deepfake

New York seizes a dozen celebrity deepfake websites

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office seized 12 domains used to share nonconsensual celebrity deepfake videos depicting around 1,200 people.

Sakana AI

Sakana AI trains 1000-layer networks without backpropagation

Sakana AI researchers presented PC-ALM, a layer-local training method that reaches within about 2 points of backpropagation on 1000-layer networks on MNIST.

Reward AI

Reward AI's OM-1 learns manipulation from gloved humans, not robot data

Reward AI unveiled OM-1, a manipulation policy trained only on human demonstrations captured by a sensorized glove, with no teleoperation or on-robot data.

Andon Labs

Andon opens up Pion, an agent built to run a company on its own

Andon Labs is opening Pion, the platform it uses to run real autonomous businesses, to outside users through a waitlist.

Ninth Wave

Ninth Wave moves bank onboarding to a multi-agent system on Amazon Bedrock

Ninth Wave built Compass, an onboarding assistant running seven specialist agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, to speed up open finance API integration for banks.

Waymo

Waymo opens robotaxi service in Las Vegas

Waymo has launched driverless rides in Nevada, starting with a 24-mile service area around the Las Vegas Strip.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash memory compression sparks a Reddit debate on inference costs

A Reddit user argues that the KV cache compression method shipped with DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash makes inference cheaper and erodes the compute advantage held by OpenAI and Anthropic.

Fable 5.1

Fable 5.1 cracks a 370-year-old cipher in 44 minutes

Vals AI reports that Claude Fable 5.1 solved Thomas Urquhart's Cyphral Distich, an encrypted verse that had resisted readers for centuries.

AWS

AWS shows how to run interactive MCP apps inside AI chat hosts

AWS published a walkthrough for building MCP Apps with interactive HTML widgets and deploying them on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime.

anthropic

Ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC that AI staff are "genuinely frightened"

Jacob Coxon says people building AI are scared of the pace of progress, as industry figures split over whether the warnings are sincere or overstated.

anthropic

Trump and Beijing reject Amodei's slowdown call from two opposite directions

Trump said no more AI regulation is needed and went after Amodei. China called the appeal a Cold War tactic aimed at holding it back.

Perplexity

Perplexity's on-device agent arrives on Windows

Perplexity added Portable Computer, the local version of its agent, to the Windows app; it needs an RTX GPU with 24GB or more of VRAM.