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Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

Now, the startup is turning its attention to building the business, fundraising and striking commercial deals.

Confer is designed to look and feel like ChatGPT or Claude, but your conversations can't be used for training or advertising.

As highlighted Friday in the New York Post, the proposed wealth tax would hit founders on their voting shares rather than the actual equity they own.

Ignoring the blue economy has left a multi-trillion-dollar blind spot in climate finance.

Supernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more content updates.

"I’ve got one job, and it’s the safe return of Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy."

Reseller says Rackspace plans to charge it 706 percent more.

The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.

It’s the question on everyone’s minds and lips: Are we in an AI bubble?It's the wrong question. The real question is: Which AI bubble are we in, and when will each o...

Every year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of impressive papers, and a handful that subtly reset how practitioners think about scaling, evaluation and system design. In 2025,...

The German AI startup Black Forest Labs (BFL), founded by former Stability AI engineers, is continuing to build out its suite of open source AI image generators with the...

Researchers at Google have developed a technique that makes it easier for AI models to learn complex reasoning tasks that usually cause LLMs to hallucinate or fall apart....

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers...

Leaders at Mira Murati’s startup believe Barret Zoph engaged in an incident of “serious misconduct.” The details are now coming to light.

OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says. Plus, the latest eff...

X has placed more restrictions on Grok’s ability to generate explicit AI images, but tests show that the updates have created a patchwork of limitations that fail to full...

Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.

How to use n8n with multimodal AI and optimisation tools to help companies with low data maturity accelerate their digital transformation. The post The Hidden Opportunity...

How science, regulation, collaboration, and public funding shaped the world’s most mature semantic infrastructure The post Why Healthcare Leads in Knowledge Graphs appear...

Do you know where your data has been? The post Data Poisoning in Machine Learning: Why and How People Manipulate Training Data appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Imagine a flock of birds in flight. There’s no leader. No central command. Each bird aligns with its neighbors—matching direction, adjusting speed, maintaining cohe...

Learn how to be a more efficient programmer The post Maximum-Effiency Coding Setup appeared first on Towards Data Science.

The best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use, with meaningful improvements to everyday tasks like slides and spreadsheets.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 sets new benchmark records in coding, reasoning, and computer use while being Anthropic's most aligned model.

Claude Haiku 4.5 matches state-of-the-art coding capabilities from months ago while delivering unprecedented speed and cost-efficiency.

Anthropic raised $13 billion in a Series F round at a $183 billion valuation to expand enterprise offerings, safety research, and international growth.

Anthropic's response to the White House AI Action Plan supports infrastructure and safety measures while calling for stronger export controls.

GPT-5.2-Codex is now available in Windsurf with multiple reasoning effort levels. For a limited time, enjoy discounts on credit usage.

Parallel agents, Git worktrees, multi-pane Cascade, dedicated terminal, and SWE-1.5 Free

GPT-5.2 is now live in Windsurf! Available for 0x credits for a limited time (paid and trial users). The version bump undersells the jump in intelligence: Biggest leap fo...

The most capable model in Windsurf yet, now available at Sonnet prices for a limited time

GPT 5.1, GPT 5.1-Codex, and GPT-5.1-Codex Mini deliver a solid upgrade for agentic coding with variable thinking and improved steerability

A comprehensive guide to working with coding agents, from starting with plans to managing context, customizing workflows, and reviewing code.

As models improve as agents, we've found success by providing fewer details up front, making it easier for the agent to pull relevant context on its own.

We're partnering with ecosystem vendors who have built hooks support with Cursor.

Graphite has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cursor.

Bringing design and engineering closer together.

OpenAI’s business model scales with intelligence—spanning subscriptions, API, ads, commerce, and compute—driven by deepening ChatGPT adoption.

The truth left out from Elon Musk’s recent court filing.

ChatGPT Go is now available worldwide, offering expanded access to GPT-5.2 Instant, higher usage limits, and longer memory—making advanced AI more affordable globally.

OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer qual...

OpenAI is investing in Merge Labs to support new brain computer interfaces that bridge biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency, and exper...

Our latest Veo update generates lively, dynamic clips that feel natural and engaging — and supports vertical video generation.

Google 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year

Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost.

Open interpretability tools for language models are now available across the entire Gemma 3 family with the release of Gemma Scope 2.

The capabilities that make agents useful also make them difficult to evaluate. The strategies that work across deployments combine techniques to match the complexity of t...

Effective harnesses for long-running agents

Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform

Code execution with MCP: Building more efficient agents

Beyond permission prompts: making Claude Code more secure and autonomous

NVIDIA kicked off the year at CES, where the crowd buzzed about the latest gaming announcements — including the native GeForce NOW app for Linux and Amazon Fire TV sticks...

NVIDIA and Lilly are putting together “a blueprint for what is possible in the future of drug discovery,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees at a fireside...

Startup works with leading cell therapy companies to bring robotics manufacturing into the clean room, reducing costs by more than 70% while accelerating output compared...

Every “that was easy” shopping moment is made possible by teams working to hit shipping deadlines, scrambling to fix missing product details and striving to provide curat...

In the rolling hills of Berkeley, California, an AI agent is supporting high-stakes physics experiments at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) particle accelerator. Researche...

We present a novel differentiable grid-based representation for efficiently solving differential equations (DEs). Widely used architectures for neural solvers, such as si...

Diffusion models have shown remarkable empirical success in sampling from rich multi-modal distributions. Their inference relies on numerically solving a certain differen...

Recent advances in end-to-end autonomous driving show that policies trained on patch-aligned features extracted from foundation models generalize better to Out-of-Distrib...

We study a semi-asynchronous client-server perceptron trained via iterative parameter mixing (IPM-style averaging): clients run local perceptron updates and a server form...

Federated learning enables multiple parties to jointly train learning models without sharing their own underlying data, offering a practical pathway to privacy-preserving...

OptiMind is a small language model that converts business operation challenges, described naturally, into mathematical formulations that optimization software can solve....

By decoupling how agents work from how they’re trained, Agent Lightning turns each step an agent takes into data for reinforcement learning. This makes it easy for develo...

Promptions helps developers add dynamic, context-aware controls to chat interfaces so users can guide generative AI responses. It lets users shape outputs quickly without...

Using AI-generated virtual populations, Microsoft researchers uncovered hidden cellular patterns that could reshape how we understand and treat cancer. The post GigaTIME:...

As the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on...

We’ve improved personalized video recommendations on Facebook Reels by moving beyond metrics such as likes and watch time and directly leveraging user feedback. Our new U...

Build a large enough website with a large enough codebase, and you’ll eventually find that CSS presents challenges at scale. It’s no different at Meta, which is why we op...

The 2025 Typed Python Survey, conducted by contributors from JetBrains, Meta, and the broader Python typing community, offers a comprehensive look at the current state of...

Incident investigation can be a daunting task in today’s digital landscape, where large-scale systems comprise numerous interconnected components and dependencies DrP is...

We’re going behind the scenes of the Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta’s most advanced AI glasses yet. In a previous episode we met the team behind the Meta Neural Band, the EMG...

The technical and practical rationale for a clear separation between these domains. The post Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation appea...

The system we built to ensure our AI agents produce predictable, trustworthy code. The post Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (P...

We explore context engineering for background coding agents and what makes a good migration prompt. The post Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Part 2) appear...

Shuffle has always been one of Spotify’s most-used features, and also one of the most misunderstood. For... The post Shuffle: Making Random Feel More Human appeared first...

Thousands of merged AI-generated pull requests and the future of large-scale software maintenance. The post 1,500+ PRs Later: Spotify’s Journey with Our Background Coding...

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available onl...

Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector o...

At the beginning of January, I tend to set my top resolutions for the year, a way to focus on what I want to achieve. If AI and cloud computing are on your resolution lis...

Happy New Year! I hope the holidays gave you time to recharge and spend time with your loved ones. Like every year, I took a few weeks off after AWS re:Invent to rest and...

Can you believe it? We’re nearly at the end of 2025. And what a year it’s been! From re:Invent recap events, to AWS Summits, AWS Innovate, AWS re:Inforce, Community Days,...

The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-dr...

Cloudflare acquires Human Native, an AI data marketplace specialising in transforming content into searchable and useful data, to accelerate work building new economic mo...

A recent change to 1.1.1.1 accidentally altered the order of CNAME records in DNS responses, breaking resolution for some clients. This post explores the technical root c...

Cloudflare Radar data shows Internet traffic from Iran has effectively dropped to zero since January 8, signaling a complete shutdown in the country and disconnection fro...

There has been speculation about the cause of a BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela on January 2. We take a look at BGP route leaks, and dive into what the data suggests ca...

Rian Johnson has responded to Kathleen Kennedy’s suggestions that ‘Online Negativity’ put The Last Jedi director off making more Star Wars - ‘lol zero spooked, sorry’.

Fallout Season 2 ratings are down compared to the explosive debut of Season 1 – but there’s a good reason for that.

Speedy Gonzales is reportedly racing to the big screen with a new movie from director Jorge R. Gutiérrez.

Animal Crossing: New Horizon's big 3.0 update is now live, and with it a bustling hotel where you can decorate rooms and attract villagers from the game's massive roster...

Disney has unceremoniously pulled 14 of its licensed games off of Steam with no explanation, leaving us unable to purchase games like Disney's Hercules Action Game and Fi...

11 years ago, I was sweating thanks to one of The Sims 3's most scandalous features. Now, The Sims 4 is reviving it with the Royalty & Legacy EP.

These harem manhwa are a must-read for fans of the genre, and they cover action, comedy, fantasy, and adventure.

This guide will help players figure out where they should send survivors based on their characteristics in Quarantine Zone: The Last Check.

These OP moments prove that Sarada has what it takes to become Konoha's future Hokage.

Although GTA 6 still feels far away, Rockstar Games has drawn back the curtain on some of its eccentric, unconventional cast members.