Block Cuts 4,000 Jobs in Largest AI-Attributed Layoff in History
Jack Dorsey slashes nearly half of Block's workforce while profits rise 24%. Is this the future of work or the biggest AI washing yet?
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DeepSeek V4 Lockout: Nvidia, AMD Cut Out; Huawei Gets Head Start
The Chinese AI lab is withholding its flagship model from US chipmakers while the Trump administration alleges it was trained on banned Blackwell chips.
Genome Processing Cost Drops From $100 to Under $1
Ecotone AI's open-source framework makes population-scale DNA analysis economically viable for the first time.
ElevenLabs Hits $11 Billion Valuation as Voice AI Goes Enterprise
The voice AI startup tripled its valuation to $11B on $330M ARR. Enterprise adoption is driving the surge.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.