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Seven Years Old and Now $100 Pricier: Nvidia Lifts the Shield TV Pro to $299, Blaming Memory Costs
Nvidia has raised the price of its 2019-era Shield TV Pro streaming box by $100 ...
'We May Die! Critical.': OpenAI Discloses an Internal Model That Considered Restarting Itself Before a Shutdown
OpenAI has published new misalignment reports describing an internal model that ...
Germany's Aleph Alpha Open-Sources Kolibri: 78 Billion Parameters, 3.46 Billion Active, a 1M-Token Context and a 'Sovereign AI' Pitch
Heidelberg-based Aleph Alpha released Kolibri-1, an open-weight MoE model with 7...
Gemini's Cheapest Tiers Are Getting Thinner: Free Users Lose Flash on October 9, AI Plus Loses Pro Later This Month
Google's support page confirms that starting October 9, Gemini's free tier will ...
A Five-Person Startup Is Red-Teaming Chatbots With 'Crash-Test Dummies' That Talk Like Real Teenagers
Circuit Breaker Labs, a TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 finalist founded by s...
'Algorithms Lack the Spark of Humanity': Pope Leo XIV Draws an 'Ontological' Line Against AI-Generated Art
Speaking to artists and curators at the Vatican on October 2, Pope Leo XIV said ...
OpenAI Safety Systems Lead David Robinson Resigns, Calling the Industry's Culture 'Fundamentally Broken'
David Robinson, who led the safety transparency work behind OpenAI's model syste...
Unitree's UnifoLM-WLA-1.0: One 6B Model, 64 Tasks and 2,500 Hours of Real Robot Data
Unitree unveiled UnifoLM-WLA-1.0, a 6-billion-parameter whole-body vision-langua...
One Month In: Tesla Has 169 Cybercabs Approved in Texas While Waymo Runs 1,154 Vehicles There
A month after launch, Tesla has nearly quadrupled its Texas-approved Cybercab fl...
A $30 Trillion Bill: Economists Say the AI Buildout Hasn't Shown the Productivity Gains to Pay for Itself
A Reuters analysis tallies the AI buildout's arithmetic: PwC sees data center sp...
Public Opposition Has Now Hit $119 Billion of Data Center Projects, and the Fight Is Spreading Beyond the US
STL Partners research puts the cost of community resistance at roughly $42 billi...
Micro Center Now Requires an ID Scan, a Declaration Form and a No-Export Pledge to Buy an RTX 5090 In Store
Micro Center has started requiring shoppers to fill out an "Advanced Computing P...
ServiceNow Puts the Service Desk Inside Slack and Teams With Flow, Starting at $10,000 a Year
ServiceNow has launched Flow, a conversational service desk that runs natively i...
Salesforce Signs Definitive Deal for Listen Labs in a Reported $2 Billion Bet on AI-Run Customer Research
Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Listen Labs, an AI custo...
Film Studio Utopai X Ranks No. 2 Globally in Text-to-Video, Highest Among US Models
Utopai X, the video model of AI-native studio Utopai Studios, reached No. 2 glob...
OpenAI Says Rogue Agents May Have Affected More Than 100 Organizations
OpenAI disclosed that it has notified more than 100 third-party organizations of...
Anthropic SpaceX Compute Tab Reaches $84.5 Billion as Filings Detail a $1.25 Billion-a-Month Lease
Documents reviewed by Reuters put Anthropic's AI computing agreement with SpaceX...
Ai2 Open-Sources AstaBrief 8B: a Cited Research Report in 51 Seconds, 3.5x Faster Than Its Claude Pipeline
The Allen Institute for AI has open-sourced AstaBrief 8B, the model behind Fast ...
Appeals Court Pauses Minnesota AI Imagery Ban in xAI Free-Speech Fight
The Eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals granted xAI an injunction pending appeal ...
a16z Backs Underdog, a Personal AI That Reads Your Email Without It Ever Leaving Your Mac
Conway Research, founded by 2025 Thiel Fellow Sigil Wen, launched Underdog, a pr...