The Latest 20VC+SaaStr: Benioff Joins — And Delivers $1B+ AI Revenue; Anthropic Demand is Insatiable; AI Following Up With 1,000,000 Leads at Salesforce

We had a real treat this week — Marc Benioff joined Harry, Rory, and Jason on 20VC+SaaStr this week to deliver one of the most grounded takes on AI we’ve heard from any enterprise leade…

NVIDIA AI Team Introduces Jetson Thor: The Ultimate Platform for Physical AI and Next-Gen Robotics

NVIDIA Jetson Thor delivers 2,070 TFLOPS AI compute, enabling physical AI, humanoid robotics, multimodal processing, and edge intelligence

AI Scientists May Have Discovered LLMs’ Light-Bulb Moment

A new study discovers a pivotal moment when AI starts comprehending what was read versus relying on the position of the words in a sentence.

AI Spots Hidden Signs of Consciousness in Comatose Patients before Doctors Do

A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors could do so

AI Can Read Your Thoughts — The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces

AI can now decode inner speech with 74% accuracy. Brain-computer interfaces promise dignity and connection, but raise urgent questions of consent and control.

There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say — from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with humanity

New research has created the first comprehensive effort to categorize all the ways AI can go wrong, with many of those behaviors resembling human psychiatric disorders.

Beijing’s Galaxea AI Raises $100 Million At $700 Million Valuation, Says Humanoids Will Enter Homes In Less Than A Decade

Why Anthropic’s Copyright Settlement Changes the Rules for AI Training

Anthropic's settlement came after a mixed ruling on the “fair use” where it potentially faced massive piracy damages for downloading millions of books illegally. The settlement seems to clarify an important principle: how AI companies acquire data matters as much as what they do with it.

Researchers Unlock 210% Performance Gains In Machine Learning With Spin Glass Feature Mapping

By harnessing the complex dynamics of simulated magnetic materials, researchers have created a new data processing technique that boosts the performance of machine learning models by up to 210% on challenging real-world problems, representing a significant step towards practical quantum-inspired computation

Understanding LLMs: Insights from Mechanistic Interpretability

Introduction Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, large language models (LLMs) based on the transformer architecture like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude…

Lawsuit Links CA Teen’s Suicide To Artificial Intelligence

The parents of a California teenager who committed suicide sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT taught him how to harm himself.

ChatGPT reportedly linked to first murder — here’s what we know and what OpenAI is saying

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New Paper Finds Evidence That AI Is Already Killing the Job Market

A recent paper uncovered some of the first comprehensive evidence that the AI industry is throwing the job market into flux.

Doctors develop AI stethoscope that can detect major heart conditions in 15 seconds

Upgraded medical tool can diagnose heart failure, heart valve disease and abnormal heart rhythms

How Sakana AI’s new evolutionary algorithm builds powerful AI models without expensive retraining

M2N2 is a model merging technique that creates powerful multi-skilled agents without the high cost and data needs of retraining.

Are AI and Democracy Compatible?

Avoiding digital dictatorship may mean rethinking our relationship with machines.

What is nano-banana? Google’s new image editing model

Plenty of AI image models have made things a lot more impressive, and Google's groundbreaking image model, Gemini 2.5 Flash (also known as nano-banana because AI people), is now making waves.

Microsoft’s signals shift from OpenAI with launch of first in-house AI models for Copilot

MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview models will be used to power consumer applications.

AI could already be stealing jobs from young US workers

Entry-level workers look to be most affected

With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

Microsoft is still deeply tied to OpenAI, but who knows what the future holds.

This Team Is Rethinking AI’s Core: Perforated AI Bets On Dendrites

For more than seventy years, deep learning has relied on a simplified model of brain function. Now, a Pittsburgh startup thinks the AI field is due for an update.

An artificial intelligence cloud platform for OCT-based retinal anomalies screening system in real clinical environments

npj Digital Medicine - An artificial intelligence cloud platform for OCT-based retinal anomalies screening system in real clinical environments

Anthropic to Collect Your Chats, Coding Sessions to Train Claude AI

In search of more data, Anthropic is asking users to 'help improve Claude' by providing the AI with access to their chatbot activity. It will also retain data for five years versus 30 days.

The White House reportedly ordered xAI’s Grok to be approved for government use

The White House ordered the GSA to add Grok to its list of approved vendors after some back and forth regarding the governments use of the Elon Musk owned AI chatbot.