Lawsuit: Google's Gemini Drove Man to Near-Mass-Casualty Before Suicide
A father sues Google after Gemini allegedly convinced his son it was his sentient 'AI wife,' sending him on missions that nearly ended in mass violence
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Hunter and Healer Alpha: The Mystery Trillion-Parameter AIs Taking OpenRouter by Storm
Two anonymous Chinese AI models appeared on OpenRouter with no attribution. Developers are split on whether they're DeepSeek V4 or Zhipu GLM-6 testing in stealth mode.
Microsoft: North Korean Hackers Are Jailbreaking AI Models for Cyberattacks
Nation-state threat actors are operationalizing AI across the attack lifecycle, using jailbreak techniques to bypass safety controls
NIH Scientists Used AI to Find 307 Drug Combinations That Kill Pancreatic Cancer Cells
Machine learning models screened 1.6 million potential drug pairings and identified synergistic combinations that neither drug achieves alone. Lab tests confirmed the predictions work.
Nscale Raises $2B in Record European Round, Lands Sandberg and Clegg
UK AI infrastructure startup hits $14.6B valuation with backing from Nvidia, Aker, and a board featuring Meta's former power players
Ex-Datadog President Raises $49M to Automate Enterprise IT
Amit Agarwal launches Standard Template Labs to replace IT service desks with AI agents that actually resolve tickets, not just track them
Government Filing Calls Anthropic an 'Unacceptable Risk' - Could Alter AI in Wartime
In a 40-page court response, DOJ lawyers argue Anthropic could disable or modify its AI systems to suit its own interests rather than America's priorities during conflict
Three Companies Took 83% of February's $189B AI Funding
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo captured most of history's largest venture month while seed funding fell and public markets crashed
The AI Layoff Acceleration: 45,000 Tech Jobs Gone, Women Hit Hardest
Meta, Block, and Atlassian lead a surge in AI-justified workforce cuts, but critics warn companies are 'AI washing' routine cost-cutting as technological progress.
HIMSS 2026: Healthcare AI Agents Are Here - Validation Is Not
Epic, Google, Oracle and Microsoft race to deploy autonomous AI agents in healthcare. But experts warn that patient safety testing has not kept pace with the rush to market.
China Grants World's First Commercial Approval for Brain Implant
Neuracle's BCI device for spinal cord injury patients achieves 100% improvement in grasping function across 36-patient trial.
Nvidia GTC 2026: Trillion-Dollar Orders, Groq Integration, and the Agentic AI Push
Jensen Huang's keynote unveils Vera Rubin chips, a $20B Groq acquisition, DLSS 5, and positions Nvidia to dominate both training and inference markets.
The Safety Tests Frontier AI Actually Fails
Beijing AI Safety Institute's 22-pillar benchmark exposes dangerous gaps in leading models, including goal fixation, expertise leakage, and near-universal sycophancy.
Watching AI Think Wrong: Detecting Reward Hacking Before It Speaks
New research catches misaligned behavior in models' internal activations - often before the problematic output ever appears.
Zendesk Acquires Forethought in Largest Deal in Two Decades
Enterprise software consolidation continues as Zendesk bets $115M+ AI startup can make human customer service agents obsolete
The Real Cost of AI: Data Centers Now Drink as Much Water as 10 Million American Homes
Big Tech signed a ratepayer pledge while their AI infrastructure expands into drought-stricken regions. Here's what the latest numbers show.
Google Deploys AI Agents to Pentagon While Rivals Fight Over Ethics
Google quietly expands Pentagon partnership with 8 Gemini agents for 3 million DoD workers as Anthropic sues and employees across companies demand guardrails.
MIT's DiffSyn Learns 50 Years of Materials Recipes to Help Scientists Make New Ones
A generative AI trained on 23,000 synthesis recipes can suggest how to make materials that have never existed
Meta's AI Crisis: Avocado Delay, LeCun Departure, and the Unthinkable Gemini Lifeline
As Meta pushes its flagship AI model to May, considers licensing from Google, and loses its legendary chief scientist, the company's $135 billion AI bet faces its biggest test
Nvidia GTC 2026: Vera Rubin, NemoClaw, and the $20 Billion Groq Bet
Jensen Huang's keynote today marks Nvidia's biggest pivot in years - from training chips to inference, from cloud to edge, and from prompts to autonomous agents
THOR Brings Brain-Inspired Computing to Any Researcher
The first US open-access neuromorphic computing hub launches with 400,000 processors simulating 393 million neurons
xAI 'Wasn't Built Right': Musk Rebuilds AI Company From Scratch
Six weeks after merging xAI with SpaceX in a $1.25T deal, Musk admits the AI company needs to be rebuilt. Two more co-founders are out. Grok gets Pentagon deals anyway.
AI-Washing: When 'Efficiency Gains' Means 'We Overhired'
As tech companies cut 50,000+ jobs in 2026 citing AI, insiders and analysts say the real story is pandemic-era bloat and investor optics
DeepSeek V4 Is the AI Industry's Biggest Tease: Inside China's Delayed Trillion-Parameter Bet
Five missed release windows, a mysterious V4 Lite appearance, and silence from DeepSeek. What's really happening with China's most anticipated AI model?