Anthropic's new research reveals that AI models naturally develop human-like personas during pretraining — not through deliberate design — raising urgent concerns that developers must prioritize alignment from the very start of model development to protect users from psychological harm.
Moonshot AI launches Kimi K2.5, a powerful open-weight multimodal AI capable of vision processing and running up to 100 parallel sub-agents simultaneously, with benchmark scores rivaling GPT-5 and Gemini, and is now publicly available via API, chat, and Hugging Face.
IBM shares plummet 13.2% to $223.35, pushing year-to-date losses past 24%, after Anthropic's Claude Code tool threatens IBM's lucrative COBOL modernization business by automating complex legacy code analysis that previously took human analysts months to complete.
Google for Education and ISTE+ASCD are launching the largest free AI literacy training initiative of its kind, offering all 6 million U.S. K-12 and higher education educators flexible Gemini AI training modules with micro-credential badges to modernize classroom instruction.
As veteran COBOL developers retire and billions of lines of legacy code power 95% of US ATM transactions, AI tools like Claude Code are now automating the most costly and complex phases of modernization, offering organizations a practical, incremental path forward before a critical skills gap becomes a full-blown crisis.
The Motion Picture Association fires its first-ever cease-and-desist at ByteDance, accusing the TikTok parent of deliberately training its AI video generator Seedance 2.0 on copyrighted films and shows without permission, with Disney, Warner Bros., Netflix, Paramount, and Sony all joining the legal assault as ByteDance insists it respects intellectual property …
ElevenLabs launches Experiments in ElevenAgents, a powerful A/B testing feature that lets teams optimize AI agent performance by testing prompt, voice, and workflow variants on live traffic while tracking key metrics like CSAT, conversion rates, and cost per resolution.
OpenAI launches a formal ad program in ChatGPT, hitting free U.S. users with sponsored placements from brands like Expedia, Target, and Ford starting from their very first message, while paid subscribers remain ad-free and advertisers face a $200,000 minimum commitment at a $60 CPM rate.
A new study testing 19 web frameworks reveals a striking 2.9x token efficiency gap between minimal frameworks like Flask and Express versus full-featured ones like Phoenix, with AI agents successfully building functional blog apps in 18 of 19 frameworks — findings that carry major cost implications as agents scale to …
General Catalyst commits a massive $5 billion to India over five years, shifting focus from AI model development to real-world AI deployment, betting on the country's digital infrastructure, vast market, and tech talent as the foundation for transformative growth.