Factbox-Major AI models at a glance
OpenAI will launch GPT-5.6 on Thursday after a delay due to U.S. government concerns over national security risks from powerful AI systems. The release intensifies competition among AI developers raci…
Google LLC is a multinational technology company and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. In AI, Google developed the Transformer architecture, the Gemini series of LLMs, and DeepMind's AlphaFold protein structure predictor.
OpenAI will launch GPT-5.6 on Thursday after a delay due to U.S. government concerns over national security risks from powerful AI systems. The release intensifies competition among AI developers raci…
Google announced the first 33 startups selected for its Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity program, which focuses on AI-native cybersecurity solutions. The cohort includes companies like Capsule Secu…
MiniMax, a Chinese AI lab, open-sourced M2.7 on April 12, 2026—a 230-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts agent model that actively participated in its own development cycle. During training, M2.7 had…
Most AI startups lack a defensible moat against foundation model companies like OpenAI, which can replicate thin wrappers and prompt engineering quickly. Defensible advantages come from proprietary da…
Google has updated its Android Bench LLM leaderboard with the Harbor framework, adding new models such as Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.5, and inviting community contributions to the benchmark. The changes…
A guest post by Aaron Kagan, founder of GraspingAI and chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Non-Academic Careers, argues that media reports about a boom in philosophy jobs at…
SEO is not dead, but low-quality SEO is dying as AI search relies on crawlable, structured, and trustworthy websites for citations. Google's generative AI features use retrieval-augmented generation (…
A developer observes a decline in readership for technical articles on dev.to, attributing it to the rise of AI-generated summaries and snippets that reduce the need for full reading. The developer no…
Smart glasses from Meta, Snap, and other tech giants are facing backlash as consumers label them 'pervert glasses' due to privacy concerns over covert recording and surveillance. Critics warn that the…
The FBI, Google, and other tech companies disrupted a residential proxy network operated by NetNut, which was linked to a botnet of 2 million compromised Android TVs and smart devices used for credent…
Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management chief portfolio manager Matt Stucky said AI spending is becoming more sensitive to capital market conditions, commenting on spending intentions for 2027. The rema…
Amazon's Moonraker project aims to transform Alexa into an AI agent capable of handling complex, multistep tasks, with projected GPU costs exceeding $100 million in 2026. The initiative uses hundreds …
Ford's F-150 information is fractured across multiple webpages optimized for human buying journeys, but AI assistants like Google's AI Overview struggle to synthesize it, instead pulling answers from …
Since AI, a nonprofit AI accelerator, launched a global ecosystem connecting 10,000+ AI builders with partners including Google, ElevenLabs, and Antler. Its flagship Hackathon 2026 in Turku, Finland, …
Adobe Advertising launched its Custom Algorithms product in general release, using Adobe Analytics data directly to optimize campaigns and train ad-bidding models. The product, which had been in beta …
DeepSeek is designing its own AI inference chip, targeting the phase where trained models generate responses, with manufacturing partner SMIC under US export controls. The chip leverages DeepSeek's Mi…
China warned of security risks in Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool, citing potential back-door vulnerabilities after a state-sponsored threat actor used the tool to automate a cyberespionage campaign. …
A24's horror film 'Backrooms' has surpassed $350 million globally, making it the studio's highest-grossing film and outperforming 'Obsession'. Directed by Kane Parsons, the film's success follows a re…
Researchers from Zhejiang University and Alibaba demonstrated a new denial-of-service attack on large language models by deliberately inducing "overthinking" through logically inconsistent prompts, ca…
More IT workers are seeking union representation amid mass layoffs, disillusionment with Big Tech, and fears that AI will displace jobs, but overall union membership in tech remains low at about 3.5%.…