WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in search, Google Maps, and Gemini.

Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella

Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.

Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

The Alignment Journal: Organization, Personnel, and Scope

The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.

Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation

Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.

Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails

For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95% for users who "contribute" to the development of future models by sharing their prompts and model outputs.

Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."

OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model

While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.

The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus

The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.

Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a  $30B valuation

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]

What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.

Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge

Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack

Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

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The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.

XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.

OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft

The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."

Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.

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OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure