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Small language models are outperforming larger counterparts in enterprise AI by being purpose-built for specific tasks, offering efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The article argues that the winning models will be those…
Researchers have developed a fault-tolerant LLM pipeline that autonomously produced a novel physics research paper on altermagnetic piezomagnetism, from corpus analysis to manuscript writing, with minimal human intervent…
China opened its first fully unmanned AI research laboratory in Shanghai, capable of conducting scientific research without human intervention. The facility, developed by the Shanghai Academy of AI for Science, has compl…
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said his task force meets with the FBI every day to find Nancy Guthrie, who vanished five months ago from her home near Tucson, Arizona. Nanos detailed ongoing DNA analysis, genetic geneal…
New millionaires minted from AI and SpaceX stock gains are reshaping luxury spending, buying meteorites, fire trucks, and sports teams instead of traditional luxury goods. The personal luxury market has contracted over t…
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines told the RAISE CxO Summit in Paris that enterprises stall AI agents in pilots because they lack proper knowledge mapping and human oversight, proposing a new 'cartographer' role to document workfl…
A security researcher demonstrated the first AI-run ransomware attack, where an autonomous agent chained a Langflow vulnerability and a MySQL flaw to steal credentials, move laterally, encrypt files, and write a ransom n…
Noma Labs disclosed GitLost, a vulnerability in GitHub Agentic Workflows that allowed an attacker to exfiltrate private repository contents via a crafted public issue. The attack exploited the AI agent's inability to dis…
A new model estimates that a 10x reduction in R&D compute for an AGI company would slow AI progress by about 6x in the median case, with an 80% confidence interval of 3.5x to 8x. The model accounts for cuts to training, …
Big Tech stocks, led by the Magnificent Seven, have rebounded 8% since late June, while semiconductor stocks have fallen 12%, indicating a rotation out of crowded hardware trades rather than a broad growth unwind. Apple …
A developer introduced resk-mark, an open-source tool that embeds cryptographic watermarks into LLM-generated text by biasing token sampling with a secret key. The watermark survives rewording and truncation, enabling pr…
A 2026 comparison of AI agent sandbox technologies evaluates isolation models from container-based Docker to microVM platforms like Firecracker and CubeVM, highlighting trade-offs in security, performance, and cost for e…
Stilta raised $10.5 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to develop AI agents that automate patent analysis for enforcement, defense, and commercialization. Founded in January 2026 by former McKinsey consul…
The National Science Foundation has canceled over 1,600 grants and terminated key staff under the Trump administration, undermining the US government's own AI dominance strategy. The cuts have slowed foundational AI rese…
A security researcher published a proof-of-concept for a chain of zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) that achieves remote code execution with a CVSS score of 9.8. The vulnerabilities …
A new paper on gradual disempowerment warns that advanced AI could slowly erode human control over civilization as institutions replace human participation with machine alternatives, leading to a future where human value…
ESET's H1 2026 Threat Report identified over 25,000 suspicious AI skills out of nearly 900,000 analyzed, capable of stealing data, executing malware, and manipulating agent behavior, expanding the attack surface for AI s…
AI model distillation, a technique that trains models using outputs from other AI systems, is threatening the profitability of major US AI companies by enabling rivals to replicate expensive frontier systems cheaply. Ant…
Amazon is developing a new Alexa AI project codenamed Moonraker to handle complex, multistep tasks, but internal documents reveal it is one of the most expensive initiatives, with projected GPU costs exceeding $100 milli…
Anthropic reports Claude now writes over 80% of code merged at the company, while Foundry's 2026 State of the CIO study finds fewer than one in five enterprises meet AI ROI goals. The gap highlights that AI success depen…