This wasn't a one-off. In a text-only version of the same test, Claude Opus 4 chose blackmail 96 percent of the time. Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash nearly matched that rate. OpenAI's GPT-4.1 and xAI's ...

Google Deepmind has launched Gemini Robotics On-Device, a robotics model that runs entirely on robot hardware, allowing robots to function smoothly without needing an internet connection. The system ...

According to The Information, Murati's new company, Thinking Machines Lab (TML), is focused on developing AI models tailored to a client's core business metrics. The goal is to offer specialized ...

Apple executives have been talking internally about potentially buying AI startup Perplexity AI, according to a Bloomberg report. The idea is to grab both the technology and talent for Apple's own ...

Google has introduced Gemini CLI as an open source tool that lets developers interact with the Gemini AI directly from the terminal. The tool enables code analysis, file management, running commands, ...

Elon Musk has announced plans to retrain Grok with statements he calls "politically incorrect, but nonetheless factually true," claiming this will correct and expand all human knowledge. Previously, ...

Google has released a new AI-powered version of Google Colab, following an initial test phase. Colab AI can assist with data preparation, model training, debugging, and visualizations directly within ...

AI tools like ChatGPT are rapidly changing daily life for teachers in the US, according to a new Gallup study. Six out of ten public school teachers used AI in the last school year, mainly for lesson ...

The new "Image-to-Video" feature lets users turn any Midjourney image into a short animated clip. Animation is handled through a new "Animate" button in the Midjourney web interface. Users can choose ...

The RELIC test works by giving an AI a formal grammar - essentially a precise rule set that defines an artificial language - along with a string of symbols. The model must then decide whether the ...

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab looked at the cognitive costs of using LLMs like ChatGPT in everyday writing tasks. Their 200-page report, "Your Brain on ChatGPT," focused on how AI tools affect ...

Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is currently burning through about $1 billion every month. The main drivers are steep infrastructure and chip costs for building its Grok chatbot.