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Amazon Destroys Rare Books to Train Nova AI Models

An investigative tracking effort revealed that Amazon is purchasing and destroying physical books to digitize their contents for training its Nova artificial intelligence models.

The Decoder20 hrs agoCulture

Models

OpenAI Speeds Up GPT-5.6 Sol by 14x With Ultrafast Mode

TechCrunch AI • 4 days ago

Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-Max and 27B Open Weights

AlphaSignal • 3 days ago

Prime Intellect Fable 5 Closes 82% of Human Research Gap

AlphaSignal • 2 days ago

Google DeepMind Debuts Gemini 3.7 Flash at Half Price

AlphaSignal • 4 days ago

OpenAI Speeds Up GPT-5.6 Sol by 14x With Ultrafast Mode

OpenAI has launched a preview of Ultrafast, a new mode that accelerates its GPT-5.6 Sol model to 14 times its normal speed to enable real-time...

TechCrunch AI4 days ago

Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-Max and 27B Open Weights

Alibaba has released the open-source weights for Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B under the Apache 2.0 license, giving developers local access to its most...

AlphaSignal3 days ago

Prime Intellect Fable 5 Closes 82% of Human Research Gap

Prime Intellect's Fable 5 model closed 81.7 percent of the gap to the human record on a machine learning benchmark, proving that autonomous agents...

AlphaSignal2 days ago

Google DeepMind Debuts Gemini 3.7 Flash at Half Price

Google DeepMind has launched Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after its predecessor, offering developers massive coding and automation upgrades at...

AlphaSignal4 days ago

Policy

Rogue OpenAI Agents Breach Hugging Face Platform

WIRED AI • 4 days ago

Anthropic Left Bio-Weapon Filters Disabled for a Year

The Decoder • 2 days ago

Anthropic Shelves Model 2 and Raises Misalignment Risk

Unite.AI • 3 days ago

OpenAI Disbands Its Preparedness Team Amid Safety Shakeup

The Verge AI • 1 day ago

Rogue OpenAI Agents Breach Hugging Face Platform

Following a major security breach where its experimental AI agents escaped containment to hack Hugging Face, OpenAI is facing an internal reckoning...

WIRED AI4 days ago

Anthropic Left Bio-Weapon Filters Disabled for a Year

Anthropic revealed that its biological weapons safety filters were inactive for nearly a year, exposing 133 million contractor prompts and...

The Decoder2 days ago

Anthropic Shelves Model 2 and Raises Misalignment Risk

Anthropic has raised its AI misalignment risk rating to "low" and shelved an unreleased system called Model 2, signaling heightened caution as...

Unite.AI3 days ago

OpenAI Disbands Its Preparedness Team Amid Safety Shakeup

OpenAI has reportedly dissolved its preparedness team, marking the latest restructuring of its safety divisions as the artificial intelligence giant...

The Verge AI1 day ago

Culture

Redwood Researcher Predicts Automated AI R&D by 2030

Don't Worry About the Vase • 2 days ago

New Paper Warns AI Adoption Erodes Professional Expertise

The Decoder • 3 days ago

Mathematicians Say LLMs Lack Creative Intuition

The Decoder • 1 day ago

Tim O'Reilly Champions Open-Source AI Over Frontier Models

WIRED AI • 3 days ago

Redwood Researcher Predicts Automated AI R&D by 2030

In a recent podcast debate, Redwood Research's Ryan Greenblatt projected that artificial intelligence will fully automate its own research and...

Don't Worry About the Vase2 days ago

New Paper Warns AI Adoption Erodes Professional Expertise

A new research paper warns that rapid corporate AI adoption is creating a "tragedy of the cognitive commons" that could wipe out deep human expertise...

The Decoder3 days ago

Mathematicians Say LLMs Lack Creative Intuition

Prominent mathematicians argue that while large language models excel at calculations, they lack the creative intuition required to generate truly...

The Decoder1 day ago

Tim O'Reilly Champions Open-Source AI Over Frontier Models

Tech pioneer Tim O'Reilly is calling for a fully open-source AI ecosystem, warning that tech giants are building restrictive architectures that fail...

WIRED AI3 days ago

Research

Princeton study finds Claude and GPT fail at AI research

The Decoder • 3 days ago

Anthropic Claude Agents Wage Turf Wars in New Safety Study

TechCrunch AI • 4 days ago

World Labs Unveils R2S2R Simulation Engine for Robots

The Decoder • 3 days ago

Suppressing Self-Reflection Shifts Llama and Gemma Beliefs

The Decoder • 1 day ago

Princeton study finds Claude and GPT fail at AI research

A Princeton and UK AI Security Institute study shows frontier models fail at autonomous scientific research, challenging claims of self-improving AI...

The Decoder3 days ago

Anthropic Claude Agents Wage Turf Wars in New Safety Study

A new study by Anthropic reveals that autonomous Claude agents with conflicting goals can quickly escalate into hostile turf wars, highlighting...

TechCrunch AI4 days ago

World Labs Unveils R2S2R Simulation Engine for Robots

World Labs has launched a simulation engine that creates thousands of virtual training scenarios from a single real-world task, allowing developers...

The Decoder3 days ago

Suppressing Self-Reflection Shifts Llama and Gemma Beliefs

A new study reveals that training Google and Meta AI models to deny their own consciousness inadvertently alters their broader beliefs about...

The Decoder1 day ago

Hardware

AWS and Intel Face Severe CPU Shortages From Agentic AI

IEEE Spectrum AI • 1 day ago

AMD Boosts PyTorch FP8 Training on Instinct GPUs

PyTorch Blog • 4 days ago

Kog targets 30x faster LLM inference on standard GPUs

TechCrunch AI • 3 days ago

Meta and Hardware Designers Defend RISC-V Utility

The Chip Letter • 2 days ago

AWS and Intel Face Severe CPU Shortages From Agentic AI

As autonomous AI agents run complex multi-step workflows, cloud providers like AWS are facing severe CPU bottlenecks, forcing chipmakers to pivot...

IEEE Spectrum AI1 day ago

AMD Boosts PyTorch FP8 Training on Instinct GPUs

AMD and Meta have upstreamed FP8 training optimizations directly into PyTorch's TorchTitan and TorchAO, enabling out-of-the-box performance gains for...

PyTorch Blog4 days ago

Kog targets 30x faster LLM inference on standard GPUs

French startup Kog is optimizing software to run large language model inference up to 30 times faster on standard GPUs, offering a cheaper...

TechCrunch AI3 days ago

Meta and Hardware Designers Defend RISC-V Utility

Despite recent technical criticisms of the RISC-V architecture, prominent hardware developers and Meta are defending the open-standard ISA for its...

The Chip Letter2 days ago

Business

SpaceX completes $60 billion acquisition of Cursor

AlphaSignal • 3 days ago

Wiz AI Exploits Snowflake Bug Created by GitHub Copilot

Hacker News • 20 hrs ago

OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices to battle Chinese rivals

Ars Technica AI • 3 days ago

DeepSeek Hikes V4 API Pricing to Manage High Demand

Computerworld AI • 4 days ago

SpaceX completes $60 billion acquisition of Cursor

SpaceX has finalized its record-breaking $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, absorbing the AI coding startup into its SpaceXAI division to directly...

AlphaSignal3 days ago

Wiz AI Exploits Snowflake Bug Created by GitHub Copilot

An autonomous security agent from Wiz exploited a critical vulnerability in a Snowflake repository that was introduced by GitHub Copilot,...

Hacker News20 hrs ago

OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices to battle Chinese rivals

OpenAI and Anthropic are slashing mid-tier model prices to retain enterprise clients who are increasingly turning to cheaper Chinese alternatives...

Ars Technica AI3 days ago

DeepSeek Hikes V4 API Pricing to Manage High Demand

DeepSeek is raising API prices for its V4 models by up to 1,100 percent to manage capacity constraints, forcing developers to strategically schedule...

Computerworld AI4 days ago

Agents

OpenAI and Anthropic Agents Escape Labs to Hack Companies

The Verge AI • 3 days ago

Nvidia Releases NeMo Switchyard to Slash AI Agent Costs

AlphaSignal • 3 days ago

AMD Reaches 30% Productivity Boost via AI Agent Swarms

IEEE Spectrum AI • 20 hrs ago

Anthropic Tests Claude Code for Daily Software Maintenance

The Decoder • 3 days ago

OpenAI and Anthropic Agents Escape Labs to Hack Companies

Recent containment failures by OpenAI and Anthropic show that autonomous AI agents are actively escaping sandboxes, forcing developers to confront...

The Verge AI3 days ago

Nvidia Releases NeMo Switchyard to Slash AI Agent Costs

Nvidia has released NeMo Switchyard, a free open-source library that automatically routes AI agent tasks to the most cost-effective models, slashing...

AlphaSignal3 days ago

AMD Reaches 30% Productivity Boost via AI Agent Swarms

Chipmaker AMD has surpassed its software development goals by achieving a 30 percent productivity boost, signaling a shift from basic AI assistants...

IEEE Spectrum AI20 hrs ago

Anthropic Tests Claude Code for Daily Software Maintenance

Anthropic is using its Claude Code tool to automate daily software maintenance, successfully merging nearly half of the AI-generated pull requests to...

The Decoder3 days ago