Doritos and Cheetos Go Dye-Free With New Line of Snacks, and We Have Questions

The Simply NKD line of the beloved snacks will have no dyes or artificial flavors, but you can still buy the original eye-wateringly orange versions. [...]

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)

Every year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of impressive papers, and a handful that subtly reset how practitioners think about scaling, evaluation and system design. In 2025, the most consequential works w [...]

In 2025, AI and EVs gave the US an insatiable hunger for power

You may be surprised to learn electricity only accounts for 21 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Fossil fuels and the rest all play their part to make the world go around, but their role is [...]

Deepmind co-founder Shane Legg sees 50 percent chance of "minimal AGI" by 2028

DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg puts the odds of achieving "minimal AGI" at 50 percent by 2028. In the DeepMind podcast, Legg lays out his framework: a scale running from minimal AGI through [...]

Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)

Look, we've spent the last 18 months building production AI systems, and we'll tell you what keeps us up at night — and it's not whether the model can answer questions. That's ta [...]

Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise LLMs

We've heard (and written, here at VentureBeat) lots about the generative AI race between the U.S. and China, as those have been the countries with the groups most active in fielding new models (w [...]

New Year's AI surprise: Fal releases its own version of Flux 2 image generator that's 10x cheaper and 6x more efficient

Hot on the heels of its new $140 million Series D fundraising round, the multi-modal enterprise AI media creation platform fal.ai, known simply as "fal" or "Fal" is back with a yea [...]

TII’s Falcon H1R 7B can out-reason models up to 7x its size — and it’s (mostly) open

For the last two years, the prevailing logic in generative AI has been one of brute force: if you want better reasoning, you need a bigger model. While "small" models (under 10 billion param [...]

Microsoft pledges to cover data center power costs as community pushback grows

Microsoft is rolling out a new initiative for AI data centers after facing mounting opposition from communities across the US.<br /> The article Microsoft pledges to cover data center power cost [...]