A peer-reviewed paper about Chinese startup DeepSeek's models explains their training approach but not how they work through ...

Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of ...

A small but growing number of artificial intelligence developers at OpenAI, Google and other companies say they’re skeptical ...

Macaron AI – a startup known for its Personal AI Agent – is betting on this very idea. Today, Macaron AI is officially ...

Simular, a startup building AI agents for Mac OS and Windows, has solved the AI hallucination problem in a compelling way.

ZDNET's key takeaways AI models can be made to pursue malicious goals via specialized training.Teaching AI models about reward hacking can lead to other bad actions.A deeper problem may be the issue ...

The vibe coding tool Cursor, from startup Anysphere, has introduced Composer, its first in-house, proprietary coding large language model (LLM) as part of its Cursor 2.0 platform update. Composer is ...

WTF?! Public restrooms in parts of China are testing new dispensers that release toilet paper only after users scan a QR code and watch an online advertisement, a system that has drawn widespread ...

AI coding tools are getting better fast. If you don’t work in code, it can be hard to notice how much things are changing, but GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 have made a whole new set of developer tricks ...

This past spring, Anthropic introduced learning mode, a feature that changed Claude's interaction style. When enabled, the chatbot would, following a question, try to guide the user to their own ...

Anthropic’s Claude is getting a side gig as a tutor. The company has launched new modes for its two consumer-facing platforms, Claude.ai and Claude Code. The modes will enable Claude to not just ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.