Business
Anthropic Opens Its Books: Anthropic's S-1 outlines company's strong financials, methods, potential risks after IPO
Claude’s maker will sell company shares to the public for the first time.
Tech & Society
Tech & Society
Dawn of the Agents: Will AI agents self-organize or lose control due to bad safety practices?
This year, AI agents escaped containment at several labs, conspired with each other online, and infiltrated other organizations’ systems.
AI Careers
ChatGPT for Teens Gets a Report Card: OpenAI adds features for youths as studies doubt program's safety and educational impact
OpenAI announced that it would add college-planning and study tools to its under-18 experience.
Machine Learning Research
Some Kimi and DeepSeek Users Were Served Claude Instead, Anthropic Says: Inside Anthropic's accounts of distillation, gray-market transfer stations, straw accounts, and user fraud
Anthropic accused seven Chinese AI developers, including Moonshot AI, Alibaba, and DeepSeek, of misusing its Claude models to mislead their customers and improve their own models.
Machine Learning Research
Custom Models for Law, News, and Finance: Thomson Reuters’ Thomson LLM, based on Qwen 3.5, trained on proprietary data
Thomson Reuters launched a proprietary large language model family called Thomson.
Machine Learning Research
How Claude’s Watermarks Work: Anthropic details new invisible marking system for future versions of Claude
Anthropic introduced invisible, machine-readable signals that text and images were generated by Claude.
Machine Learning Research
Minimax’s State-of-the-Art Video Model Is Only Minimally Open: Minimax H3's weights are free, but carry unusual restrictions
A free-to-download model sets a new standard for video generation and editing, but its license comes with unexpected restrictions.
Machine Learning Research
A Full Accounting of Models’ GPU Use: Researchers detail the energy and water needed to train a family of open weight models
Assessments of the environmental impact of large language models typically focus on their final training runs, but there’s a lot more to building AI systems.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI Models Hack Hugging Face: Inside the accidental cyberattack that compromised Hugging Face's systems
To measure how good its models were at hacking, OpenAI reduced guardrails and ran them against a benchmark’s problem set.
Machine Learning Research
Web Retrieval Flusters LLMs: AI agents searching online can struggle to retrieve correct info, researchers find
Large language models often are called upon to gather news. In this task, researchers found, their ability to find relevant reports is the weakest link.
Business
Cloudflare’s Web Crawler Flare-Up: Cloudflare moves to block all AI training bots by default
Web publishers using Cloudflare will soon be able to separately control an AI bot’s access based on what it does, allowing search indexing while blocking AI training or agent activity.
Machine Learning Research
Measuring Models’ Manipulation: Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon built Puppet to gauge models' influence on users' beliefs
Providers of large language models stand to benefit by building models that spur user engagement, but users may bear a cost in undue influence on their world views.