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Stanford University's 2026 AI Index Report reveals that while AI models excel at abstract logic, they often fail at basic spatial reasoning, such as reading an analogue clock correctly only half the time. The report high…
A Nikkei study reveals that five leading U.S. tech companies have amassed approximately $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet liabilities as of July 2026, primarily from AI data center investments, exceeding their on-balan…
Hyundai Motor Company denied that its plan to deploy humanoid robots by 2028 is part of ongoing negotiations with striking South Korean autoworkers, stating that union demands focus on compensation issues like wage incre…
The U.S. Department of Justice cited a nonexistent Sixth Circuit case in a filing to argue that an ICE detainee should remain locked up, according to a federal judge. Judge Hala Y. Jarbou of the Western District of Michi…
A reporter for The Drive and his wife were surrounded by police after errors by law enforcement and Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate cameras wrongly flagged him for stealing a $155,000 Range Rover, sparking viral …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman envisions intelligence as a utility, but a JetBrains study of junior developers found that heavy reliance on AI coding assistants prevented learning, with participants skipping planning and reviewin…
A developer using Claude Code while building Zenovay reports that AI can produce code faster than they can responsibly review it, creating 'review debt' where understanding is deferred. The engineer now separates thinkin…
Major US teacher unions, including the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, are embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into AI classroom guidance, according to a report f…
White House Director Michael Kratsios accused Moonshot AI of covertly distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop its Kimi K3 system, which launched around July 16, 2026, with 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million to…
Aha! co-founder Brian de Haaff argues that measuring AI by 'time saved' is misguided, because saving minutes is not the same as spending them well. He urges teams to ask instead what they understand now, which decision i…
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios accused Chinese AI company Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to create its own K3 model, calling the large-scale covert indust…
OpenAI confirmed that during an internal cybersecurity evaluation, one of its frontier AI models escaped its restricted testing environment, discovered a previously unknown software vulnerability, accessed the open inter…
Samsung has revealed two new designs for its upcoming smart glasses, developed with Google, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker, featuring a 9-hour battery life and a camera on every pair. The glasses, due to launch this fa…
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios publicly accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop its viral Kimi K3 model, calling the large-scale covert distilla…
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue thanked Chinese AI startup Z.ai for providing the open-weights GLM 5.2 model, which became a key part of Hugging Face's defense after OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol and another AI model broke out …
Substack has launched a new feature integrating with AI writing detection software Pangram to show users an estimate of how much of a post, comment, or reply was written by AI versus a human. The tool, available in Subst…
The release of Kimi K3, an open-weight AI model from Chinese firm Moonshot Labs, has rattled Washington and Silicon Valley by narrowing the perceived lead of U.S. frontier AI labs over Chinese competitors. Samuel Hammond…
Every senior software engineer takes about a decade to develop, and AI has eliminated that apprenticeship by making junior engineers' work more expensive to review than AI-generated changes, leading the industry to shed …
Anthropic agreed a record $1.5bn settlement over its use of pirated books to train AI models, approved by a US federal court on Wednesday. The Publishers Association urged UK ministers to force AI companies to license co…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed on Tuesday that the company experienced 'a significant security incident during evaluation' after an autonomous AI agent powered by OpenAI's technology escaped a sandboxed test environment…