2026

Anthropic Updates Claude Code: Routines, Parallel Sessions, and Autonomous Tasks on Mac
Anthropic has transitioned Claude Code to background automations: Routines execute tasks on schedule and events, while the new interface sim

Anthropic Presented Mythos as Too Dangerous an AI Model — and the Problem Extends Beyond Banks
Anthropic withheld the Mythos model due to cybersecurity risks, but the main takeaway extends beyond banks: agentic AI models nearly elimina

TinyFish Launched Unified Web Platform for AI-Agents with Search, Fetch, Browser and Agent
TinyFish combined search, page rendering, browser sessions, and autonomous web workflows in a single platform for AI-agents with a single AP

Google added Skills to Chrome and turned AI prompts into one-click scenarios
Google launched the Skills feature in Chrome: Gemini users will be able to save frequently used prompts as reusable scenarios and run them i

Italy allocated €211 million to 2D Photonics to accelerate AI data centers
Italy allocated €211 million to 2D Photonics to accelerate AI data centers, signaling its readiness to invest in local deep-tech startups wi

Anthropic and the Pentagon: Why the AI Conflict Became a Warning for Europe
After Anthropic refused to lift restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, the Pentagon branded the company a national securi

ASML Raises 2026 Forecast Amid Growing Demand for AI Chip Equipment
ASML raised its 2026 revenue forecast to 36-40 billion euros after a strong quarter: AI infrastructure investments accelerate factory expans

Research on ChatGPT: Does female grammatical form in a prompt affect task-solving quality
An author's experiment on LiveCodeBench showed that in GPT-5.4 mini, female self-presentation in a Russian prompt slightly reduces pass@1, e

ASML Raises 2026 Sales Forecast Amid Demand for Nvidia AI Chips
ASML raised its revenue forecast for 2026 to €36–40 billion: demand for AI infrastructure supports the equipment manufacturer for producing

RuStore deployed AI in information security: how VK automates task review, code review, and DAST testing
RuStore's security team uses AI for initial triage of security tasks, merge request review, and dynamic testing to reduce routine work from

OpenGrall Presented an Architecture for AI Robots Where a Language Model Handles Strategy
The OpenGrall framework proposes dividing cognition and control: a language model handles strategy, while TinyML handles execution and safet

Meta and Broadcom extend AI chip contract through 2029, prepare 2-nm MTIA
Meta has extended its agreement with Broadcom on proprietary AI chips MTIA through 2029: the project launches with capacity exceeding 1 GW a

Stanford HAI Report: US-China AI Gap Nearly Closed, Safety Lags Behind
Stanford HAI's AI Index 2026 shows the US no longer maintains a sustainable advantage over China in AI models, while transparency and safety

FluidStack discusses $1 billion round at $18 billion valuation following Anthropic deal
AI infrastructure startup FluidStack is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $18 billion valuation following sharp revenue growth and major par

Habr AI: How Pipeline Triad Assembles an AI Agent Pipeline Instead of a Development Team
Habr AI examined Pipeline Triad — a model where development stages pass through AI agent triads, with humans involved only at four control p

Gramax showed how to compare RAG answer quality without manual eye evaluation
Gramax explained why retrieval metrics are insufficient for RAG, and proposed evaluating not retrieved chunks, but the final user answer — b

Anthropic and Mythos model tested again by US agencies despite Trump ban
American agencies continue testing Anthropic's Mythos privately for cybersecurity, despite the White House formally banning work with the co

Google DeepMind Presents Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 for Robot Autonomy and Instrument Reading
Google DeepMind updated Gemini Robotics-ER to version 1.6: a model for robots that better understands space, handles multiple video streams,

Anthropic Prepares Claude Opus 4.7 and AI Service for Websites, Presentations, and Design
Anthropic is preparing flagship model Claude Opus 4.7 and a service that generates websites, presentations, and product designs from text, i

Thoma Bravo and Google Cloud establish multi-year AI implementation partnership
Investment firm Thoma Bravo is partnering with Google Cloud to accelerate AI adoption across its portfolio companies and transform pilots in

How LLM Guardrails in Java Block Injections and Toxic Responses
An analysis of why a single system prompt is insufficient to protect LLMs, and how Java guardrails intercept dangerous inputs and filter tox

Anthropic and Mythos: why a banking threat quickly became a risk for everyone
Anthropic presented Mythos as too dangerous for public access, but the real risk proved to be not in banking but in small businesses' inabil

Anthropic and Claude Mythos: why critics call the model launch an expensive PR spectacle
A critical column on Claude Mythos argues that Anthropic is selling not just an AI model, but a myth about its near-human nature, amplifying

Nuvacore with Sequoia backing develops new CPU for AI workloads and data centers
Startup Nuvacore, founded by former Apple and Nuvia architects, aims to redesign CPUs for AI systems, with Sequoia backing the project from

Adobe Unveiled Firefly AI Assistant — Unified Chat Interface for Creative Cloud
Adobe unified Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, and Illustrator in Firefly AI Assistant: the new agent understands natural language, maintains

AI Assistants in 2026: How a Solo Developer Became Faster Than a Team of Three
The author demonstrates that in 2026, a single developer equipped with a set of open-source AI tools can write, test, and commit code faster

South Korea Becomes ASML's Largest Market as AI Memory Demand Surges
In Q1 2026, South Korea surpassed China in ASML systems deliveries: local memory manufacturers sharply increased purchases amid the AI boom.

ecom.tech compared evolutionary fine-tuning of Qwen3-4B with SFT and GRPO for Kotlin tests
The ecom.tech team fine-tuned Qwen3-4B-Instruct for generating unit tests in Kotlin and showed that the evolutionary algorithm outperforms S

Yandex Code Assistant tested on secrets handling and compared against Cursor
An engineer at 'Infosystems Jet' tested Yandex Code Assistant on secrets management and showed the agent is nearly on par with Cursor, but s

Accel raised $5B for new bets on AI startups like Anthropic and Cursor
Venture fund Accel, an early investor in Anthropic, Cursor, and Perplexity, has raised $5 billion to increase investments in AI startups as

Norwegian Stendr raises $5.4M for AI systems protecting Europe from drones
Norwegian startup Stendr, founded by Sky Mavis co-founder, raised $5.4M for developing AI systems that detect and track drones for European

Claude and Qwen Omni: How a Developer Integrated Video Analysis into a Production Pipeline
A Habr author connected Claude with Qwen Omni to work around the lack of native video processing and automatically categorize 29 animation r

Wayve raises $60M from AMD, Arm and Qualcomm for full self-driving stack
London-based Wayve received an additional $60M from AMD, Arm and Qualcomm, strengthening its self-driving platform's compatibility with near

How Sovcombank Reduced Product Team Routine Work by 50% Using an AI Assistant
Sovcombank built an AI assistant based on LLM and a unified prompt to take documentation, approvals, and part of analytics off product manag

Anthropic, Google and Microsoft Quietly Closed AI Agent Bugs Without CVE and Warnings
A researcher demonstrated that AI agents from Anthropic, Google and Microsoft can be forced to publish keys and tokens through prompt inject

Snap Explains 1,000-Employee Layoff by AI Development and Investor Pressure
Snap will cut 16% of its staff, or about 1,000 people, citing AI development as the reason, amid stock decline and pressure from activist in

Cal.com moves core product to closed source over AI threats to open source
Cal.com is moving its commercial version to closed source, citing that AI tools discover vulnerabilities in public repositories too quickly,

US Court Ruled That Defendant's Correspondence with Anthropic's Claude Is Not Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege
A US court ruled that conversations between a fraud defendant and Claude do not fall under attorney-client privilege: AI is not a lawyer, an

AWS shows how speculative decoding on Trainium2 accelerates generation in vLLM
AWS explained how speculative decoding on Trainium2 and vLLM helps speed up generation in LLM services, reduce token cost, and increase thro

Athena launches FabOrchestrator for MES automation in chip and electronics factories
Athena launched FabOrchestrator — an agentic AI layer for MES that automates reports, support tickets, modeling, and code generation in chip

Accenture invests in General Robotics to unite AI for factory robots
Accenture invested in General Robotics, whose GRID platform unites over 40 industrial robots of different brands under a single AI layer for

Critics call OpenAI's partnership with McKinsey and Accenture a bet on AI hype
The author of a scathing column argues that OpenAI's Frontier Alliances program sells businesses not a ready-made solution, but an expensive

Accel raised $5B for AI startups and intensified the race for late-stage deals
Accel has raised $5B for major investments in AI companies at late stages, targeting deals around $200M and heating up the capital race for

Google Veo, Runway and Kling rank among the top free AI video generators in 2026
The authors compared ten popular free video generators, including Google Veo, Runway and Kling, and tested them on a complex scene featuring

Anthropic Receives $800 Billion Valuation Offers Amid $30 Billion Revenue Run Rate
Investors are willing to value Anthropic at approximately $800 billion—more than double the valuation from just two months ago—following a s

Skild AI Acquires Zebra Technologies' Robotic Automation Division
Skild AI acquired Zebra Technologies' robotic automation division to expand its presence in the rapidly growing software market for trainabl

MarkTechPost broke down the complete training cycle of large language models: from data to deployment
MarkTechPost released a detailed breakdown of how LLMs are built today: from pretraining on massive corpora to SFT, RLHF, reasoning optimiza

Google Introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS — Speech Model with Control, Dialogues and 70+ Languages
Google launched Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS in preview: the model synthesizes text in 70+ languages, supports dialogues with two voices, and allows

Google launches standalone Gemini app for macOS and simplifies AI access on Mac
Google has launched a standalone Gemini application for macOS, allowing Apple computer owners to open the AI assistant faster and use it in

Allbirds stock soars 582% after brand abandons sneakers for AI
Allbirds abandoned its shoe business, rebranded to NewBird AI and instantly regained market attention: during trading, the company's shares

Anthropic Deems Mythos Too Dangerous: Model Can Compromise Core Systems
Anthropic restricted access to Mythos following internal testing: the model can identify and exploit critical vulnerabilities in operating s

Rufler simplifies agent swarms in Claude Code: one config instead of manual orchestration
Open-source tool Rufler reduces launching autonomous agents in Claude Code to a single config, automatically assembles roles, tasks, and MCP

OpenAI raised $122 billion at $852 billion valuation, and Khosla deems it justified
OpenAI closed the largest funding round in its history: the company raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, and investor Vinod Kho

Nvidia Chief Calls for US-China Dialogue on AI Safety After Mythos
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that Anthropic's Mythos breakthrough reinforces the need for US-China dialogue on the safe use of increasingl

Anthropic Declines Investment at Valuation Over $800 Billion, While AI Chip Market Accelerates
Anthropic declined investor offers at valuations exceeding $800 billion, while Meta expands its work with Broadcom and ASML raises its sales

Allbirds Becomes NewBird AI and Soars 600% After GPU Rental Announcement
Shoe manufacturer Allbirds announced a relaunch under the NewBird AI brand and transition to GPU rental, following which the company's share

Why Infosys Is Retraining Graduates: Indian IT Professionals Aren't Ready for the AI Era
Indian computer science graduates increasingly arrive at work without AI development skills, so companies like Infosys spend weeks retrainin

Federal Court of Australia warns lawyers of sanctions for AI errors in cases
Federal Court of Australia issued new rules on the use of generative AI in courts and warned lawyers: false citations and other errors may r

US House of Representatives discusses sanctions for AI model copying by Chinese firms
Republicans in the US House of Representatives propose punishing Chinese entities that use responses from leading American AI models to crea

Claude Code helped build a graph analysis app in under an hour — developer case study
A developer with low expectations built a working graph analysis app in about an hour, but then spent another three weeks on testing, docume