Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable . The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google’s results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with a “Show more” button you can click,…
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Last 90 daysAccording to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft’s “next generation console” — phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device — will actually be a “family” of devices.” “We’ve been hard at work on a great next generation and a great family of devices for Helix, and we’ll share more soon,” Sharma…
The National Security Agency wants access to artificial intelligence models across the commercial market and is holding extensive discussions with leading developers as it moves to carry out new White House directives on the technology, the agency’s deputy director said Thursday. “We want access to all the models, and we’re going to take advantage of…
Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia’s AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft, Bloomberg reports . The terms of the deal, which Bloomberg says was arranged by JP Morgan Chase, signal that Lambda is betting it will be able to quickly deploy…
Voice Arena and Hugging Face partner to launch open ASR evaluation for Hindi and Indian English Benchmarks decide what gets built. A model that scores well on the Open ASR Leaderboard gets adopted and iterated on, while capabilities the leaderboard does not measure tend not to improve.
Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now, a researcher in Anthropic’s fellows program has given us an early look at what it might look like in practice. On Friday, Anthropic published a new paper titled “ Automated Researchers Can Reliably Mitigate Alignment Failures ,” detailing how AI systems could…
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks. Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI agents, Hugging Face is at the center of the ecosystem of developers building and deploying LLMs…
Amazon and Best Buy have the TCL QM7L mini-LED TV on sale for as low as $797.99 for the 55-inch model, a $200 discount from the usual price. We spotted scaling discounts on larger sizes as well, although Amazon already listed low stock on the 65-inch version.
Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 on Skyrim , Cyberpunk 2077 , GTA V , and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA 2K27 . Members of the RenoDX modding channel on Discord reportedly found a way to extract the DLSS “Neural Rendering” file and apply it to Control…
Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requiring public notice and an opportunity to comment when certain industrial sites apply for an air permit.
You know the person blocking your view of the concert because their phone is swaying in the air, recording the entire thing? Get ready for the unfolded version of it.
Apple raised the price of its streaming service for new and current subscribers on Friday, bumping it up from $12.99 per month to $14.99, Deadline and Variety are reporting. An annual subscription now costs $119, up from $99.
Cerebras' SRAM-packed wafer-scale engines (WSEs) have carved out a niche in the AI model serving space for extremely low-latency, high-throughput inference, enabling services like OpenAI's ChatGPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast tier. At Hot Chips 2026 , the company revealed the next two generations of its wafer-scale accelerator roadmap.
A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday evening that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was illegal. U.S.
Today, TIME reveals the fourth annual TIME100 AI list, recognizing the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence. The 2026 TIME100 AI issue includes one worldwide cover featuring listmakers, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jeff Bezos, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Marian Croak, Larry Ellison, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Paris Hilton, Lila Ibrahim, Arvind Krishna,…
Confusion is a generally accepted side effect of mystery box shows . They slather on secrets with the promise of a satisfying payoff in the end, and sometimes the cast and crew even have a hard time following what’s going on .
Authorities in Australia said Wednesday that they arrested two men accused of participating in cybercrimes for TeamPCP, a prolific group of hackers that, over nine months, has carried out a relentless series of supply-chain attacks that infected more than 1,000 organizations worldwide. In a statement , the Australian Federal Police said the two men were…
Meta’s India and Southeast Asia vice president, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media giant to join OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker told TechCrunch. Devanathan will be based in Singapore and report to OpenAI’s Asia-Pacific managing director, Kiran Mani.
Every subfield of machine learning has a moment where it stops being a collection of papers and starts being a stack. NLP had it when Hugging Face Transformers turned “reimplement BERT from the appendix” into a single from_pretrained call.
In the era of educational digitization and continuous professional development, the primary challenge of learning no longer lies in accessing information, but rather in retaining it long-term. Human memory tends to degrade acquired knowledge along predictable paths originally described in cognitive psychology.
Normally we eschew AGI timeline talk on Latent Space, because it is so ill defined and unaccountable, but, well, missing it would probably be the worse sin at this point. We last checked in on OpenAI AGI timelines 9 months ago , and, right on target, Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki is now saying the unreleased Astra model is the “ Automated AI Research…
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