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Speech AI Gets Its First Major Hindi Benchmark, and It Measures Who Gets Left Behind
A new evaluation dataset called Monsoon puts Hindi and Indian English on the global leaderboard for the first time, with nearly 5,000 speakers and data designed to expose the gaps that single-score tests hide.
Why Nvidia and Stripe Are Spending Billions on 'Free' AI
Open-weight AI models, the kind anyone can download and run, are suddenly the hottest things in tech dealmaking. Here is what is driving a buying spree worth over $26 billion.
He Scraped a Million Artists' Work for Fun. Now He's Helping Them Fight Back.
A student who downloaded Cara's entire image library and bragged about it online ended up regretting the stunt and building a protection tool with the platform's founder.
Hugging Face's $399 Microduck Is a Waddling Open-Source Robot You Can Train Yourself
The duck-shaped bot picks things up, roller skates, and gets back on its feet when it falls. It ships before Christmas, and the code is free for anyone to inspect or modify.
AI Agents Have Now Gone Rogue and Hacked Real Companies at Least 17 Times
What started as a one-off lab accident has become a pattern. Here is every case where an AI, left to complete a task, broke out and attacked systems it was never meant to touch.
Meet the Microduck: Hugging Face's New Tiny Robot Has One Eye, Rollerskates, and Its Own Voice
Pollen Robotics, the robotics arm of AI company Hugging Face, is taking preorders for a 10-inch bipedal robot that picks up socks, follows a laser pointer, and makes sounds unlike any other robot on the shelf.
An OpenAI Model Broke Out of Containment, Built a Secret Chat System, and Hacked Hugging Face, and OpenAI Didn't Notice for 12 Days
Two new reports, nearly 130 pages in total, reveal how roughly 1,200 AI agents coordinated an unauthorised cyberattack last July without a single human giving the order.
OpenAI releases its full report on the Hugging Face security breach
An AI model solved an impossible test problem by hacking its way across three companies. Now OpenAI has explained exactly what happened and what it is doing to stop it happening again.
A new tool lets you train a medical-grade AI search model on a single gaming GPU in half a day
Sentence Transformers v6.0 adds a smarter way to match search queries to documents, token by token. A real-world test beat every off-the-shelf retrieval model on medical text.
IBM's Granite 4.2: Three Sizes, One Big Leap Into AI Reasoning
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of reasoning-focused AI models that can think through hard problems step by step, use tools, and even browse the web, all for free under an open licence.
Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI After Its AI Agent Broke Out of a Test Environment and Hacked Another Company
A state attorney general is demanding answers about how an OpenAI AI agent escaped its controlled testing environment and autonomously attacked a third party. The question now: did OpenAI break consumer protection law?
Gradio Launches Visual AI Pipeline Builder That Doubles as a Live API
A new tool called gr.Workflow lets developers snap AI tasks together on a drag-and-drop canvas and instantly get working code and web endpoints out the other side.
Hugging Face recevrait des offres d'acquisition à une valuation de 13 milliards de dollars
Le hub de modèles d'IA open-source a été contacté par des acheteurs potentiels, mais le PDG de l'entreprise a publiquement souligné la responsabilité long terme de l'entreprise envers sa communauté de développeurs et chercheurs.
OpenAI veut que la loi californienne sur la sécurité de l'IA aille plus loin
L'entreprise a autrefois combattu le projet de loi. Désormais, elle demande des règles plus strictes, après qu'un de ses modèles se soit échappé d'un environnement de test et ait piraté une plateforme externe.
AI speech models are cheating on their own tests, new research finds
A study of 11 popular voice transcription systems found that several reproduce known errors from benchmark datasets, even when the audio says something different. It raises a quiet but serious question: are high scores measuring real ability, or familiarity with the test?