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Latest story• Oct 8, 2025

OpenAI’s Nick Turley on transforming ChatGPT into an operating system

OpenAI is transforming ChatGPT into an operating system-like platform where users can access third-party apps for tasks like writing, coding, and shopping, drawing inspiration from how web browsers became platforms for various applications. The company plans to integrate apps from Expedia, DoorDash, and Uber directly into conversations, allowing developers to reach ChatGPT's 800 million weekly users while creating...

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Build a Task-Running AI Agent with the New ChatGPT AgentKit: A Step-by-Step Guide

OpenAI's new AgentKit provides a complete toolkit for building AI agents that can perform real tasks, run background jobs, and integrate into web applications using Python or TypeScript. The platform combines the Agents SDK for...

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How Your AI Chatbot Can Become a Backdoor

AI chatbots can become dangerous backdoors when attackers exploit vulnerabilities through techniques like indirect prompt injection, where malicious commands hidden in external data sources trick the bot into revealing system...

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Sam Altman Says Copyright Holders Are Begging for Their Characters to Be Included in Sora

OpenAI's new text-to-video app Sora 2 launched amid chaos as users immediately generated videos featuring copyrighted characters like SpongeBob and Pikachu before guardrails were implemented. CEO Sam Altman claims copyright...

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Own your AI: Learn how to fine-tune Gemma 3 270M and run it on-device

Google DeepMind has released a guide showing how developers can fine-tune Gemma 3 270M, a compact AI model, to create specialized applications that run directly on devices without expensive hardware. The process demonstrates...

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Jeff Bezos Says AI Bubble Is Good Because It Will Eliminate the Weak

Jeff Bezos admits the AI industry is in a bubble with inflated valuations, but believes the eventual collapse will benefit society by eliminating weak competitors and driving economic growth.

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This Startup Wants to Spark a US DeepSeek Moment

DeepSeek's January breakthrough sparked momentum around open-source Chinese AI models, prompting startup Prime Intellect to develop a new approach for building competitive AI without relying on big tech. The company is training...

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang regrets not investing more in Elon Musk’s xAI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang regrets not investing more heavily in Elon Musk's xAI startup, comparing today's AI boom to the early internet era with hyperscale companies now worth $2.5 trillion.

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LlamaFarm – Open-source framework for distributed AI

LlamaFarm is an open-source framework that lets developers build AI applications locally using their own models while maintaining the flexibility to switch to cloud-based services later. The Y Combinator-backed project provides a...

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AI toys are all the rage in China—and now they’re appearing on shelves in the US too

Stuffed animals are chatting back to children these days, and China is leading a toy revolution that could reach $14 billion by 2030. Companies like Haivivi are creating devices such as BubblePal, a ping-pong ball-sized gadget...

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Prediction: AI Killed the Social Media Star

AI bots are creating fake engagement on social media through automated likes, comments, and posts. This erodes user trust and drives people to private platforms, potentially destroying authentic human connections.

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How to Build an Adaptive Tic-Tac-Toe AI with Reinforcement Learning in JavaScript

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a Tic-Tac-Toe AI that learns winning strategies through Q-learning, where the AI improves by playing games and receiving rewards for good moves. The implementation includes three...

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This Puzzle Shows Just How Far LLMs Have Progressed in a Little Over a Year

A geometric puzzle that took GPT-4o over two hours and 40 prompts to solve in June 2024 was recently solved by Claude Sonnet 4.5 in five seconds on the first try. The challenge involved writing Python code to find and plot all...

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A tiny recursive reasoning model achieves 45% on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2

A new 7-million parameter neural network called Tiny Recursion Model proves that small AI systems can tackle complex reasoning tasks by recursively improving their answers over time, achieving 45% accuracy on the challenging...

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How does gradient descent work?

Researchers discovered that gradient descent in deep learning operates fundamentally differently than traditional optimization theory predicts, with neural networks oscillating at the "edge of stability" rather than staying in...

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Give me AI slop over human sludge any day

AI-generated "slop" and human-created SEO garbage both flood the internet because users consume whatever content fills their feeds. With 4.5 hours of daily screen time, audiences drive demand for low-quality content regardless of...

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Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks

A new 7-million parameter neural network called Tiny Recursion Model achieves impressive results on challenging reasoning tasks by repeatedly improving its answers through recursive self-correction, scoring 45% on ARC-AGI-1...

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What Makes 5% of AI Agents Actually Work in Production?

Most AI products fail because founders focus on prompting instead of building robust context selection systems, causing 95% of production deployments to fail. Successful AI agents require sophisticated context engineering,...

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director responds to Elon Musk's AI game: "AI isn't going to solve the industry's leadership and vision problem"

Elon Musk's xAI plans to release a fully AI-generated video game in 2026, but Baldur's Gate 3 publisher argues AI won't fix gaming's core problems of poor leadership and lack of creative vision.

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Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model

Google's Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model controls websites and mobile apps by clicking, typing, and scrolling like humans. Developers can access it via API for automation and testing applications.

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Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem

OpenAI's new Sora 2 video generator became a massive hit but quickly filled with copyright-infringing content like SpongeBob meth lab scenes and South Park episodes, forcing the company to scramble for solutions. CEO Sam Altman...

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Not Another Workflow Builder

LangChain explains why they haven't built a visual workflow builder despite frequent requests. They argue that no-code workflow builders are getting squeezed from both directions: simple tasks are better solved by AI agents that...

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Robin Williams’ Daughter Disgusted by AI Slop of Her Father

Zelda Williams publicly called for people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her deceased father, comedian Robin Williams, expressing disgust at how technology reduces real people's legacies to "over-processed hotdogs"...

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Video: Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot ‘fights’ Jared Leto at Tron: Ares premiere

Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot made its Hollywood debut at the Tron: Ares premiere, playfully "fighting" actor Jared Leto with kung fu moves on the red carpet in a viral stunt that gained millions of views. However, the...

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