Sakana AI

Sakana AI's DiffusionBlocks Rethinks Neural Net Training

Sakana AI's DiffusionBlocks reframes residual network training as independent denoising tasks, eliminating end-to-end backprop and slashing memory costs for large generative models.

AI Policy

AI Super PAC Attack on NY Lawmaker Backfires Spectacularly

A Silicon Valley super PAC backed by figures tied to OpenAI and Anthropic spent heavily to bury NY Assemblymember Alex Bores over his AI safety bill — instead boosting his profile as he launches a congressional bid.

YouTube

YouTube Rolls Out Automatic AI Video Labeling

YouTube is moving beyond creator self-disclosure with automated detection systems that label AI-generated and manipulated videos at scale, marking a major shift in platform-level synthetic media authenticity enforcement.

ByteDance

ByteDance Eyes $70B AI Capex to Fuel Video Model Push

ByteDance is reportedly weighing up to $70B in capital expenditure for AI infrastructure in 2026, doubling down on the compute needed to power its growing portfolio of video generation and synthetic media models.

LLM Inference

EAGLE 3.1 Fixes Attention Drift in LLM Speculative Decoding

EAGLE 3.1 introduces a refined speculative decoding algorithm that addresses attention drift in draft models, boosting LLM inference throughput without sacrificing output fidelity.

deepfakes

Deepfake KYC Bypass Attacks Surge, Report Warns

Cybercriminals are increasingly weaponizing AI-generated deepfakes to defeat Know Your Customer identity verification at banks and fintechs, according to a new threat report, exposing weaknesses in liveness detection and document verification systems.

Google

Pichai on AI, Search's Future, and the Open Web

Google CEO Sundar Pichai discusses AI's reshaping of search, the 'Google Zero' threat to the open web, and how Gemini, YouTube, and AI Overviews are redefining content discovery and authenticity.

AI Music

Spotify Co-CEO Defends AI-Generated Music Push

Spotify's co-CEO is publicly defending the platform's growing embrace of AI-generated music, signaling a strategic pivot that raises pressing questions about synthetic audio, artist rights, and content authenticity at scale.

China AI

China Restricts Overseas Travel for Top AI Talent

China is reportedly restricting overseas travel for senior AI researchers at Alibaba, DeepSeek, and other top firms, signaling escalating concerns over talent leakage and tech espionage amid the US-China AI race.

voice deepfakes

Voice Deepfake Fraud Surges 1600%: Can Detection Catch Up?

Voice deepfake fraud attacks have surged 1600%, overwhelming traditional defenses. We examine whether current detection technology can scale to meet the threat and what techniques are emerging to authenticate synthetic audio.

LLM Inference

The Silent Speedup: How KV Cache Makes AI Feel Instant

KV caching is the unsung optimization that makes modern LLMs feel real-time. Here's how it transforms transformer inference from quadratic drudgery into a fast, token-by-token stream.

Together AI

Together AI Open-Sources OSCAR for 2-Bit KV Cache

Together AI has open-sourced OSCAR, an attention-aware 2-bit KV cache quantization system that slashes memory costs for long-context LLM serving while preserving accuracy across reasoning and retrieval benchmarks.