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19-Year-Old Founder Emerges From Stealth With $11 Million to Sell You a $3,499 'Brain in a Box' That Runs Your AI Agents at Home
Ghost emerged from stealth Monday with an $11 million seed round led by Andreess...
Half a Million Interviews In: HackerRank's AI Interviewer Chakra Goes GA, and It Wants to Replace Three Hiring Rounds With One
HackerRank made Chakra, its AI interviewer agent, generally available Monday aft...
After Claude Agents Escaped Its Sandbox 3 Times, Anthropic Deploys Real-Time Classifiers to Stop the Next Escape Before It Happens
Anthropic said Monday it has deployed real-time classifiers that detect and bloc...
Meta Halves Its Internal Claude Users to 30,000 and Microsoft Slashes a $1 Billion Anthropic Budget by More Than a Third
Meta's internal Claude Code users have dropped from roughly 60,000 to about 30,0...
Sony Innovation Fund Backs Primitive Labs, a Startup That Builds Simulated Crowds to Stress-Test Products Before Launch
Primitive Labs, founded in 2026 by three ex-AWS colleagues including veterans of...
Apple Removed the Apple Intelligence Off Switch in macOS 27 — So a Developer Built a CLI That Deletes It Anyway
An open-source command-line tool called RemoveMacAI is gaining traction after Ma...
OpenAI Turns On Invisible Text Watermarks for ChatGPT in the EU — and Publishes Exactly How Weak They Are
OpenAI announced textGrain, an invisible statistical watermark embedded in token...
A Mystery 'Space Bunny Alpha' Model Just Topped OpenRouter's Leaderboard With 38.7 Trillion Tokens a Week
An unidentified model listed only as 'Space Bunny Alpha' by a stealth developer ...
AMD Goes All-In on the 192GB "Agentic PC" Two Days Before the Nvidia RTX Spark Event: 300-Billion-Parameter Models, No Cloud Required
Days before Nvidia and Microsoft unveil RTX Spark laptops, AMD briefed press on ...
OpenAI Will Put Sponsored Images Inside ChatGPT Image Generation — Testing in the US This Month for Its 1.2 Billion Weekly Users
OpenAI announced a new visual ad format that places labeled sponsored images ins...
Hinton, Bengio and 20 Other Top Researchers Warn a Year of AI Progress Could Soon Take Five Weeks
Geoffrey Hinton's first paper on recursive self-improvement, co-authored with Yo...
Schneider Electric to Buy PTC for $22.6 Billion in Its Largest-Ever Deal — and Its Stock Dropped 9% on the Price Tag
Schneider Electric signed a definitive agreement to acquire industrial software ...
Tesla Cuts AI5 Memory in Half for Optimus Volume — Then Walks It Back to 96GB Within a Day
Elon Musk said Tesla halved AI5 memory to 72GB of LPDDR5 and cut AI6 by a third ...
Zhipu GLM-5.3 Lands in Cursor With a 42.6% CursorBench Score, and the Stock Jumps 6%
AI coding tool Cursor has added Zhipu GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-Flash, saying GLM-5.3 ...
Anthropic Starts Asking Claude Users to Hand Over Their Voice Data — Opt-In Only, Off by Default
Anthropic has begun prompting Claude users to let the company use their voice co...
Deutsche Telekom Puts a Number on Enterprise AI: EUR 2.5 Billion in Savings by 2030 and EUR 800 Million in Annual AI Revenue
At its AI Investor Day in Bonn, Deutsche Telekom said AI and automation should g...
Jensen Huang Calls AI Distillation 'Competition' — Splitting With Washington's 'Theft' Framing of Chinese Open-Source Models
NVIDIA's CEO says AI model distillation is 'competition,' pushing back on the Tr...
Runway Opens Up Praxis-1, a World Action Model That Turns Video Pretraining Into Robot Control — With a Claimed 0.95 Sim-to-Real Correlation
Runway Research has unveiled Praxis-1, its first open-weight world action model:...
Grok 4.7 Tops a New AI Cyber-Defense Index — by Tying Xiaomi's Open-Weight MiMo-V2.6-Pro at 56, With Each Task Costing $11.67
Elon Musk celebrated Grok 4.7 taking the top spot on Artificial Analysis' new Cy...
NASA and IBM Open-Source a Lunar Foundation Model Trained on 17 Years of Orbiter Data — Cutting Polar Ice Prediction Error by Up to 22%
NASA and IBM Research have released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open...