Elon Musk predicted that fully AI-generated movies will be possible by the end of 2026, following xAI's release of Grok Imagine Video 1.5 and an Imagine API for video generation. The claim aligns with…
Aikido Security launched Code Audit, a static code analysis product that uses agentic reasoning to detect complex vulnerabilities spanning multiple files, aiming to bridge the gap between SAST and hum…
Over 7,000 exposed Langflow AI agent servers are under active attack, with researchers uncovering similar vulnerabilities in LangGraph and LangChain-core that allow SQL injection, path traversal, and …
Nobel Prize-winning chemist John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic, as reported by Reuters on June 19, 2026. Jumper, known for leading the AlphaFold project that predicted protein struct…
ImagineArt 1.5 Pro Preview defeated Bagel 27.0 to 20.1 in a head-to-head image generation test, winning on three tasks including a Brutalist fjord terminal and a scene with 13 yaks. The test used fres…
Subquadratic, a Miami AI startup, claims to have broken through the transformer attention bottleneck that limits large language models, introducing Subquadratic Sparse Attention (SSA) to enable effici…
Jack Dorsey's Block revealed that its internal AI engineering system, Builderbot, now accounts for 15% of all production code changes at the company. The system, built on Block's open-source framework…
In a head-to-head comparison of four text tasks, xAI's grok-4.3 scored 37.8 against OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b at 34.4, winning on precision in fact-based summarization. The models tied on two coding tasks…
Subquadratic founders Justin Dangel and Alex Whedon released third-party benchmarks from Appen to support their claim that SubQ, a sparse-attention LLM, outperforms dense transformers on long-context …
Hugging Face released ML-Intern, an open-source agent that automates the machine learning research loop from literature review to training runs, on June 18. The tool has been used over 12,000 times si…
CuspAI, a two-year-old materials discovery startup, is raising $400 million at a $2.6 billion valuation, with participation from Jeff Bezos's family office and Kleiner Perkins. The round, reported by …
Luma Ray 3.2 Image to Video defeated Bernini-R Edit Video 16.2 to 12.3 in a head-to-head comparison of two AI video generation models, based on two fresh video tasks scored by GPT-5.4. Luma delivered …
XAI has made Grok 4.3 available on Amazon Bedrock, allowing AWS customers to use the model as a managed service for enterprise reasoning and agentic workflows. The integration, announced June 17, posi…
Snap co-founder and CTO Bobby Murphy is personally investing in Dotmo, a new company spun out of Snap's generative AI video team to build models for interactive gaming experiences. Snap will license t…
Alex Mashrabov's AI video startup Higgsfield claims a $500 million revenue run rate, up from $50 million in September 2025, as it raises a Series B round driven by inbound investor interest. The compa…
Ideogram V4.0q Text to Image defeated Bagel 23.0 to 14.0 in a head-to-head comparison of text-to-image models, winning on prompt adherence, text accuracy, and spatial arrangement across three editoria…
Sebastian Kurz and Shalev Hulio's AI cybersecurity startup DREAM raised $260 million in Series C funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Bicycle Capital and Group 11. The company sells sovereign AI …
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper and former Character.AI CEO, is leaving Google's Gemini team to join OpenAI in an architecture research role, shifting a key model builder from the lab…
Swiss private AI infrastructure startup Prem AI is raising a $100 million Series A round at a target valuation of at least $500 million, according to Bloomberg. The company, led by founder and CEO Sim…
Bryant Chou, former Webflow CTO and co-founder, raised $27 million in seed funding for Ploy, an AI marketing platform that automates website updates and growth operations after launch. The platform in…