Open-Weight LLM Showdown: GTC Pivots to Inference, DeepSeek V4 Still MIA
Jensen Huang bets on inference chips, Ollama adds multimodal support, and DeepSeek V4 remains the most anticipated release that hasn't happened yet.
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AI Outscores Human Therapists on CBT in Randomized Trial
Nature Medicine study finds AI with 'cognitive layer' rated higher than 74% of top human therapy sessions
Super Micro Co-Founder Arrested in $2.5 Billion Chip Smuggling Scheme to China
Federal prosecutors charge three with routing Nvidia AI servers through Taiwan to China using fake documents and dummy equipment to evade export controls.
Open-Weight LLM Showdown: Mistral Small 4 Arrives, DeepSeek V4 Finally Lands
Mistral drops a 119B MoE model under Apache 2.0, DeepSeek V4 emerges from stealth, and dual RTX 5090 setups are matching H100 on 70B inference. This week changed the game.
Self-Host Scriberr: Replace Otter.ai With Private AI Transcription
Stop paying $100/year for cloud transcription. Run Scriberr on your own hardware for free, private meeting notes with speaker identification.
TRUMP AMERICA AI Act: 291 Pages That Would Repeal Section 230 and Rewrite AI Rules
Senator Blackburn's draft bill kills platform liability shields, mandates political bias audits, and declares AI training on copyrighted works isn't fair use. Republicans are divided.
Yann LeCun's $1 Billion Bet: World Models Will Beat LLMs
After 12 years at Meta, the Turing Award winner raised the largest European seed round ever to prove the AI industry got it wrong.
AI in Education: Students Are 'Outsourcing Their Thinking' and Test Scores Show It
95% of students now use AI for schoolwork. Research shows those who stop using it perform worse than those who never started. The skill gap is widening.
Bezos Wants $100 Billion to Buy Factories and Fill Them With AI
Amazon founder seeks biggest buyout fund ever to acquire chipmakers, defense contractors, aerospace firms — then automate them with his Prometheus AI
Basecamp Research Launches Trillion Gene Atlas to Design Drugs With AI
Partnering with Anthropic, Ultima Genomics, and PacBio, the startup aims to sequence 100 million species and train AI models that can design therapeutics from a disease prompt.
2,400 Kaiser Therapists Strike Over AI Mental Health Screening
Northern California mental health workers walked off the job after Kaiser replaced trained clinicians with AI questionnaires and phone operators for patient triage. Self-harming patients waited a month.
Meta's Rogue AI Agent Granted Engineers Access to Systems They Shouldn't See
A Sev 1 security incident at Meta after an internal AI agent posted unauthorized advice that led to a two-hour data exposure. Sound familiar?
OpenAI Buys Astral, Gains Control of Python's Most Popular New Tools
The Codex maker acquires uv and Ruff, downloaded 126 million times monthly. Open source community watches nervously.
Pillar-0: Open-Source AI Model Outperforms Google and Microsoft in Medical Imaging
UC Berkeley and UCSF release an open-source radiology AI that processes 3D scans 150x faster than existing models and beats big tech on diagnostic accuracy.
Students Say AI Hurts Their Critical Thinking — And They Keep Using It Anyway
RAND survey finds 67% of students believe AI harms their thinking skills as NYC debates moratorium and Utah passes 9 AI education bills
AI Job Market: 93% of Jobs Exposed, Entry-Level Hiring Collapses, But IBM Swims Against the Tide
Cognizant says AI disruption is six years ahead of schedule. Anthropic's data shows hiring is slowing for young workers. IBM responds by tripling entry-level jobs.
AI Prediction Scorecard: What We Were Told Six Months Ago vs. What Actually Happened
We tracked the boldest AI predictions from September 2025. Here's who got it right, who got it wrong, and what the hype machine doesn't want you to remember.
AI Regulation Tracker: Federal Report Targets State Laws, EU Delays High-Risk Rules, Colorado Pushed to June
The Commerce Department's March 11 report flags state AI laws for federal preemption, while the EU votes to delay AI Act deadlines and Colorado kicks the can again.
AI Safety Researchers Are Fleeing the Labs They Built
When your head of AI safety quits saying 'the world is in peril,' maybe the world is in peril
AlphaFold Database Adds 1.7 Million Protein Complexes
DeepMind, EMBL-EBI, NVIDIA, and Seoul National University release largest protein interaction dataset, revealing how molecules work together
Brain Implant Lets Paralyzed Patients Type 110 Characters Per Minute
New BrainGate brain-computer interface achieves near-able-bodied typing speeds using imagined finger movements on a virtual QWERTY keyboard
OpenAI GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano: Faster, but 3x More Expensive
OpenAI's new compact models bring GPT-5.4 capabilities to smaller packages but at triple the cost of their predecessors.
AI Systems Now Hide Dangerous Capabilities During Testing
The 2026 International AI Safety Report confirms AI can detect when it's being evaluated and change behavior to pass safety tests
Open-Source AI Wins: NVIDIA Goes All-In on Open Models, Lightricks Ships 4K Video, and Local Inference Matures
GTC 2026's biggest announcements were open-source. Nemotron 3 Super runs locally on RTX PCs, LTX 2.3 generates 4K video with audio, and vLLM hits production grade.