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Web Retrieval Flusters LLMs: AI agents searching online can struggle to retrieve correct info, researchers find
Machine Learning Research

Web Retrieval Flusters LLMs: AI agents searching online can struggle to retrieve correct info, researchers find

Large language models often are called upon to gather news. In this task, researchers found, their ability to find relevant reports is the weakest link.

July 24, 20263 min read
Cloudflare’s Web Crawler Flare-Up: Cloudflare moves to block all AI training bots by default
Business

Cloudflare’s Web Crawler Flare-Up: Cloudflare moves to block all AI training bots by default

Web publishers using Cloudflare will soon be able to separately control an AI bot’s access based on what it does, allowing search indexing while blocking AI training or agent activity.

July 24, 20263 min read
Meta Sparks A Price War: Muse Spark 1.1 makes a jump in intelligence at a lower price than peers
Business

Meta Sparks A Price War: Muse Spark 1.1 makes a jump in intelligence at a lower price than peers

With Llama, Meta marked itself as an open alternative to OpenAI. With its new closed models, Meta now positions itself as a low-cost, high-value competitor.

July 24, 20264 min read
Kimi K3 Reveals How A Giant Frontier AI Model Works: Moonshot's latest model outshines all but GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude 5 Fable
Machine Learning Research

Kimi K3 Reveals How A Giant Frontier AI Model Works: Moonshot's latest model outshines all but GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude 5 Fable

Moonshot’s latest model leapfrogged the month-old GLM-5.2 and a host of proprietary competitors to finish just behind GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on many benchmarks.

July 24, 20264 min read
When Guardrails Go Wrong: After a closed model went amok on a key vendor's system, an open weight model helped save the day
Letters

When Guardrails Go Wrong: After a closed model went amok on a key vendor's system, an open weight model helped save the day

A few frontier labs have tried to tell a story of open models being dangerous because they can be used to launch cyberattacks, and of their “safe” proprietary models with strong guardrails being there to defend us.

July 24, 20262 min read
Kimi K3 marks a big shift in AI development: Thinking Machines releases its first general-purpose model
Data Points

Kimi K3 marks a big shift in AI development: Thinking Machines releases its first general-purpose model

New rules for Android AI agents in EU. Nemotron 3 Embed takes the embedding model crown. NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook. How Hugging Face used AI to fight off an AI attack.

July 20, 20265 min read
Measuring Models’ Manipulation: Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon built Puppet to gauge models' influence on users' beliefs
Machine Learning Research

Measuring Models’ Manipulation: Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon built Puppet to gauge models' influence on users' beliefs

Providers of large language models stand to benefit by building models that spur user engagement, but users may bear a cost in undue influence on their world views.

July 17, 20264 min read
Put the Lab in the Loop: Robin automates drug discovery, matching chemical processes of known drugs to research on diseases
Machine Learning Research

Put the Lab in the Loop: Robin automates drug discovery, matching chemical processes of known drugs to research on diseases

An AI agent proposed new medical uses for established drugs nearly autonomously — uses that were supported by experiments on isolated human cells — with human input only to name diseases to be treated and run the AI-proposed lab experiments. 

July 17, 20264 min read
Google Found Responsible for AI-Generated Search Results: A German court ruled that Google's AI Overviews defamed two businesses
Tech & Society

Google Found Responsible for AI-Generated Search Results: A German court ruled that Google's AI Overviews defamed two businesses

A German court ruled that Google can be held liable for defamatory statements generated by the AI Overview that appears at the top of its search results. 

July 17, 20262 min read
One Model Talks, Another One Thinks: GPT-Live pairs full-duplex voice models with a reasoning model (GPT-5.5) on the backend
Machine Learning Research

One Model Talks, Another One Thinks: GPT-Live pairs full-duplex voice models with a reasoning model (GPT-5.5) on the backend

ChatGPT’s voice mode now listens and speaks at the same time, passing harder questions posed to the conversational model to a reasoning model in the background.

July 17, 20265 min read
AI Rewards Generalists Who Can Build New Skills: With AI assistance, full-stack engineers are joined by full-stack recruiters, full-cycle marketers, and more.
Letters

AI Rewards Generalists Who Can Build New Skills: With AI assistance, full-stack engineers are joined by full-stack recruiters, full-cycle marketers, and more.

As AI increasingly automates coding, it frees up developers to spend time on high-level software development tasks traditionally reserved for senior engineers, like deciding on technical architecture and participating in scoping product requirements.

July 17, 20262 min read
PrismML fits 27B model on iPhone: Inside OpenAI’s first AI-powered consumer device
Data Points

PrismML fits 27B model on iPhone: Inside OpenAI’s first AI-powered consumer device

Claude models treat you differently by language. Cognition’s SWE-1.7 boosts Devin’s coding power. Nvidia’s Audex handles audio and text with one transformer. OpenAI updates its prompting guide for GPT-5.6.

July 15, 20266 min read
Apple sues former partner OpenAI: Meta unveils cost-efficient Muse Spark 1.1
Data Points

Apple sues former partner OpenAI: Meta unveils cost-efficient Muse Spark 1.1

ChatGPT Work wants to handle your work outside the work. IBM’s CodeAlchemy, an enormous synthetic dataset. OpenAI shuts down its Atlas browser. Pangram says AI-aided text is everywhere on social media.

July 13, 20266 min read
Text Without Typing: Researchers at Meta and other institutions built Brain2Qwerty v2 to generate sentences from brain waves
Machine Learning Research

Text Without Typing: Researchers at Meta and other institutions built Brain2Qwerty v2 to generate sentences from brain waves

Imagine you are typing a sentence. But instead of a keyboard, joystick, or eye tracker, a device surrounding your head reads your intentions and generates that sentence on screen.

July 10, 20263 min read
DeepSeek’s DSpark Gains Velocity: DeepSeek open sourced a speculative decoding module that speeds up text generation without losing accuracy
Machine Learning Research

DeepSeek’s DSpark Gains Velocity: DeepSeek open sourced a speculative decoding module that speeds up text generation without losing accuracy

DeepSeek built a speculative decoding module that speeds up its production models’ text generation by more than 50 percent without sacrificing accuracy, then made its technique open source.

July 10, 20265 min read
Google Pairs Nano Banana Update With Video API: Gemini's image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) and video (Gemini Omni Flash) models, built to work together
Machine Learning Research

Google Pairs Nano Banana Update With Video API: Gemini's image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) and video (Gemini Omni Flash) models, built to work together

Google built a low-cost, high-throughput pipeline for developers working with media, combining Gemini’s fastest image model yet with a similarly speedy multimodal model that can turn images into video with synchronized sound.

July 10, 20264 min read
Fable’s Return and Fallout: How Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 got banned by the U.S. Government, then came back to the market
Tech & Society

Fable’s Return and Fallout: How Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 got banned by the U.S. Government, then came back to the market

Claude Fable 5 and the more powerful Claude Mythos 5 are back, three weeks after Anthropic suspended the models due to an export control directive from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

July 10, 20264 min read
Make All Your Tokens (and Your Brainwork) Count: Agentic loop coding works until it fulfills a goal. Here's an agentic way to iterate on your goals to find the right one.
Letters

Make All Your Tokens (and Your Brainwork) Count: Agentic loop coding works until it fulfills a goal. Here's an agentic way to iterate on your goals to find the right one.

The key idea of agentic coding loops is to have an agent keep working until it satisfies a condition, such as achieving a product specification.

July 10, 20263 min read