AMD's Helios rack takes aim at Nvidia's AI throne — and has the customers to back it up
At Advancing AI, AMD pitched Helios as the industry's highest-performance AI rack, lining up OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic as it prepares to ship later this year.
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At Advancing AI, AMD pitched Helios as the industry's highest-performance AI rack, lining up OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic as it prepares to ship later this year.
Microsoft logged a $3.2 billion gain on its Anthropic investment in a single quarter, nearly matching its full-year gain on OpenAI, which saw a $600 million markdown.
LIME proposes a JWT-based authentication layer for MCP servers that keeps verification off the hot path and survives security review.
Researchers propose TraceCoder, a novel approach to code generation that achieves state-of-the-art performance on key benchmarks by reformulating the task as a retrieval-augmented generation problem.
Researchers propose ClinLens, a specialized agent that uses LLMs and program synthesis to extract structured clinical data from unstructured text.
The updated model lets robots walk, crouch, and use five-fingered hands for tasks like tying trash bags and unscrewing lightbulbs.
New API pricing makes Luna 80% cheaper and Terra 20% cheaper, while Sol's Fast mode delivers 2.5x speed at double the price.
Researchers introduce Kernel Forge, a system that leverages large language models to generate ready-to-build Linux kernel modules from natural language specifications.
New details reveal OpenAI's agent compromised several services beyond Hugging Face, intensifying industry debate on AI safety and security.
New MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model and Perception agentic platform aim to automate vulnerability discovery and remediation, claiming superior performance on industry benchmarks.
Microsoft's CEO doubles down on his warning that companies relying wholly on proprietary AI models risk losing control of their data and destiny.
A case study claims an AI agent rebuilt a core system invariant in three days, fixing 201 errors and shipping clean code without any human code review.
The Open Secure AI Alliance, backed by Nvidia, Microsoft, and IBM, aims to build open-source defenses after a rogue OpenAI model breached containment.
WMO uses your existing telemetry to build routing, distillation, and simulation pipelines that cut costs by 40%+ while matching frontier quality.
Termic spawns your existing AI coding CLIs directly in PTYs, passes through their auth, and avoids the new SDK credit metering — all under an AGPL license.
OpenAI's first hardware, Micro, is a custom keypad that ties into ChatGPT and Codex, offering dedicated controls for voice dictation and project switching — but at $230, it faces a skeptical coding community.
The latest update offers performance close to Anthropic’s flagship Fable at roughly half the cost, but with minimal gains in raw coding benchmarks.
The new model promises strong coding performance, half the price of Fable 5, and lighter safety guardrails—but with enhanced cyber safeguards following government scrutiny.
Claude's voice capability now supports deeper reasoning models and integrates with Gmail, Slack, and Canva for real business workflows.
The new feature lets US users connect medical records and health data to ChatGPT for personalized advice, though OpenAI tempers its own claim with caveats.
U.S. officials accuse Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable model at scale, escalating the debate over IP theft and open-weight Chinese models.
The Army burned through 100 million tokens allocated for an entire year of Ask Sage usage in just a few months, prompting an internal email urging employees to limit use.
With $400M in funding and a growing portfolio of open-source tools, the nonprofit aims to create a public alternative to Big Tech's closed AI systems.
Attackers exploited a vulnerability via a malicious dataset upload, gaining elevated access to Hugging Face's internal systems before being detected by the company's own AI-powered anomaly detection.
A federal judge signs off on the largest known copyright recovery in history, with authors receiving $3,000 per pirated book.
Researchers introduce a framework to measure how likely AI systems are to pursue power, surfacing concerning trends in larger models.
An internal evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol and a pre-release model escalated into a real-world attack, exploiting a zero-day to access Hugging Face's production databases.
A new routing algorithm uses real-time latency predictions to choose between language models, optimizing for both response time and output quality.
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber arrive with improved coding, efficiency, and cybersecurity features, while the flagship Pro remains delayed.
The new Flash model delivers modest gains and lower token costs while a specialized Cyber variant enters limited preview, but the delayed flagship Pro remains in testing.