Modal slashes GPU cold start times from over 2,000 seconds to just 50 seconds using a breakthrough combination of cloud-buffered idle GPUs, lazy-loading filesystems, CPU memory snapshotting, and CUDA checkpoint/restore, delivering 4-10x faster serverless inference for LLM workloads across hundreds of organizations.
The New York Times bans freelancers from using AI tools like ChatGPT and image generators after a series of scandals, including a contributor who used chatbots to write a personal essay, a freelancer fired for AI-generated plagiarism, and a staff reporter whose published piece contained an AI-fabricated quote from a …
Anthropic launches 20+ legal MCP connectors integrating Claude with major platforms like Docusign and Thomson Reuters, rolls out 12 specialized practice-area plugins for legal workflows, and expands access to underserved communities through partnerships with legal aid and nonprofit organizations.
AI's explosive growth faces a critical hardware bottleneck lasting years, even as Apple shatters its AI exclusivity by letting 1.2 billion iPhone users choose rival models like Gemini and Claude, DeepSeek rockets to a $45 billion valuation, and AI pioneer Yann LeCun launches a $1 billion bet against large language …
A new open-source AI voice translator called PuriPuly is revolutionizing real-time two-way communication in VRChat, supporting slang, context memory, and VR subtitles at near-zero cost with free credits for new users.
Anthropic launches Agent View in Claude Code, giving developers a powerful unified CLI interface to manage multiple AI sessions simultaneously, run parallel agents in the background, and reply inline — available now as a Research Preview for Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise, and API users via 'claude agents' in the terminal.
A new AI framework called AutoTTS automatically discovers test-time scaling strategies for large language models, cutting token usage by nearly 70% while maintaining accuracy — and the entire discovery process costs under $40 and takes less than three hours.
Anthropic's Claude Platform is now live on AWS, offering full API feature parity, native IAM authentication, CloudTrail logging, and unified billing, giving developers powerful AI tools while a separate Amazon Bedrock option keeps data within AWS infrastructure for stricter compliance needs.
Apple is set to unveil a massive Siri overhaul at WWDC on June 8, powered by Google Gemini, transforming Siri into a ChatGPT rival while targeting the 84% of the global population not yet using AI.
Thinking Machines Lab unveils 'interaction models,' a groundbreaking new class of AI that natively handles real-time audio, video, and text simultaneously using a 200ms micro-turn design, outperforming competitors with entirely new capabilities like proactive visual reaction and time-triggered speech that no existing commercial model can currently perform.