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AI code review without the cloud: how Ollama is changing the approach to local development
Developers showed how to run a full AI code review directly on a local machine—without cloud services, API keys, or subscriptions. Ollama an
Meta pays News Corp for the right to feed news into its AI
Meta has signed a licensing agreement with Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Meta AI can now legally quote The Wall Street Journal and other pu
Anthropic nears $20 billion in annual revenue amid conflict with the Pentagon
The creator of Claude doubled its annualized revenue run rate in a matter of months, putting it on a path to $20 billion. But the company’s
Altman tells employees: OpenAI does not control Pentagon decisions
Sam Altman explained to the OpenAI team that the company has no right to dictate to the U.S. Department of Defense how to use its technologi
Gemini learned to order food and a taxi for you
Google has released the March Pixel update with Gemini agentic features: the AI assistant can now independently complete tasks in apps like
Nvidia invests $103 million in UK self-driving startup Oxa
Nvidia continues buying stakes in promising autonomous driving startups. This time, UK company Oxa received $103 million — part of the chipm
How AI startups sell the same shares at two different prices
Founders of AI companies have found a neat way to reach unicorn status without waiting for real growth. The new valuation mechanism is raisi
Project Genie by Google DeepMind: how to create entire worlds with text prompts
Google DeepMind shares how to use Project Genie — a generative model that turns text descriptions into interactive 3D worlds. Four key princ
Qualcomm CEO calls 2026 a turning point for AI agents
Cristiano Amon took the stage at MWC Barcelona with a bold forecast: a wave of AI agents will transform the entire digital ecosystem. What i
X to suspend creators from monetization for unlabeled AI content depicting armed conflicts
Elon Musk's platform is introducing strict penalties for content creators: unlabeled AI-generated depictions of armed conflicts will lead to
How Experts Tell Truth from Deepfakes in the Age of Information Wars
After the strikes on Iran, the internet was flooded with fake photos and videos — from old footage to screenshots from War Thunder. How prof
Hugging Face trained an image generation model in 24 hours
The third part of Hugging Face's PRX project shows that a full-fledged text-to-image model can be trained in just 24 hours. This changes per
AI-native investment thesis: how venture capital is betting on a new generation of companies
Glasswing Ventures founder Rudina Seseri explains why the future of venture investing belongs to companies where AI is built into the archit
Cardiff-based Antiverse raises $9.3M for AI antibody discovery
Welsh biotech startup Antiverse has closed a $9.3 million Series A round to scale a platform that uses AI to develop therapeutic antibodies.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Google bets on low-cost, fast AI
Google has unveiled Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, the fastest and most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 3 lineup. The company is signaling to the
Korean Nvidia rival hires JPMorgan to prepare for IPO
Chipmaker Rebellions, one of the most ambitious challengers in the AI accelerator market, has selected JPMorgan as global underwriter for a
Cybersecurity 2026: AI Defends and Attacks at the Same Time
AI is no longer just a shield — it is now creating new threats as well. How enterprise security platforms are adapting to a world where AI i
OpenAI rushes to rewrite Pentagon contract after Altman admits it was "careless"
Sam Altman admitted that OpenAI's deal with the U.S. Department of Defense looks "opportunistic and careless" and promised to ban the use of
Is Mistral becoming a consulting company? The new strategy of Europe's AI champion
French startup Mistral has begun embedding its engineers directly into the teams of its largest European clients. Is this a bold move — or a
Developer built a spine MRI analyzer with Python and Gemini
A programmer with back pain built the desktop application Spine Advisor, which uses the multimodal model Gemini 3 Flash to analyze MRI scans
Decima-8: the architecture seeking to reinvent neuromorphic chips
The new neuromorphic architecture Decima-8 proposes a radical approach: encoding signals with energy levels, digital crossbars instead of un
S&P cuts SoftBank outlook over $30 billion bet on OpenAI
Ratings agency S&P Global changed SoftBank’s outlook from “stable” to “negative.” The reason is the Japanese conglomerate’s plan to invest a
Alibaba releases OpenSandbox, a unified environment for safe AI agent operations
Alibaba has open-sourced OpenSandbox, a tool that gives AI agents isolated sandboxes for code execution, web browsing, and model training. I
Juniors vs. neural networks: how beginner developers can survive in the job market
Neural networks already write routine code and solve LeetCode problems — the very work junior developers used to learn on. How can newcomers
Telegram bot builds a VkusVill grocery cart from a single phrase
A Russian developer created an open-source bot that understands requests like “put together breakfast for two” and automatically builds a Vk
No one knows how AI companies should work with the government
OpenAI is turning from a consumer-facing startup into a component of U.S. national security, but neither the company nor the government has
Apple may store Siri data on Google's servers
Apple asked Google to deploy server infrastructure for a new Gemini-based version of Siri. A company that spent years building an ecosystem
Anthropic brings memory to Claude's free users, challenging ChatGPT
Anthropic is opening memory across conversations to Claude's free users amid unprecedented demand growth. The company is betting on retainin
Anthropic files bid for Pentagon drone-swarm control competition
The creator of Claude is taking part in a $100 million military tender to develop voice-controlled autonomous drone swarms — against the bac
Alibaba released Qwen 3.5 Small — compact models that run directly on devices
Alibaba’s new model series, ranging from 0.8 to 9 billion parameters, challenges the race for size. The philosophy of «more intelligence, le
Meta tests an AI shopping assistant, challenging ChatGPT and Gemini
Meta Platforms is adding a product-research feature to its chatbot ahead of purchases — a direct challenge to similar tools from OpenAI and
Deutsche Telekom to integrate an AI assistant directly into phone calls
Europe’s largest telecom operator has partnered with ElevenLabs to deploy an AI agent available during any call on its network — with no app
US Supreme Court settles it: AI will not get copyright protection
The US Supreme Court declined to review a copyright case over AI-generated images. The decision cements a principle: without human authorshi
AI helped formally verify a Fields Medal laureate’s proofs for the first time
The proofs of Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska on the sphere packing problem have undergone formal computer verification for the fir
ChatGPT instead of a psychotherapist: Brown University study reveals serious ethical risks
Millions of people turn to chatbots for psychological help, but a new study found that even with the instruction “act like a therapist,” AI
Nvidia invests $4 billion in data center optics
Nvidia is investing $4 billion in two companies developing optical technologies for data centers. The move signals a new bottleneck in AI in
The economics of AGI: humans will become verifiers as machines take over labor
Researchers from MIT, WashU, and UCLA presented a model of the future economy in which AI performs most labor and the human role is reduced
SAP reshapes leadership for its AI bet
Christian Klein, the head of Europe's largest software company, announced a reorganization of the executive board. The reason is the need to
Anthropic's Claude goes down: thousands of users hit by outage
Anthropic's popular AI chatbot Claude was unavailable to thousands of users worldwide on Monday. The incident raises questions about the rel
Jensen Huang: Sell-off in software company stocks fails to account for AI’s long-term impact
Nvidia’s CEO believes investors dumping software company stocks are making a mistake. In his view, the largest providers are adapting AI to
Cursor announced the third era of AI software development — and backed it up with data
The Cursor team published a manifesto on the three eras of AI software development. The company's internal statistics show that the paradigm
MWC 2026: telecom giants seek answers to the challenges of the AI boom and geopolitics
At the world’s largest mobile trade show, telecom operators are trying to prove that new partnerships and AI innovations can overcome the su
Outpost Bio raised $3.5 million to build AI models of the human microbiome
New startup Outpost Bio secured $3.5 million to develop AI models capable of decoding the highly complex ecosystem of bacteria, fungi, and m
Why independent oversight of AI can no longer be delayed
Meta oversight board member Suzanne Nossel sounds the alarm: governments are not keeping up with AI companies, and industry self-regulation
Advertising in ChatGPT: What It Means for Advertisers
OpenAI has begun testing advertising in ChatGPT but remains silent on the key issue — how brands will actually be able to place ads. We brea
How to stop guessing and start measuring the quality of AI agents
The Bitrix24 team spent six months building a benchmarking system for its AI agent Marta. Their experience shows why manual testing no longe
Juniors at Risk: Who Will Fill the First Rung of the IT Career Ladder
The industry openly admits it: no one knows what to do with entry-level developers in a world where AI writes code faster and cheaper. The O
Hugging Face engineers wrote a practical guide to generative AI: from transformers to fine-tuning
A new book from the Hugging Face team promises to turn generative AI from a black box into a clear practical tool. We explain why this matte
SHAP-IQ: a new standard for explainable AI enters practical use
The SHAP-IQ library makes it possible not only to assess the importance of a model’s features, but also to understand how they interact with
Vibe coding: how thoughtless use of AI destroys engineering expertise
The software development industry is facing a quiet epidemic: programmers are increasingly delegating thinking to language models and losing
Altman says: private companies should not be more powerful than the US government
OpenAI signed a contract with the Pentagon to deploy AI in classified systems. Sam Altman tried to calm public concern by asserting the prim
Google introduces STATIC: 948x faster generative search
Google AI developed a sparse-matrix-based framework that speeds up decoding in generative recommendation systems by nearly 1,000x. This coul
SearXNG instead of paid search in Claude Code: how developers bypass Anthropic's limits
Claude Code's built-in search costs $10 per thousand queries and regularly hits limits. Developers found an elegant solution: local SearXNG
Robot arm with puppy eyes: Lenovo presented desktop AI companions
At MWC 2026, Lenovo presented two concept desktop AI devices for the office. One of them is a robot arm with a screen for a head and express
Where the limits of modern AI lie
The race in language models has become a matter of interstate competition, and computing power is being treated as a strategic resource. But
Data centers versus the power grid: an Australian case with global consequences
Australia has run into uncomfortable questions: who will pay for the energy used by data centers, where will the water to cool them come fro
Language model distillation: can knowledge theft be proven through chat
A researcher tried to determine whether a language model had been trained on a competitor’s outputs using only dialogue with it. The results
A client commissioned an AI chatbot, but the solution came from a completely different technology
The company wanted to automate support with an AI bot. But an analysis of 500 tickets showed that most tasks are handled without neural netw
When machines decide what matters: AI searches for new physics in the collider data stream
The Large Hadron Collider records 40 million collisions per second, and almost all the data is discarded. Now neural networks on FPGA chips
How LLMs take on contract risk analysis and save lawyers hundreds of hours
Russian developers showed how language models can analyze hundreds of contracts for risk, freeing up hundreds of hours for lawyers each year