DARPA selected Xint, the autonomous pentesting platform built by security researchers at Theori, to conduct deep security analyses of internally and externally developed messaging applications used th…
A developer argues that explainable AI's core unresolved problem is not computing explanations but communicating them to the people who must act on them, without overstating their certainty. The piece…
Meta agreed last month to pay up to $17.1 billion to 47 states, D.C., and territories over claims it designed its platforms to addict children and misled the public about its own research, the largest…
DARPA is launching the Documentation and Decision Support (D2) Sprint, a $1 million prize competition to advance AI-driven medical tools for battlefield casualty care, where 75% of pre-hospital combat…
Parallel Works and CoreWeave have partnered to deliver a managed AI cloud environment for DARPA biological research, combining Parallel Works' ACTIVATE platform with CoreWeave's GPU infrastructure to …
In a 2019 essay, computer scientist Rich Sutton argues that 70 years of AI research show general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, citing examples from computer ches…
Researchers from MIT and DARPA introduced an LLM-driven approach that generates dynamic algorithmic dispatch heuristics for high-performance linear algebra, using LLaMA 3 and a curated performance dat…
A Chinese humanoid robot, Tiangong Ultra, sprinted 100 meters in 9.39 seconds on August 22, 2026, at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, beating Usain Bolt's 2009 world record of 9.58 seconds. …
The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, valued at over $2 trillion, should purchase OpenAI, currently valued at around $800 billion, to manage the AI lab for the benefit of the international com…
Google's HEIR compiler toolchain for fully homomorphic encryption has reached four working demos of AI inference on encrypted data, including a deep-learning recommendation model, credit-card fraud de…
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School flew an AI agent through 27 live, sensor-guided fighter intercepts on the X-62 VISTA, the first flight-test series where onboard …
AI safety prizes, proposed as a pull-funding alternative to upfront grants, could incentivize breakthroughs by paying only for verified progress, with DARPA's autonomous vehicle challenges cited as a …
Microsoft hired Taesoo Kim, former Georgia Tech professor and leader of Team Atlanta, as VP of Security Research to head the new Microsoft Security FORGE Labs after his team won DARPA's AIxCC competit…
Google's Big Sleep AI agent found a live memory-safety bug in SQLite (CVE-2025-6965) and got it patched before exploitation, marking the first time an AI has foiled a real exploit pre-deployment. A ho…
DARPA and the U.S. Air Force flew an AI-controlled F-16 on July 16 as part of the VENOM program, using a retrofit kit that interfaces with the jet's flight controls without modifying its core software…
DARPA awarded PsiQuantum a $125 million agreement, its largest quantum computing award ever, announced Wednesday alongside the White House's additional $5 billion for the Genesis Mission. The coordina…
The U.S. Air Force and DARPA have flown an AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet under the Viper Experimentation and Next-generation Operations Model (VENOM) program, marking a milestone in autonomous combat…
Datacenter capital expenditure is spilling over into a 'ChatGPT of Robotics' moment expected by 2027, according to AI Supremacy analyst Mike. The convergence of AI, robotics, and national defense spen…
SpaceX launched Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday at 5:15 p.m., sending the first commercial spacecraft with robotic servicing capabilities …
Applied Intuition cofounders Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig argue that physical AI companies automating trucks, mines, and farms will ultimately become larger than any digital AI company, as operators …