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Google may be testing an upgraded Gemini Flash model on the LM Arena, with early impressions showing incremental quality improvements over the current version. The checkpoint, possibly labeled Gemini 3.6 or Gemini 4 Flas…
Id Software announced 'Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations,' a downloadable expansion adding 10-12 hours of new content, including a Chain Spear weapon, new enemies, and six levels set in hell. The expansion, releasing Jul…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 announced the Builders Stage agenda, featuring sessions on scaling startups, fundraising, hiring, and AI strategy. Speakers include Gamma CEO Grant Lee, Precedent.vc founder Leah Solivan, and Goog…
GraphRAG, a retrieval-augmented generation method from Microsoft Research, uses knowledge graphs to connect entities and relationships, improving AI's ability to answer complex queries accurately. This shift from isolate…
Anthropic restored its Fable 5 AI model with enhanced safeguards after a two-week federal export-control freeze triggered by a jailbreak that identified software vulnerabilities. The Commerce Department imposed controls …
Factories in the Global South are requiring workers to wear head-mounted cameras to record their movements, using the footage to train humanoid robots that could eventually replace them. The practice, documented by the G…
Meta is developing a cloud infrastructure business to sell excess AI compute capacity and models, competing with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. The move follows SpaceX's similar deal with Anthropic and aims to m…
ER Steel, a global structural steel fabricator, argues that responsible AI infrastructure development requires integrated construction coordination, modular fabrication, and energy diversification, not just speed. With d…
At the AI Engineer World's Fair, industry leaders highlighted the growing importance of AI agent loops, where systems iteratively evaluate and refine their outputs without human intervention. Microsoft's Pablo Castro and…
Apple and Micron are blaming each other for memory price hikes and shortages amid surging AI demand. Apple CEO Tim Cook says memory suppliers are passing huge price increases, while Micron's Sumit Sadana counters that ag…
An engineer at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 presented a security framework for AI agents, advocating for a 'deny all by default' approach with layered defenses including kernel-level system call filtering, network acces…
A growing gap between insider and outsider access to frontier AI models threatens the effectiveness of external safety research, with government restrictions and deployment lags likely to widen the divide. The author arg…
Z.ai launched GLM-5.2, the first open-weight model to top the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard and beat proprietary coding products on SWE-bench Verified with a 72.3% score. Trained on Huawei Ascend hardware under Apache…
A Stanford study of 12,000 companies found that high AI-adoption firms grew headcount by 10.2% and entry-level hiring by 12% over 18 months, while low-AI firms shrank by 1.8%. The data challenges the narrative that AI el…
Researchers introduced Pollux, a new class of decoder-only LLMs that use native Leech-lattice quantization to achieve 0.76 bits per parameter, compressing a 1B-class model into 76 MB of SRAM. The model abandons continuou…
DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-source model family that outperforms Claude Opus 4.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, challenging frontier AI labs.
A new survey published in AI & SOCIETY reveals that AI experts are significantly more optimistic about the future of automation than the general public, with experts perceiving lower risks and greater benefits. The study…
Intel's new ASUS NUC 16 Pro mini PCs, tested in a cluster of three, failed to speed up large language model inference, with token generation dropping to half the single-machine rate due to memory bandwidth limitations. T…
Cloudflare announced it will default to blocking mixed-use crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites, citing broken crawl-for-traffic bargains with AI companies. The move affects roughly 20 percent of the we…
Apptronik unveiled Apollo 2, a humanoid robot designed for real-world industrial tasks, alongside the opening of its expanded Robot Park in Austin, Texas. The robot, available in bipedal and wheeled versions, collects op…