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AI in practice

Read full article about: Google's Lyria 3.5 music model now lets users edit individual track sections without starting over Google released Lyria 3.5, its new music generation model. According to ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe ...
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Matthias Bastian

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview found weaknesses in key cryptographic algorithms, including a better attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature scheme that human experts had reviewed for more than two ...
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AI and society

Taiwan's prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee in connection with the alleged illegal export of Super Micro AI servers to China, according to Bloomberg and Reuters. The Keelung District ...
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Moonshot AI closes $500 million Series C to fund Kimi-K3 development and expand computing capacity

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi chatbot, has closed a $500 million Series C funding round. The deal values the company at $4.3 billion, according to an exclusive report ...
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OpenAI outlines new image generation rules for ChatGPT

OpenAI has unveiled new guidelines for image generation in GPT-4o, marking a shift toward giving users more creative freedom while maintaining certain safety guardrails. Joanne Jang, who oversees ...
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Microsoft Copilot in Word can now track changes and manage comments

Microsoft is adding new Copilot features to Word that target professionals in legal, finance, and compliance. Copilot can now track changes at the word level, so edits stay transparent and easy to ...
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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...
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From GPT-2 to Claude Mythos: The return of AI models deemed 'too dangerous to release'

Seven years ago, OpenAI declared its language model GPT-2 "too dangerous to release." The industry rolled its eyes. Now Anthropic is repeating the move with Claude Mythos Preview, but this time ...
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Stanford's AI Index 2026 shows rapid progress, growing safety concerns, and declining public trust

The AI Index Report 2026 from Stanford HAI documents major performance leaps in AI models, a narrowing gap between the US and China, and mounting safety problems, all while public trust continues to ...
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GPT and Claude failed Bridgewater's finance tests because the right answers were never public

Hedge fund Bridgewater and Thinking Machines Lab say a fine-tuned open-weight model outperforms the strongest AI models at evaluating financial documents, at a fraction of the cost. The numbers come ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...