Personal Assistants
DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
DuckDuckGo has launched 'no AI' web extensions for Chrome and Firefox to make its alternative search engine more...
TechCrunch AI
Other Companies
Ethics & Regulation
AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it?
Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, discusses how generative AI has become omnipresent in music production...
The Verge AI
Ethics & Regulation
Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access
Strava is restricting API access and implementing a $11.99/month subscription requirement for developers to combat AI...
The Verge AI
LLM
MiniMax M3: Open-weight model with a million-token context challenges proprietary leaders
Chinese AI company MiniMax has released its M3 model, an open-weight AI model featuring top-tier coding performance, a...
The Decoder
LLM
Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra becomes the smartest open US model, but China still leads
Nvidia's new Nemotron 3 Ultra has been ranked as the most capable open-source AI model from the US according to...
The Decoder
Ethics & Regulation
Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems
This article discusses challenges in AI oversight, scaling laws for protein folding models, and approaches to pricing...
Import AI
Startups & Funding
SoftBank Commits $87.3B to France AI Infrastructure Buildout
SoftBank is committing $87.3 billion to build out AI infrastructure in France, marking the company's largest AI...
AI Business
Research & Papers
Nvidia bets big on physical AI at GTC Taipei with a new world model, driving brain, and open humanoid robot
Nvidia launched new AI models at GTC Taipei including Cosmos 3 world model, Alpamayo 2 Super driving model, and an open...
The Decoder
AI Agents
Nvidia pitches RTX Spark as the chip that finally makes local AI agents practical on Windows devices
Nvidia announced the RTX Spark, a new chip combining a Blackwell GPU with an Arm-based Grace CPU designed to enable...
The Decoder
Research & Papers
Parallax: A Parameterized Local Linear Attention That Keeps Softmax and Adds a Learned Covariance Correction Branch
Parallax is a new parameterized local linear attention mechanism that improves upon Local Linear Attention by replacing...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
‘This is fine’ artist KC Green reaches agreement with AI startup Artisan
The startup has apparently taken down the ads using KC Green's "This is fine" meme.
TechCrunch Startups
Ethics & Regulation
Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis
The article discusses a debate on whether technology CEOs are unusually susceptible to "AI psychosis," examining claims...
TechCrunch Startups
Startups & Funding
Ask AI what goes with chicken and the answer depends on whether it learned from recipes or molecules
London-based startup Kaikaku.AI launched "Epicure," three AI models that distinguish between recipe-based and...
The Decoder
Healthcare AI
How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry
Turkey's hair-transplant industry has become a billion-dollar sector driven by continuous innovation, including...
Wired AI
Startups & Funding
SoftBank plans 75 billion euro AI data center buildout in France
SoftBank announced plans to invest up to 75 billion euros in building AI data centers in France with a capacity of 5...
The Decoder
AI Agents
AI search agents often confirm what they already know instead of actually researching the web
Research from Harbin Institute of Technology reveals that leading AI search agents like GPT-5.4 and Kimi K2.6 primarily...
The Decoder
Research & Papers
Trajectory Releases a Concurrent Multi-LoRA Training Stack for Continual Learning, Reporting a 2.81× Experiment-Throughput Gain
Trajectory, in collaboration with UC Berkeley Sky Lab and Anyscale, developed a concurrent multi-LoRA training stack...
MarkTechPost
AI Agents
Build Skill-Augmented AI Agents with SkillNet for Search, Evaluation, Graph Analysis, and Task Planning
The article presents SkillNet, a framework for building skill-augmented AI agents that can discover, install, evaluate,...
MarkTechPost
LLM
Best Text-to-Speech TTS Models in 2026: A Benchmark-Based Comparison
This article benchmarks and compares leading text-to-speech models in 2026, evaluating their quality, latency, cost,...
MarkTechPost