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Comparative study of multi-agent actor-critic extensions (MAGAC, MASAC, MATQC) for parameterized action reinforcement learning.

Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June

I was not a fan of the original Halliday glasses. The Gen 2 are better. | Image: Halliday I first slipped on Halliday's original smart glasses at CES 2025. I was not a fan. The glasses had a tiny, movable display window embedded into the frame that was incredibly finicky to see, and my 30-minute demo left me with achy eyeballs. It was an interesting concept with terrible execution, especially compared to the several other smart glasses on the show floor. So I was skeptical when a few weeks ago, Halliday reached out to say its second attempt at smart glasses was much better. Well, having tried...

Anthropic engineers discuss Claude Code, Claude Tag Slack integration, coding agent security, and internal tool usage in fireside chat.

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 20 2026: People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, Monday, July 20, 2026. | Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The response was swift and predictable. Markets wobbled, commentators declared Silicon Valley shooketh, and policymakers reached for the familiar language of arms races and wake-up calls. In one headline, The Ass...

The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advanced materials. Every new generation of AI technology demands more processing power, more memory, greater energy efficiency, and…

Stratechery commentary on Netflix earnings, assessing the company as mature with limited growth prospects.

Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.

OpenAI and Hugging Face disclose security incident during model evaluation, sharing findings on advanced cyber capabilities and defense lessons.

No significant AI developments reported.

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

Meta AI models enable Genesis Mission projects; details on deployment scale, model specifics, and project outcomes not available in headline.

Cohere partners with Government of Canada to develop sovereign AI capabilities for public-sector services.

David Vélez and Robin Vince appointed to OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC boards.

The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.

Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to Beyoncé's Say My Name, and Harry Styles' As It Was. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Monday, claims that this list represents "only a small portion of Plaintiffs' works that Udio infringed," as reported earlier by Music Business Worldwide. In 2024, Sony, along with Universal Music Group and Warner Records, filed a lawsuit against Udio and the AI music-maker Suno. After gaining access to...

California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.

AUUUUUGH | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole. So what happens when a company like SpaceX - a giant gamble, and, in my opinion, terribly overpriced - is fast-tracked into the Nasdaq-100? Does it suddenly threaten the stability of index funds based on the Nasdaq-100? Can a $1.77 trillion IPO crater the retirement funds of regular people who would ordinarily have no interest in investing in Elon Musk's meme stock? The answer...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, instead of engineers building custom pipes for every connection. Next […]

X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

Coding agents lower ROI threshold for reverse-engineering home automation, shifting economics of personal automation projects despite maintenance risk.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies. David Sacks, the president’s AI and crypto “czar” until…

Dataset of human image similarity judgments across semantic aspects; benchmarks vision-language models on context-dependent perceptual metrics.

Patch Policy: robot control policy leveraging dense ViT features for fine-grained spatial reasoning without billion-parameter VLM overhead.

Systematic decomposition of autonomous discovery harnesses (OpenEvolve, TTT-Discover); demonstrates no universally superior methodology.

Typology for evaluating how linguistic expressions of belief (presuppositions, evidentials) persuade LLMs to override prior knowledge.

Domain-generalized pixel-level tampering detection robust across VLM-generated manipulations from ChatGPT, Gemini, Qwen-Image.