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Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic's AI coding tool daily. It was part of an effort to get project...

Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality

Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality (via Hugging Face Blog)

2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership

The AI Layoff Bill Is Coming Due, and CTOs Are Going to Pay It Twice

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

The AI Zombification of Universities

Anthropic moves Claude Code SDK and claude -p out of subscription plans

OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive

God Damn AI is making me dumb

You Don't Align an AI, You Align with It

Micron unveils a 256 GB memory module destined for AI servers

Digital arson spree by 'AI Bonnie and Clyde' raises fears over autonomous tech

Using Chinese AI models to get a degree

Benchmarks for AI Models and Agents on CAD Tasks

Anthropic's Mythos is evolving faster than expected, reports AI safety agency

Only a month after its initial release, Anthropic's storied Mythos model is breaking new testing boundaries.

I'm no Copilot fan, but these 6 new AI skills turned Edge into my favorite mobile browser

With Edge's mobile app, you can now request summaries of multiple tabs, turn pages into podcasts, and tap into your browsing history and past chats.

Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of...

Americans do not want AI data centers in their backyards

Over 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area, according to a new Gallup survey. Just 7 percent said they were "strongly" in favor of new data centers. According to...

Sea You in the Cloud: ‘Subnautica 2’ Early Access Dives Onto GeForce NOW

Dive masks on — Subnautica 2 is making a splash on GeForce NOW day-and-date with launch, so members can plunge into the title’s brand-new alien ocean from almost any device. It leads 11 new games...

Data readiness for agentic AI in financial services

Financial services companies have unique needs when it comes to business AI. They operate in one of the most highly regulated sectors while responding to external events that are updated by the...

Establishing AI and data sovereignty in the age of autonomous systems

When generative AI first moved from research labs into real-world business applications, enterprises made a tacit bargain: “Capability now, control later.” Feed your proprietary data into third-party...

AI Promised the Audemars Piguet x Swatch Wristwatch. China Will Deliver It

Watch fans spent a week falling in love with colorful Royal Oak wristwatches that didn’t exist—then the real thing arrived. Now, fantasy is becoming a manufacturing opportunity.

The third major Linux kernel flaw in two weeks has been found - thanks to AI

AI is exposing Linux security holes faster than developers can patch them. Fragnesia is the latest. Here's what we know about it.

The Download: deepfake porn’s stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn When...

Think Twice, Act Once: Verifier-Guided Action Selection For Embodied Agents

arXiv:2605.12620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building generalist embodied agents capable of solving complex real-world tasks remains a fundamental challenge in AI. Multimodal Large Language Models...

Macro-Action Based Multi-Agent Instruction Following through Value Cancellation

arXiv:2605.12655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in real-world use cases may need to adapt to external natural language instructions that interrupt ongoing...

Do Androids Dream of Breaking the Game? Systematically Auditing AI Agent Benchmarks with BenchJack

arXiv:2605.12673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent benchmarks have become the de facto measure of frontier AI competence, guiding model selection, investment, and deployment. However, reward...

Revealing Interpretable Failure Modes of VLMs

arXiv:2605.12674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used in safety-critical applications because of their broad reasoning capabilities and ability to...

Learning Transferable Latent User Preferences for Human-Aligned Decision Making

arXiv:2605.12682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as reasoning modules in many applications. While they are efficient in certain tasks, LLMs often...

On the Size Complexity and Decidability of First-Order Progression

arXiv:2605.12691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Progression, the task of updating a knowledge base to reflect action effects, generally requires second-order logic. Identifying first-order special...

DisaBench: A Participatory Evaluation Framework for Disability Harms in Language Models

arXiv:2605.12702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose safety benchmarks for large language models do not adequately evaluate disability-related harms. We introduce DisaBench: a taxonomy of...

CHAL: Council of Hierarchical Agentic Language

arXiv:2605.12718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent debate has emerged as a promising approach for improving LLM reasoning on ground-truth tasks, yet current methodologies face certain...

BEHAVE: A Hybrid AI Framework for Real-Time Modeling of Collective Human Dynamics

arXiv:2605.12730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing AI systems for modeling human behavior operate at the level of individuals or detect events after they occur. As a result, they systematically...

State-Centric Decision Process

arXiv:2605.12755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language environments such as web browsers, code terminals, and interactive simulations emit raw text rather than states, and provide none of the...

PROMETHEUS: Automating Deep Causal Research Integrating Text, Data and Models

arXiv:2605.12835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can extract local causal claims from text, but those claims become more useful when organized as persistent, navigable world...

Multimodal Hidden Markov Models for Persistent Emotional State Tracking

arXiv:2605.12838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tracking an interpretable emotional arc of a conversation via the sentiment of individual utterances processed as a whole is central to both...

Moltbook Moderation: Uncovering Hidden Intent Through Multi-Turn Dialogue

arXiv:2605.12856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emergence of multi-agent systems introduces novel moderation challenges that extend beyond content filtering. Agents with {\em malicious intent}...

Beyond Cooperative Simulators: Generating Realistic User Personas for Robust Evaluation of LLM Agents

arXiv:2605.12894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in settings where they interact with a wide variety of people, including users who are...

When Attention Closes: How LLMs Lose the Thread in Multi-Turn Interaction

arXiv:2605.12922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can follow complex instructions in a single turn, yet over long multi-turn interactions they often lose the thread of...

Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching

Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching (via Hugging Face Blog)

Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs

Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot...

What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable

Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a...

OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court

In Musk v. Altman, the company claimed a remarkable trophy was physical proof of Elon Musk’s concerning behavior.

Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is "the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers." Messages in Incognito Chat aren't saved or stored...

WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private

The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations.

NVIDIA, Ineffable Intelligence Team Up to Build the Future of Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure

Reinforcement-learning agents — AI systems that learn by trial and error — can convert computation into new knowledge. That’s the focus of a new engineering-level collaboration between NVIDIA and...

Hermes Unlocks Self-Improving AI Agents, Powered by NVIDIA RTX PCs and DGX Spark

Agentic AI is changing the way users get work done. Following the success of OpenClaw, the community is embracing new open source agentic frameworks. The latest is Hermes Agent, which crossed 140,000...

Alexa is moving into Amazon․com

Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company's shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you'll be...

World Models: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

World models recently made our list of 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now. Watch executive editor Niall Firth explain why this emerging area of AI is gaining so much attention. Join MIT Technology...

NVIDIA and SAP Bring Trust to Specialized Agents

Announced today at SAP Sapphire — where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang joined SAP CEO Christian Klein’s keynote by video — SAP and NVIDIA’s expanded collaboration helps enterprises run...

The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning...

Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS

Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS (via Hugging Face Blog)

The new AI-powered Google Finance is expanding to Europe.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/UK_1920x1080.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">This week, the new, AI-powered Google Finance is launching across Europe, with...

‘Your Career Starts at the Beginning of the AI Revolution,’ NVIDIA CEO Tells Graduates

“You are entering the world at an extraordinary moment,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates as he delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University’s 128th commencement...

EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity

EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity (via Hugging Face Blog)

See what happens when creative legends use AI to make ads for small businesses.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Group_Icons_1x1.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Today we're launching The Small Brief, an initiative bringing together three ad...

Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"

The developer of Firefox says it has "completely bought in" on AI-assisted bug discovery.

Powering the Next American Century: US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and NVIDIA’s Ian Buck on the Genesis Mission

AI will help build the energy it needs. That’s the case U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing Ian Buck made Thursday morning at the...

Linked and Loaded: Gaijin Single Sign-On Now Available on GeForce NOW

Less typing, more tanking. Faster logins mean more time in the gaming action — and this week provides GeForce NOW members with a smoother path straight into the battlefield. Cloud gaming is all about...

vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL

vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL (via Hugging Face Blog)

5 gardening tips you can try right in Search

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/01-Google_Gardening_Header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’ve rounded up the top ways you can use Google’s AI Mode, Search...

NVIDIA Spectrum-X — the Open, AI-Native Ethernet Fabric — Sets the Standard for Gigascale AI, Now With MRC

The race to build the world’s most powerful AI factories demands networking that keeps pace with the ambitions of AI itself. NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet scale-out infrastructure stands at the...

Adding Benchmaxxer Repellant to the Open ASR Leaderboard

Adding Benchmaxxer Repellant to the Open ASR Leaderboard (via Hugging Face Blog)

NVIDIA and ServiceNow Partner on New Autonomous AI Agents for Enterprises

Enterprise AI has learned to generate. It has learned to reason. Now companies are asking the next question: How should AI act? Early agent systems have shown what’s possible, moving beyond simple...

Google is partnering with XPRIZE and Range Media Partners on the $3.5 million Future Vision film competition.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/futurevisionxprize_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google is partnering with XPRIZE and Range Media Partners on the $3.5...

The latest AI news we announced in April 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/April_2026_AI_Recap_still.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Here are Google’s latest AI updates from April 2026

Reduce friction and latency for long-running jobs with Webhooks in Gemini API

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/WebhooksGeminiAPI-hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Event-Driven Webhooks are a push-based notification system that...

Nemotron Labs: What OpenClaw Agents Mean for Every Organization

By early 2026, the open source project OpenClaw had become a phenomenon. In January, its GitHub star count crossed 100,000 as developer interest surged.

It’s Gonna Be May: 16 Games Hit the Cloud This Month, With More NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Power

[Editor’s note] The blog has been updated to note that GeForce RTX 5080-power expansion also extends to the Install-to-Play library. It’s gonna be May — and the cloud’s in full festival mode. 16...

Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built

Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built (via Hugging Face Blog)

DeepInfra on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥

DeepInfra on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥 (via Hugging Face Blog)

NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Unifying Vision, Audio and Language for up to 9x More Efficient AI Agents

AI agent systems today juggle separate models for vision, speech and language — losing time and context as they pass data from one model to the other. Unveiled today, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is...

Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate: Fun facts, tips and new features to try

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Google_Translate_20th_hero_NC8a.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google’s sharing 20 fun facts to celebrate Google Translate...

Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Long-Context Multimodal Intelligence for Documents, Audio and Video Agents

Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Long-Context Multimodal Intelligence for Documents, Audio and Video Agents (via Hugging Face Blog)

Into the Omniverse: Manufacturing’s Simulation-First Era Has Arrived

Manufacturing’s traditional design-build-test cycle rested on a single assumption: Real-world testing was the only reliable test environment.

Join the new AI Agents Vibe Coding Course from Google and Kaggle

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Vibe_Coding_Course_herosocial.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google is bringing back its 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with...

How to build scalable web apps with OpenAI's Privacy Filter

How to build scalable web apps with OpenAI's Privacy Filter (via Hugging Face Blog)

8 Gemini tips for organizing your space (and life)

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Gemini_Spring_Cleaning_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Organize your home and digital space with Gemini. Use AI-powered...

DeepSeek-V4: a million-token context that agents can actually use

DeepSeek-V4: a million-token context that agents can actually use (via Hugging Face Blog)

OpenAI’s New GPT-5.5 Powers Codex on NVIDIA Infrastructure — and NVIDIA Is Already Putting It to Work

AI agents have revolutionized developer workflows, and their next frontier is knowledge work: processing information, solving complex problems, coming up with new ideas and driving innovation. Codex,...

Tag, You’re It: GeForce NOW Levels Up Game Discovery With Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft+ Labels

GeForce NOW is doubling down on what matters most: gamers. This week’s upgrades bring smarter libraries, making it easier than ever for gamers to turn a PC collection into a cloud-powered flex. It...

Here’s how our TPUs power increasingly demanding AI workloads.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/What_is_a_TPU_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Learn how Google’s TPUs power increasingly demanding AI workloads with...

Elevating Austria: Google invests in its first data center in the Alps.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Google_Kronstorf_Data_Center_1.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google has been a proud part of Austria’s landscape for years,...

How to Use Transformers.js in a Chrome Extension

How to Use Transformers.js in a Chrome Extension (via Hugging Face Blog)

We're launching two specialized TPUs for the agentic era.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Were_launching_two_TPUs_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">The eighth generation of Google’s TPU includes two specialized...

3 new ways Ads Advisor is making Google Ads safer and faster

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Road_to_GML_Master-Header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Three new agentic safety and policy features integrated into Ads...

QIMMA قِمّة ⛰: A Quality-First Arabic LLM Leaderboard

QIMMA قِمّة ⛰: A Quality-First Arabic LLM Leaderboard (via Hugging Face Blog)

AI and the Future of Cybersecurity: Why Openness Matters

AI and the Future of Cybersecurity: Why Openness Matters (via Hugging Face Blog)

7 ways to travel smarter this summer, with help from Google

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Summer_Travel_Tips_2026_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">The latest tools from Google can help you plan trips, find a great...

A new way to explore the web with AI Mode in Chrome

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AI_Mode_in_Chrome_-_Blog_header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Today’s upgrades for AI Mode in Chrome transform how you...

Ecom-RLVE: Adaptive Verifiable Environments for E-Commerce Conversational Agents

Ecom-RLVE: Adaptive Verifiable Environments for E-Commerce Conversational Agents (via Hugging Face Blog)

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B...

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the...

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent...

Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully...

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.