Meta's $100B AMD Deal for 'Personal Superintelligence'
Meta commits up to $100 billion to AMD chips over five years, gaining a 10% stake option and reducing Nvidia dependence as Zuckerberg pursues AI for everyone
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MIT's AI-Designed Sensors Could Detect 30 Cancers via Urine Test
CleaveNet system designs peptide sensors that detect cancer-linked enzymes, potentially enabling at-home screening for dozens of cancer types
Ollama 0.17 Adds OpenClaw Integration: Local AI Just Got Agentic
The popular local inference tool now installs and configures OpenClaw automatically, giving desktop users access to AI agents with a single command.
Pentagon Gives Anthropic 72-Hour Ultimatum: Drop AI Safety Guardrails or Face Defense Production Act
After a tense Tuesday meeting, Defense Secretary Hegseth told Anthropic's CEO: comply by Friday 5pm or the government will force compliance. Anthropic isn't budging.
OpenAI Defeats xAI Trade Secrets Lawsuit: Talent Wars Continue
Federal judge dismisses Elon Musk's xAI lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling that hiring former employees isn't theft - but the AI talent wars continue
Taalas HC1: The AI Chip That Bakes the Model Into Silicon
A Toronto startup is etching LLM weights directly into transistors, achieving 17,000 tokens per second. The catch: you can't change the model.
AI Chatbots Beat Human Teams on Medical Data, UCSF Finds
Half the tested AI tools produced prediction models that matched or beat human researchers. A student and high schooler built working code in minutes.
The People Building AI Keep Quitting and Warning Us
OpenAI dissolves its mission alignment team while senior researchers exit Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI citing safety concerns
AI Startups Are Worth Billions Before They Build Anything
Over half of US seed and Series A funding now goes to $100M+ rounds as investors bet on pedigree over products
The 'Anthropic Effect': Claude Code Crashes IBM, Cybersecurity
Anthropic's COBOL modernization playbook and security tool preview wipe $45 billion from tech stocks in a single day
Big Tech's $650 Billion AI Gamble Is Draining Their Cash Reserves
Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are spending record amounts on AI infrastructure while their free cash flow craters
Your AI's Safety Tests Are a Joke, Researchers Prove
New paper shows 'intent laundering' bypasses Gemini, Claude, and other models with 90-98% success by removing obvious attack cues
AI Finds 25 New Magnetic Materials to Replace Rare Earths
UNH AI reads thousands of papers to identify high-temperature magnets for electric vehicles and clean energy.
Open-Source AI Wins: ggml Joins Hugging Face, GLM-5 Goes MIT
This week's biggest open-source AI developments: llama.cpp finds a permanent home at HF and Z.ai ships GLM-5 under MIT license
Pentagon Summons Anthropic CEO for Tuesday Ultimatum Meeting
Defense Secretary Hegseth has called Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a tense meeting. Anthropic must decide: drop AI safety guardrails or face blacklisting.
States Race to Regulate AI Chatbots for Minors After Deaths
78 chatbot bills are active in 27 states as lawmakers respond to tragedies involving Character.AI. California and New York laws are already in effect.
The US Is Sending AI Volunteers Abroad. Can Tech Corps Actually Counter China?
The Peace Corps just launched Tech Corps to deploy American engineers across the developing world. The goal is ambitious: beat China in the global AI race. The plan has some serious problems.
AI Security Week: Malware Uses Gemini, Hackers Use Claude, and NIST Scrambles to Catch Up
Android malware using Gemini for real-time evasion. A low-skill attacker using Claude and DeepSeek to compromise 600 networks. NIST launches an emergency standards initiative. Welcome to February 2026.
The February Reset: There's No 'Best AI' Anymore, and That Changes Everything
Four major AI models launched in 16 days. None of them won. Here's what that means for you.
AI Chatbots Build Preterm Birth Models Faster Than Humans
UCSF study finds generative AI can build prediction models in minutes that took human teams months, though only half the tested systems worked.
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.
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; Bioweapon Outputs
Anthropic's flagship model bypassed by security researchers who extracted detailed sarin gas and smallpox synthesis instructions