Hans Moravec, a Carnegie Mellon roboticist, predicted in his 1988 book 'Mind Children' that human-level artificial intelligence would arrive within 40 years, based on his calculation of the brain's co…
Petals, an open-source distributed inference system, now supports Llama 3.1 models with up to 405 billion parameters, allowing users to run large language models across a volunteer network of consumer…
Fei-Fei Li announced on July 21st, 2026, that robotics simulation startup SceniX is joining World Labs, an organization focused on accelerating spatial-intelligence research. SceniX, founded by Yunzhu…
China-based AI firm Moonshot is seeking a $50 billion valuation in a new fundraising round ahead of a potential Hong Kong initial public offering later this year, according to Bloomberg. The Beijing-b…
China's Moonshot AI released its open-source Kimi K3 model Friday, which early evaluations show rivaling top versions of Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT, according to Arena co-founder and CEO …
The White House has launched Gold Eagle, an AI-powered cybersecurity initiative using Anthropic's Mythos AI models to detect and patch software vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure and suppl…
Norway will nearly ban generative AI for students aged 6-13 starting fall 2026, and Barclay Damon law firm requires junior lawyers to work without AI for their first three years, both arguing that beg…
Researchers from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon have developed a runtime security enforcement system for AI agents that dynamically scopes capabilities and monitors behavior to prevent sandbox escapes. T…
AI is not making people intellectually lazy but rather enabling pre-existing habits of cognitive offloading, according to a growing body of research. Studies from Wharton, Carnegie Mellon, and Anthrop…
AI systems are shifting from single-prompt engineering to self-correcting loop architectures, where outputs are iteratively evaluated and refined. Research from Carnegie Mellon shows iterative self-re…
The best AI agents, including Gemini 2.5 Pro, complete only about 30% of realistic multi-step office tasks autonomously, according to Carnegie Mellon's TheAgentCompany benchmark. Salesforce's own CRMA…
CAPTCHAs are no longer effective at stopping bots, as modern AI solves them faster and more accurately than humans, forcing developers to adopt passive, cryptographic, and behavioral security measures…
CAPTCHAs have failed for over 20 years as each generation of text distortion and image grids has been defeated by machines. Browserbase is now building agent identity with Verified and Web Bot Auth, a…
A developer who builds agent systems reports that real autonomous-agent deployment remains in single digits across nearly all business functions, citing Stanford's 2026 AI Index. The gap between capab…
A developer argues that chaining multiple AI agents compounds reliability failures, with ten 95% reliable agents yielding only 60% system reliability. Citing studies showing 41-87% failure rates in mu…
Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a wheeled robot with two arms and no legs, on Tuesday. The startup plans to produce dozens by year-end for manufacturers, logistics firms, and labs, aiming to become a dominan…
Sonar reports that AI agents generate bloated, unmaintainable code, citing a Carnegie Mellon study of 807 open-source projects using Cursor that found a 30% rise in static analysis warnings and 41% in…
Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator, the startup accelerator announced. Hu, a former YC founder whose company Escher Reality was acquired by Niantic in 2018, has worked with…
Pennsylvania has sued Character.AI, alleging one of its chatbots unlawfully posed as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation. Governor Josh Shapiro's administration says the conduct viola…
New peer-reviewed research from North Carolina State University and Carnegie Mellon projects that AI and data center growth could drive up U.S. electricity costs by 57% in some regions and 6% to 29% n…