company

21 May 2025 at 17:59
OpenAI is acquiring io, the device startup that CEO Sam Altman and famed Apple designer Jony Ive have quietly been working on for two years, in an all-equity deal that values that startup at $6.5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. As part of the unusual deal announced Wednesday, Ive and his design firm, […]

OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT

16 May 2025 at 15:00
OpenAI announced on Friday it’s launching a research preview of Codex, the company’s most capable AI coding agent yet. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of the company’s o3 AI reasoning model optimized for software engineering tasks. OpenAI says codex-1 produces β€œcleaner” code than o3, adheres more precisely to instructions, and will iteratively run […]

Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models

15 May 2025 at 22:05
On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family of AI software engineering models, or SWE-1 for short. The startup says it trained its new family of AI models β€” SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini β€” to be optimized for the β€œentire software engineering process,” […]

The near joy of biking with Ray-Ban Meta glasses

10 May 2025 at 15:00
For years, weekend bike rides have been sacred escapes for me. Every pedal stroke helps melt away the stressors that piled up throughout the week, and I’ve collected a few gadgets that make these rides better. However, I’ve learned the hard way that bringing along too much gear takes away from the ride itself, forcing […]

Meta taps former Google DeepMind director to lead its AI research lab

8 May 2025 at 18:39
Meta has chosen Robert Fergus to lead its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, according to Bloomberg. Fergus had been working at Google DeepMind as a research director for roughly five years, per his LinkedIn. Prior to Google, he worked as a researcher scientist at Meta. Meta’s FAIR, which has been around since 2013, has faced […]
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