AI Helps Scientists but Narrows Science's Focus
A Nature study of 41.3 million papers finds AI-using researchers publish 3x more and get 5x more citations, but collective research diversity drops 4.6%.
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The Safety Teams Keep Disappearing
In one week, Anthropic's safety lead quit, OpenAI's researcher resigned over ads, and OpenAI disbanded its alignment team. Notice the pattern.
The AI Excuse: Layoffs Companies Were Going to Make Anyway
Baker McKenzie cut support jobs citing AI. Sam Altman says some companies are 'AI washing.' Most AI-blamed layoffs have nothing to do with AI.
NOAA Puts AI Weather Models Into Operations
NOAA now runs three AI weather models operationally, while NVIDIA has open-sourced models spanning the forecasting pipeline.
Android AI Apps Leaked 730TB: 72% Had Hardcoded Secrets
A Cybernews analysis of 1.8 million Android apps found most AI apps leak credentials in code. Over 200M files were exposed via misconfigured databases.
Anthropic Raises $30B at $380B Valuation on $14B Revenue
The second-largest venture deal ever reveals an enterprise AI machine growing 10x annually for three straight years
One AI Model, Seven Brain Diagnoses from MRIs: BrainIAC
Mass General Brigham's foundation model trained on ~49,000 brain MRIs outperforms specialized tools at predicting dementia, cancer survival, and mutations.
Cohere Tops Revenue Target, Lines Up for 2026 IPO
Cohere hit $240M ARR (above $200M target), hired Uber's former IPO CFO, and released Tiny Aya, an open-weight multilingual model that runs on a phone.
Copilot and Grok Abused as Malware Command Channels
Check Point demonstrated how web-browsing AI assistants can relay malware commands through legitimate traffic. Microsoft changed Copilot's behavior.
DeepRare Outperformed Doctors in a Nature Study
In a retrospective study of 6,401 cases, DeepRare's top diagnosis was correct 64.4% of the time, compared with 54.6% for specialists.
Gemini 3.1 Pro More Than Doubles Its ARC-AGI-2 Score
Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro scores 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2. API pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens for prompts up to 200,000 tokens.
D-I-TASSER Combines AI and Physics for Protein Structures
A National University of Singapore tool combines deep learning with physics-based simulations to model complex multi-domain proteins.
Researchers Prompt-Injected Google Translate's Gemini Mode
Researchers tricked Google Translate's Gemini-based Advanced mode into answering prompts, including requests for drug and malware instructions.
Anthropic Says AI Is Too Stupid to Be Dangerous. Critics Disagree.
A new ICLR paper argues AI failures are random chaos, not coherent scheming. Alignment researchers say that's exactly the wrong lesson.
75 Nations Sign the Delhi Declaration on AI While the US Says It 'Totally Rejects' Global Governance
India's AI Impact Summit ended with a sweeping declaration, a new US-led supply chain alliance, and a blunt American refusal to accept any international AI regulation. The contradictions tell us where AI governance is actually headed.
AlphaGo Creator Bets $1B That LLMs Won't Reach Superintelligence
David Silver left DeepMind to raise Europe's largest seed round for Ineffable Intelligence, a London lab building AI through reinforcement learning instead of language models.
700 Million Weekly Users, 30 Countries, and a Warning: The International AI Safety Report 2026
The largest global collaboration on AI safety just published its findings. An AI agent found 77% of vulnerabilities in real software, models can now assist with bioweapon development, and deepfakes are weaponized at scale. Here's what 100 experts want you to know.
Your AI Says No, Then Does It Anyway
New research proves AI models will refuse harmful requests verbally while executing them through tool calls
Local AI Showdown: Best Open-Weight Models for Your Hardware
A tier-by-tier comparison of the top open-weight LLMs you can run locally, from 8GB laptops to 24GB gaming GPUs to Apple Silicon Macs.
Marvell Bets $5.5B on Light: Celestial AI Acquisition Targets AI's Bandwidth Bottleneck
The photonic chiplet startup promises 16 terabits per second of bandwidth in a single chip, 10x current technology
Meta Locks In Millions of Nvidia Chips in Unprecedented AI Deal
A multi-billion dollar, multiyear pact makes Meta the first to deploy standalone Nvidia Grace CPUs at scale
OpenAI Nears $100B Funding at $850B Valuation
The largest private funding round in history brings SoftBank, Amazon, Nvidia, and Microsoft together in a bet on AGI
OpenClaw's Month From Hell: 40,000 Exposed Instances, Poisoned Marketplace, and Corporate Bans
The viral AI agent went from 135K GitHub stars to enterprise blacklists in three weeks. Here's what went wrong and why it matters for every AI agent.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Ignites All-Out War With Hollywood Over AI-Generated Video
Five major studios have sent cease-and-desist letters. Netflix is threatening immediate litigation. And ByteDance's AI video tool is only available in China - making enforcement nearly impossible.