SoftBank is investing $200 million in Gravis Robotics' Series A round, the largest in construction robotics history, to scale its autonomous control kits for excavators and mixed fleets. The Zurich-ba…
A large-scale trial in Pakistan found that a custom AI tool called JudgeGPT, built on OpenAI's GPT-4 and a knowledge base of nearly 130,000 judicial opinions and statutes, boosted the number of cases …
Auterion is equipping 50,000 Ukrainian-made SkyFall Shrike strike drones with its terminal-guidance system under a German-funded order worth about $103 million (90 million euros), with deliveries begi…
A technique called model distillation, which uses outputs from powerful AI systems to train smaller, cheaper models, has become the latest flashpoint in the U.S.-China AI race, with Washington and lea…
Researchers at DisneyResearch|Studios and ETH Zurich introduced scheduled inpainting, an inference-based method enabling interactive generative motion editing that unifies motion synthesis and editing…
Researchers from DisneyResearch|Studios and ETH Zurich have developed Two2Four, a generative framework that automatically converts ordinary human motion into plausible and controllable quadruped anima…
Switzerland has become the world's top hub for AI talent per capita, with more than 110 AI researchers per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report. OpenAI, Anthropic, Jeff …
Researchers introduced AgentGUI, a locally hosted graphical interface for observing and steering long-running AI agents across multiple concurrent sessions, achieving a 38% faster identification of ke…
Researchers from ETH Zurich, Anthropic, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Haifa introduced CryptanalysisBench, a benchmark to measure whether large language models can contribute to cryptanal…
Anthropic announced Monday that its Claude Mythos Preview model discovered mathematical weaknesses in two cryptographic algorithms, halving the effective key strength of the post-quantum signature sch…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview model found improved attacks against the HAWK post-quantum signature scheme and a reduced-round AES, but verifying the results took researchers nearly a month, highli…
Researchers at ETH Zurich, Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa and Anthropic published CryptanalysisBench, a benchmark for testing whether LLM agents can turn cryptographic reasoning into exe…
Anthropic announced that its Claude Mythos Preview model discovered improved attacks against two cryptographic algorithms, significantly weakening the post-quantum digital signature scheme HAWK and im…
Anthropic's per-model prompting pages serve as a maintenance list for instruction files like CLAUDE.md, which become stale after each model release because new models interpret prompts more literally,…
SoftBank Group is in early-stage talks to acquire Gravis Robotics AG, a Zurich-based startup that builds AI autonomy platforms for heavy construction machinery, according to reports. The deal would fo…
Black Forest Labs and Mimic Robotics have connected an early version of FLUX 3 to industrial robots, creating FLUX-mimic, which is being tested and deployed with Audi on manipulation jobs involving co…
SoftBank is not confirmed to be in acquisition talks with Gravis Robotics, despite the Zurich startup being a strategic fit for SoftBank's growing robotics portfolio. SoftBank has already agreed to bu…
Swiss AI released Apertus 1.5 on July 24, 2026, extending its 8B and 70B open-source models with native image understanding, a thinking mode, a 262,144-token context window (four times longer than Ape…
ETH Zurich, EPFL and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus 1.5 on July 24, 2026, the latest version of Switzerland's fully open language model that can now understand images…
ETH Zurich spin-off goNEON has secured CHF150,000 (approximately EUR160,000) from Venture Kick to develop an agentic AI platform for infrastructure planning. CEO Raphael Eder and CTO Dr Lukas Ballo pl…