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Featured Headlines
- Tesla wants to bring robotaxis to San Francisco. Here’s what’s standing in the way.by Sean O'Kane, Kirsten Korosec on July 25, 2025 at 11:41 pm
There will be an employee in the driver's seat -- a big change from how things have been working in Austin.
- India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watchby Jagmeet Singh on July 25, 2025 at 10:02 pm
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers — for allegedly promoting "obscene" content.
- Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on insteadby Dominic-Madori Davis on July 25, 2025 at 10:00 pm
Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: many startups have emerged from markets that, at the time, were essentially nonexistent.
- Intel is spinning off its Network and Edge groupby Rebecca Szkutak on July 25, 2025 at 9:34 pm
Intel will remain an anchor investor in the stand-alone company, which produced $5.8 billion in revenue in 2024.
- Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unitby Maxwell Zeff on July 25, 2025 at 8:58 pm
Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, will round out the leadership team at Meta's new AI lab.
AI & Machine Learning
- Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Biasby Steven Levy on July 25, 2025 at 3:00 pm
The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect the president’s worldview.
- Anthropic deploys AI agents to audit models for safetyby Ryan Daws on July 25, 2025 at 1:40 pm
Anthropic has built an army of autonomous AI agents with a singular mission: to audit powerful models like Claude to improve safety. As these complex systems rapidly advance, the job of making sure they are safe and don’t harbour hidden dangers has become a herculean task. Anthropic believes it has found a solution, and it’s The post Anthropic deploys AI agents to audit models for safety appeared first on AI News.
- Alibaba’s new Qwen reasoning AI model sets open-source recordsby Ryan Daws on July 25, 2025 at 12:43 pm
The Qwen team from Alibaba have just released a new version of their open-source reasoning AI model with some impressive benchmarks. Meet Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507. Over the past three months, the Qwen team has been hard at work scaling up what they call the “thinking capability” of their AI, aiming to improve both the quality and depth The post Alibaba’s new Qwen reasoning AI model sets open-source records appeared first on AI News.
- Cursor’s New Bugbot Is Designed to Save Vibe Coders From Themselvesby Lauren Goode on July 24, 2025 at 3:00 pm
One of the most popular platforms for AI-assisted programming says the next era of vibe coding is all about supercharging error detection.
- Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speechby Kate Knibbs on July 23, 2025 at 10:11 pm
The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump’s newly released AI Action Plan.
Gadgets & Hardware
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Big Tech (Apple, Google, Microsoft)
- After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emergesby Dan Goodin on July 26, 2025 at 12:21 am
As BlackSuit's dark web site goes dark, Chaos is already around to pick up the slack.
- Tesla wants to bring robotaxis to San Francisco. Here’s what’s standing in the way.by Sean O'Kane, Kirsten Korosec on July 25, 2025 at 11:41 pm
There will be an employee in the driver's seat -- a big change from how things have been working in Austin.
- Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursdayby Stephen Clark on July 25, 2025 at 10:17 pm
"Starlink went down across the entire front."
- India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watchby Jagmeet Singh on July 25, 2025 at 10:02 pm
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers — for allegedly promoting "obscene" content.
- Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on insteadby Dominic-Madori Davis on July 25, 2025 at 10:00 pm
Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: many startups have emerged from markets that, at the time, were essentially nonexistent.
Cybersecurity
- After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emergesby Dan Goodin on July 26, 2025 at 12:21 am
As BlackSuit's dark web site goes dark, Chaos is already around to pick up the slack.
- Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursdayby Stephen Clark on July 25, 2025 at 10:17 pm
"Starlink went down across the entire front."
- North Korean hackers ran US-based “laptop farm” from Arizona woman’s homeby Nate Anderson on July 25, 2025 at 9:39 pm
North Korea made millions from the scheme.
- Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhahaby Beth Mole on July 25, 2025 at 8:26 pm
Opinions are mixed on the retraction, and the authors continue to defend their work.
- Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with updateby Scharon Harding on July 25, 2025 at 8:10 pm
Update also blocks compatibility with popular third-party apps.
Startups & Innovation
- Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs Chief Scientist: former OpenAI GPT-4 co-creator Shengjia Zhaoby Carl Franzen on July 26, 2025 at 12:58 am
The move underscores Meta’s strategy of spending aggressively now to secure a dominant position in what it views as the next foundational technology platform.
- New AI architecture delivers 100x faster reasoning than LLMs with just 1,000 training examplesby Ben Dickson on July 25, 2025 at 11:27 pm
Hierarchical Reasoning Models (HRM) tackle complex reasoning tasks while being smaller, faster, and more data-efficient than large AI models.
- CoSyn: The open-source tool that’s making GPT-4V-level vision AI accessible to everyoneby Michael Nuñez on July 25, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a groundbreaking tool that allows open-source AI systems to match or surpass the visual understanding capabilities of proprietary models like GPT-4V and Gemini 1.5 Flash, potentially reshaping the competitive landscape between open and closed AI development. The tool, called CoSyn
- It’s Qwen’s summer: new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 tops OpenAI, Gemini reasoning models on key benchmarksby Carl Franzen on July 25, 2025 at 3:47 pm
The new Qwen3-Thinking-2507, as we'll call it for short, now leads or closely trails top-performing models across several major benchmarks.
- Anthropic unveils ‘auditing agents’ to test for AI misalignmentby Emilia David on July 24, 2025 at 10:15 pm
Anthropic developed its auditing agents while testing Claude Opus 4 for alignment issues.
Tech from Around the Web
- Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs Chief Scientist: former OpenAI GPT-4 co-creator Shengjia Zhaoby Carl Franzen on July 26, 2025 at 12:58 am
The move underscores Meta’s strategy of spending aggressively now to secure a dominant position in what it views as the next foundational technology platform.
- Tesla wants to bring robotaxis to San Francisco. Here’s what’s standing in the way.by Sean O'Kane, Kirsten Korosec on July 25, 2025 at 11:41 pm
There will be an employee in the driver's seat -- a big change from how things have been working in Austin.
- New AI architecture delivers 100x faster reasoning than LLMs with just 1,000 training examplesby Ben Dickson on July 25, 2025 at 11:27 pm
Hierarchical Reasoning Models (HRM) tackle complex reasoning tasks while being smaller, faster, and more data-efficient than large AI models.
- India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watchby Jagmeet Singh on July 25, 2025 at 10:02 pm
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers — for allegedly promoting "obscene" content.
- Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on insteadby Dominic-Madori Davis on July 25, 2025 at 10:00 pm
Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: many startups have emerged from markets that, at the time, were essentially nonexistent.
- Intel is spinning off its Network and Edge groupby Rebecca Szkutak on July 25, 2025 at 9:34 pm
Intel will remain an anchor investor in the stand-alone company, which produced $5.8 billion in revenue in 2024.
- Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unitby Maxwell Zeff on July 25, 2025 at 8:58 pm
Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, will round out the leadership team at Meta's new AI lab.
- AI referrals to top websites were up 357% year-over-year in June, reaching 1.13Bby Sarah Perez on July 25, 2025 at 8:11 pm
AI platforms in June 2025 generated over 1.13 billion referrals to the top 1,000 websites globally, up 357% year-over-year.
- CoSyn: The open-source tool that’s making GPT-4V-level vision AI accessible to everyoneby Michael Nuñez on July 25, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a groundbreaking tool that allows open-source AI systems to match or surpass the visual understanding capabilities of proprietary models like GPT-4V and Gemini 1.5 Flash, potentially reshaping the competitive landscape between open and closed AI development. The tool, called CoSyn
- Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapistby Sarah Perez on July 25, 2025 at 5:33 pm
In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality for users' conversations.
