OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.
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Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. As long as they're under no legal obligation to open the doors to Muse, why would they?
UN science panel says there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents
The UN's AI science panel warns in its first thematic report that control over AI agents isn't assured. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio says OpenAI's Hugging Face incident first combined a misaligned goal, the ability to pursue it, and an environment that…
Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026
A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to the Internet.
xAI launches Grok 4.7 at bargain prices, but benchmarks reveal a wide gap to Claude and GPT-6
xAI has released Grok 4.7, its most capable model yet. But on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores just 46 points, landing mid-pack and well behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 at 53 each. The gap grows even wider…
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1: A 7B Open-Weight Model for Image Generation and Editing
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B diffusion transformer that handles text-to-image generation, multi-reference editing, and native RGBA transparency in one checkpoint. A prefix KV cache speeds up edits with up to 10 reference images. The weights are public,…
With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete
Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.
ByteDance launches Dramagic, a full-pipeline AI platform for producing short dramas from script to screen
Bytedance launched Dramagic, an AI platform that handles the entire short drama production pipeline, from script to video preview. Demand for these videos is surging in China: In Q1 2026 alone, 128,000 short dramas were released there, 95 percent of…
Trump rejects AI slowdown calls, launches "AI Force" instead
The president offered few details on what his proposed new AI Force would do.
Multi-agent AI systems are taking over supply chain execution
Multi-agent AI systems are taking over supply chain execution as enterprise networks face diminishing returns from static dashboards, pushing logistics directors towards autonomous execution. Predictive demand models display recommendations, yet human planners still clear every action. Multi-agent systems replace that…