DeepSeek drops open-source model that compresses text 10x through images, defying conventions

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large l [...]

AI price wars: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% as model competition shifts toward cost

To quote an ancient Jedi Master "Begun, the AI price wars have!"OpenAI is sharply reducing the prices of two models in its GPT-5.6 frontier series, cutting GPT-5.6 Luna, the smallest and fas [...]

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese open source darli [...]

Big Tech bent the knee for Trump in 2025

Sure, we've seen millions poured into lobbying and other means of influence during every presidency, but the last two years set a whole new bar. Business leaders, including those from almost ever [...]

SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's third best on Artificial Analysis

Elon Musk's company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy [...]

Meta has misled users about scam ads on Facebook and Instagram, lawsuit says

Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its advertising practices. The nonprofit group Consumer Federation of America (CFA) has filed a proposed class-action suit against Meta for "failing to protect u [...]

Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

As agentic AI workflows multiply the cost and latency of long reasoning chains, a team from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University and TogetherAI has found a [...]

Google sues group running massive SMS scam operation

Google has filed a lawsuit against a group of Chinese hackers running a platform called “Lighthouse” that sells phishing services for a monthly fee. The group offers clients its services to launch [...]

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

The AI updates aren't slowing down. Literally two days after OpenAI launched a new underlying AI model for ChatGPT called GPT-5.3 Instant, the company has unveiled another, even more massive upgr [...]