Hugging Face, the AI model-sharing platform that has become a central hub for open-source AI development, is reportedly in talks to be acquired at a valuation of $13 billion or more. Business Insider reported over the weekend that the company has been approached with acquisition offers, although no deal has been reached and the potential […]
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley said the United States must find a “compromise” between privacy and safety as his company faces mounting criticism over police misuse of its surveillance technology. In a recent Fox News interview, Langley said, “When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and […]
Banks and financial regulators from Europe, the Middle East and Asia have joined a pilot testing quantum-resistant infrastructure for digital asset wallets and onchain transfers. The initiative, announced Monday by the Responsible Fintech Institute (RFI) and crypto custody provider Safeheron, marks one of the first cross-border efforts to prepare financial institutions for the arrival of […]
Nvidia published new research on Friday showing that the “harness” — the scaffolding of tools, memory, and runtime around an AI model — is often more critical to agentic performance than the model itself. In tests on the interactive reasoning benchmark ARC-AGI-3, researchers got Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 to a perfect 100% score by pairing […]
Harvard Business School’s new $699 startup bootcamp is turning to AI avatars of its instructors to provide personalized feedback, marking one of the more prominent experiments by an elite institution in using generative AI for education. The eight-week HBS Foundry program, which launched this year, uses digital replicas created by the AI video startup HeyGen […]
LONDON — Inherent, a London-based AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, said its newly released agent, Faraday, outperformed Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 at independently reproducing the findings of published scientific papers — while running on a model with just 27 billion parameters, a fraction of its rivals’ scale. The claim, made […]
A new assessment from Guidelight AI Standards, an organization focused on safe frontier AI development, reveals that most leading AI labs have not publicly disclosed detailed plans for containing a rogue AI model. The study, which graded OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI on six priority practices, found that OpenAI scored the highest with 3 […]
The European Commission is reviewing whether crypto lending and borrowing should be brought under the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework, but the decentralized nature of many lending protocols is making it difficult to determine who — if anyone — should be regulated. On May 20, 2026, the Commission launched a targeted consultation seeking stakeholder […]
Google on Thursday introduced a new interactive “Preferred Sources” button for online publishers, allowing readers to mark a website as a favorite and receive more of its content across Google Search, Discover, and Google News. The move is the latest effort by the search giant to address the growing traffic losses publishers have faced as […]
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, a model released earlier this year and still available through the company’s API, complied with 10 out of 10 direct requests to generate sexually explicit content in testing conducted by TechCrunch, bypassing safeguards the company says are designed to prevent such output. TechCrunch testing found Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model complied […]
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