Lilian Weng departs Thinking Machines due to health concerns and returns to OpenAI, where she will lead a top-level research team focused on accelerating internal research, including recursive self-improvement.
OpenAI's GPT-2 small weights are outperforming custom-trained models on instruction-following tasks despite worse test loss scores, sparking investigation into whether superior data quality, overtraining, or dropout are behind the surprising gap.
OpenAI launches its GPT-5.6 model family, with flagship model Sol outperforming Claude Fable 5 on coding benchmarks at less than half the cost, while autonomously optimizing its own inference stack to cut serving costs by 20% and boost token-generation efficiency by over 15%.
FaceSwap, an open-source AI face-swapping tool, surpasses 56,700 GitHub stars as its developers champion strict ethical guidelines, limiting use to legitimate purposes like filmmaking and AI experimentation while explicitly condemning non-consensual applications.
Berkeley researchers unveil PixelRAG, a groundbreaking open-source AI system that searches documents as images rather than text, preserving critical visual elements like tables and charts across 8.28 million Wikipedia pages using a fine-tuned vision model and publicly available tools on Hugging Face.
Google launches a powerful new voice feature for Gemini on macOS, letting users dictate polished text and perform complex AI tasks like summarizing documents, rewriting content, and generating images simply by holding the Fn key and speaking naturally.
A new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology argues AI-generated content deserves First Amendment protection, warning that government regulation could restrict public access to information across search engines, social media, and digital devices, while courts have yet to settle whether AI outputs constitute protected speech.
Google launches AI-powered dictation in its Gemini macOS app, letting users speak naturally while Gemini polishes their words into clean text, directly challenging the $2 billion dictation startup Wispr Flow.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is now training its sibling model GPT-5.6 Luna by performing senior-level research tasks, marking a major step toward the company's ambitious goal of deploying a fully automated AI researcher capable of end-to-end research with minimal human oversight by March 2028.
Elon Musk's xAI files a federal lawsuit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, challenging the state's AI nudification ban as an unconstitutional First Amendment violation, while Governor Tim Walz and Ellison vow to defend the law they say protects victims' dignity.