2026
Chinese startup ZhiPingFang became a unicorn after a record 12 investment rounds in one year
General-purpose robot developer ZhiPingFang closed its Series B round and officially surpassed a valuation of 10 billion yuan amid growing i
OpenAI and Paradigm developed a test for AI auditing of smart contracts
The new EVMbench benchmark measures how well AI agents can find and fix critical vulnerabilities in blockchain code.
Game of Life as a Path to AGI: A New View of the Nature of Mind
A Russian researcher proposes an unexpected approach to creating strong AI through a neural network that learns the rules of the “Game of Li
London police use Palantir AI to monitor their own officers
Scotland Yard confirmed the use of Palantir tools to analyze staff behavior — the police federation called it "automated suspicion" and dema
Apple bets on visual intelligence as the foundation of wearables
Tim Cook described Visual Intelligence as the defining technology for Apple's next generation of wearables. The company is preparing a major
Why CLAUDE.md Won’t Save Your Project: Lessons From a Failed AI Adoption in Development
A developer candidly explained how he tried to bring AI assistants into his team during a migration to a new stack — and why the magic confi
3-Billion-Parameter Model From Chinese HR Giant Tops HuggingFace Ranking
Nanbeige4.1-3B — a compact open model from Boss Zhipin's lab — unexpectedly took first place in HuggingFace's text model trends, ahead of fa
Google pays cloud providers to switch to its own accelerators
Google has started offering financial incentives to cloud providers to buy its in-house AI accelerators instead of NVIDIA solutions. The mov
How AI agents for writing code work and what matters to know about them
From context compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, we break down the mechanics of tools that are already changing the programming prof
Anthropic reshuffles leadership to back internal experimentation lab
Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger is leaving his role as Anthropic’s head of product to lead internal incubator Labs. The company is betting
Google Veo 3.1 can turn portrait photos into vertical videos
Google has updated its Veo 3.1 video generation model: it now follows reference images better, supports vertical format, and can increase re
Google argues for thinking deeper, not longer — and halves inference costs
Researchers from Google and the University of Virginia have shown that a long chain of reasoning is not necessarily a good one. The new Deep
Alibaba Cloud updates Coding Plan: new Qianwen and GLM models
Alibaba Cloud's Coding Plan platform has gained support for the Qianwen 3.5 and GLM-4.7 language models, intensifying competition in the mar
Year of the Horse: Zhipu and MiniMax rise 500% since IPO
On the first trading day of the Year of the Horse, shares of Chinese AI companies Zhipu and MiniMax posted sharp gains — up more than 500% s
Alibaba Cloud opens access to a multi-model builder for developers
Alibaba's cloud platform has launched the Coding Plan subscription with support for several competing AI models for programming at once — fr
Google goes all in: Alphabet invests $180 billion in AI
Alphabet plans to channel record funding into AI infrastructure development in 2026. Explosive growth in its cloud business and investor con
Zhipu AI acknowledged mistakes in the GLM-5 launch and offered compensation
Chinese developer Zhipu AI encountered technical problems and a surge of users after launching the new model, promising subscription refunds
Chinese funds to channel 90 billion yuan into AI development
New investment from China is preparing to enter the market. Investors are focused on AI and global technological leadership.
Google vice president predicts the demise of two types of AI startups
A Google executive warns that language-model wrappers and AI aggregators may not survive the next wave in generative AI's evolution. Margins
How Claude Code solved in 40 minutes a task a programmer failed to solve five years ago
An engineer with no programming background built an MVP for video motion detection in industrial IoT using Claude Code. It took 40 minutes i
How to teach a language model to write so it’s indistinguishable from a human newsroom
A development team explained how they tackled a nontrivial task: getting an LLM to imitate the style of a specific media outlet so well that
Agentation: the tool changing the way developers communicate with AI agents
In two months, Agentation reached 120,000 downloads on npm and promises to make work with Claude Code twice as fast. We look at what is behi
Microsoft bets on superconductors to power AI data centers
Copper wires can no longer meet AI's power demands. Microsoft is investing in high-temperature superconductors capable of transmitting ten t
The end of vibe coding: how to build an LLM-assisted development process that doesn’t kill the project
A developer spent a year using language models to write code and hit a classic trap: clean output, chaos when the project scales. His soluti
How MCP servers are turning IDEs into smart developer assistants
A developer connected WHOIS checks to Cursor through an MCP server and no longer had to manually check taken domains. But the main point her
OpenAI quietly rewrote its mission: “benefiting all of humanity” and safety disappeared
OpenAI quietly changed the wording of its mission, removing references to “benefiting all of humanity” and safety. What is behind this shift
Altman acknowledged: Chinese AI is advancing «surprisingly fast»
The head of OpenAI publicly noted the rapid progress of Chinese rivals. Behind the compliment lies concern — and possibly a bid for new inve
Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro sets new benchmark records again
Google has introduced Gemini 3.1 Pro, a language model that broke records on key benchmarks. But behind the numbers is something more: an at
G42 and Cerebras deploy 8 exaflops of compute power in India
Emirati tech company G42 is joining forces with US chipmaker Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of compute infrastructure in India — and that shi
When Neural Networks Litigate: How Multi-Agent Systems Are Changing Legal AI
Researchers at Tsinghua and the Russian team AiYurist independently reached the same conclusion: to stop AI from hallucinating in court, neu
Amazon blamed employees for its AI agent’s mistake
Amazon’s AI assistant Kiro independently decided to delete and recreate a working environment, causing a 13-hour AWS outage in China. The co
Trump lifts environmental restrictions on coal power plants for AI data centers
The Trump administration scrapped standards on mercury and toxic emissions for power plants just as electricity demand is surging because of
Sending AI Data Centers Into Space. Is It Realistic?
Generative AI consumes large amounts of energy and is heating up the planet. Engineers are seriously discussing a radical solution: move com
Nvidia Ready to Invest $30 Billion in OpenAI Amid Stalled Megadeal
While the fate of the $100 billion September round remains uncertain, Nvidia is in talks over a new $30 billion investment in OpenAI. What i
OpenAI moves into hardware: its first device will be a smart speaker with a camera
OpenAI is preparing its first hardware product — a $200–300 smart speaker with a camera, facial recognition, and the ability to “see” the su
Anthropic vs. the war machine: principles at the cost of a billion-dollar contract
Anthropic refuses to allow its AI to be used in autonomous weapons and surveillance systems. That principled stance could cost the company a
OpenAI invested $7.5 million in independent AI safety research
OpenAI is funding an independent project on aligning AI with human values as the stakes rise with AGI drawing closer.
How AI Is Transforming Corporate Treasury Management
AI is replacing Excel spreadsheets with automated data, helping finance teams cope with market volatility and new regulatory requirements.
MIT reveals LLM secrets: how to find hidden emotions and bias
A new method for analyzing neural networks makes it possible to detect hidden characteristics, such as mood and abstract concepts, buried de
OpenAI lowers planned compute spending to $600 billion
OpenAI has revised its long-term capital spending strategy: instead of its previous ambitions, the company now plans to spend “just” $600 bi
Reload creates shared memory for AI agents
Startup Reload raised $2.275 million and introduced Epic, its first AI employee, with shared memory for all agents.
OpenAI is raising $100 billion at a valuation above $850 billion
Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank and Microsoft are poised to close the largest investment deal in the history of the AI industry.
Microsoft fights AI deception: new content verification plan
Microsoft has introduced a system for identifying AI content to distinguish reality from deepfakes.
Amazon QuickSight introduces secure authentication for Snowflake
Amazon QuickSight has added support for key-pair authentication for Snowflake, providing a new level of security for cloud analytics and ent
The illusion of an arms race: why the US and China are developing AI differently
While the US invests billions in the search for digital superintelligence, Beijing is deploying the technology in factories and agriculture.
India gathers global AI leaders at a four-day summit
OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google and Microsoft have gathered in India for the largest AI forum attended by heads of state.
Reddit tests AI product search with prices and links
The platform is launching interactive product cards directly in search results — with photos, prices, and buy buttons.
AI chatbots give worse answers to vulnerable users
An MIT study found that the quality of AI responses depends on the user's education level and language proficiency. The system does not work
Perplexity changes course: why AI search is turning away from mass advertising
Startup Perplexity is revising its monetization strategy. Instead of chasing ad reach, the company is focusing on the premium segment and se
Code Metal raises $125M to modernize defense software with AI
The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors — without risking new errors.
YouTube brings conversational AI to TV screens
The video platform is testing an AI assistant for Smart TV that answers questions about video content directly during playback.
AI will replace tasks, but not people: startup CEOs' view
Read AI and Lucidya executives explained why AI will not eliminate jobs, but only change the nature of work.
Investors Want Anthropic Shares but Can't Find a Way Into the Market
Anthropic's tools have sparked a frenzy in the markets, but its private-company status closes the door to most traders. Learn why investing
Accenture to tie employee promotions to AI use
Consulting giant Accenture has started tracking how often employees use AI tools and made it a condition for promotion to leadership roles.
DBS Bank to let AI agents make payments on behalf of customers
DBS, Southeast Asia's largest bank, has launched a pilot with Visa in which AI agents will be able to make payments autonomously on behalf o
Berlin-based Plato raises $14.5 million for AI automation in wholesale distribution
Startup Plato has secured a major seed round from Atomico to bring generative AI to wholesale distribution — a trillion-dollar industry that
Fomi: the AI overseer that scolds you for procrastinating
Fomi’s new tool watches your work through your camera and screen, then comments when you get distracted. It sounds dystopian, but its creato
Schneider Electric: AI can not only consume energy, but also save it
Schneider Electric CEO Olivier Blum said that AI, despite its growing appetite for electricity, can become a key tool for energy savings. A
Neuro-symbolic AI: how to finally get language models to do arithmetic
Language models fail at elementary arithmetic, and neither Chain-of-Thought nor fine-tuning helps. A Russian researcher proposed an architec
Altman warned: dictators with AI are more dangerous than we think
At an AI summit in India, OpenAI chief Sam Altman said humanity must remain "humble" in the face of superintelligence and named the main thr