The Safety Exodus: Why AI's Watchdogs Are Walking Out
Senior safety researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have resigned with escalating public warnings. One declared 'the world is in peril.' At xAI, h...
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Anthropic Responds to Venezuela Raid Report: 'Cannot Comment on Specific Operations'
Anthropic broke its silence on reports that Claude AI was used in the US military raid on Venezuela, stating it cannot comment on specific operations....
The Humanoid Robot Race: Who's Actually Shipping?
Of the six major humanoid robot players, only two have robots moving real products in real facilities. The rest are running pilot programs or taking p...
Singapore's S$154.7B AI Bet: Inside the Six Missions Reshaping a Nation
Singapore unveiled its most ambitious budget in history with S$154.69 billion spending, creating a National AI Council chaired by the Prime Minister t...
DeepSeek R1 and the New Efficiency Wars
DeepSeek R1 matched OpenAI's o1 on math benchmarks for just $6 million in training costs, challenging the compute arms race and sparking a new efficie...
Ireland Becomes First EU Nation to Detail AI Act Enforcement Framework
Ireland published the most detailed national plan for enforcing the EU AI Act, creating the AI Office of Ireland to regulate Big Tech from Dublin....
Microsoft Dumps OpenAI: The End of the $13B Partnership
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman confirmed the company is racing toward AI self-sufficiency, developing its own frontier models to replace OpenAI tec...
The $380 Billion Bet: What Anthropic's Mega-Round Means for Enterprise AI
Anthropic's $30 billion funding round more than doubled its valuation to $380 billion, raising questions about what a $380 billion AI company delivers...
The 100-Year Bet
Alphabet raised $31.51 billion including a 100-year bond to fund AI infrastructure, as Big Tech deploys roughly $650 billion in 2026....
The Car-to-Robot Pipeline: Why Automakers Are Racing to Build Humanoids
Li Auto replaced its humanoid robot division head after just two weeks, revealing the speed at which automakers are pivoting from cars to robots....
Congress Sneaks AI Policy into Spending Package as Standalone Bills Stall
Congress embedded $40 million for defense AI, job impact studies, and robocall detection in the must-pass spending package H.R. 7148....
Anthropic's CodePath Partnership: Building the Next Generation of AI Practitioners
Anthropic is partnering with CodePath to put Claude at the center of curriculum for 20,000 students at community colleges and HBCUs nationwide....
Mechanistic Interpretability: The Safety Imperative
When MIT Technology Review named mechanistic interpretability a Breakthrough Technology of 2026, peering inside neural networks became essential infra...
Why Manufacturing AI Costs 10x More Than Office AI
While office workers pay $50/month for AI tools, manufacturers spend over $2 million per implementation. The Infosys Manufacturing Tech Index reveals ...
Anthropic Brings In a Political Heavyweight
Anthropic appointed Chris Liddell, former Microsoft CFO and Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff, to its board of directors....
GPT-5.2 Just Made a Discovery in Theoretical Physics
OpenAI announced that GPT-5.2 has produced a novel result in theoretical physics, marking one of the first instances of a large language model contrib...
Anthropic's Claude Was Used in a US Military Raid That Killed 83 People
Anthropic's Claude AI was used by the US military during a classified operation to kidnap Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, killing 83 people....
Waymo Deploys 6th-Gen Hardware to Public Roads: No Safety Drivers, Tens of Thousands of Units Per Year
Waymo is deploying cost-optimized 6th-gen hardware at industrial scale. The robotaxi economics inflection point may have finally arrived....
Simile AI Raises $100M to Simulate Populations, Not Just Chatbots
The Stanford team behind generative agents just raised $100M to simulate populations, not single chatbots. Karpathy and Fei-Fei Li are backing it....
Why Andrej Karpathy Built GPT in 243 Lines (And Why It Matters More Than GPT-5)
Karpathy's minimal transformer implementation is a response to AI's educational crisis and a roadmap for agentic engineering....
GPT-5.2 Rolls Out Through Features, Not Fanfare: What Practitioners Need to Know
OpenAI's latest model arrives quietly through Deep Research. Here's what changed and how to test it....
A Chinese Model Just Beat Every US Lab on the Benchmark That Matters Most
MiniMax M2.5 tops SWE-Bench Verified at 80.2%, beating GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro. The pricing makes it even more disruptive....
Anthropic Just Raised $30 Billion. Here's What That Actually Means.
The second-largest private funding round in history just closed. The math is either visionary or delusional, there is no in-between....
Gemini 3 Deep Think Hits 3455 Elo and Olympiad Gold, But the Real Story Is Happening at Duke
Google's reasoning model upgrade posts impressive benchmarks. The semiconductor research at Duke might matter more....
California's AI Safety Law Gets Its First Test Case: OpenAI Is in the Crosshairs
A watchdog's complaint against GPT-5.3-Codex could define how AI regulation actually works in America....
Anthropic's $20M Political Play: AI Safety Goes to Washington
The company that built Claude is now building a lobbying machine. The question is not whether it will work. It is who it will work for....
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OpenAI Retires GPT-4o After Just 20 Months: The Era of Rapid Model Deprecation Is Here
GPT-4o lasted just 20 months. API users keep access, ChatGPT users don't. The economics of AI model deprecation are forcing hard choices....
Pentagon Threatens to Cut Off Anthropic Over AI Safety Restrictions
The Pentagon is threatening to end its relationship with Anthropic entirely unless the AI company removes safety restrictions on military use of its m...