[AINews] AI Engineer NYC: Gemini 4 Argon, Vals AI Benchmarks
Google is making Gemini 4 Argon available worldwide through its API, the Gemini app, and Google Antigravity. The frontier model is aggressively priced but trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Meta's Muse Wonder Full in independent benchmarks. Internally, Google says Argon already cut coding tasks
AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.
Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
"We expect a future awash with agents running on all types of hardware."
OpenAI Employee Arrested For Allegedly Installing Office Listening Device
Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives.
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
Redesigning source control at Anthropic Anthropic
Anthropic to Build First Data Center in Japan
Anthropic to Build First Data Center in Japan The Information
Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse
Character.ai Files For Bankruptcy, Citing Costs and Litigation
Character.ai Files For Bankruptcy, Citing Costs and Litigation The Information
Show HN: BitRun, 1-bit LLM runner on CPU (100T/s on Apple Silicon)
Making 3D Model with Meta Oakley AI Glasses and Digital Tape Measure [video]
OpenAI retiring GPT-4o in Jan 2027
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics
OpenAI claims an ex-employee took its product plans and presented them to Apple
OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a document filed on Wednesday, OpenAI accuses the unnamed employee of sending this information to a personal account and then presenting it to Apple leadership, including the vice president
YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs
YouTube is adding a "Made with AI" label to tracks that were "altered or fully generated" using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels to videos. It doesn't sound like this will apply to any and all use of AI tools in making music, but according to YouTube, it inc
Microsoft has a new machine learning tool to improve weather forecasts
Old-school physics-based weather forecasting and even new AI models typically become less reliable beyond two weeks, a problem Microsoft claims to have solved using machine learning. Researchers with the company say they've found a new, cost-effective way to make more accurate weather forecasts two
Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam
Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room
OpenAI engineer faces 5 years and $250K fine as FBI lobs foreign spy charges.
People Are Already Forming Romantic Relationships With Meta’s Muse
"I've never had a relationship with an AI model in that way. That was... until I downloaded Muse."