2026

SberDevices and ruGPT-3 XL: Developer Restores Forgotten Russian-Language Model from 2021
Developer brought back ai-forever/rugpt3xl — a Russian-language SberDevices model with 1.3 billion parameters, created in 2021 and trained f

Meta to finance seven gas power plants for Hyperion data center in Louisiana
Meta is ready to pay for the construction of seven gas power plants for Hyperion in Louisiana — one of the clearest signals of how the AI bo

Habr AI Shows How to Build an SEO System for a Niche and Prepare Your Site for AI Search
Habr AI analyzed why LLMs don't replace SEO strategy: you must first design demand, clusters, and page types, then launch content generation

Apple Prepares Siri to Work with Third-Party AI Assistants and Shifts iPhone Strategy
Apple wants to open Siri to external AI assistants, transforming the iPhone from a single-assistant device into a platform where users can c

IWE and OpenAI: How to Turn Markdown Notes into a Knowledge Graph for AI Agents
Using IWE as an example, we showed how to build a local knowledge graph from markdown, connect OpenAI function calling, and construct an age

Albumentations explained how to systematically select augmentations for computer vision models
Albumentations released a practical guide on selecting augmentations: don't gather them randomly, but test them as hypotheses about data, tr

Physical Intelligence discusses $1 billion round at valuation over $11 billion
Physical Intelligence startup, created by AI scientists and former Google DeepMind researchers, discusses a $1 billion round at a valuation

MiniMax Replaces Claude API: AI Agent Costs Cut from $200 to $20
Developer migrated social media AI agent from Claude API to MiniMax and Kimi, cutting monthly model costs from $200+ to approximately $20 wi

Generation Z Uses AI in Job Interviews, and Startups Turn It Into a Business
2025 graduates are entering the worst junior job market in five years and increasingly use AI right during interviews, while a new wave of s

Kandou AI raises $225M for copper interconnects in AI infrastructure
Swiss Kandou AI closed a $225M funding round at a $400M valuation, betting that copper interconnects between chips will remain critical for

Researchers: Deepfakes of Trump and Fake Military Women Became Propaganda Weapons
Political deepfakes are no longer limited to videos of celebrities: AI avatars in military uniforms gather audiences, generate revenue, and

Habr AI Compared Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT on Text, Math, Analysis, and Creativity
Habr AI compared ChatGPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro not on standard demos, but on unconventional tasks involving text, mathema

xAI loses all cofounders: Ross Nordeen departs Elon Musk's company
Startup xAI has lost its last cofounder besides Elon Musk: Ross Nordeen departed amid massive company restructuring ahead of SpaceX's potent

Google explained the difference between Google-Agent and Googlebot for AI access and indexing
Google described how the new Google-Agent differs from Googlebot: the first performs actions on sites at user request, the second automatica

Qdrant and DRAG with KNEE: How to Make RAG Adaptive and Avoid Wasting Extra Tokens
The author proposes DRAG with KNEE — an adaptive RAG approach based on Qdrant and Python that builds a document hierarchy and removes unnece

Why the Pentagon-Anthropic conflict became a warning sign for AI business
The dispute between the US Department of Defense and Anthropic over model usage restrictions revealed a new corporate risk: AI strategy depe

How to Write Prompts for Midjourney, DALL-E, and Kandinsky to Get Precise Images
We break down why vague requests break image generation and how prompt structure, word weights, negative instructions, and settings deliver

OpenAI and Sam Altman: how the board crisis became a power struggle
The article connects Sam Altman's firing and return, questions about the Startup Fund, and a controversial Pentagon contract into one story

Amazon-affiliated researchers presented A-Evolve for automatic evolution of AI agents
Researchers affiliated with Amazon presented A-Evolve — a system that automates AI agent development and replaces manual tuning with state e

Habr AI: LLMs Can Take Over Routine in Business Research—But Not Strategy
A Habr AI author divides product and marketing research into three levels, arguing that LLMs will quickly automate routine tasks and part of

DeepMind and Yann LeCun Push AGI Toward World Models — Why This Concerns More Than LLMs
The author links the path to AGI not with LLM growth, but with world models: if AI learns to understand the physics of the world and gains a

Zac Kass, former OpenAI top executive: AI will create many market winners
Zac Kass believes the AI market is still at an early stage, but companies that quickly integrate the technology into their products and proc

Agent-Infra Introduces AIO Sandbox — Unified Environment for AI Agents with Browser and Shell
Agent-Infra released open-source AIO Sandbox — a containerized environment where browser, shell, shared file layer, and MCP are integrated i

Anthropic Wins Pentagon Case, But Final Victory Remains Uncertain
A federal court in California ordered the Pentagon to remove Anthropic from its list of unreliable suppliers, but experts warn that the fina

OpenClaw deployed on Wiren Board: how an AI agent controls the controller and writes scripts
A Wiren Board engineer deployed OpenClaw directly on the controller, connected Telegram, trained the agent to work with Modbus, and tested w

Cursor releases TypeScript SDK for coding agents with cloud sandboxes and token-based pricing
Cursor has opened the public beta of its TypeScript SDK: developers can now run coding agents locally, in the cloud, or on their own workers

Who's Behind Claude: How Former OpenAI Employees Built Anthropic's Team
Anthropic grew out of a team of former OpenAI employees, and Claude's success is driven not only by Dario and Daniela Amodei, but also by re

ChatGPT Helped Design a Controller for a 32-Juice Vending Machine
The author on Habr demonstrated a conversation with ChatGPT where the model clarifies requirements and builds a controller architecture for

"First Form" Implemented MCP to Configure BPM Processes via AI Agent
Russian BPM platform "First Form" implemented support for Model Context Protocol: now categories, forms, and business processes can be confi

Anthropic reveals in largest AI survey what people actually expect from it
Anthropic conducted 80,508 interviews in 159 countries and found: people expect from AI not just productivity, but above all time, access to

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Accelerate AI Model Race, but the Market Is Already Tired of the Noise
In February 2026, leading AI labs released dozens of models, but the real story isn't record-breaking benchmarks—it's falling prices, growin

Goldman Sachs accelerates AI agent deployment and transforms developer work
Marco Ardenti from Goldman Sachs described how the bank is transitioning from internal AI tools to agentic platforms, reshaping engineer wor

OpenAI shut down Sora due to resource shortage, breaking major Disney deal
WSJ revealed that OpenAI halted Sora support not due to new strategy, but due to computing power deficit: the service cost up to $1 million

Goldman Sachs transitions to a new phase of artificial intelligence: Marco Ardenti on agents
Goldman Sachs discusses a new stage of AI implementation: after internal tools, the bank evaluates agent platforms and their real value for

Starcloud raises $170M at $1.1B valuation for orbital data centers
Startup Starcloud raised $170M to build orbital data centers: the company already operates Nvidia H100 in orbit, and its next goal is price-

How AI Tools for Forex Are Tested for Accuracy and Why Backtests Are Not Enough
AI services for the forex market often shine in backtests, but in live trading, everything is decided by metrics, data quality, execution de

JPMorgan starts factoring ChatGPT and Claude usage into engineer evaluations
JPMorgan is shifting AI-tool usage from optional to standard practice: roughly 65,000 engineers are expected to use them regularly, and mana

Forterro CEO calls fears around AI in software industry exaggerated
Forterro CEO Dean Forbes believes that fears around AI in development and corporate software are overblown, and for industrial vendors this

OpenAI hasn't yet turned ChatGPT into a new App Store: developers complain
Six months after launching mini-apps in ChatGPT, OpenAI already has hundreds of integrations, but developers complain about weak functionali

Glia Wins AI Excellence Awards for Safe AI Implementation in Banking
Glia won the AI Excellence Awards 2026 in the banking services category: the jury recognized its approach to practical and more secure AI us

Biren Technology More Than Tripled Revenue Amid China's AI Chip Demand
Biren Technology more than tripled annual revenue driven by surging demand for AI chips in China, where companies are increasingly building

MIT Taught AI to Find Atomic Defects in Materials Without Destroying Samples
MIT scientists created an AI model that finds up to six atomic defects simultaneously from neutron scattering data and measures their concen

Mistral raises $830M for data center with Nvidia chips, intensifies AI race in Europe
French Mistral AI has secured $830M in debt financing for a data center near Paris to house Nvidia chips and accelerate European AI infrastr

Bank of Russia Seeks Run:ai Alternative, Prepares Neural Networks for Industrial Scale
Bank of Russia has begun searching for a domestic platform to manage GPU clusters at the level of Run:ai — this may signal a shift by the re

AWS showed how to search for solar flares in SageMaker AI using ESA STIX instrument data
AWS published a breakdown showing how to train and deploy an LSTM model in SageMaker AI for detecting solar flares using ESA STIX instrument

Rebellions raises $400M pre-IPO at $2.34B valuation, eyes US market
South Korean Rebellions closed a pre-IPO round for $400M, bringing total fundraising in six months to $650M, and now targets US clients at t

Resilience: AI Accelerated Cyberattacks, Response Window for Defenders Narrowed to Minutes
Reports from Resilience, IBM, and ReliaQuest show: generative AI hasn't invented new attack types, but has dramatically accelerated phishing

Why Neural Networks Fail to Predict Moscow Exchange Markets—and Where ML Actually Helps Traders
Analysis of ML in trading reveals why neural networks struggle with direct price forecasting, yet help identify market regimes, filter trade

Habr AI: Self-Organizing LLM Agents Outperformed Hierarchical Systems by 14%
An experiment on 25,000 tasks showed that LLM agents perform better without imposed roles: self-organization, specialization choice, and the

Habr AI Author Proposes Deterministic AI on MacBook Air Over GPU Race
A GPU race manifesto has appeared on Habr: the author argues that a deterministic AI kernel in Rust with O(1) logic can run locally on MacBo

AI agents reshape the development cycle: where Scrum contracts, where humans remain essential
AI agents do accelerate development, but unevenly: in new projects, control shifts to observability; in legacy code, validation becomes more

Alibaba Releases Qwen3.5-Omni — Native Multimodal Model for Text, Audio, and Video
Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.5-Omni — a native omnimodal model that understands text, images, audio, and video in a single architecture and ca

Microsoft to invest over $1 billion in Thailand's cloud, data centers, and AI infrastructure
Microsoft announced investments exceeding $1 billion in Thailand for 2026–2028: the funds will go toward data centers, cybersecurity, sovere

FSBio Describes Metabolic AI Runtime — AI Architecture with "Homeostasis" Instead of Empathic Prompts
FSBio Claims That True Machine Empathy Is Impossible in Standard Transformer Models, Proposing Metabolic AI Runtime with Internal State, Mem

Equinix to invest 7.5 billion rand in new data centers in South Africa amid AI demand growth
Equinix is preparing to expand data centers in South Africa with a 7.5 billion rand investment, betting on rapid growth in local demand for

OpenAI at Potential IPO: $850bn Valuation Now Demands Profit, Not Just Growth
OpenAI, valued at $850bn, approaches a potential IPO amid massive data-center and chip spending. The market no longer wants growth promises—

Lansoft names AI technologies that will reach production in 2026
In Lansoft's analysis, optimized transformers are named as the main candidates for production in 2026, while quantum ML and mass-market BCI

AiConf 2026 shifts format: interactive sessions, networking, and hands-on work replace lectures
AiConf 2026 moves away from traditional AI conference format, pivoting toward interactive sessions, collaborative work, and networking so pa

Microsoft taught Copilot Researcher to cross-check GPT and Claude answers in a single process
Microsoft added a Critique mode to Copilot Researcher, where GPT prepares the answer and Claude verifies it for accuracy, while simultaneous

How ecom.tech sees the union of AI, analytics, and 1C: what already works and where the risks lie
ecom.tech demonstrated how AI is integrating into the 1C ecosystem: from semantic search and code review to video support bots, but without