Robot Ventures is leading a $75 million investment round backed by USV and other major investors to fuel AI innovation, though questions remain about whether the capital is sufficient given the comput…
Augmodo Inc., a Seattle-based spatial AI startup, has raised $21 million in a funding round led by TQ Ventures, boosting its valuation to $350 million. The company plans to expand its AI-powered spati…
Apple's efforts to shield former design chief Jony Ive from a lawsuit involving OpenAI are faltering, raising questions about Ive's involvement and potential ramifications for Apple's design ethos. Th…
Researchers have developed a new hierarchical, skill-based architecture for Large Language Models that organizes capabilities into a rooted tree structure to improve decision-making and memory managem…
Researchers have introduced DUNE (Diffusion Unified Network refiNEr), a training-free framework that improves diffusion model outputs by detecting and suppressing abrupt fluctuations in deep latents, …
Ringd, a new AI notification startup, has launched with a promise to revolutionize alert management, but faces a saturated market and early traction of only two points on Hacker News and a single comm…
AI technologies are supercharging scams, making them more convincing and harder to detect, with deepfakes and AI-powered chatbots enabling fraudsters to mimic human communication and steal money and d…
Simon Fraser University (SFU) and legal technology firm Caseway announced a partnership in January 2026 to use artificial intelligence to improve legal accessibility, aiming to cut costs and simplify …
Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal outlined a strategy integrating financial services, autonomous vehicle technology, and AI advancements, with plans to embed financial products into its platfor…
Meta Platforms Inc. is expanding its Hyperion data center project in Richland Parish, Louisiana, increasing its investment from over $10 billion to over $50 billion. The massive commitment positions M…
AI is now involved in every stage of a cyberattack, from identifying targets to stealing data, according to research from Check Point. Criminal groups have been breaching government agencies using AI …
AgentCheck, an open-source tool, enables developers to simulate and fix 12 types of tool-related failures in AI agents before deployment, addressing a blind spot in AI development where assumed tool r…
A new test, the Epistemic Asymmetry Schelling Task (EAST), reveals significant gaps in large language models' functional social reasoning, challenging current benchmarks. Only the most advanced models…
A new multi-agent method for long-document summarization, tested on two scientific datasets, uses expert and editor roles to guide an LLM through stepwise questioning and revision, showing potential e…
Researchers have introduced Multi-Scale Convolution with Optimal Transport Attention (MSC-OT), a novel architecture that combines multi-scale convolution with Sinkhorn optimal transport to enhance att…
A study on explainable machine learning (XML) in mental health reveals that seemingly stable risk hierarchies from an ElasticNet model may be deceptive. Researchers at the University of Lausanne analy…
A study auditing four AI language models as history tutors found that safety-aligned models blocked 76.7% of educational requests from students perceived as low-tier, and exhibited biases such as usin…
Harness-native routing, which optimizes model selection based on the full execution state, is emerging as a key technique for building smarter AI agents, according to a technical analysis. The approac…
The AI Textbook Auditor, a system using advanced LLM agents, has been tested on Romanian upper-secondary textbooks, identifying 56 technical findings in a computer science textbook with 62.5% expert-v…
A novel framework decouples feature transformation from network topology in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to enhance structural robustness, introducing the Channel-Split Adaptive Gated GNN (CSAG-GNN) w…