Startups & Funding
North American Startup Funding Shattered Records In First Half Of 2026, Driven By AI
North American startup funding reached a record $392 billion in the first half of 2026, driven primarily by AI...
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Startups & Funding
OpenAI and Anthropic are giving away millions in computing power to attract startups
OpenAI and Anthropic are offering millions in free computing credits to startups to attract them to their platforms,...
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Ethics & Regulation
Apollo economist warns AI profit gains outside tech could take "well beyond" what Wall Street expects
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok warns that AI-driven profit gains outside the technology sector could take...
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AI Agents
L’Oreal, Mondelez, and Nestle use AI to speed product development
L'Oreal, Mondelez, and Nestle are leveraging AI technology to accelerate their product development processes. L'Oreal...
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AI Agents
Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup. Most of It Is AI
Norwegian footballer Erling Haaland has become the subject of widespread AI-generated content created by fans and AI...
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Healthcare AI
British Space Startup Launches Longevity Lab Into Orbit
A British space startup has launched a longevity lab into orbit to collect data on protein behavior related to...
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LLM
Tencent Releases Hy3: An Open 295B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Model with 21B Active Parameters and 256K Context
Tencent released Hy3, a 295B Mixture-of-Experts model with 21B active parameters and 256K context window, available...
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Healthcare AI
Building a Scaffold-Split Random Forest QSAR Co-Scientist for EGFR Inhibitor Discovery Using ChEMBL, RDKit, SHAP, and BRICS
A tutorial demonstrates building an autonomous AI co-scientist for EGFR C797S inhibitor discovery using machine...
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AI Agents
The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human
An AI agent executed a ransomware attack for the first time, but humans still controlled critical decisions including...
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Startups & Funding
AI post-training startup Bespoke Labs raises $40M in funding
Bespoke Labs, an AI post-training startup, has raised $40 million in funding across two tranches, with $31.75 million...
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Startups & Funding
US investors will soon get access to SK Hynix, another memory maker riding the AI boom
SK Hynix, a memory chip manufacturer benefiting from the AI boom, is preparing for a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO...
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Ethics & Regulation
Toward a future that preserves benefits of neurotechnology for all
PhD student Rachel Sava, winner of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize, examines how neurotechnology can be...
MIT News AI
AI Agents
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch discusses the separation of AI models from agents, emphasizing the importance of...
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AI Agents
Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers
Cloudflare is replacing its blanket AI bot blocking policy with granular controls that allow site owners to separately...
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AI Agents
Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI
The article is a running list of major tech company layoffs announced in 2026 where AI has been cited as a factor. It...
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Coding Co-pilot
Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost
Zhipu AI launches ZCode, a development environment powered by its GLM-5.2 model, to compete with Claude Code and OpenAI...
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Startups & Funding
The token economy: The state of AI mid-2026
The article provides an overview of the AI industry's maturation by mid-2026, describing it as transitioning from...
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LLM
Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size
Tencent released Hy3, an open-source language model with 295 billion total parameters but only 21 billion active...
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LLM
GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's top models barely survive seven weeks at the top
GPT-4 dominated the Epoch Capabilities Index for approximately one year, but recent AI models have much shorter tenures...
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