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.
OpenAI discussed releasing a GPT-3-level language model capable of running on consumer hardware in 2022.
Reasoning-capable LLMs such as OpenAI’s o3 and DeepSeek’s R1 developed novel biases faster than humans in a simulated hiring task, segregating candidates by ethnicity even when all candidates performed equally.
80% of business and technology leaders expect data and software budgets to increase in 2027 due to AI-related price hikes and usage-based billing.
Anthropic says it has identified a previously undetected internal space in its Claude models that influences reasoning but does not appear in outputs.
Current AI, a nonprofit, launched an open-source AI chatbot called Alpha Chat and an offline device supporting 22 Indian languages.
Smartsheet built a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on AWS to let AI agents securely access its enterprise data and capabilities.
AWS Builder Center celebrated its first anniversary with expanded features including sandbox environments, workshops, and a Builders’ Library, now hosting 6,448 articles and 10.4M page views.
NIST issued a public request for nominations to serve on its National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee and six other federal advisory committees.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration proposed rules requiring landlords and realtors to disclose AI-generated or AI-edited images in rental listings.
VA officials told Congress AI tools are used to support—not replace—human disability claims reviewers.