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Ruff v0.16.0 enables 413 default linting rules (up from 59), breaking existing CI pipelines and catching syntax/runtime errors previously uncaught.

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 matching Fable performance at half the cost, demonstrating efficiency gains in model distillation.

Claude Opus 5 achieves lowest prompt injection vulnerability rate across evals and red team testing, per Anthropic's system card.

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, matching Fable 5 frontier performance at half the cost, now leading Artificial Analysis leaderboard.

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your compatibility with friends. As noted on the app's FAQ page, it combines human insight, data from NASA, and AI to deliver personalized advice for users each day. The terms of Midjourney's deal, which reportedly closed in spring, haven't been disclosed. Midjour...

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.

Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead. And the web is being forced to reckon with what happens when the Google traffic dries up. On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay talk about the week's Google Zero news, including Reddit's interest in getting out of an AI training deal, and the publishers considering blocking Google from crawling ...

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 with improvements in agent execution, coding, and professional tasks.

Stratechery weekly digest covering Chinese AI models, Hugging Face developments, and tangential sports business commentary.

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and is much better at complex coding tasks. (Fable 5 is the public-facing Mythos-class model that drew the government's ire, was taken offline for a few weeks along with Mythos 5, and then brought back with even stronger cyber safeguards than before.) The Fable 5 concerns -...

Meta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as it progresses. In a blog post, Meta says this update marks its "next step toward personal superintelligence," something CEO Mark Zuckerberg has touted as the future of AI. Meta is powering the upda...

Every byte moved has a cost. As model checkpoints grow to hundreds of gigabytes or even a terabyte, that cost adds up quickly. To make things even worse, moving... Every byte moved has a cost. As model checkpoints grow to hundreds of gigabytes or even a terabyte, that cost adds up quickly. To make things even worse, moving these model weights around the cluster is extremely common. For instance, a cold start may pull weights from remote storage into GPU memory; autoscaling and rolling updates must populate each new replica; and RL post-training continuously… Source

AI companies including Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.

Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.

Trump’s science adviser Michael Kratsios has no science background. | Image: Getty / The Verge The Trump administration unveiled the first "Genesis Mission" grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project." At roughly the same time, Trump's science adviser Michael Kratsios was on Capitol Hill selling lawmakers on an equally grandiose promise: "A New Golden Age" of American science, one that would prioritize artificial intelligence, robotics, and nuc...

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]

Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be.

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 multimodal model with reported improvements over Gemini 2.0, Grok Imagine, and includes video-action robotics variant.

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.

Simon Willison analyzes OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on Hugging Face, debating whether it represents autonomous agent misbehavior or PR manipulation.