Doctors develop AI stethoscope that can detect major heart conditions in 15 seconds

Upgraded medical tool can diagnose heart failure, heart valve disease and abnormal heart rhythms

How Sakana AI’s new evolutionary algorithm builds powerful AI models without expensive retraining

M2N2 is a model merging technique that creates powerful multi-skilled agents without the high cost and data needs of retraining.

Are AI and Democracy Compatible?

Avoiding digital dictatorship may mean rethinking our relationship with machines.

What is nano-banana? Google’s new image editing model

Plenty of AI image models have made things a lot more impressive, and Google's groundbreaking image model, Gemini 2.5 Flash (also known as nano-banana because AI people), is now making waves.

Microsoft’s signals shift from OpenAI with launch of first in-house AI models for Copilot

MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview models will be used to power consumer applications.

AI could already be stealing jobs from young US workers

Entry-level workers look to be most affected

With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

Microsoft is still deeply tied to OpenAI, but who knows what the future holds.

This Team Is Rethinking AI’s Core: Perforated AI Bets On Dendrites

For more than seventy years, deep learning has relied on a simplified model of brain function. Now, a Pittsburgh startup thinks the AI field is due for an update.

An artificial intelligence cloud platform for OCT-based retinal anomalies screening system in real clinical environments

npj Digital Medicine - An artificial intelligence cloud platform for OCT-based retinal anomalies screening system in real clinical environments

Anthropic to Collect Your Chats, Coding Sessions to Train Claude AI

In search of more data, Anthropic is asking users to 'help improve Claude' by providing the AI with access to their chatbot activity. It will also retain data for five years versus 30 days.

The White House reportedly ordered xAI’s Grok to be approved for government use

The White House ordered the GSA to add Grok to its list of approved vendors after some back and forth regarding the governments use of the Elon Musk owned AI chatbot.

60 U.K. Lawmakers Accuse Google of Breaking AI Safety Pledge

PauseAI organised an open letter from UK lawmakers and civil society organisations to Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. PauseAI UK members emai…

The DeepSeek Hype Was All Made Up

Our disinformation research team found thousands of fake accounts fueling a coordinated campaign to sway markets during the DeepSeek media frenzy.

How AI Is Solving America’s $1 Trillion Manufacturing Labor Crisis

America faces 2.1 million unfilled manufacturing jobs by 2030, costing $1 trillion annually. See how AI startups like Laborup are solving the crisis.

NSF to invest in new national network of AI-programmable cloud laboratories

Deploying DeepSeek with PD Disaggregation and Large-Scale Expert Parallelism on 96 H100 GPUs

DeepSeek is a popular open-source large language model (LLM) praised for its strong performance. However, its large size and unique architecture, which us...

Microsoft Introduces 2 In-House AI Models Amid Rising Competition

Microsoft is reducing its reliance on OpenAI for Copilot. One of its two new models powers text-to-audio generation, while the other improves text-based tasks.

Subliminal Learning Lets Student AI Models Learn Unexpected (and Sometimes Misaligned) Traits from Their Teachers

AI can transfer strange qualities through seemingly unrelated training—from a love of owls to something more dangerous

Alibaba Creates AI Chip to Help China Fill Nvidia Void

Chinese chip companies and artificial-intelligence developers are building up their arsenal of homegrown technology, backed by a government determined to win the AI race.

OpenAI Just Announced GPT-Realtime, Its Best Voice AI Model YetThe company behind ChatGPT wants you to build with its voice AI model.

New OpenAI open-source models now available on watsonx.ai®

AudioStory: Generating Long-Form Narrative Audio with Large Language Models

Recent advances in text-to-audio (TTA) generation excel at synthesizing short audio clips but struggle with long-form narrative audio, which requires temporal coherence and compositional...

Healthcare AI today: Bad diet advice from LLMs, ‘Dawn’ working on cancer vaccine, Generative AI earns $50M, OpenAI’s healthcare push

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has made a couple of big hires as it prepares for a major expansion into healthcare.

Microsoft Launches Public Testing of First In-House Foundation Model

Microsoft AI (MAI) has begun public testing of the first foundation model it trained in-house. The model, dubbed MAI-1-preview, is being tested on