DeepSeek's new open models give everyone a million-word memory by default
DeepSeek previewed two free-to-download V4 models that can read a million tokens at once, no longer as a premium add-on but as the standard setting.
Tidal will stop paying royalties on fully AI-made songs
Starting July 15, the streaming service won't monetize tracks where every part was made by generative AI - the first major platform to demonetize rather than just label them.
Microsoft's new memory system lets AI agents remember more by storing less
Memora keeps the rich detail of a conversation but searches it using tiny six-word labels, cutting the cost of remembering by up to 98 percent. The code is public.
South Korea bets over a trillion dollars on chips, data centers, and robots
The government and its biggest companies committed more than $1 trillion to memory fabs, AI data centers, and a goal of building tens of thousands of humanoid robots a year by 2028.
Amazon and Anthropic's partnership is cracking over the price of Claude
A renegotiated contract is expected to sharply raise Amazon's bill for Anthropic's AI, pushing Amazon toward OpenAI and its own models even though it's an Anthropic investor.
Qwen used human-feedback training to make its image AI follow directions better
A new recipe applies the same reinforcement-learning approach that polished chatbots to an image generator, then merges separate skill models into one - improving how faithfully it follows prompts and edits.
NVIDIA's new method stops AI dream-worlds from breaking the laws of physics
PhysisForcing trains video-generating world models to keep objects solid and interactions believable, raising how often a robot's imagined plan actually works.
A robot AI that adapts to a moved camera by wiggling, not retraining
A new method lets robot policies figure out a changed setup from a few seconds of self-directed fiddling, so they keep working when the camera or robot body changes - with no retraining.