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ArXiv is issuing one-year submission bans to authors whose papers contain verifiable unvetted AI output, as fabricated academic citations hit a tenfold increase since 2023.
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ArXiv is issuing one-year submission bans to authors whose papers contain verifiable unvetted AI output, as fabricated academic citations hit a tenfold increase since 2023.

OpenAI's Codex coding agent arrives on iPhone and Android as a remote control for desktop sessions, with QR code pairing and live terminal output for its 4 million weekly users.

Raindrop's MIT-licensed Workshop streams every token and tool call from your AI agent to a local browser dashboard, then lets Claude Code write and fix evaluations automatically.

Mira Murati's startup unveils TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B MoE model that hits 0.40-second response latency by listening and generating speech at the same time.

Cerebras raised $5.55B and surged 68% on Nasdaq debut, the largest US tech IPO since Snowflake in 2020, but a 200x revenue multiple and a single-customer backlog tell a more complicated story.

IBM's Granite Embedding Multilingual R2 ships with a 64x context window jump, ModernBERT architecture, and Apache 2.0 licensing that makes it enterprise-safe out of the box.

xAI operates 46 gas turbines at its Southaven data center power plant, five above its state permit, as the NAACP seeks an emergency court order over Clean Air Act violations.

Microsoft is canceling thousands of Claude Code licenses for engineers in its Experiences + Devices division, replacing them with GitHub Copilot Desktop, which launched in technical preview on May 14.

Cisco reported record quarterly revenue of $15.8B and immediately announced 4,000 layoffs, raising its FY2026 AI infrastructure order target from $5B to $9B.

OpenAI hired outside lawyers to explore a breach-of-contract case after its ChatGPT-Siri integration failed to generate anything close to the billions in subscription revenue it expected.

Anthropic commits $200M in grants, Claude credits, and technical support to the Gates Foundation for AI in global health, education, and agriculture over four years.

Notion 3.5's Developer Platform adds Workers, live database sync, and first-class Claude Code and Cursor support - turning the workspace into an AI agent orchestration layer.