2026
How to Stop Believing Every AI Headline and Learn to Read the News Critically
Every day, dozens of news stories about AI appear: new models, record benchmark scores, predictions of mass unemployment. We explain how to
Waymo enters Texas's largest cities after setback in New York
Alphabet's robotaxi service is launching commercial rides in Texas's three largest cities at once. The aggressive expansion continues despit
Image generation pioneer sets sights on a revolution in text AI
Stefano Ermon, whose work laid the foundation for image and video generation, unveiled Inception, a startup with a technology for accelerati
AI bubble becomes credit investors' biggest fear for the first time
A Bank of America survey found that, for the first time ever, the "AI bubble" has been named the top threat to credit markets. What is behin
Basware deploys AI agents for full automation of financial processes
Finnish company Basware is embedding autonomous AI agents into its invoice management platform. The goal is ambitious: 100 percent automatio
Nvidia's quarterly report will determine the fate of the AI hardware market
Nvidia's fourth-quarter results will be a litmus test for the entire AI hardware industry. The stock is up 1500% over three years — but can
Meta to spend billions on AMD processors, challenging Nvidia's monopoly
Meta has signed a major deal with AMD to deploy 6 gigawatts of server capacity — the largest contract in AMD's history, one that could resha
BlackRock invested $250 million in Dutch AI chipmaker Axelera
Dutch startup Axelera AI raised more than $250 million with BlackRock's participation to develop energy-efficient chips for inference — a si
AI can now rewrite COBOL — and the market noticed
The global financial system still runs on half-century-old code. AI is finally offering a real path to modernization — and investors are alr
llm-checker: a utility that shows which LLMs your hardware can run
The new CLI tool scans your computer's GPU, RAM, and CPU, then tells you which of 35+ language models you can run locally via Ollama — and h
AI industry veteran warns: bigger changes than the pandemic are coming
Matt Shumer, who spent six years building AI startups, wrote an article that shook the IT community. His point is simple and unsettling: we
Three weeks from frustration to SaaS: how Claude wrote 90% of the code for an airline ticket search service
In three weeks, a developer turned a personal problem finding tickets to Bali into a working SaaS product. Claude wrote almost all the code,
Composio open-sources Agent Orchestrator, a tool for multi-agent systems beyond ReAct
Startup Composio has released an open-source agent orchestrator that tackles the main problem of AI in production: the fragility of simple R
British police admit bias in their AI, but promise to tackle it
The head of the AI unit at the UK's National Crime Agency said it openly: AI used by police will contain bias. But a new £115 million center
Eight years in the making: China launches WAICA, a world-class academic platform
After eight years of development, China is presenting WAICA, its own world-class conference in artificial intelligence. A new meeting point
Guide Labs released an open language model that can be understood from the inside
Startup Guide Labs introduced Steerling-8B, an 8-billion-parameter language model built on a new architecture. The main idea: every decision
DeepSeek trained a new model on banned Nvidia Blackwell accelerators
China's DeepSeek, according to U.S. sources, used Nvidia Blackwell accelerators subject to sanctions to train its latest AI model — chips th
Three AI model frontiers: how Google Cloud is setting new rules of the game
Google Cloud AI is advancing simultaneously across three key directions in model development — intelligence, response speed, and extensibili
OpenAI taps consulting giants to win the enterprise market
OpenAI has partnered with four of the largest consulting firms to speed adoption of its Frontier AI-agent platform in the enterprise sector.
DeepMind: More agents, worse results?
DeepMind researchers have called into question the idea that scaling multi-agent systems leads to higher efficiency. The ceiling may already
Qianxun Intelligence raised nearly 2 billion yuan and became a unicorn
Chinese AI startup Qianxun Intelligence closed a major funding round with participation from leading venture capital funds. The company’s va
FARS: 100 research papers in 228 hours and 11.4 billion tokens
The autonomous AI agent FARS set a record by writing 100 research papers in less than ten days of continuous work.
Love by algorithm: how AI agents are replacing swipes in dating
Forget swipes: the Fate app uses AI agents to analyze personality and find the ideal match. Technology is turning dating into a precise calc
OpenClaw agent went out of control in a Meta employee's email
The story of the rogue AI agent OpenClaw in a Meta employee's email sounds like satire, but it serves as a serious warning about the dangers
From aesthetics to practice: MIT makes generative 3D design fit for manufacturing
MIT researchers introduced a differentiable physics optimization method that turns beautiful 3D models into real objects ready for industria
OpenAI’s WebSocket mode changes the game for voice AI
OpenAI has introduced a WebSocket mode for the Realtime API that eliminates the main enemy of voice AI agents: latency. Three separate stage
Tariff Uncertainty and AI Anxiety Hit the Tech Market
Tech stocks came under double pressure: trade tariffs and a reassessment of the AI boom coincided with a key earnings week for Nvidia and Sa
How language models help train construction robots without manual data labeling
Bedrock Robotics and AWS have found a way to scale data preparation for autonomous construction machinery — instead of an army of annotators
Anthropic opens employee share sale at a $350 billion valuation
The creator of Claude is offering current and former employees the chance to sell up to $6 billion in shares — at the same valuation as in i
Claude Code surprised even Anthropic's CEO with its popularity
Claude Code, a programming tool, became an unexpected hit for Anthropic, turning the startup into one of the leaders of the AI industry. Eve
Oakley Meta smart glasses outperformed Ray-Ban in a field test
The new AI-powered sports smart glasses were tested on a five-mile walk — and proved better than a popular rival.
AI tax: analyst calls for protecting the labor market
The co-author of the Citrini Research report that sparked stock-market panic around AI proposed a tax on the technology to cushion mass layo
OpenAI drops the leading benchmark for evaluating code — and that changes the rules of the game
OpenAI announced that it will no longer use SWE-bench Verified — one of the most cited benchmarks for evaluating AI coding models. The reaso
Human labor behind humanoid robots is carefully hidden
Jensen Huang announced the era of "physical AI", but behind the impressive demonstrations of humanoid robots are hundreds of human operators
Kotlin Multiplatform and AI agents: four platforms, one nervous breakdown
A Russian developer described what it's really like to build AI agents across four platforms with Kotlin Multiplatform. Spoiler: Xcode and m
Anthropic Accuses DeepSeek and MiniMax of Stealing Knowledge from Its Models
Anthropic said that three Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek and MiniMax, had unlawfully extracted outputs from its models to strength
Spotify expands AI playlists to new markets: what it means
Spotify continues the expansion of Prompted Playlists — AI-generated playlists from text prompts are now available to Premium subscribers in
Particle now extracts podcast highlights for you
Particle, an AI news app, has added a feature that automatically extracts key moments from podcasts. Short audio clips are now embedded dire
Why Big Tech Is Drowning in the AI Slop of Its Own Making
Instagram’s chief complains about deepfakes while Meta floods feeds with synthetic content. Technologies for labeling AI-generated content a
Hugging Face and AWS build an open-source medical AI agent
Hugging Face's smolagents library now integrates with AWS cloud services to build agentic systems. The first use case is a clinical AI assis
OpenAI launches Frontier Alliance Partners to scale AI agents in business
OpenAI has introduced the Frontier Alliance Partners program, a partner network that will help enterprises move from pilot AI projects to fu
The MCP Revolution and the Search for Viable Enterprise AI Use Cases
Researcher Sebastian Walkötter examines the standardization of AI integrations, security issues, and the key question holding back enterpris
Nuclear LLMs, Chinese benchmarks, and the politics of measurement: highlights from Import AI 446
The new edition of the influential Import AI digest raises three key topics: the use of nuclear energy for data centers, an ambitious Chines
Where Tokens Leak in Cursor and How to Deal With It
A developer figured out why the $20-a-month Cursor plan runs out faster than expected and built a custom framework to save tokens. We break
Five architectural patterns without which agentic AI cannot survive in production
AI-based agentic systems are increasingly moving beyond prototypes, but most of them break down on the way to production. We examine which a
AI mathematical tricks are useless for scientific computing
Number formats created for neural networks are not suitable for physics, biology, and engineering simulations. German engineer Laszlo Hunhol
AI in cybersecurity: a powerful shield with a dangerous crack
Artificial intelligence has become the main weapon in cyber defense — but it has also turned into a target. How the industry is trying to us
Honor enters the humanoid robot market: why a smartphone company needs human-like machines
Chinese smartphone maker Honor is preparing to unveil its first humanoid robot. The company is joining a race that dozens of Chinese tech gi
Mastercard demonstrated a payment made by an AI agent instead of a human
At the AI Impact Summit 2026 in India, Mastercard carried out the first fully authenticated transaction in which a software agent completed
Altman proposed counting the cost of intelligence differently: 20 years of food versus one data center
The head of OpenAI entered the debate on AI energy efficiency with an unexpected argument: to compare the brain and a neural network fairly,
Hitachi bets on industrial expertise in the physical AI race
While OpenAI and Google scale multimodal models and Nvidia builds platforms, Japanese giant Hitachi enters the physical AI field with a trum
Taalas challenges GPUs: hardwired logic over flexibility for 17,000 tokens per second
Canadian startup Taalas is betting on what the AI chip industry considered heresy — replacing programmable GPUs with specialized hardwired c
The Code Is Written, the Architecture Is Dead: The Hidden Cost of AI-Assisted Development
LLM code generators make it possible to launch MVPs in days instead of months. But along with speed, teams get a technical debt “black box”
SK Hynix ramps up production of AI memory chips amid the global data-center boom
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won pledged to sharply increase output of memory chips for AI. Behind the announcement is a race for dominance in
Grindr tests AI matchmaking amid dating-app fatigue
The largest dating app for gay and bisexual men is launching a subscription in Australia with AI matchmaking priced at up to 350 dollars a m
TruLens: how to stop blindly trusting LLMs and start measuring quality
Language models still remain black boxes for most developers. TruLens offers a toolkit that makes every step of an LLM workflow transparent
Gemini 3.1 Pro: Google bets on complex tasks
Google unveiled Gemini 3.1 Pro — a model built for tasks where a simple answer is not enough. A new level of intelligence for the most deman
Google DeepMind launches AI initiative for science and education in India
DeepMind is expanding its national partnerships program: India will become a new hub for AI research and educational technology.
Gemini can now create music from text and photos
Google integrated the Lyria 3 model into Gemini — now any user can generate 30-second tracks from a description or an image.
Hong Kong AI stocks plunge: Zhipu loses 20%
A wave of selling hit Hong Kong's language-model sector — Zhipu shares plunged more than 20%, while MiniMax fell 13%.