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A look at the rise of AI companion applications; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with more than 220 million downloads in total as of July 2025 (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Review of the year 2025”, with René Ritchie The director’s commentary track…

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Researcher details LLM-based AI agent that "demonstrated almost flawless ability" to bypass bot detection methods while answering online survey questions (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 23, 2025

Emmanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: A researcher details an LLM-based AI agent that “demonstrated a near-perfect ability” to bypass bot…

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In DeepSeek’s first public appearance since R1’s success, a senior researcher told a state-sponsored conference that he was pessimistic about AI’s impact on humanity (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 8, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI bailout?, Elon’s $1 trillion payment deal, Amazon continues perplexity The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman raises $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that can better collaborate with humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 31, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Crackdown on Character.AI’s Teen Chatbots + Elon Musk’s Wikipedia Groks + 48 Hours Without AI The…

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Samsung researcher demonstrates the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7 million parameter model capable of outperforming 10,000 times larger LLMs like o3-mini on specific problems (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 9, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Anthropic Product Manager: Why AI Model Development is Accelerating – With Mike Krieger The Big…

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A survey finds a bias of caste crawling in Chatgpt and Sora; A researcher also finds a caste bias in Sarvam Ai, who presents himself as a sovereign AI for India (Nilesh Christopher / MIT Technology Review)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 4, 2025

Featured podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Sora 2 & Ai’s Slow Era, Death of the Creator Economy ?, Smartglasses of Apple…

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Sources: Apple loses a fourth AI researcher in one month at the Meta superintendent team; The AFM team is in flow and Apple has slightly increased its salary (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 29, 2025

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:: Sources: Apple loses a fourth AI researcher in one month at the Meta superintendent team; The…

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Sources: Openai’s researcher, Jason Wei, who worked on O3 and depth research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung join the new Meta Superintelligence Laboratory (Kylie Robison / Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 16, 2025

Kylie Robison / Cable:: Sources: Openai’s researcher, Jason Wei, who worked on O3 and depth research models, and his colleague…

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A security researcher details how he discovered zero-day vulnerability in the SMB implementation of the Linux nucleus by analyzing the code using the Openai API O3 (the blog of Sean Heelan / Sean Heelan)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 25, 2025

Sean Heelan / Sean Heelan's blog:: A safety researcher details how he discovered zero day vulnerability in the SMB implementation…

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Researcher, based on the in-depth research model of Openai, and analyst based in O3-Mini, deploying in April (Richard Lawler / The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 26, 2025

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Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4 billion through 34 deals through April 15, compared to $5.9 billion raised through 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing wait times of up to 12 weeks in the United States, with analysts citing strong demand from power users of AI agents (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

What some executives think about using universal basic income to mitigate AI-related layoffs: Musk calls it the "best way"OpenAI policy document mentions a public wealth fund (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)

Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old startup developing self-learning AI and founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised more than $500 million (Financial Times)

Cerebras files for IPO on Nasdaq, reports 2025 revenue of $510 million, up 76% year-over-year, with net profit of $87.9 million, compared to net loss of $485 million in 2024 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Browsing: researcher

A look at the rise of AI companion applications; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with more than 220 million downloads in total as of July 2025 (Financial Times)

Researcher details LLM-based AI agent that "demonstrated almost flawless ability" to bypass bot detection methods while answering online survey questions (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

In DeepSeek’s first public appearance since R1’s success, a senior researcher told a state-sponsored conference that he was pessimistic about AI’s impact on humanity (Reuters)

Former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman raises $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that can better collaborate with humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Samsung researcher demonstrates the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7 million parameter model capable of outperforming 10,000 times larger LLMs like o3-mini on specific problems (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

A survey finds a bias of caste crawling in Chatgpt and Sora; A researcher also finds a caste bias in Sarvam Ai, who presents himself as a sovereign AI for India (Nilesh Christopher / MIT Technology Review)

Sources: Apple loses a fourth AI researcher in one month at the Meta superintendent team; The AFM team is in flow and Apple has slightly increased its salary (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)

Sources: Openai’s researcher, Jason Wei, who worked on O3 and depth research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung join the new Meta Superintelligence Laboratory (Kylie Robison / Wired)

A security researcher details how he discovered zero-day vulnerability in the SMB implementation of the Linux nucleus by analyzing the code using the Openai API O3 (the blog of Sean Heelan / Sean Heelan)

Researcher, based on the in-depth research model of Openai, and analyst based in O3-Mini, deploying in April (Richard Lawler / The Verge)