Research & Papers
World Action Models give robots the ability to simulate consequences before they move
World Action Models enable robots to simulate and understand how their actions change the world, addressing a key...
The Decoder
Other Companies
Personal Assistants
Chatbots at the drive-thru are just the beginning
McDonald's deployed AI chatbots at its drive-thru locations starting in 2021, beginning with 10 Chicago restaurants....
The Verge AI
AI Agents
Four AI models ran radio stations for six months and the results ranged from competent to unhinged
Andon Labs conducted a six-month experiment where four AI models (Claude, Gemini, Grok, and GPT) autonomously ran their...
The Decoder
AI Agents
Vercel Labs Introduces Zero, a Systems Programming Language Designed So AI Agents Can Read, Repair, and Ship Native Programs
Vercel Labs introduced Zero, a systems programming language designed to enable AI agents to read, repair, and ship...
MarkTechPost
AI Agents
Oppo open-sources Android AI agent X-OmniClaw that uses your camera, screen, and voice without leaving the phone
Oppo released X-OmniClaw, an open-source Android AI agent that uses camera, screen, and voice to autonomously complete...
The Decoder
Research & Papers
A Coding Guide Implementing SHAP Explainability Workflows with Explainer Comparisons, Maskers, Interactions, Drift, and Black-Box Models
This tutorial provides a practical guide to implementing SHAP explainability workflows for interpreting machine...
MarkTechPost
Research & Papers
Nous Research Proposes Lighthouse Attention: A Training-Only Selection-Based Hierarchical Attention That Delivers 1.4–1.7× Pretraining Speedup at Long Context
Nous Research introduces Lighthouse Attention, a hierarchical attention mechanism that reduces computational complexity...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush
The article discusses sentiment and dynamics within the AI industry during the current boom, noting that morale is poor...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo
Nectar Social, an AI-powered marketing platform, raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures and its...
TechCrunch Startups
Ethics & Regulation
Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work
ArXiv, a major research repository, is implementing stricter policies against the misuse of large language models in...
TechCrunch AI
AI Agents
Meet LiteLLM Agent Platform: A Kubernetes-Based, Self-Hosted Infrastructure Layer for Isolated Agent Sandboxes and Persistent Session Management in Production
BerriAI has open-sourced the LiteLLM Agent Platform, a Kubernetes-based infrastructure solution for running AI agents...
MarkTechPost
Personal Assistants
Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck
Sony is clarifying how its AI Camera Assistant works on the Xperia 1 XIII, explaining that it provides photography...
The Verge AI
Startups & Funding
$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month
Cerebras Systems, a $60B AI chip company, had its 2026 IPO as one of the year's biggest tech offerings. The article...
TechCrunch Startups
AI Agents
New benchmark shows Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5 can develop real browser exploits autonomously
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University created a benchmark measuring AI agents' ability to autonomously develop real...
The Decoder
Research & Papers
New benchmark confirms AI video generators look stunning but still can't reason about the world
WorldReasonBench, a new benchmark, evaluates AI video generators on physical and logical plausibility rather than image...
The Decoder
Personal Assistants
Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex
The article explores how some asexual individuals are using AI chatbots as companions for intimate roleplay and...
Wired AI
Startups & Funding
AI made a tiny slice of Silicon Valley filthy rich and left the rest wondering why they bother
The AI boom at major companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Meta, and Nvidia has created approximately 10,000...
The Decoder
Healthcare AI
Finding the molecular switches behind new infectious diseases
Clare Bryant uses Co-Scientist, an AI tool, to identify genetic triggers in emerging infectious diseases. The research...
DeepMind Blog
Healthcare AI
Opening new paths in aging research
Calico Life Sciences is leveraging Co-Scientist, an AI tool, to connect fragmented research findings and identify new...
DeepMind Blog