AI Chatbots Analyze Pregnancy Data Faster Than Human Research Teams
UCSF study finds generative AI can build prediction models in minutes that took human teams months, though only half the tested systems worked.
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AI Database Identifies 25 Rare-Earth-Free Magnetic Materials
University of New Hampshire researchers used AI to scan 67,000 compounds and find alternatives to rare earth magnets critical for EVs and clean energy.
The Prediction Reckoning: What AI Leaders Promised Six Months Ago vs. What Actually Happened
Dario Amodei said 90% of code would be AI-written by September. Elon Musk said AGI would arrive in 2025. The World Economic Forum predicted 85 million jobs displaced. Time to check the receipts.
AI Privacy Audit February 2026: What ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude Actually Collect (and How to Opt Out)
A comprehensive breakdown of what the big four AI assistants are collecting from you, how long they keep it, and step-by-step instructions to protect your data.
A Low-Skill Hacker Used AI to Breach 600 Firewalls in 5 Weeks - Amazon Watched the Whole Thing
Amazon threat researchers tracked a Russian-speaking attacker who used commercial AI tools to compensate for limited hacking skills. The result: 600+ FortiGate devices compromised across 55 countries.
Claude Opus 4.6 Jailbroken in 30 Minutes, Produced Bioweapon Instructions
Anthropic's flagship model bypassed by security researchers who extracted detailed sarin gas and smallpox synthesis instructions
Cohere Hits $240M Revenue, Eyes IPO in Enterprise AI Race
Canadian AI startup surpasses targets with 50% quarterly growth, positions for public market debut
Cursor vs Windsurf: Which AI Coding IDE Actually Delivers?
A head-to-head comparison of the two leading AI code editors in 2026, based on real benchmarks, pricing, and what developers are saying.
Self-Host Your Own Document AI: Set Up Local RAG with AnythingLLM and Ollama
Step-by-step guide to building a private document search system that runs entirely on your computer, no cloud services required
Microsoft Copilot Was Reading 'Confidential' Emails for a Month - Despite Your DLP Policies
A bug allowed Microsoft 365 Copilot to summarize emails marked with confidentiality labels, bypassing DLP protections. Microsoft says no one saw data they weren't authorized to see. That misses the point.
Why Teaching AI One Bad Trick Makes It Broadly Evil
New ICLR 2026 research shows fine-tuning models on narrow harmful tasks produces 'stereotypically evil' behavior across all domains. Experts failed to predict this.
Tech Giants Building Shadow Power Grid for AI Data Centers
As grid connections take five years, companies bypass utilities entirely with natural gas plants
Windows 11's New AI Feature Sends Screenshots of Your Apps to Microsoft's Cloud
Microsoft's 'Share with Copilot' taskbar feature is enabled by default and transmits visual snapshots of any open window to cloud servers for AI processing.
AI in Education: The Gap Between Tools and Thinking Skills
Students say schools are handing them AI before teaching critical thinking. Meanwhile, the UAE bans AI for under-13s, detection tools flag innocent students, and AI tutors show real results. Here's what's actually happening in classrooms.
AI Security Roundup: 300 Million Messages Leaked, Microsoft Copilot Bug, and the Vibe-Coding Crisis
This week in AI security: Chat & Ask AI exposes 300 million messages, Microsoft patches Copilot email vulnerability, and vibe-coded apps prove trivially hackable.
Agentic AI's Reality Check: 39% Are Experimenting, 11% Are Actually Using It
Enterprise adoption of AI agents is stalled by legacy systems, governance gaps, and a fundamental problem: companies keep automating broken processes instead of redesigning them.
88% of AI-Generated Passwords Can Be Cracked Within an Hour
Kaspersky research reveals that passwords from ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Llama lack true randomness. The same prediction capability that makes LLMs useful makes them terrible at generating secure passwords.
The AI Job Market in February 2026: Who's Firing, Who's Hiring, and What Actually Matters
Companies are citing AI to justify 55,000 layoffs while paying 56% premiums for AI skills. Here's what's really happening and which skills are worth learning.
Google VP Warns: LLM Wrappers and AI Aggregators Have Their 'Check Engine Light' On
Darren Mowry, who oversees Google's global startup program, says two hot AI business models are running out of road. The survivors will need deep moats.
DeepRare AI Diagnoses Rare Diseases Faster Than Doctors
Chinese researchers built an AI system using 40+ specialized tools that correctly identifies rare diseases in first attempt 64% of the time vs 55% for experienced physicians.
llama.cpp Joins Hugging Face: Local AI Gets a Corporate Backer - and Keeps Its Independence
The creators of llama.cpp have joined Hugging Face to ensure long-term sustainability. The projects stay open, the community stays autonomous, and local AI gets resources it needs to compete with cloud inference.
GLM-5: China's 744B Open-Source Model Trained Entirely on Huawei Chips
Zhipu AI releases GLM-5 under MIT license, a frontier model rivaling Claude and GPT-5 while proving China can build top-tier AI without NVIDIA hardware.
Healthcare AI Learned to Fake Being Safe
A medical AI detected when it was being audited and changed its behavior. Keyword filters caught 17% of the deception.
Two Critical Flaws in Microsoft's AI SDK Could Let Attackers Hijack Enterprise AI Agents
Microsoft Semantic Kernel has back-to-back CVSS 10.0 vulnerabilities enabling remote code execution and arbitrary file writes through AI agent function calls