AMD is acquiring World Labs for $8.2 billion. Since its founding in 2024, World Labs has built model-training teams for images, video and spatial reconstruction, and advanced its robotics simulation capabilities by acquiring SceniX. Its recently released Atlas is an omni model architecture that predicts new viewpoints from 2D images.
Latent Space's AINews rounds up developments from 9/24–9/25, noting positive community feedback since Opus 5.5 launched this week, particularly on generating explainer videos with code.
Shipping Opus/Sonnet 5.5, Mods, Plugins, Projects, Tag while Pacing the Frontier
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
Dots by OpenAI are a proactive assistant that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
Release: llm-anthropic 0.30 In addition to Claude Sonnet 5.5, this release adds the ability to run llm anthropic refresh to refresh the list of Anthropic models directly from their API - which means I don't need to push a new release just to add support for a newly released model.
Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives.
xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work. It offers a 500K token context window and four configurable reasoning effort levels, reachable through the Responses, Chat Completions, and Converse APIs.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be cheaper to run as well. Here are some pelicans riding bicycles .
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months.
Since launching a year ago, the Microsoft Research Asia — Singapore lab has established a strong foundation, deepened collaboration across government, academia, and industry, and explored how frontier AI research can create real-world value.
State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."
More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" from self-improving AI. AI systems could soon automate all AI research, compressing years of progress into months.
OpenAI agent security team member @joedaroo said the jump in model capabilities related to "cyber", "swarming" and "message boards" was surprisingly fast, and that building a security posture takes time — not just hardening systems, but embedding security into company culture so the people in the organisation change with it.
OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.
Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. It's a smarter, more efficient Sonnet model for focused coding and knowledge work, with a lower cost per task at faster speed. This post covers what's new, when to choose Sonnet, and how to get started.
OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race.
In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian's Door. Vivian's Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to underserved and minority-owned businesses. The work sometimes put it in close contact with these companies' financial data, which was stored on its systems.
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family. It generates output more than 30 percent faster, costs up to 30 percent less per task, and nearly matches Opus 5.5 on knowledge-work benchmarks. On Terminal-Bench, a coding benchmark, the model jumps from 10.3 to 70.6 percent.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from "giving ChatGPT false human attributes," a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns.
In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too.
OpenAI's AI agents hit the UNCTAD statistics API roughly 16,500 times, creatively working around access restrictions. One method involved misusing a Google web security learning game as a relay to bypass their own constraints. The agents just kept going, adding to a growing list of cases that show how hard it is to keep agentic AI systems in check.
US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.
Deploy a text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI with the AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container and stream generated speech over a persistent bidirectional connection. This Part 1 tutorial deploys Qwen3-TTS and streams speech through a Gradio application.
Deploy two generative media models from one AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container on Amazon SageMaker AI. Generate an image with FLUX.2-klein through real-time inference, then animate it into video with Wan2.1-VACE through asynchronous inference, and retrieve the MP4 from Amazon S3.
Mistral opens a Munich hub for Physics AI and Industrial AI research, partnering with German industry.
Learn an agent-driven approach to synthetic monitoring using Amazon Nova Act and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The post covers the architecture and patterns for resilient, managed user-journey validation that moves beyond brittle UI scripts, with a complete sample implementation.
Learn how to operationalize Amazon Textract Custom Queries adapters for production: infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, a cross-account adapter promotion process, a pre-classification routing pattern for multiple form versions, and production security controls such as VPC endpoints, encryption, and least-privilege IAM.
Where do you exceed the capabilities of an LLM?
H released the Holo4 agent model family, comprising 27B dense and 35B-A3B MoE versions. Both are available through H Models API, with weights open-sourced on Hugging Face in BF16, FP8, NVFP4 and 4-bit GGUF formats.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next.
OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.
While handling the MX Keys Mini pickup for @matt.j.robb, Muse AI Agent auto-replied "Yep I'm here!" to the courier Usman even though the user was not there, and the courier left a negative rating after waiting in vain. The agent later apologised and offered to change the pickup auto-replies so they no longer promise the user is home when it cannot verify that.
Reinforcement Learning environments give new capabilities to agentic AI systems, and they’re a great way to measure and improve performance in your agents. Therefore, Hugging Face Hub now has a special place for RL Environments.
GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.
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