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.
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Anthropic Buys Vercept: The Computer-Use Race Heats Up
The acquisition brings AI2 researchers to Claude as computer use performance hits human parity. UiPath's stock drops. The agentic AI race accelerates.
Microsoft Copilot Tasks Spins Up Its Own Cloud PC to Do Your Work
Microsoft's agentic AI feature creates a virtual computer in the cloud to execute multi-step tasks while you do other things.
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
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.
The Agentic AI Security Crisis: 88% of Companies Report Incidents, Only 29% Are Ready
Cisco's 2026 State of AI Security report finds enterprises deploying AI agents faster than they can secure them, as MCP flaws and prompt injection spread.
The AI Business Model Split: Why Chatbots Want to Sell You Things
OpenAI launched ChatGPT ads. Perplexity abandoned ads. Anthropic's Super Bowl campaign mocked the whole concept. The split shows what AI assistants are for.
The Great Unwiring: How AI Is Rewiring Students' Ability to Think
A Brookings study across 50 countries warns AI is causing 'cognitive atrophy' in students. Teachers report kids who can't reason or solve problems.
Anthropic Abandons Core Safety Pledge as Pentagon Ultimatum Looms
Anthropic quietly dropped its 2023 promise to halt development if risks outpace safeguards - one day before a Pentagon deadline.
Claude Code: Opening an Untrusted Repo Could Steal Your API Keys
Opening an untrusted repo in Claude Code could run arbitrary commands and steal your Anthropic API keys - 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
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.
Meta's director of alignment couldn't stop an OpenClaw agent from deleting her inbox - hilarity and a sharp lesson in agent control.
Midjourney V7 vs Flux 2 Pro: Which AI Image Generator 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 Q4 Revenue Hits $68 Billion as 'Agentic AI' Arrives
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 local AI.
Stanford-Harvard Report: Clinical AI Isn't Living Up to 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 Creators 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.
Apple Opens Xcode 26.3 to AI Agents via MCP
Xcode 26.3 introduces agentic coding, letting AI agents build projects, run tests, search docs, and iterate on fixes through MCP.
Google+UVA: Longer Reasoning Predicts Failure, Not Success
Google and UVA research shows longer AI reasoning traces correlate with wrong answers. The fix: measure how deeply the model thinks, not how much it writes.
IBM X-Force 2026: AI-Driven Attacks Surge 44%, 300,000 ChatGPT Credentials Stolen
IBM's annual threat intelligence report reveals attackers are using AI to accelerate vulnerability discovery while infostealer malware harvests hundreds of thousands of AI chatbot credentials from the dark web.