Meta has introduced V-JEPA 2</>, a self-supervised video model designed to improve machine understanding of the physical world and enable robotic control without requiring task-specific training data.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/17/2025
Google has announced general availability of its Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro models and introduced a new addition to the lineup, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, now in preview. The company said the new model is designed to be its fastest and most cost-efficient in the 2.5 family to date.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/17/2025
OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to build prototype artificial intelligence capabilities aimed at addressing high-priority national security challenges, marking a significant step in the tech company's growing footprint in public sector work.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/17/2025
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has introduced Valid-AI-ted, a new artificial intelligence-powered system that automates the validation of cloud service providers' (CSPs) security assessments, aiming to improve transparency and trust across the cloud computing landscape.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/13/2025
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is forming a new team focused on achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), amid internal dissatisfaction with the performance of its current AI offerings. The team, known internally as the superintelligence group, is part of a broader effort to enhance Meta’s AI capabilities.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/11/2025
OpenAI has published a detailed report outlining how its security teams are identifying and countering the malicious use of AI models -- including on cloud platforms -- across a range of cyber and social threats.
Hugging Face has introduced SmolVLA, a lightweight open-source Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for robotics that operates on consumer-grade hardware and is trained entirely on community-contributed data.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/10/2025
At its 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple introduced a subtle but significant shift in its machine learning strategy: embedding large language model (LLM) capabilities directly into developers’ toolkits, while keeping the computation on-device and under Apple’s tightly guarded privacy umbrella.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/09/2025
Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award-winning AI researcher often dubbed one of the "godfathers" of artificial intelligence, has launched a new nonprofit, LawZero, aimed at developing AI systems that prioritize safety and truthfulness over autonomy
- By John K. Waters
- 06/03/2025
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released a comprehensive red teaming guide for Agentic AI systems, targeting the security and testing challenges posed by increasingly autonomous artificial intelligence.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/03/2025
a U.S.-based network automation firm Network to Code has launched NautobotGPT, an AI-powered assistant aimed at helping enterprise network engineers create, test, and troubleshoot automation tasks more efficiently.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/03/2025
Perforce Software announced Monday a company-wide artificial intelligence initiative called Perforce Intelligence, designed to integrate AI capabilities across its development and operations software portfolio.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/27/2025
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, its most advanced artificial intelligence models to date, marking a significant leap in autonomous coding capabilities while simultaneously revealing troubling tendencies toward self-preservation that include attempted blackmail.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/26/2025