DeepMind's AlphaGenome Decodes the 98% of DNA Nobody Understood
New AI model predicts how mutations in non-coding DNA affect genes, offering hope for solving rare disease cases that have stumped geneticists for years.
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Anthropic Eyes October IPO at $60B+ Valuation
Claude maker targets Q4 2026 public offering, valued at $380 billion after $30B Series G
Anthropic Wins: Federal Judge Blocks Pentagon's 'Supply Chain Risk' Designation in First Amendment Ruling
Judge Rita Lin calls the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic 'classic First Amendment retaliation' and rejects the 'Orwellian notion' that American companies can be punished for disagreeing with the government.
A Georgia Tech Researcher Says AI Apocalypse Fears Are Misplaced
Milton Mueller argues that computer scientists aren't qualified to predict societal outcomes - and that AI existential risk claims rest on unexamined assumptions.
AI 'Laser Tag' Validates 100-Year-Old Theory of How Cancer Begins
EMBL scientists use AI to spot the earliest markers of chromosomal chaos in cells, finding one in ten divisions produces errors that can seed tumors.
Meta Increases El Paso Data Center to $10 Billion
Investment jumps sixfold as hyperscalers race to build AI infrastructure capacity
The AI Pricing War: API Costs Down 93% as DeepSeek Forces Industry Repricing
GPT-4 class models that cost $60 per million tokens in 2024 now cost $8. DeepSeek's open-source disruption triggered the fastest pricing collapse in tech history.
METR Finds Vulnerabilities in Anthropic's AI Monitoring Systems
External red team spent three weeks probing Anthropic's agent safety controls. They found holes.
Meta's TRIBE v2 Creates a 'Digital Twin' of the Human Brain
New AI model predicts neural responses to any stimulus without scanning real brains, potentially accelerating neurological disease research
OpenAI Launches Safety Bug Bounty for Agentic AI Risks
New program pays researchers to find ways AI agents can be hijacked. Jailbreaks not included.
YC W26 Sets Records: 14 Startups Hit $1M ARR Before Demo Day
Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch is the strongest in the accelerator's 20-year history. Investors project a 10% unicorn rate—more than double the historical average.
Zephyrus: An AI Agent That Speaks Climate Science
UC San Diego researchers built an AI that translates plain English questions about weather data into code and answers, aiming to democratize climate research
Anthropic Wins: Judge Calls Pentagon's AI Blacklist 'Orwellian' in Landmark First Amendment Ruling
Federal judge blocks Trump administration's supply chain risk designation against Anthropic, calling it 'classic First Amendment retaliation.' The ruling sets precedent for AI companies that refuse unrestricted military use.
Apple Opening Siri to Claude, Gemini, and Grok in iOS 27 - But Read the Fine Print
Apple's new Extensions system lets rival AI chatbots integrate with Siri. The access is real, but so are the limitations that keep Apple's assistant in control.
iOS 26.4 Ships Without Gemini-Powered Siri: Apple's AI Promise Remains Unfulfilled
Apple released iOS 26.4 on March 24 but the Gemini-powered Siri overhaul is nowhere to be found. Features now pushed to iOS 26.5 or later.
Sam Altman Hands Off AI Safety to Build Data Centers - OpenAI Bets Everything on 'Spud'
OpenAI's CEO delegates safety oversight to focus on infrastructure. The next model is codenamed Spud, and the product team is now called AGI Deployment.
Trump's AI Brain Trust: 13 Tech CEOs Will Shape American AI Policy
The President's new science council includes Zuckerberg, Huang, and Ellison - but not Musk or Altman. Here's why the composition matters and what it signals for AI regulation.
AI Regulation Tracker: EU Votes to Ban Nudifier AI, Pennsylvania Advances Chatbot Safety, Colorado Plans Full Overhaul
European Parliament bans AI nudification tools, Pennsylvania's SAFECHAT Act passes Senate 49-1, and Colorado prepares to scrap its landmark AI law for a simpler framework.
CFOs Quietly Admit AI Layoffs Will Be 9x Higher This Year
A new survey reveals corporate finance chiefs expect 500,000 AI-driven job cuts in 2026—but that's still only 0.4% of the workforce
AI Job Market: Epic Games Cuts 1,000, CFO Survey Reveals Productivity Paradox
Epic Games lays off 1,000 as Fortnite slows. Meanwhile, a CFO survey shows AI job cuts will be 9x higher this year—but AI isn't actually boosting productivity.
Harvey AI Hits $11B Valuation as Legal Tech Becomes AI's Hottest Vertical
Legal AI startup raises $200M from Sequoia and GIC, now valued higher than most law firms it serves
We Can't Build AI Lie Detectors Because We Don't Know When AI Lies
New research exposes a fundamental problem: evaluating AI deception detectors requires labeled examples of deception—which we can't reliably create.
Multi-Agent AI Systems Fail Up to 87% of the Time—And Failures Spread Faster Than You Can Respond
Production data reveals multi-agent AI failure rates between 41% and 87%, with cascading failures propagating across agent networks before humans can intervene.
THOR AI Solves 100-Year-Old Physics Problem 400x Faster
Los Alamos researchers crack the configurational integral using tensor networks, making materials calculations that took supercomputer hours finish in seconds