Trump advisors split over response to Chinese open-source AI models
Former Trump AI advisor David Sacks called Anthropic’s models 'lobotomized' and 'woke,' criticizing US AI firms for seeking government protection against open-source competition.
Former Trump AI advisor David Sacks called Anthropic’s models 'lobotomized' and 'woke,' criticizing US AI firms for seeking government protection against open-source competition.
NVIDIA released Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter open world model for robotics and vision AI on edge devices.
OpenAI’s strategic futures lead initially argued for regulatory pressure on open-weight models, later retracting claims about White House strategy.
OpenAI describes new safety risks tied to long-horizon AI models in a newly published report.
Adobe’s experimental iOS camera app Project Indigo now includes AI-powered photo critique and editing suggestions using large language models.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model slated for open-weights release on July 27, 2026.
A new interpretability technique called the Jacobian lens identifies verbalizable representations in LLMs, termed J-space, which exhibit functional properties of a global workspace.
YouTube revised its YouTube Partner Program policies to explicitly prohibit monetization of certain AI-generated content.
A writer was mistakenly identified and arrested after Flock’s AI flagged a partial plate match despite the full plate having an extra digit.
Coding agents reduce the cost of writing and maintaining code for reverse-engineering tasks.
Proposes a unified text-serialization approach to handle multimodal clinical data (free-text narratives, vital signs, lab values) without task-specific fusion architectures.
VarRate introduces a training-free KV cache compression method for long-context LLMs that allocates variable low-rank budgets to tokens based on query salience, avoiding irreversible evictions.
Apple’s Machine Learning Research team introduced LVSum, a human-annotated benchmark for evaluating long-form video summarization with fine-grained temporal alignment.
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of a pattern of misconduct to recruit Apple employees and obtain confidential information.
Participants' accuracy fell from 27% to 9% when using AI advice, while confidence rose from 30% to 76%.
Cura 1T is a healthcare-specialized LLM introduced in an arXiv preprint (arXiv:2607.15314).
Japan’s government and 44 firms, including SoftBank, Sony, NEC, and Honda, will spend up to 1 trillion yen ($6.2B) over five years to build Noetra, a sovereign AI for robots and factory floors.
SkillCorpus filters ~821,000 open agent skills into 96,401 high-quality skills organized by a 16-class taxonomy and three quality facets.
GraphDx introduces a multi-agent framework with Perception, Reasoning, and Decision agents to balance diagnostic accuracy and resource costs.
Causal-Audit is a new framework for explicit, auditable causal reasoning in large language models (LLMs) designed for context-free intervention-based question answering.