2026

Manitoba prepares strict ban on social media and AI chatbots for minors
Canadian Manitoba authorities want to block children and teenagers from accessing social media and AI chatbots, shifting the conversation ab

Anthropic released Opus 4.7, and OpenAI turned Codex into a computer work agent
This week in AI brought several shifts: Anthropic updated Opus 4.7, OpenAI gave Codex computer control, and Google and Baidu unveiled new vo

UCL: Hybrid quantum computing and AI predicts chaotic systems more accurately
UCL team showed that quantum computers can find hidden stable patterns in chaotic data, making AI predictions more accurate, stable, and vas

ChatGPT Nailed the Diagnosis in Five Cases, But Failed on Treatment Planning
In a five-case medical comparison, ChatGPT never misdiagnosed the primary condition—but fell noticeably short on practical recommendations,

Beauty Brands Accelerate AI Adoption: From Virtual Selection to Formula Development
Artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into the beauty industry: it helps customers select products while enabling companies to

Why LLM Services Ignore Your Instructions and How to Actually Regain Control
Even a detailed prompt doesn't guarantee a compliant response: this article explains why LLMs break format, succumb to injections, and requi

Anthropic Predicts Engineering Professions' Disappearance, Hires 429 Developers
Anthropic's head claimed that AI is gradually taking over programming, but the company simultaneously opened hundreds of engineering positio

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 for agentic programming, vision, and autonomous tasks
Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 4.7 — an update to its flagship model with notable improvements in agentic coding, detailed image analysis,

PrismML Bonsai: How to Run a 1-Bit Model on CUDA with GGUF, JSON and RAG
In a new PrismML Bonsai tutorial, we covered how to run Bonsai-1.7B on GPU via CUDA and GGUF, measure throughput, configure chat, strict JSO

xAI launches separate Grok APIs for speech recognition and synthesis for corporate developers
xAI has split Grok's voice stack into standalone APIs: Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech for business with aggressive pricing, multilingual

NVIDIA released Ising — the first open family of AI models for quantum-classical systems
NVIDIA presented Ising — an open family of AI models for quantum processor calibration and error correction to bring useful hybrid quantum-c

Google and OpenAI Hit the Limit: What Happens When the Internet Runs Out of Human Text
Generative AI not only drains website traffic through AI summaries, but also undermines its own training data foundation: the less incentive

Google enables Gemini to tap Gmail and Photos for more accurate, personalized answers
Google's Personal Intelligence feature in Gemini connects Gmail, Photos and other Google services, allowing the AI to understand context wit

Why LoRA Breaks in Production and How RS-LoRA Saves Model Fine-tuning
LoRA excels at style and format, but loses signal when fine-tuning with new facts; RS-LoRA solves the problem by changing the scaling formul

Anthropic Investigates Leak of Protected Mythos Cybersecurity Model to Private Forum
Anthropic is investigating a possible leak of Mythos — a closed AI model for cybersecurity — which allegedly appeared on a private forum and

OpenKB and OpenRouter show how to build a local AI knowledge base with Llama search
A new tutorial explains how to deploy a local knowledge base on OpenKB, connect an open model via OpenRouter, and safely configure search wi

How Moscow Credit Bank Shows the Evolution of Employee Training in Banking — From Clerks to AI
Moscow Credit Bank traced how banks trained employees from coin verification and business correspondence to personalized onboarding, complia

OpenAI integrates Sky technologies into Codex for Mac and enhances background app management
OpenAI has integrated Sky capabilities into Codex for Mac: the agent now manages multiple applications in the background, uses independent c

Strike on SABIC hits AI supply chain: PCB resin prices surge, lead times extend
After a strike on SABIC's facility in Al-Jubail, production of resin for PCB laminates has halted, prices have surged 40%, and delivery time

Rio Tinto and the copper race: how the AI boom forces the US to urgently scale mining
Growing data centers and power grid demand turn copper into a strategic resource: the US is trying to launch new mines, but faces import dep

Google discusses AI chips for inference with Marvell, reducing Broadcom dependence
Google is in talks with Marvell about two specialized AI chips for inference and memory, expanding its silicon partners beyond Broadcom and

Elon Musk and Sam Altman Head to Court: OpenAI Mission Dispute Reaches New Heights
A lawsuit by Elon Musk against Sam Altman and OpenAI begins in California: the dispute over the company's nonprofit mission has become a maj

Habr AI Explained How Data-Driven Solution Search Changes Client-Server Architecture
The Habr AI article examines how expert systems with data-driven solution search should structure user interaction locally, on a local netwo

Seedance 2.0 draws attention with hyper-realistic generation of people and scenes
Seedance 2.0 multimodal system accepts text, images, audio and video, outputting nearly cinematic videos that have already sparked debate ov

Anthropic and White House Discuss AI Mythos After Discovery of Thousands of Vulnerabilities
Anthropic's new model for finding code bugs has identified thousands of vulnerabilities in popular operating systems and browsers, according

Atech from Copenhagen Raises Undisclosed Pre-Seed from Lovable, Sequoia Scout and a16z Scout
Danish startup Atech, which transforms text descriptions of devices into working prototypes, has closed a pre-seed round backed by Lovable,

Claude Code and Codex Are Changing the Rules: Prompts Give Way to Context Engineering
An analysis of Context Engineering reveals why in Claude Code, Codex, and agentic IDEs, it's not the prompt that matters, but how memory, sy

Attack on OpenAI CEO's home escalates fears that AI protest may turn violent
Following an attack on Sam Altman's home and an attempted arson at OpenAI headquarters, the debate over AI risks has shifted from policy and

Why diffusion models leave seams on 40-megapixel photos and how to give tiles memory
The article examines why tiling breaks 40–150-megapixel frames in diffusion models and what memory mechanisms from video diffusion can be tr

China Forced Meta to Cancel $2B Manus Deal and Tightened Rules for AI Transactions
Chinese authorities ordered Meta to cancel its Manus acquisition for $2 billion, setting a precedent that extends control not only to assets

OpenAI and Magika showed how to build a pipeline for file recognition and threat analysis
The guide demonstrates a practical pipeline where Magika determines the actual file type from bytes, and OpenAI helps interpret the result a

MIT researchers teach AI to honestly say "I'm not sure" and hallucinate less
MIT researchers proposed a training method that forces language models to more accurately assess their own confidence and deliver fewer conf

Lubomir Gorbatko Introduces Sessa — An Alternative to Transformers and Mamba
Habr published an analysis of the Sessa architecture, where the author attempts to combine the strengths of Transformer and Mamba to better

MIT Presented EnergAIzer — A Fast Way to Assess AI Energy Consumption in Data Centers
Researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab created EnergAIzer — a tool that assesses AI workload energy consumption in seconds and h

DeepSeek cuts DeepSeek-V4-Pro prices by 75%, reduces repeated requests cost by 10x
DeepSeek has aggressively reduced access costs to DeepSeek-V4-Pro and slashed the price of repeated requests by 10 times, intensifying price

MIT Opens MathNet — World's Largest Collection of Math Olympiad Problems
MIT researchers compiled an open archive of over 30,000 math olympiad problems and solutions from 47 countries to more precisely test AI and

Harvard Business Review: how active AI use leads to "brain overheating"
Harvard Business Review describes the AI brain fry effect: the more actively employees rely on Claude, Gemini, and agents, the higher the ri

Flag Soft: Dali Trial benchmark helped select LLMs by quality, speed, and cost
The Dali Trial benchmark compared LLMs across three criteria important for product implementation: answer quality, processing speed, and tot

UK authorities underestimated AI data center emissions by more than 100 times
The UK government has revised its assessment of AI data center emissions: instead of a barely noticeable effect, the discussion is now about

Habr AI: Instead of Complex Agent Pipelines, Developers Should Embrace Markdown, Git, and Session Memory
Habr published a manifesto against overloaded agent pipelines: the author argues that for complex AI development, sessions, roles, rules, an

China and the Robotics Revolution: How Close Are Autonomous Humanoids?
A report from five Chinese cities shows that humanoid robots are already moving beyond eye-catching demos, but they remain far from truly au

opencode-policy Plugin Adds 309 Rules to Protect AI-Agents from Injections and Data Leaks
For the opencode environment, a deterministic filter with 309 regex rules has been proposed: it intercepts prompt injection and dangerous to

Generation Z in the US turns to entrepreneurship as AI eliminates entry-level positions
Young Americans are increasingly launching their own ventures: hiring has weakened, entry-level positions face automation pressure, and AI i

London Police Discusses AI Implementation with Palantir for Criminal Investigations
Metropolitan Police is considering purchasing Palantir's technologies to automate the analysis of intelligence data for criminal cases, but

Spec Kit in Real Full-Stack: How 17 Sprints Shipped a Habit Tracker to Production
A Spec-Driven Development case demonstrates how the methodology sustained 17 full-stack sprints, two repositories, 328 tests, and the produc

Eltex engineer explained how to run federated learning on edge devices with 256 MB of memory
An Eltex engineer in an article inspired by AiConf breaks down how to apply federated learning on edge devices with less than 256 MB of RAM,

US Department of Justice Backs xAI in Colorado AI Regulation Dispute
The US Department of Justice sided with xAI against Colorado's AI law, escalating the conflict between state regulation and the White House'

Mathieu Kassovitz: In two years, viewers won't care if the actor is real or AI-created
Director of 'Hate' Mathieu Kassovitz claims that within the next two years, audiences will stop caring whether films feature real actors or

Claude and Ralph: Two Approaches to Building a Complex AI-Enabled DatePicker in Product Development
Using an accessible DatePicker as an example, the authors compared rapid AI drafting via Claude with Ralph's systematic approach, where qual

DeepSeek Slashes Prices on New AI Flagship, Intensifying Price War in China
DeepSeek launches aggressively cheap pricing for its new flagship AI, intensifying the price war in China and pressuring competitors struggl

Anthropic Investigates Possible Unauthorized Access to Closed Mythos Model
Anthropic is investigating reports that external users gained access to the closed Mythos model, which the company did not release due to cy

Uber exhausted its AI budget, and companies' computing expenses are already outpacing salaries
Rising costs for tokens, cloud, and AI infrastructure reshape corporate budgets: Uber has already spent its neural network allocation, while

Emma Grede of Good American: AI Is Changing Business, But Jeans Design Stays With People
Emma Grede, head of Good American, says artificial intelligence is already restructuring how her companies operate, but she's keeping creati

German Sereact Raises $110M for AI Helping Robots Predict Consequences
German startup Sereact has secured $110M to develop an AI model for robots that helps machines better understand tasks, adapt to them, and a

DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and reduces cache costs tenfold across entire API
Until May 5, 2026, DeepSeek offers a 75% discount on V4-Pro and cuts cache costs tenfold across its entire API, intensifying pressure on Ope

Habr AI Explained How to Build a Production Agent With Durable State, Steps, and Events
Habr AI published a practical guide to AI-agent architecture: the author recommends storing the execution flow, plan steps, and event logs s

Diasoft explains why junior developers, AI magic, and in-house platforms don't save dev projects
Diasoft debunks three myths of custom software development: mass hiring of junior developers, hope to fully rewrite legacy code with AI, and

Google DeepMind and South Korea Launch Partnership for Scientific Breakthroughs with AI
Google DeepMind, together with South Korea's Ministry of Science, will open an AI Campus in Seoul and provide scientists access to models fo

Yandex explained the protection of smart devices: Secure Boot, TrustZone and external researchers
Yandex showed how it builds protection for speakers, TVs and cameras with Alice: from hardware chain of trust and Secure Boot to TrustZone,

Why Cursor Is Losing Its Uniqueness Amid Claude Code and Codex Growth in Development
Cursor continues to grow rapidly, but as Claude Code and Codex enter IDE and terminal, the market is shifting: a separate AI editor is no lo