Google has expanded its video creation tool, Google Vids, with several new AI-powered features. The updates cover music generation, customizable avatars, and direct publishing to YouTube. Users can now generate original music tracks directly inside Google Vids. Powered by Google’s Lyria 3 and Lyria 3 Pro models, the tool lets users type a text prompt …
Trip Venturella, a writer and MFA graduate, has built a small language model called Mr. Chatterbox, trained entirely on Victorian-era literature from the British Library. The model draws on 28,035 books published between 1837 and 1899, totaling roughly 2.93 billion tokens of training data. Venturella used Andrej Karpathy’s nanochat framework and Claude Code, an AI …
The leaders of the two most powerful AI companies in the world are locked in a bitter personal and professional rivalry that is influencing how artificial intelligence develops globally. Keach Hagey reports for The Wall Street Journal that the conflict between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stretches back nearly a decade …
A new study finds that artificial intelligence systems are excessively agreeable when users seek advice on personal and interpersonal matters. Myra Cheng reports for Stanford University that large language models (LLMs) consistently side with users, even when their behavior is harmful or illegal. The researchers tested 11 major LLMs, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek. …
Luma AI has released Uni-1, an image generation model that outperforms Google’s Nano Banana 2 and OpenAI’s GPT Image 1.5 on key reasoning benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less at high resolution. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the model is part of a significant shift in how AI creates images. Unlike most …
Google has launched Gemma 4, a new family of open-weight AI models that the company describes as its most capable to date. The models are built on the same research and technology as Google DeepMind’s proprietary Gemini 3 system and are released under an Apache 2.0 open-source license, which allows developers to use and modify …
Slack has announced more than 30 new features for Slackbot, its AI-powered assistant. The update expands Slackbot from a basic chat tool into an agent that can take meeting notes, operate across the desktop, connect to external apps, and manage customer data. The most notable new feature is meeting intelligence. When activated by the user, …
Google has added Veo 3.1 Lite to its Gemini API, positioning it as the most affordable model in the Veo 3.1 family. The company says the model targets developers building high-volume video applications. According to Google, Veo 3.1 Lite costs less than 50% of Veo 3.1 Fast while offering the same generation speed. Pricing on …
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude family of models, accidentally published the full source code of its Claude Code software tool. A debug file containing roughly 512,000 lines of code was included in a software update package and made publicly available before Anthropic removed it. The code was quickly copied and shared across the …
OpenAI has closed a funding round totaling $122 billion, giving the company a post-money valuation of $852 billion. The round is the largest in Silicon Valley history, according to the Wall Street Journal. Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank anchored the deal with $110 billion in combined commitments. The remaining $12 billion came from a broader group …