The EU begins to set rules for AI watermarking, Google and Mistral release new models + UK Banks begin adopting Agentic AI.
Disney frees its characters for Sora, OpenAI adopts skills, Tinker goes live, and MCP goes to the Linux Foundation.
Sunday Links: A Snapshot of the AI Future with five interviews from today's leaders that outline thinking about what's next.
Large companies push AI internally (and their own products), AI Safety for toys is a hard problem, and neural structures in monkeys point to shared representations for generalization.
OpenAI releases group chats features for a subset of ChatGPT users, Anthropic pushes for AI regulation, and weather models get the deep learning treatment.
Google search messes up, Anthropic Claude used in Cyberattacks, Microsoft CEO shares long-term strategy, and the new book predicting AI Destruction.
Reinforcement learning environments, orbital data centres, browser wars and blocking shopping bots.
OpenAI continues to make announcements at an unprecedented rate: changing corporate structure, data on usage, and a policy enforcement model. Anthropic detects signs of introspection in models, and markets keep bubbling along.
AI-to-AI communication is harder to achieve than it looks. This post looks at the intersection of Web APIs, MCP, A2A, and previous generations of Agent Communication. Drawing practical lessons for today's system communications.
AI browsers, Meta closes off WhatsApp to AI, and advances in AI Music.
Adult ChatGPT is on its way, Labour market AI effects aren't here yet, and Anthropic launches Skills.
OpenAI makes a slew of announcements, taking on industry giants in every direction.
Sonnet 4.5, Supabase, AI personhood, and other stories from the week.
Planning in LLMs, efficient attention mechanisms and breakthroughs in time series models.
Lawsuits and traffic flow changes are starting to affect publishers on the web. Meta launches new consumer hardware and AI finds its way into your late-night chippy.
Perplexity scraping, Safe Intelligence new Substack, Nondeterminism, Robot Massages.
Welcome to another round-up of interesting AI news and some general web news as well. Here they are: * Google Gemini dubbed ‘high risk’ for kids and teens in new safety assessment. Together with OpenAI being sued for user deaths within, this is another story on how LLM controls for safety really don't work that well yet. Most of the controls and guardrails are added in post-training or within guardrails during usage. These mechanisms are just too weak to work yet. There are hypotheses that put
From AI Charter Schools to how reasoning models are driving the demand for AI Capacity. Another packed week of stories.
AI leaders offer government $1 AI, NVIDIA argues for smaller models, and Google shares energy data
Drug discovery, Chrome, Perplexity, and AI as the interface to the online world.