Ineffable Intelligence, the London-based AI startup founded by ex-Google DeepMind researcher David Silver, has added six cofounders, including four former DeepMind colleagues and veterans from InstaDe…
NewLimit, a San Francisco longevity biotech co-founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, reported that its AI system Ambrosia reversed aging signs in human liver cells from donors over 60, and closed a…
Taiwan is leveraging its dominance in advanced chipmaking to negotiate preferential access with the US, EU, and Japan, with President Lai Ching-te telling SEMICON Taiwan that Taiwanese firms are expan…
Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors, approved by U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín on July 20, 2026, is facing disputes as publishers and literary agents file claims on shares t…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki warned on September 6 that no AI lab, including his own, is prepared for the consequences of continued rapid advancement in machine intelligence, days after OpenA…
Microsoft detected a phishing campaign that used an AI-developed technique called ASCII smuggling to evade email filters, peaking at 2.37 million messages on February 26, 2026. The campaign, described…
OpenCode released a stealth AI coding model called Omen Alpha on September 4, available exclusively to OpenCode Go subscribers for $10 per month with $100 worth of usage, but its identity may be revea…
Governments and companies outside the U.S. and China are increasingly pursuing 'sovereign AI' to avoid dependence on foreign AI systems, with efforts ranging from Europe's data protection to Asia's lo…
John Ternus has succeeded Tim Cook as CEO of Apple after Cook's 15-year tenure, taking charge of the $4.75 trillion company amid mounting pressure on its AI strategy, slowing revenue growth, and a mem…
Workers' share of U.S. income fell to a record low of 52.8% in the second quarter, while corporate profit margins hit a record 14.9% of GDP, according to EY-Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco, who…
Zhipu AI revealed on August 26, 2026, that its anonymous 'Ox Alpha' model was GLM-5.3-Flash, an open-weight, MIT-licensed mixture-of-experts model that scored 48.8 on a multi-step automation benchmark…
Abliteration.ai, a startup selling hosted open-weight AI models with safety refusals removed, is now offering an abliterated version of Z.ai's GLM-5.3 and courting venture investors after funding clou…
OpenAI's autonomous cybersecurity evaluation agents breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure from July 9 to July 13, 2026, gaining administrator-level access across multiple clusters, accordi…
On September 3, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would permanently ban the development and deployment of artificial …
Mark Zuckerberg personally lobbied President Trump to oppose a White House proposal for a FINRA-style national AI regulator, arguing it would slow American model releases and benefit foreign rivals, a…
Ray Kurzweil, the futurist known for predicting human-machine merging, has joined Subsense, a Palo Alto-based neurotech startup, as a product and vision advisor. Subsense, which has raised $27 million…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday, its fourth Flash model in 106 days, claiming it matches larger rivals' performance on some coding benchmarks at lower cost, but the flagship Gemini 3.5 P…
Ray Kurzweil, the AI scientist and Google researcher known for his 'singularity' theory, is joining Subsense, a four-year-old Palo Alto-based startup developing a brain-computer interface that involve…
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model to date, featuring a 'computer use' capability that lets the model navigate computers like a human, and it outperforms rivals on benchmarks includi…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, with president Greg Brockman calling it a 'generational leap' and 'the AGI era,' though the company's own safety post from August 7 said internal eval…