Google wraps its fourth Flow Sessions cohort, unveiling AI-powered short films created by artists who spent six weeks collaborating with Google Flow, the tech giant's generative AI creative studio.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI has dealt a fatal blow to the post-quantum signature scheme HAWK by producing a successful key recovery attack, effectively ending its standardization prospects, while also achieving a modest improvement on reduced-round AES attacks that poses no real-world threat to current encryption.
Google DeepMind has quietly disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team less than a year after its historic 2024 Nobel Prize, with key researchers including Nobel co-winner John Jumper defecting to rival Anthropic, which just launched Claude Science to target the biology and drug-discovery space AlphaFold helped pioneer.
Lilian Weng departs Thinking Machines due to health concerns and returns to OpenAI, where she will lead a top-level research team focused on accelerating internal research, including recursive self-improvement.
OpenAI's GPT-2 small weights are outperforming custom-trained models on instruction-following tasks despite worse test loss scores, sparking investigation into whether superior data quality, overtraining, or dropout are behind the surprising gap.
Berkeley researchers unveil PixelRAG, a groundbreaking open-source AI system that searches documents as images rather than text, preserving critical visual elements like tables and charts across 8.28 million Wikipedia pages using a fine-tuned vision model and publicly available tools on Hugging Face.
FaceSwap, an open-source AI face-swapping tool, surpasses 56,700 GitHub stars as its developers champion strict ethical guidelines, limiting use to legitimate purposes like filmmaking and AI experimentation while explicitly condemning non-consensual applications.
OpenAI launches its GPT-5.6 model family, with flagship model Sol outperforming Claude Fable 5 on coding benchmarks at less than half the cost, while autonomously optimizing its own inference stack to cut serving costs by 20% and boost token-generation efficiency by over 15%.
A new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology argues AI-generated content deserves First Amendment protection, warning that government regulation could restrict public access to information across search engines, social media, and digital devices, while courts have yet to settle whether AI outputs constitute protected speech.
Google launches AI-powered dictation in its Gemini macOS app, letting users speak naturally while Gemini polishes their words into clean text, directly challenging the $2 billion dictation startup Wispr Flow.