The US government just banned Anthropic's most powerful AI model
For the first time, Washington has export-controlled an AI model itself, not the chips it runs on. Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been dark worldwide since June 12, and the trigger involved an NSA test that the internet has badly misread.
OpenAI designs its own chip to run its models
With Broadcom, OpenAI unveiled a custom chip built for one job: serving its AI models cheaply.
Qualcomm buys the software that lets AI run anywhere
Qualcomm is paying about $3.9 billion for Modular, the Mojo language, and legendary compiler engineer Chris Lattner.
Google's fast model can now use a computer by itself
Gemini 3.5 Flash gained built-in 'computer use,' letting one model click, type, and act across browsers, phones, and desktops.
A language model that doesn't write left to right
iLLaDA is an 8-billion-parameter model that generates text by refining a blurry whole rather than one word at a time, and it's catching up to the mainstream.
One model that listens, sees, and talks back in real time
Wan-Streamer collapses the usual chain of separate speech and video tools into a single model built for live, two-way conversation.
NVIDIA shrinks video generation down to real time
A new NVIDIA recipe distills slow video-generating AI into a fast version that can stream frames live and react to your actions.
A safety switch an AI agent can't reach
Researchers propose putting an agent's safety controls outside the agent itself, so a misbehaving AI structurally cannot turn them off.
What does your AI actually remember about you?
Two new studies stop trusting that agent 'memory' works and start measuring it directly, with results that carry a privacy sting.
When AI safety training withholds what could help you
A pre-registered study finds heavily safety-trained models give doctors medical information they refuse to give ordinary people, with identical facts.
Are closed AI models overpriced luxury goods?
An essay argues open-weight models now undercut the big closed AIs by huge margins, and that 'China fears' are being used to protect those prices.
NVIDIA's warm-water fix for AI's thirsty data centers
A new NVIDIA cooling design claims to use almost no water inside the data center, though critics say that's only part of AI's water bill.