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Meta has appointed Robert Fergus, previously a research director at DeepMind, to head its FAIR lab after a period of leadership changes and talent departures.
OpenAI and Microsoft are renegotiating their multibillion-dollar partnership in a critical deal that could determine the AI leader's future. Microsoft, which has invested over $13 billion in OpenAI, is offering to exchange some of its equity stake for access to technology beyond their current contract's 2030 expiration.
ChatGPT's Deep Research agent can now scan GitHub repositories, reading source code and PRs to deliver detailed, cited reports. Users can query repositories directly through the Deep Research → GitHub integration.
Thread block clusters and 2-SM UMMA instructions on Blackwell GPUs enable higher arithmetic intensity and more efficient memory transfers in GEMM workloads using CUTLASS.
ChatGPT queries consume far less energy than commonly believed. Updated estimates suggest just 0.3 Wh per typical query - ten times lower than previous calculations. While AI's aggregate energy demand requires attention, individual text-based AI usage shouldn't trigger climate guilt, especially compared to higher-impact activities like transportation or heating.
curl's project founder, Daniel Stenberg, has reached a breaking point with the flood of AI-generated false vulnerability reports submitted through platforms like HackerOne. While HackerOne maintains that AI can enhance reporting quality when used responsibly, Stenberg is pushing for stronger infrastructure and tools to combat what he describes as effectively a DDoS attack on maintainers' time and attention.
Meta's AssetGen 2.0 is a set of new diffusion-based models for generating detailed 3D meshes and textures from text and image prompts that improve consistency, fidelity, and view-aware texture resolution over its predecessor.
Flow-GRPO integrates reinforcement learning into flow matching by converting ODEs into SDEs and using denoising reduction to enhance sample efficiency and alignment.
Bytedance's DeerFlow is an open source research assistant that employs a multi-agent architecture with search engines, web crawlers, and Python capabilities to deliver Deep Research-style reports and podcasts.
Gemini 2.5 Pro has shown state-of-the-art performance on video benchmarks like YouCook2 and QVHighlights, outperforming GPT-4.1 and rivaling fine-tuned specialist models under equal evaluation settings.
Investigative journalists have identified Toronto-area pharmacist David Do as a central figure behind MrDeepFakes.com. The site permanently shut down following the revelations. It had 650,000 users and generated over 2 billion views since 2018. The site hosted tens of thousands of non-consensual AI-generated explicit videos of celebrities, influencers, and private citizens. While non-consensual deepfakes remain legal in Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney has pledged to criminalize it following the practice of countries like the UK and Australia.
SVAD combines video diffusion and 3D Gaussian Splatting to generate high-quality animatable avatars from a single image, achieving real-time rendering.
OpenAI has reached an agreement to acquire AI-assisted coding platform Windsurf (formerly Codeium) for approximately $3 billion.
SoundCloud reportedly changed its terms of service to permit AI training on user-uploaded content, prompting concerns over transparency and consent.
FutureHouse, backed by Eric Schmidt, has launched AI tools to aid scientific research, including Crow, Falcon, Owl, and Phoenix.