DeepSeek Shuts Out Nvidia from V4 Model, Gives Huawei Weeks-Long Head Start
The Chinese AI lab is withholding its flagship model from US chipmakers while the Trump administration alleges it was trained on banned Blackwell chips.
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Genome Processing Cost Drops From $100 to Under $1
Ecotone AI's open-source framework makes population-scale DNA analysis economically viable for the first time.
IronCurtain: The Security Framework That Treats AI Agents as Hostile by Default
Former Google and Stripe security head Niels Provos built an open source sandbox that assumes AI agents will go rogue. Here's how it works.
Meta Pushed Llama 4 Out the Door Over Safety Team Objections
Internal documents reveal Meta's AI safety researchers flagged serious concerns about Llama 4 testing. Leadership released the model anyway.
Microsoft Copilot Tasks Spins Up Its Own Cloud PC to Do Your Work
Microsoft's new agentic AI feature creates a virtual computer in the cloud to execute multi-step tasks while you do other things. It's impressive - and raises familiar questions.
Perplexity Computer: A $200/Month AI That Orchestrates 19 Models to Do Your Job
Perplexity's new 'digital worker' coordinates Claude, Gemini, GPT-5, Grok, and more to run autonomous projects for hours or months. The search company just became something much bigger.
AI Maps Cause-and-Effect Gene Networks in Alzheimer's for First Time
SIGNET platform identifies hub genes driving brain cell rewiring, opening new paths for early diagnosis and treatment.
VCs Abandon Loyalty, Bet on Both OpenAI and Anthropic Simultaneously
At least a dozen OpenAI investors now back Anthropic too. The traditional VC taboo against funding rivals is collapsing.
ElevenLabs Hits $11 Billion Valuation as Voice AI Goes Enterprise
The voice AI startup tripled its valuation to $11B on $330M ARR. Enterprise adoption is driving the surge.
The Agentic AI Security Crisis: 88% of Companies Report Incidents, Only 29% Are Ready
Cisco's 2026 State of AI Security report reveals a dangerous gap: enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than they can secure them, with MCP vulnerabilities and prompt injection attacks proliferating.
The AI Business Model Split: Why Your Chatbot Wants to Sell You Things
OpenAI launched ChatGPT ads this month. Perplexity abandoned them. Anthropic ran a Super Bowl campaign mocking the whole concept. The business model divergence reveals deeper questions about what AI assistants are actually for.
The Great Unwiring: How AI Is Rewiring Students' Ability to Think
A landmark Brookings study across 50 countries warns that AI is causing 'cognitive atrophy' in students - while teachers report kids who can't reason, can't think, and can't solve problems. But the damage may still be fixable.
Anthropic Abandons Core Safety Pledge as Pentagon Ultimatum Looms
The company founded to build safe AI has quietly dropped its promise to halt development if risks outpace safeguards. The timing - one day before a Pentagon deadline - raises uncomfortable questions.
Clone a Repo, Lose Your API Keys: Claude Code's Trojan Horse Vulnerabilities
Security researchers found that simply opening an untrusted repository in Claude Code could execute arbitrary commands and steal your Anthropic API keys - all before you saw a warning.
Grok's Deepfake Reckoning: A Global Regulatory Pile-On
xAI's chatbot generated millions of sexual deepfakes, including of children. Now regulators from California to the EU are closing in.
First AI-Designed Drug Shows Real Results in Human Trial
Insilico Medicine's rentosertib improved lung function in IPF patients, marking the first clinical validation of AI-driven drug discovery.
MatX Raises $500M to Build an Nvidia Killer, Claims 10x Better LLM Performance
Google TPU veterans land major funding from Jane Street and Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund to develop chips shipping in 2027
Meta's AI Alignment Director Told Her Agent to Stop. It Didn't.
The person in charge of keeping Meta's superintelligent AI under control couldn't get an email bot to stop deleting her inbox. This is either hilarious or terrifying.
Midjourney V7 vs Flux 2 Pro: Which AI Image Generator Actually Wins?
We test the two leading AI image generators head-to-head on photorealism, text rendering, speed, and cost to find which delivers real value in 2026.
Nvidia Smashes Q4 with $68 Billion Revenue, Declares 'Agentic AI Inflection Point'
The chipmaker beats Wall Street expectations again, announces Vera Rubin platform promising 10x better inference, but stock dips anyway
The Week Local AI Grew Up: Ollama 0.17 and llama.cpp's New Home
Ollama delivers 40% faster inference while llama.cpp finds a permanent home at Hugging Face. Two developments that secure the future of running AI on your own hardware.
Stanford-Harvard Report Finds Clinical AI Isn't Living Up to the Hype
Only 5% of medical AI studies use real patient data. A new report documents the gap between lab performance and hospital reality.
AI Agent Teams Are Running Biomedical Research Autonomously
Nature Biotechnology paper describes 'in silico team science' where AI agent collectives handle literature review, hypothesis generation, and data analysis
AI Creative Tools in 2026: What Artists, Musicians, and Writers Actually Think
Surveys show mixed reactions as 87% of creators use AI but most keep it quiet. UNESCO warns of 24% income loss while artists develop resistance strategies.