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UFC president Dana White dismissed fan criticism over the organization's use of AI-generated promo videos, responding bluntly to complaints. White argued that AI adoption is inevitable and questioned why fans would prefer human artists instead. His remarks, which included explicit language telling critics to stop complaining and focus on the fights, reflect a broader tension in sports and entertainment between AI-generated content and traditional creative work, as organizations increasingly adopt AI tools to cut costs and speed up production.

Bambu Lab's MakerWorld has integrated Meshy, a generative AI platform powered by its Meshy-6 engine, into its MakerLab hub, letting users convert any photo into a print-ready STL or 3MF file in minutes with no design software required. Meshy's updated Multi-Color Printing feature automatically maps textures to filament zones compatible with Bambu Lab's AMS system, eliminating manual color configuration in slicing software. Each model export costs 2 MakerLab credits. The integration is part of a broader industry push to make 3D modeling accessible to non-technical users.

MLB has launched Scout Insights, a new AI-powered commentary feature built with Google's Gemini models and Google Cloud, now live in the Gameday feed on the MLB App and MLB.com. Debuting at the start of the 2026 season, it parses hundreds of petabytes of league data to deliver real-time insights at key moments each inning. One beta example noted Jordan Walker hit the 9th-hardest single in American Family Field history at 114.3 mph.

Runway has launched Ad Concepter, a new app available on its web platform that lets users generate advertising concepts from a single prompt, a reference image, and a product shot. Designed for creators and marketers, the tool makes it easy to quickly explore new concepts, compositions, and story beats for ads without requiring complex workflows or technical setup. Ad Concepter is available now on Runway's web app at runwayml.com.

David Sacks, Trump's Special Advisor on AI and Crypto, has stepped down from his White House role after exhausting his day limit as a special government employee. Sacks will now co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) alongside Michael Kratsios, joining tech executives including Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Jensen Huang, and Sergey Brin. His tenure was marked by failed attempts to preempt state AI laws and controversy over publicly criticizing Trump's Iran policy on his podcast.

Google is rolling out new switching tools for the Gemini app that let users import AI memories and full chat history from other assistants. To import memories, users copy a suggested prompt into their current AI app, paste the response back into Gemini, which then saves those preferences to its context. Chat history can be imported via a ZIP file upload. Google is also renaming its "past chats" feature to "memory." Both features are available now in Gemini's Settings for consumer accounts.

Suno has launched v5.5, the latest update to its AI music generation platform, promising a more expressive and personalized creation experience. The update emphasizes using your own voice, sound, and musical taste to produce music that feels distinctly personal. Suno describes it as the best and most personal Suno experience yet, though specific technical details about new features or model improvements were not disclosed in the announcement.

OpenAI has indefinitely shelved plans for a sexualized adult mode for ChatGPT, according to the Financial Times, following pushback from employees and investors over the harmful effects sexually explicit AI content can have on society. The company says it wants more time to research long-term effects of explicit chats and emotional attachments before making a product decision, noting there is currently no empirical evidence to guide it. The move mirrors OpenAI's recent discontinuation of its text-to-video platform Sora.

Cohere launched Transcribe, its first open-source automatic speech recognition model, designed for note-taking and speech analysis. At 2 billion parameters, it runs on consumer-grade GPUs and supports 14 languages including English, Chinese, Arabic, and Japanese. Transcribe achieves a 5.42 average word error rate on the Hugging Face Open ASR leaderboard, outperforming rivals like ElevenLabs Scribe v2 and IBM Granite 4.0 1B. It can process 525 minutes of audio per minute and will integrate into Cohere's enterprise platform, North, with free API access.

Wikipedia has updated its English-language guidelines to ban editors from writing or rewriting articles using AI, citing AI-generated content's tendency to violate core content policies. Editors may still use large language models for basic copyediting suggestions, provided the AI does not introduce new content, and for translating articles from other Wikipedia versions into English. The policy, proposed by editor Chaotic Enby and passed with overwhelming support, follows months of community efforts including WikiProject AI Cleanup and a speedy-deletion policy targeting AI-written articles.

Mistral AI has launched Voxtral TTS, its first text-to-speech model, designed for low-latency voice agents. The 4B-parameter model supports emotionally expressive, multilingual speech across nine languages including English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Hindi, with diverse dialect support. It achieves a model latency of 70ms for typical inputs and outperforms ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 on naturalness in human evaluations. Voxtral TTS is available now in Mistral Studio and via API, targeting enterprise voice workflows.

Meta has released TRIBE v2, an AI model that acts as a digital twin of human neural activity, predicting how the brain responds to sights, sounds, and language. Trained on fMRI data from over 700 healthy volunteers exposed to images, podcasts, videos, and text, it delivers a 70x resolution increase over similar models and supports zero-shot predictions for new subjects and languages. Meta is releasing the model weights, codebase, research paper, and an interactive demo under a CC BY-NC license.

Google is expanding Search Live globally to all languages and locations where AI Mode is available, reaching more than 200 countries and territories. The feature, accessible via the Google app on Android and iOS, enables interactive voice and camera conversations within AI Mode. The expansion is powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a new inherently multilingual audio model that delivers more natural conversations. Users can also access Search Live through Google Lens by tapping the Live option.

Google has launched Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, its highest-quality audio and voice model, now available across Google products. Developers can access it via the Gemini Live API in Google AI Studio, enterprises through Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, and consumers via Gemini Live and Search Live, which now reaches over 200 countries. The model scores 90.8% on ComplexFuncBench Audio and 36.1% on Scale AI's Audio MultiChallenge. All audio is watermarked with SynthID to help prevent misinformation.

Babylon.js 9.0 has launched as the framework's biggest update yet, introducing Clustered Lighting that groups lights into screen-space tiles so pixels only calculate relevant lights, enabling scenes with thousands of lights at smooth frame rates on WebGPU and WebGL 2. Other major additions include a Frame Graph rendering pipeline with up to 40% GPU memory savings, a Node Particle Editor with flow maps and attractors, Volumetric Lighting, animation retargeting across different skeletons, and advanced Gaussian Splat support contributed in part by Adobe.

CapCut has launched Video Studio, a new timeline-free video creation tool available on CapCut Web. The canvas-based AI production workspace supports Dreamina Seedance 2.0 and is designed for creators at all skill levels. Unlike traditional video editors that rely on timelines, Video Studio offers a more flexible, canvas-based approach to assembling and producing video content, aiming to make AI-assisted storytelling more accessible.

Senate Democrats are pushing legislation to codify Anthropic's restrictions on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance into law. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is drafting a bill requiring human oversight in life-or-death AI decisions, while Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) introduced the AI Guardrails Act, which limits the Pentagon's use of AI for domestic surveillance, autonomous lethal weapons, and nuclear detonation. The effort follows the Trump administration blacklisting Anthropic as a supply-chain risk after it refused military terms that competitor OpenAI accepted.

ARC Prize has launched ARC-AGI-3, described as the only unsaturated agentic intelligence benchmark in the world. Unlike most benchmarks that test existing model knowledge, ARC-AGI-3 evaluates how AI systems learn. The results reveal a stark gap: humans score 100% while current AI scores under 1%. ARC Prize says this disparity demonstrates that artificial general intelligence has not yet been achieved. The benchmark is designed to remain meaningful as AI capabilities advance.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are introducing the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, which would halt all new AI data center construction nationwide until Congress passes federal AI legislation establishing worker and consumer protections, environmental safeguards, and civil rights defenses. The ban could remain in place for years, as Congress is far from passing any such legislation. The bill represents one of the most aggressive AI policy positions taken this Congress.

President Trump signed an executive order on January 23, 2025, establishing the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), revoking a Biden-era version from 2021. The council, comprising up to 24 members, will be co-chaired by the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto. PCAST will advise on AI, quantum computing, and biotechnology policy, with administrative support provided by the Department of Energy.

Google has launched Lyria 3 Pro, an advanced version of its AI music generation model that can create tracks up to 3 minutes long with structural awareness, supporting elements like intros, verses, choruses, and bridges. The model is now available across Vertex AI, Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Google Vids, the Gemini app for paid subscribers, and ProducerAI. All outputs are watermarked with SynthID, and the model avoids mimicking named artists.

Claude has expanded mobile access to its work tool integrations, allowing users to interact with Figma, Canva, and Amplitude directly from their phones. Users can now explore Figma designs, create Canva slides, and check Amplitude dashboards through the Claude mobile app. The update brings previously desktop-available integrations to mobile, making it easier for professionals to access design, presentation, and analytics tools on the go.

"Figure's humanoid robot F.03 has made history as the first humanoid robot to visit the White House, according to a post from Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock. The milestone marks a symbolic moment for the humanoid robotics industry, with Figure positioning itself at the forefront of bringing advanced bipedal robots into high-profile public and governmental settings. Figure has been developing its humanoid platform with ambitions to deploy robots in commercial and industrial environments."

Lovart has launched a new Move Object tool that allows users to reposition any element within an image without needing masks, layers, or manual re-rolling. Using either a rectangular or lasso selection tool, users can click on any object, drag it to a new location, and optionally enter a text prompt to apply further modifications. The workflow produces a single, clean, consistent image output. The Move Object tool is now live and available on the Lovart platform.

Google Research has unveiled TurboQuant, a theoretically grounded quantization algorithm for compressing large language models and vector search engines with zero accuracy loss. Developed by researchers Amir Zandieh and Vahab Mirrokni, TurboQuant combines two companion methods, PolarQuant and Quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss, to eliminate memory overhead common in traditional quantization. It compresses key-value caches to just 3 bits without fine-tuning, achieves up to 8x speedup over bit unquantized keys on H100 GPUs, and reduces KV memory by at least 6x.

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora AI video app just months after its fall 2025 launch, and Disney is pulling out of the $1 billion investment deal it signed with OpenAI last December. Disney had agreed to invest and license some of its characters for use in Sora, with the goal of integrating the technology into Disney+. OpenAI says AI video will continue within ChatGPT, but the standalone Sora app is being discontinued. The closure leaves Google as the dominant player in AI video generation.

Sora, the AI video generation tool, is shutting down both its app and API. The team announced the closure in a post addressed to its user community, thanking creators who used the platform and built community around it. The announcement acknowledged the news would be disappointing to users. The team promised to share additional details soon, including specific timelines for the app and API shutdown and further information on next steps.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared on the Lex Fridman podcast that he believes AGI has already been achieved, responding to Fridman's definition of AGI as an AI system capable of starting and running a successful tech company worth over $1 billion. Huang said, "I think it's now. I think we've achieved AGI." He then partially walked back the claim, noting that AI agents frequently lose user interest after a few months and that the odds of 100,000 agents building a company like Nvidia are zero percent.

Ai2 has released MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4B and 8B parameter sizes that operates entirely from browser screenshots without parsing HTML or accessibility trees. Alongside the model, Ai2 released MolmoWebMix, a dataset containing 30,000 human task trajectories across 1,plus websites, 590,000 subtask demonstrations, and 2.2 million screenshot question-answer pairs — described as the largest public collection of human web-task execution ever assembled. MolmoWeb outperforms open-weight rivals on four live-website benchmarks including WebVoyager and DeepShop.

Sakana AI has launched Sakana Chat, a web chat service powered by its new Namazu alpha model series, which adapts open-weight frontier LLMs for Japanese users via post-training. The three models — Namazu-DeepSeek-V3.Terminus, Llama-3.Namazu-405B, and Namazu-gpt-oss-120B — correct biases and censorship tendencies in base models, reducing DeepSeek's 72% question refusal rate to nearly zero. The models include web search and maintain benchmark parity with their base models on reasoning, coding, and Japanese language tasks.

Smallest.ai has launched Lightning V3, a text-to-speech model built for conversational voice agents. Lightning V3.1 supports 15 languages including English, Hindi, Tamil, and Spanish, with automatic language detection and mid-sentence switching. Lightning V3.2 adds instruction-following controls for emotional register, pitch, volume, and whispering. The model achieves a 3.89 MOS score and 5.38% word error rate, and beats OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini-tts on naturalness in roughly 76% of comparisons. Voice cloning works from just 5 to 15 seconds of audio.

Anthropic has launched Auto Mode for Claude Code, a permissions setting that lets Claude autonomously handle tool-call decisions without constant approval prompts. A classifier reviews each action before it runs, blocking destructive operations like mass file deletion, sensitive data exfiltration, or malicious code execution. It serves as a safer middle ground between Claude Code's conservative default mode and the risky --dangerously-skip-permissions flag. Auto Mode is available now as a research preview for Team plan users, supporting Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6, with Enterprise and API rollout coming soon.

Meta has partnered with Arm to co-develop multiple generations of custom data center CPUs designed for large-scale AI deployments. The first product, the Arm AGI CPU, is Arm's first data center CPU built specifically for the AI era, delivering faster performance per rack more efficiently than legacy CPUs. Meta serves as lead partner and co-developer, and will release board and rack designs under the Open Compute Project. The chip will also work alongside Meta's custom MTIA silicon.

The OpenAI Foundation, chaired by Bret Taylor, plans to invest at least $1 billion over the next year across life sciences, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs. Focus areas include AI research for Alzheimer's disease, biosecurity, child safety, and open health datasets. OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba will lead AI Resilience efforts, while Jacob Trefethen, formerly of Coefficient Giving, will head Life Sciences. The investment counts toward a previously announced $25 billion commitment to curing diseases.

OpenAI has launched a product discovery program for merchants in ChatGPT, allowing businesses to share product feeds so their items appear in AI-powered shopping results. Merchants can integrate catalogs via SFTP, APIs, or supported commerce platforms without rebuilding existing systems. Purchases are completed on merchant-owned sites with no fees charged by OpenAI. The program is built on the Agentic Commerce Protocol and is currently live in the U.S., with Etsy and Shopify merchants among early participants.

OpenAI is expanding its Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) to power richer product discovery in ChatGPT, launching more visual and immersive shopping experiences. Users can now browse products visually, compare options side-by-side with pricing and reviews, and upload images to find similar items. Major retailers including Target, Sephora, Nordstrom, Walmart, and Best Buy have integrated with ACP. Walmart is launching an in-ChatGPT app with account linking and loyalty payments. Updates roll out to all free, Plus, and Pro users this week.

KDnuggets author Kanwal Mehreen recommends 10 X accounts for cutting through AI hype to find reliable LLM updates. The list includes DAIR.AI for paper threads, Andrej Karpathy for deep learning intuition, Sebastian Raschka for practical implementation, alphaXiv for arXiv paper discovery, The Rundown AI for product launches, AK for new model releases, Ahmad Osman for local LLM infrastructure, Matt Wolfe for tool roundups, Simon Willison for hands-on building, and Ethan Mollick for real-world AI impact on work and education.

Brett Adcock, founder of Figure AI and Archer Aviation, has launched Hark, a new artificial intelligence lab focused on building what he describes as the most advanced personal intelligence in the world. The company operated in stealth for eight months while assembling a combined AI and hardware team. Hark plans to develop both advanced software intelligence and new hardware products, signaling Adcock's continued ambition at the intersection of AI and physical technology.

Instagram has launched an AI Transition feature for Stories that uses AI-powered morphing to stitch multiple still images into a seamless video clip. Users select two or more photos from their image gallery, and the tool generates an animated sequence that posts as a Story. The feature requires agreeing to Meta AI terms. Generated Stories can also be downloaded and re-uploaded as Reels. Instagram's Help Center notes the feature is currently rolling out to some users.

OpenAI is offering private-equity firms preferred equity stakes with a guaranteed 17.5% minimum return to attract partners for enterprise AI joint ventures, outbidding rival Anthropic, which offered no such returns. OpenAI is courting firms including TPG, Bain Capital, Advent International, and Brookfield to raise about $4 billion at a $10 billion pre-money valuation. The joint ventures aim to deploy AI tools across PE-owned companies, easing upfront costs ahead of potential IPOs. Thoma Bravo declined to participate, citing concerns over long-term profit profiles.

Cisco released its free LLM Security Leaderboard, ranking models on resistance to single- and multi-turn adversarial attacks. Anthropic dominated, claiming 8 of the top 10 spots, with Claude Opus 4.5 ranking first, followed by Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5. OpenAI's GPT-5.2 and GPT 5 Nano placed 7th and 9th. Mistral's Magistral Small 2509 and Ministral 3 14b Instruct ranked last, with DeepSeek, Cohere, Qwen, and xAI models also appearing in the bottom 10.

OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy electricity from Helion Energy, a fusion startup backed by CEO Sam Altman, who has recused himself from deal discussions and stepped down as Helion's board chair. The agreement would give OpenAI an initial 12.5% of Helion's production, targeting 5 gigawatts by 2030 and scaling to 50 gigawatts by 2035. Helion, which also has a power deal with Microsoft, says it is near scientific breakeven but no private fusion company has yet achieved that milestone.

Luma Labs has released Uni-1, a new AI model designed to think and generate pixels at the same time, rather than separating reasoning from image generation. Unlike traditional models that handle these processes sequentially, Uni-1 integrates both into a unified approach, which Luma describes as less artificial and more intelligent. The release marks a notable shift in how generative AI models handle visual output alongside reasoning.