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Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.
Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.
On July 9, 2026, the EmTech AI conference hosted by MIT Technology Review concluded in Boston, revealing a critical shift from model competition to ecosystem building. Experts agreed that AI platforms are becoming the new digital infrastructure, with influence comparable to cloud computing platforms two decades ago.
Android Bench is evolving, and developers can help guide that process.
OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.
Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a
There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.
Top robotics researchers and founders explain how robot autonomy is evolving.
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Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
A new book claims that Mystery, who teaches awkward men how to hit on women, had sex and smoked weed with an AI chatbot named Miss Shira Always.
Verity Harding tells WIRED that the US government’s nationalistic attitude toward AI is evidence that a worst-case scenario is taking shape.
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.
"HalluSquatting" weaponizes LLMs' inability to say "I don't know."
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.
Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trump’s manufacturing plan.
Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.
