AI Updates on 2025-05-15

OpenAI is preparing to share another "low-key research preview" soon, with better naming than ChatGPT @sama
4o Image Generation is now live in Microsoft Copilot with sharper visuals, more consistent text, and styles ranging from photorealistic to playful @Copilot
Salesforce released BLIP3-o on Hugging Face, a family of fully open unified multimodal models @huggingface
Falcon released Falcon-Edge – a series of powerful, universal and fine-tunable Bitnet models, along with a Python fine-tuning toolkit library called 'onebitllms' @huggingface

Google's AlphaEvolve made mathematical discoveries no human has before, including solving optimal packing problems and reducing 4x4 matrix multiplication from 49 operations to 48 (first advance in 56 years) @deedydas
Given 50 open math problems, AlphaEvolve rediscovered the leading approach 75% of the time and improved on it 20% of the time @emollick
Meta and Fondation Rothschild released "Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain" - the first systematic investigation of how neural representations of language evolve as the brain develops @ylecun
Meta introduced Open Molecules 25, a foundational quantum chemistry dataset including over 100M DFT calculations across 83M unique molecules, built with 6B core hours of compute @ylecun

OpenAI launched the "OpenAI to Z Challenge" using o3/o4 mini and GPT-4.1 models to discover previously unknown archaeological sites @gdb @kaggle
Replit introduced Safe Vibe Coding to address security vulnerabilities created by AI coding assistants like Cursor and Windsurf that expose API keys by default @amasad @garrytan
Unsloth now allows fine-tuning of TTS models like Sesame-CSM and OpenAI's Whisper locally, making training 1.5x faster with 50% less VRAM @ycombinator
Google's Gemini App now offers Audio Overviews in 45 languages, turning documents, slides, and research reports into podcast-style conversations @GeminiApp
Cursor released its "biggest release ever" with version 0.50 @cursor_ai
Hedra Labs is creating AI character animation for video that avoids the uncanny valley, with nearly 3M users generating over 10M videos @a16z

Microsoft's recent layoffs primarily affected programmers in its home state as AI now writes up to 30% of its code @TechCrunch
Anthropic's lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation in court @TechCrunch
Coinbase disclosed a breach where hackers stole customers' personal information including IDs by "paying multiple contractors or employees working in support roles" @TechCrunch
AI's ability to make tasks not just cheaper but faster is underrated in its importance for creating business value, especially in software development @AndrewYNg
38% of employees surveyed admitted to sharing sensitive information with AI tools at work, highlighting the need for enterprise-grade secure AI solutions @cohere
Hugging Face is pivoting the Transformers library to become the central model definition source across the AI ecosystem, partnering with vLLM, LlamaCPP, SGLang, and many others @huggingface

Google is offering U.S. college students free access to Gemini Advanced through spring 2026 to help with exam prep and homework @GeminiApp
Ambient intelligence research at Stanford offers a solution for catching early signals of cognitive decline @StanfordHAI
Google's Project Euphonia released open-source tools to empower developers to build personalized audio tools and fine-tune models for diverse speech patterns @GoogleAI
MIT CSAIL asked "What's a common misconception about machine learning that you wish more people understood?" to promote public understanding of AI @MIT_CSAIL