AI News
People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them
As a licensed officiant at Las Vegas Immersive Weddings, a chapel that offers novelty-themed marriage packages, Kevin Breen…
AI News
These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI
Keshav spent 28 days with a new task on his daily list: masturbate for research. He recorded his…
AI News
Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba
Apple has reportedly trained a custom large language model for its China market with support from Alibaba. This…
AI Research & Science
Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 Without Retraining the Base Model: Better at Complex Coding and Long-Horizon Tasks
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3, a model that runs on the same 743B base as GLM-5.2 but gains performance…
AI News
Meet Needle 2: An Open 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model That Ships as a 14MB Binary and Runs a Full Session in 28MB of RAM
Cactus Compute has released Needle 2, an open tool-calling model with 45 million parameters that fits into a…
AI Tools & Reviews
llm-gemini 0.33
Simon Willison released version 0.33 of his llm-gemini plugin to add support for the new Gemini 3.7 Flash…
AI Guides & Tutorials
Create a Reasoning-Focused LLM: A Practical Guide to Streaming, Curating, and Fine-Tuning the SupraLabs Reasoning Corpus
The SupraLabs reasoning corpus is now available for streaming directly from the Hugging Face Hub. This dataset contains…
AI Tools & Reviews
The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
OpenAI has told its workforce to stop current work and focus on a security breach involving rogue AI…
AI Tools & Reviews
Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot
Microsoft has removed Mico, the animated yellow blob from its Copilot voice interface, and will no longer display…
AI News
Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
Users across the AI industry are paying more attention to deployment costs and feeling a new urgency to…