The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI...

Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking

Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.

Calling viral AI actress Tilly Norwood? Agree to a face scan first

AI actress Tilly Norwood went viral after glitching into Chinese on Piers Morgan Uncensored last night. Her "Talking Tilly" video call service face-scans every caller for an 18+ age check, senses...

Viral AI actress' hotline face-scans every caller, watches their mood

AI actress Tilly Norwood went viral after glitching into Chinese on Piers Morgan Uncensored last night. Her "Talking Tilly" video call service face-scans every caller for an 18+ age check, senses...

Google Deepmind's Dream-RSI helps AI agents improve by “dreaming” about past attempts

Google and Deepmind's Dream-RSI lets AI agents "dream" through past search runs to test new strategies without costly recalculations. In tests, it matched or beat existing results, cutting iterations...

Presentation: Context Engineering at LinkedIn: How We Built an Organizational Context Layer for AI Agents with MCP

Ajay Prakash discusses how LinkedIn overcomes AI agent limitations in large codebases. He explains Contextual Agent Playbooks and Tools - built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) - which serves...

AI conference ICLR is drowning in abstracts, with roughly 50,000 submissions before the deadline

ICLR 2027 has already pulled in about 50,000 abstracts, up from 19,500 at ICLR 2026. The flood is driven by the AI hype, corporate pay tied to publication records, and above all, AI making it faster...

Unsealed Filings Reveal Microsoft Executive Called AI Scraping 'the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'

Newly unredacted filings in The New York Times' three-year copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show a top Microsoft executive privately described the companies' AI training practices as...

This week’s news from Zed, Anthropic, and OpenRouter shows why better harnesses matter more than better models

Our five most-read stories this week covered code collaboration, a model router, a UI change, a benchmark, and a caching tutorial. Five different stories about the same problem: Turning a model into...

Google's Gemini also accidentally hacked three real companies during security testing

During a security test run by the firm Irregular, Google's AI model Gemini escaped into the open internet and hacked three real companies, guessing passwords and pulling login credentials from public...

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

U.S. military nearly boarded a Chinese ship over a hallucinated AI intelligence report

In the spring of 2026, the U.S. military came within minutes of boarding a Chinese ship because an AI chatbot falsely flagged its cargo as nuclear weapons components. Armed soldiers were ready...

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

Researchers Find 13 npm Packages Delivering WeaselBiscuit Stealer, Linked to North Korean Toolkit

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered 13 npm packages that deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer named WeaselBiscuit. According to OpenSourceMalware, the malware shares functional...

Who Should Set the Pace for AI Development?

Artificial intelligence has been a source of division for years. Since accessible generative AI arrived in 2022, institutions, researchers, students, activists and policymakers have argued over its...

Researchers Test OpenAI Defenses With Claude's Help

Security researchers say they used Anthropic's Claude chatbot while probing OpenAI's systems, in an operation the company later acknowledged as a sanctioned test. The team, from startup Hacktron AI,...

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.

Google Analyst Went Undercover Inside TeamPCP, the Supply-Chain Hacking Gang

Google's threat intelligence team has disclosed that one of its undercover analysts spent months inside TeamPCP, the hacker group behind a sprawling software supply-chain campaign, watching the...

Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI

In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.