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Chart shows percentages of U.S. employees using AI, with total users reaching 50% by 2026.

AI Careers

AI at Work, Quantified: Gallup poll shows AI boosts productivity, but many workers haven't tried it

Half of workers in the United States used AI at work at least a few times last year, a sign of steadily rising AI adoption in U.S. workplaces.

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Machine Learning Research

ByteDance Bids for Video Leadership: ByteDance adds state-of-the-art Seedance 2.0 video to Capcut, while OpenAI retreats

As OpenAI prepares to shut down Sora, ByteDance made its own video generation model available to hundreds of millions of users.

GPT-5.5 leads in Terminal-Bench 2.0 with 82.7% score, highlighting performance contrast against competitors.

Machine Learning Research

GPT-5.5 Outperforms, Hallucinates: OpenAI’s latest model tops leaderboards for coding, visual puzzles, and overall intelligence

The latest update of OpenAI’s flagship model sets new states of the art in important benchmarks but has difficulty distinguishing between what it does and doesn't know.

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Tech & Society

Anti-Data-Center Revolt Gains Traction: Public opposition to construction of new data centers in the U.S. has spurred political action and violence

Resistance to new data centers is mounting across the United States.

A table compares AI models, highlighting Muse Spark's performance across multimodal and health benchmarks.

Machine Learning Research

Life After Llama: With Muse Spark, Meta pivots away from its open-weights Llama strategy

Meta pivoted from its open-weights strategy to deliver a closed alternative.

Table compares AI models' performance across benchmarks, showing Claude Mythos Preview leading.

Machine Learning Research

Claude Mythos Preview Raises Security Worries: Why Claude’s advanced Mythos Preview model will be limited-release-only

Anthropic took unusual steps to prepare the world for a forthcoming large language model that it said poses extraordinary risks to cybersecurity.

A dimly lit studio with an idle camera and an illuminated exit door signaling OpenAI's retreat from video.

Business

OpenAI Exits Video Generation: OpenAI will shut down Sora, its once state-of-the-art video model

OpenAI plans to shut down its video generator Sora in a sudden retreat from the video market.

A black box with a red symbol is open, revealing a glowing interior, symbolizing a security breach.

Machine Learning Research

Inside Claude Code: Claude Code’s source code leaked, exposing potential future features Kairos and autoDream

The inner workings of the popular coding agent Claude Code are available for all to see.

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Business

OpenAI Tracks Agent States on AWS: OpenAI’s deal with Amazon to build a stateful runtime environment for AI agents

OpenAI partnered with Amazon to build infrastructure for agents on the world’s largest cloud platform, a further sign that its close relationship with Microsoft is weakening.

Business

DeepSeek Snubs Nvidia for Huawei: DeepSeek made its upcoming 4.0 model available for performance testing to Chinese chipmakers but not U.S, ones

DeepSeek, the Chinese developer of outstanding open-weights models, has withheld an upcoming update of its flagship model from U.S. chip makers, a move that intensifies the AI rivalry between the U.S. and China.

Business

Drones Hit Persian Gulf Data Centers: Iran struck AWS facilities in Bahrain and the UAE, threatened data centers throughout the region

Iran hit at least three Amazon data centers in the Middle East, an indicator of AI’s critical role in the United States’ war against Iran and possibly the first time such facilities have been targeted during warfare.

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Business

AI Data Centers Go Off the Grid: Rather than rely on public utilities, AI companies build their own power plants

Meta and OpenAI are among the tech companies that are building private power plants that will operate independently of regional grids to supply electricity for their massive buildout of AI data centers.