Jina AI has released jina-ocr-v1, a visual document parser that converts PDFs, scans, tables, charts and invoices into Markdown. The model has 3.4B total parameters, with about 570M active per token, and builds on DeepSeek-OCR. A built-in FastMTP speculative decoding head drafts 3 tokens per step...
PrismML has released Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-weight version of Qwen3.8 27B. The language model occupies 5.93 GB, against 53.80 GB in FP16. PrismML reports that it keeps 98.2% of the parent model’s average across 20 benchmarks. The model accepts text and images and supports a 262K-token...
OpenAI introduces the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-pillar roadmap for safer AI experiences that protect and empower young people.
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. AGENTS.md support is built off of Claude Code mods, our upcoming way to customize the Claude Code harness. This is a built-in mod, but...
Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench! Tags: security, ai, generative-ai, llms, gemini, accidental-cyberattacks
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor...
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.
Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park. Tags: llms, ai, generative-ai
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Executive Order 22 bans executive branch...
“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already...
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already...
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.
Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.
The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.
Google worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools to prep for NYFW.
Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws.
A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI's GitHub repository, called "Monorepo," which...
Muse is now available on the Mac, where it can work with your files and apps to take action on your behalf.
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will deliver...
The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.
Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit I love Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the 1988 movie by Robert Zemeckis. I haven't watched it in quite a few years, and Cypress Frankenfeld just pointed out this sequence from early in the movie: It's a pelican riding a bicycle! Look closely and you'll note...
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.
Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
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As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as well film startups...
On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session. So we asked our senior AI editor Will...
On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border. She was on a Zoom call, unaware that the heavy rain outside was beginning to flood her yard. "I look over to where the barn is over there, […]
Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.
Which open-source harness works with Ollama, LM Studio, or llama.cpp? 11 verified picks with licenses and setup rules. The post Best Open-Source Agent Harnesses for Local LLMs in 2026 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash understands audio and video, plans tasks, calls tools, and reports about 45.7% fewer tokens on OmniVideoBench. The post Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: A 1M-Context Omni-Modal Model Built Around Agentic Audio-Video Understanding and Tool Use appeared first on...
Building an AI prototype is easy, but operating autonomous agents at scale requires production-grade tooling. Salesforce Agentforce bridges the gap from "vibe coding" to enterprise reliability by combining synthetic stress-testing, real-time optimization, dynamic agentic UIs, and deterministic...
The left wants AI regulation. They just can't agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.
Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.