World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you…
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans
The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant…
Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue
While K3’s usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.
AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
Anthropic’s new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive
Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model’s safeguards.
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.