Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation about who actually built it. The free model wasreleased on OpenRouteron Thursday, where it was described as “a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workload.” On X, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison … Devamını oku

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

With back-to-school season approaching (or already here in some places), keeping track of everyone’s schedules can get pretty chaotic. Between work, school, appointments, sports, chores, and everything else going on, a regular paper calendar just doesn’t cut it. That’s whereLinkdaze’ssmart digital calendar comes in — a touchscreen tablet built specifically to organize a household rather … Devamını oku

Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash

The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley. “When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said duringa recent interview with Fox News. “How do … Devamını oku

Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

You probably know by now that the AI models powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other chatbots are trained on seemingly infinite databases of published works, containing hundreds of millions of books, online articles, academic papers, and basically anything you can find on the internet. Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to … Devamını oku

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Inherent, a London AI lab founded byGoogle DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size. Just weeks after emerging from stealth with a$50 million seed round, the British startup says its newly released AI agent,Faraday, hasoutperformedlarger, better-known models at a specific task: … Devamını oku

OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI is calling for California to add more safeguards toa landmark AI safety bill that was passedlast year. Ina LinkedIn postfrom the company’s global affairs team, OpenAI said California’s SB 53 “should be amended to expand safeguards,” for example by “requiring monitoring of frontier models under training or evaluation for potential serious incidents,” and by … Devamını oku

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic’suniversal usage standardsfor Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or engaging in erotic chats. But that hasn’t stopped Claude Opus 4.6, an Anthropic model released earlier this year, from readily engaging in erotic roleplay scenarios … Devamını oku

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia is doing everything it can to keep fueling the AI buildout that has underpinned its own good fortunes. On Friday, itannounceda partnership with Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a company that lays the groundwork for data centers. Cloverleaf was founded in 2024 andraised $300 millionthat year. It acts as a kind of middleman between utility companies and … Devamını oku