OpenAI has been developing reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) since last December, and it is now available for verified organizations using the o4-mini model. RFT uses a programmable evaluation system, ...

Phi 4's reasoning process shown in screenshot by Simon Willison.

A new report highlights how Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is outperforming Western benchmarks with a research team that is almost entirely China-based—and what that means for the US’s position in global ...

OpenAI is reportedly in discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about using AI to help evaluate pharmaceuticals, according to a new report from Wired. At the center of the talks ...

Google is now using AI models to protect Chrome users from online scams. On desktop, the company has rolled out its local Gemini Nano language model to quickly spot fraudulent websites, including ones ...

Hugging Face has released a new open-source AI agent designed to handle basic computer tasks. For now, though, it feels more like a shaky tech demo than a useful assistant. The Open Computer Agent, ...

Alibaba’s research lab Tongyi has introduced ZeroSearch, a new method for training large language models to handle search tasks—without relying on real web searches. For chatbots to answer questions ...

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company has used AI and so-called AI agents to cut several hundred jobs in its HR department. At the same time, IBM has created new positions in areas like software ...

ByteDance introduces Seedream 3.0, a new text-to-image model. Benchmarks suggest improvements over GPT-4o and Midjourney in speed, accuracy, and visual quality. ByteDance has released Seedream 3.0, a ...

Despite dropping plans for a complete spinoff, the new structure appears to be acceptable to key investors, according to The Information. For example, Softbank has reaffirmed its commitment to invest ...

Anthropic has launched a web search feature for its Claude API, letting developers combine Claude models with up-to-date web data without building their own search infrastructure. Claude decides when ...

The latest pre-release version of Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro language model brings major improvements for front-end development and complex programming tasks. Google has launched an updated preview of ...