A new analysis warns that the AI industry is hitting a 'data wall' as high-quality human-generated text becomes scarce, with Epoch AI projecting exhaustion between 2026 and 2032. In response, syntheti…
TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging capacity is sold out through 2025 and into 2026, with the supply-demand gap expected to narrow from around 20% to around 10% by the end of 2026, according to industry a…
A new analysis from Epoch AI finds that US GDP growth is understated by roughly 0.3 percentage points because Nvidia's chip design work is treated as a foreign import when chips are fabricated in Taiw…
Inner Mongolia's Ulanqab, historically known for livestock and potatoes, is now powering China's AI boom with cheap wind power and a cool climate. Chinese renewable energy company Envision Group broug…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Luna via its API on July 9, 2026, with vendor-reported HealthBench Professional score of 55.7, HealthBench score of 55.8, HealthBench Hard score of 32, and HealthBench Consensu…
Epoch AI estimates the effective stock of quality-adjusted public text at roughly 300 trillion tokens, which frontier developers could exhaust between 2026 and 2032, signaling the end of the scrape-fi…
AI companies are buying old printed books to train their models, with ISBNdb offering high-volume book acquisition services, because clean human text has become scarce. Epoch AI estimated in a 2024 pa…
Microsoft has roughly 2.2 million AI chips installed in its global datacentres, far below the 1.8 million chips it reportedly targeted for the end of 2024 and less than half of what some experts expec…
A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do, and generally accept AI output with little to no editing.…
Mistral AI announced Tuesday a three-part expansion of its infrastructure business, including regional inference endpoints, a Priority Tier with uptime guarantees, and a coalition of European enterpri…
Mistral launched Regional Endpoints, Priority Tier, and third-party open-model hosting on August 11, 2026, with EU or US region-pinned inference priced at 10% over list and an SLA-backed tier at 75% o…
OpenAI and Anthropic have suggested that within two years, AI agents could improve ChatGPT and Claude without human employees, a scenario called recursive self-improvement. Epoch AI senior researcher …
Google is in talks on a deal worth more than $1.5 billion with Mechanize, a San Francisco AI training startup founded by Tamay Besiroglu, Matthew Barnett, and Ege Erdil, according to Business Insider.…
Google is in talks to acquire talent from San Francisco startup Mechanize in a deal valued at over $1.5 billion, according to four people familiar with the conversations. The deal would involve a non-…
Three startups building AI mathematicians—Harmonic, Axiom Math, and Math Inc—raised over $580 million in the last twelve months, with Harmonic at a $1.45 billion valuation and Axiom Math jumping from …
A Chinese open-weight AI model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based Moonshot AI, has alarmed US AI executives due to its high performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary models. OpenAI …
Epoch AI estimated that the strongest open-weight models were about four months behind the best closed models through late May 2026, while Stanford's 2026 AI Index reported a 3.3 percentage-point gap …
In a social media post, an unnamed user reported that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro and Fable 5 Max, two AI models, classified results from Epoch AI's OpenMath benchmark using its rubric, with both models …
Epoch AI's price-trend series shows inference cost at fixed capability fell 100 to 1000 times in two years, with declines of 9x to 900x per year and a median around 50x per year, making model access a…
Epoch AI's FrontierMath benchmark now includes roughly 50 unsolved research-level mathematics problems in its Open Problems track, and AI systems have solved exactly three of them, a 6% success rate. …