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 …
A USC-led study used AI to analyze biomarkers including sweat, brain signals and eye movements to classify depression and suicidal ideation, offering a potential objective testing method for mental he…
Palantir Technologies introduced a new AI engine using NVIDIA Nemotron open models to provide secure, customizable AI for U.S. government agencies in air-gapped environments. The partnership enables a…
Capital One appointed Prem Natarajan, former head of Alexa AI at Amazon, as its Chief Scientist to lead AI research and deployment in financial services. The bank aims to solve domain-specific challen…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, imposing a 50% stock tax on large AI companies to create a $7 trillion public fund. The fund would distribute annual paym…
Blogger Noah Smith reflects on the diminishing influence of punditry in an era of populism, AI, and monetization, arguing that while blogging once allowed him to inject ideas into the discourse with s…
Radical AI founder Joseph Krause says the company's self-driving lab produced and characterized 1,200 alloys in six months, a nearly 10x speedup over the DARPA/GE MACH program. The lab uses an AI scie…
The DARPA-NSF-CAISI AI Forge Program has launched its next phase, releasing a report on critical AI challenges for national security and a Request for Information (RFI) targeting U.S. universities. Th…
DARPA's post-AIxCC bounty program led Xint.io to discover CVE-2026-31789, a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in OpenSSL that could enable code execution. Xint's AI-powered scan analyzed ove…