2026

South Africa Withdraws AI Policy Draft After Finding Fabricated Scientific References
South Africa's Ministry of Communications withdrew the draft national AI policy after journalists discovered at least six non-existent scien

NextFilm describes movie recommendation model: cold start, taste vector and GPT layer
NextFilm's author showed how to recommend movies to new users: collect initial ratings, build a taste vector, compare it with MovieLens and

Elon Musk Testified in Court That He Launched OpenAI to Defend Against 'Terminator' Scenario
During proceedings against OpenAI, Elon Musk stated he created the company as a safe non-profit alternative to Google, while the judge order

OpenAI-linked stocks decline after company misses internal targets
Shares of companies whose valuations are closely tied to the OpenAI ecosystem fell after reports that the ChatGPT developer failed to meet i

Elon Musk positioned himself as humanity's chief defender in lawsuit against OpenAI
At trial against Sam Altman, Elon Musk began with his own biography and explained to the jury that all his companies and involvement with Op

Amazon Signs Deal with OpenAI While AWS Prepares New Office AI Services
Amazon Web Services announced a partnership with OpenAI immediately after ending OpenAI's exclusive agreement with Microsoft and is preparin

NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart on Release Day
NVIDIA added Nemotron 3 Nano Omni to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart on release day to enable companies to quickly deploy multimodal AI scenarios

AWS explained how to convert a text-based AI agent into a voice assistant on Nova 2 Sonic
AWS broke down the transition from a text agent to a voice assistant on Amazon Nova 2 Sonic: what changes in architecture, prompts, tools, a

n0x Developer Taught His Browser Agent to Open Sites and Take Screenshots
The n0x project evolved from a regular language chatbot into a browser agent with MCP support: it now opens websites, takes screenshots, and

AWS Brings Amazon Into Battle With Microsoft and Salesforce, Putting AI Agents Above SaaS
AWS has launched AI applications for logistics, hiring, and medicine and is trying to transform Amazon from a cloud vendor into a new player

Stanford Showcases Onyx Chip for Sparse AI: 8x Faster Than CPU, 70x More Efficient
Stanford researchers introduced the Onyx accelerator, which skips zero operations in AI models and runs on average 8x faster than CPU while

Apple redesigns photo editor in iOS 27: three AI features to rival Android
Apple is preparing a major redesign of the built-in photo editor in iOS 27 and macOS 27 with three new AI features — to match Android flagsh

Wood Mackenzie: US energy equipment market to triple to $65 billion by 2030
According to Wood Mackenzie, the US electrical equipment market will triple to $65 billion by 2030 — AI data centers will account for up to

Top 10 Physical AI Models Controlling Real Robots in 2026
Over 18 months, the gap between LLMs and real robotics has narrowed dramatically: physical AI models are already operating in factories, war

OpenAI Refutes Revenue Growth Concerns, Reports Strong Enterprise Demand
OpenAI has publicly responded to reports of missing internal targets, asserting that both its consumer and enterprise divisions are growing

Elon Musk accused OpenAI in court of abandoning its public mission and shifting to profit
At hearings on his lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk argued that the company has departed from its public mission, and its shift to a commer

Bloomberg Restructures Terminal for AI: ASKB Chat to Become New Primary Interface
Bloomberg is testing the ASKB chat interface within Terminal, which searches for insights based on natural language queries and is expected

Anthropic and Claude Mythos escalate threat: AI makes cyberattacks accessible to novices
After Claude Mythos announcement, cybersecurity market braces for wave of AI-discovered vulnerabilities: finding bugs and writing exploits n

YouTube tests AI search with guided answers for Premium subscribers in the US
YouTube is testing a new AI-powered search feature that displays guided answers instead of a standard video list — currently available only

FIDO Alliance, Google, and Mastercard Create Standard for AI Agents in Online Shopping
FIDO Alliance has partnered with Google and Mastercard to develop security protocols for AI agents that will soon begin making purchases on

Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI Begins: AI Industry Secrets Set to Go Public
Musk and Altman meet in court: the trial promises to expose behind-the-scenes secrets of OpenAI's founding, early investments, and the confl

Amazon added AI audio chat with customer question answers to product pages
Amazon launched the Join the chat feature in Shopping: on product pages you can now ask questions by voice or text and receive AI answers in

Amazon launches OpenAI products on AWS after review of Microsoft exclusive partnership
AWS has already opened preview of new OpenAI products: models, Codex, and Bedrock Managed Agents are now available in Amazon Bedrock followi

Meta may cut over 700 employees of contractor Covalen in Ireland who trained its AI
Over 700 employees of Meta's Irish contractor Covalen risk losing their jobs after the company decided to more aggressively replace external

Elon Musk began testifying in high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI
Elon Musk began testifying in a lawsuit against OpenAI, where the dispute centers on the company's mission, its structure, and a long-standi

Google Antigravity: How to Connect Rules, Skills, and Workflows for Reliable AI Agents
Google Antigravity examined how to assemble a robust QA pipeline through rules, skills, and workflows: an agent checks Python code, refactor

Hugging Face and Gemma 3 1B: Building a Production-Ready Generation Pipeline in Colab
A breakdown of how to run Gemma 3 1B Instruct in Colab via Hugging Face Transformers: with secure authorization, chat templates, and a repro

Anthropic Tests Claude Mythos: Leak Reveals Model with 10 Trillion Parameters
An internal Anthropic leak has revealed Claude Mythos — a model the company considers its most powerful AI and is not yet ready to release p

Super Micro Co-Founder Pleaded Not Guilty in Nvidia Server Shipments to China Case
Super Micro Co-Founder Wally Lau pleaded not guilty in New York in the case of alleged shipment of Nvidia servers to China valued at billion

MIT Eases Restrictions for Students and Faculty to Launch AI Startups
MIT is revisiting rules for faculty and students to make it easier to launch AI startups, take academic breaks, and convert research into bu

Armadin Chief Kevin Mandia Warns AI-Powered Attacks Now Outpace Human Defense
CEO Kevin Mandia believes cyber attacks powered by AI are evolving so rapidly that manual analysis and security team responses can no longer

Cato Institute: US Needs to Accelerate AI Infrastructure and Energy Investments
Washington discusses a national AI framework, but without new investments in energy and data centers, US leadership could remain a political

AWS Shows How Amazon Nova Act Automates Competitor Price Monitoring
AWS described a system based on Amazon Nova Act that concurrently visits competitor websites, collects prices and promotions in structured f

Anthropic Accidentally Revealed Claude Code Source Code, Raising New Security Questions
Anthropic mistakenly released a Claude Code update containing a link to an archive of nearly 2,000 internal files; the leak rapidly spread a

Anthropic and OpenClaude: why 'free' Claude Code in 2026 isn't really free
After Claude Code's source code leak, the community quickly assembled OpenClaude, but behind the promise of free AI coding lie compatibility

Anthropic bets on Cowork: agent could surpass Claude Code in market size
Anthropic believes its universal AI agent Cowork will reach a broader market than Claude Code and become the company's next major product fo

Salesforce Ventures: OpenAI and Anthropic valuations became too aggressive for the market
Salesforce Ventures partner warned that AI market leaders' valuations are becoming increasingly aggressive: after OpenAI's record funding ro

Z.ai releases GLM-5V-Turbo — native multimodal model for visual programming
Chinese lab Z.ai has released GLM-5V-Turbo — a model that recognizes architectural diagrams and screenshots, then immediately generates work

How a single system instruction turns an LLM into a reliable tool: tests on Qwen and DeepSeek
A single system prompt can eliminate LLM hallucinations: an experiment with Qwen and DeepSeek showed that an 'exoskeleton' of rules transfor

MIT Developed Methodology for Detecting Discrimination in AI Decision Support Systems
MIT researchers created a testing tool that precisely identifies situations where AI decision-making systems treat individuals and entire co

Meta Developed Secret "Avocado" Model — What It Reveals About the Company's Strategy
Meta's unreleased AI project codenamed "Avocado" shows how tech giants decide what to launch publicly and what to keep forever in the lab.

T-Technologies on Open Source in AI/ML: Inside the LLM Development Process
Interview with the AI/ML team at T-Technologies Group — about LLM development, participation in open source, and research directions.

NVIDIA at GTC 2026 Shifts Focus From Chips to Token Factories and Agent-as-a-Service
At GTC 2026, NVIDIA showcased a bet not on individual GPUs, but on token factories, the modular Vera Rubin architecture, and AI agents as a

PageIndex from VectifyAI offers embedding-free search for long documents
PageIndex builds a tree-structured document outline and searches for relevant sections through LLM reasoning, promising RAG without embeddin

Omniscient Raises $4.1M from Seedcamp for AI Analytics for Boards of Directors
Paris-based startup Omniscient has received $4.1M from Seedcamp to develop an AI system that tracks reputational signals in real-time and co

GolangConf 2026 and Ontiko: Why Go Teams Need to Fix Architecture, Not Code Speed
Ontiko is restructuring GolangConf 2026 around the real pain points of Go teams: AI has accelerated code writing, but architectural decision

ruGPT3XL Gains 8k Context: Restored Model Transcends 2k Limit with Minimal Losses
The ruGPT3XL restoration author fixed sparse attention, increased model context from 2k to 8k, and preserved quality on short sequences with

Stephen Marche: Writers Should Accept AI, But the Value of Human Text Doesn't Disappear
Writer Stephen Marche believes that generative AI is already devaluing formulaic prose, while simultaneously increasing the value of genuine

OpenAI, MiniMax and Nvidia Set the Tone for March in AI: Sora, GPT-5.4 and the Bet on Mira Murati
March in AI was defined by major product shifts: OpenAI reconsiders Sora's future, Google and Anthropic accelerate their assistants, while M

AI-first startups: why growth marketing stalls and what breaks in the funnel
Strong top-of-funnel metrics for AI-first products often mask false demand: people come for novelty, not to solve a problem, so the conventi

US Tech Companies Accelerate Layoffs Amid AI Investment
US tech companies have once again taken the lead in layoffs: firms are cutting staff against the backdrop of AI investments, and the number

Rocket Close Accelerated Mortgage Document Processing by 15x with AWS
Rocket Close, together with AWS, accelerated mortgage document processing by 15x, combining Amazon Textract for OCR and Amazon Bedrock for s

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Promises 'Good AI', but Critics Call for Slowdown
After Anthropic's CEO visit to Canberra, Australia's AI debate shifted from growth promises to questions about who will pay for automation,

Dan Prattle: Quadron Advances Trust Economy for Value Assessment in the AI Era
Quadron founder Dan Prattle believes that as generative AI grows, the main deficit is not knowledge but verifiable expertise, judgment, and

Fortis Solutions Bets on Human-Controlled AI and Trust Infrastructure
Fortis Solutions believes business needs not autonomous AI alone, but systems where machine precision augments people, and trust is built on

China Approved Five-Year Plan Until 2030 with Goals for Mass AI Deployment
Beijing included AI among the key priorities of the 15th Five-Year Plan: from models and chips to government services, medicine and industry

Habr: AI agents change delivery, and teams must rebuild the entire development cycle
Habr explains why with the emergence of AI agents, teams need to restructure not only code writing but the entire delivery: context, checks,

M2 delegated 40% of marketing texts to AI and maintained content quality
The M2 team embedded an AI copywriter into its internal editorial department, assigned 40% of product and marketing texts to the model, and

Sova AI Released Android Assistant That Controls Phone Without PC and Root
Sova AI unveiled an Android application with an AI agent that opens apps, presses buttons, scrolls screens, and executes voice commands with

Microsoft wants to build its own advanced AI models by 2027 at the level of OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft plans to develop large advanced AI models by 2027 to reduce dependence on OpenAI and Anthropic and create its own foundation for f