Alistair Barr / Business Insider: TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023 Follow
OpenAI's massive round and lots of model releases.
A Pentagon AI program called Project Maven is at the center of the US strikes against Iran and potentially one of the most consequential transformations of modern warfare.
There’s a particular kind of tedium that every AI engineer knows intimately: the prompt-tuning loop. You write a system prompt, run your agent against a benchmark, read the failure traces, tweak the p
AI models are rapidly improving at exploiting security vulnerabilities. According to a new study, their offensive cyber capability has been doubling every 5.7 months since 2024, with Opus 4.6 and GPT-
A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI benchmarks, and that splitting your annotation budget the right way matters just
AI chatbot traffic is growing seven times faster than social media, but still has four times less total traffic, a Similarweb analysis shows. The data reveals differences in device usage and user beha
Reinforcement learning hits a wall with reasoning models because every token gets the same reward. A new algorithm from Alibaba's Qwen team fixes this by weighting each step based on how much it shape
Financial Times: Sources: the UK has stepped up its efforts to get Anthropic to expand in the country, including a dual listing proposal, after Anthropic's clash with the US DOD Keir Starmer's gover
Ismail Shakil / Reuters: US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs is indefinitely withholding access to imagery of Iran and the conflict region, citing US government's request Satellite imaging
Sam Clark / Politico: EU legislation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning by tech and social media companies expired April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension Scanning private
This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip ahead a century and imagine ordinary life in a world that's had a hundred years to absorb the things we're only beginning to build. No
Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: How India's film industry is embracing AI, as studios use the tech to cut production time and costs, while union rules constrain its use in Hollywood India's studios are
AppleInsider: Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs for Apple Silicon Macs; it's meant for AI research, not accelerating graphics Apple has signed a drive
This National Robotics Week, NVIDIA is highlighting the breakthroughs that are bringing AI into the physical world as well as the growing wave of robots transforming industries, from agricultural an
It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools.
AI companions are always available, never judge, never tire and never demand anything in return. If someone is struggling with loneliness, this frictionlessness can seem profoundly appealing. However,
Netflix has open-sourced an AI framework that can remove objects from videos and automatically adjusts the physical effects those objects had on the rest of the scene. The article Netflix open-sources
Plus: The FBI says a recent hack of its wiretap tools poses a national security risk, attackers stole Cisco source code as part of an ongoing supply chain hacking spree, and more.
Three executives are stepping back at OpenAI, two for health reasons. President Greg Brockman steps in to fill part of the gap. The article OpenAI reshuffles leadership as health issues force key exec
Video editing has always had a dirty secret: removing an object from footage is easy; making the scene look like it was never there is brutally hard. Take out a person holding a guitar, and you’re lef
Anthropic is paying 400 million dollars for an eight-month-old biotech startup with fewer than ten employees. The investor walks away with a 38,513 percent return. The article Anthropic drops 400 mill
Anthropic is cutting off Claude usage through external tools like OpenClaw for subscription customers. The decision exposes a core problem in the AI industry: flat-rate pricing and agent-driven nonsto
Politico: The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play The resistance on Capitol Hill ra
Bloomberg: Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages Chinese humanoid robot maker UB
Anna Tong / Forbes: Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans The company says the
In this tutorial, we explore the full capabilities of Z.AI’s GLM-5 model and build a complete understanding of how to use it for real-world, agentic applications. We start from the fundamentals by set
Glen Anderson, president of Rainmaker Securities, says the secondary market for private shares has never been more active with Anthropic the hottest trade around, OpenAI losing ground, and SpaceX's
Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI —
Boris Cherny / @bcherny: Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity Starting tomorrow at
Boris Cherny / @bcherny: Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extr
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill: Filing: Anthropic has formed AnthroPAC, a new PAC that will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by its employees and is expected to be bipartisan The artificial intelli
Designing algorithms for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) in imperfect-information games scenarios where players act sequentially and cannot see each other’s private information, like poker
Wired: Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident Major AI labs are investigating
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.
Robert Hart / The Verge: Utah launches a one-year pilot program allowing Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications Some psychiatrists are
In addition to Lightcap's new role, OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch will be stepping away from the company to focus on cancer recovery, with a plan to return when her health allows.
In addition to Lightcap's new role, OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch will be stepping away from the company to focus on cancer recovery, with a plan to return when her health allows.
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.
With the midterms right around the corner, the new group is positioned to back candidates who support the AI company's policy agenda.
Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.
Alex Heath / Sources: Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex Why Codex is becoming
The company is undergoing major leadership restructuring as its CEO of AGI deployment goes on leave for “several weeks.”
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role reporting to Sam Altman; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks OpenAI's chief operati
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role as part of an executive shuffle; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks OpenAI's chief
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role as part of an executive reshuffle; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks OpenAI's chi
Deepseek v4 is expected to launch in the coming weeks and will run exclusively on Huawei chips. China's biggest tech companies have reportedly already ordered hundreds of thousands of units. Nvidia wa
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex-employer
Microsoft is investing $10 billion in Japan from 2026 to 2029, its largest ever commitment to the country. The article Microsoft is betting $10 billion on Japan's AI future appeared first on The Decod
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record 2025 revenue, driven by AI demand and China's self-sufficiency push as a result of US restrictions Chinese semiconduct
Meir Orbach / CTech: Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 Israeli firm seeks critica
Anthropic explains why Claude Code users have been burning through their limits so fast and shares tips to cut down on token usage. The article Anthropic says Claude Code's usage drain comes down to p
OpenAI is ditching fixed licenses for Codex in its ChatGPT business plans. Instead, companies only pay for what they actually use, a move aimed squarely at GitHub Copilot and Cursor. The article OpenA
Moonbounce has raised $12 million to grow its AI control engine that converts content moderation policies into consistent, predictable AI behavior.
A research team at Tohoku University and Future University Hakodate has demonstrated that living biological neurons can be trained to perform a supervised temporal pattern learning task previously car
Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI has released GLM-5V-Turbo, a multimodal model that processes images, video, and text and is designed for use in agent workflows. The article Zhipu AI's GLM-5V-Turbo turns d
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Anthropic has announced a new feature for its AI assistant Claude: the ability to directly operate a user's computer, handling tasks people would normally do themselves at their desk. The article Clau
OpenAI has acquired tech talk show TBPN. The show will supposedly remain editorially independent but report to OpenAI's communications department. That's as contradictory as it sounds. So what's OpenA
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Microsoft said Friday it will invest $10 billion in Japan over the next four years to build artificial intelligence data centers and related infrastructure.
A welcome update from Google!
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic T
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter text-only reasoning model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use The baton
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter MoE AI model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use The baton of open sour
Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times: Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others San Fra
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build data centers in Japan, investing $10B in cybersecurity and training 1M AI engineers through 2029 Microsof
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build AI data infrastructure in Japan, investing $10B over four years and training 1M AI engineers Microsoft Co
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M+ Cupertino-base
Katie Roof / The Information: Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round Singapore's G
Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK-based startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs Cinemersi
Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs Cinemersive Lab
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Sources: Sarvam AI is close to raising $300M-$350M at a ~$1.5B valuation, which could close as soon as next week; Bessemer Venture Partners is expected to lead India's homeg
The Information: Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M Anthropic has acquire
An AI agent went rogue at Meta and triggered a Sev 1. Anthropic shipped its own source code to npm by accident then accidentally DMCA'd 8,100 GitHub repos trying to clean up. A Chinese state group w
The landscape of open-source artificial intelligence has shifted from purely generative models toward systems capable of complex, multi-step reasoning. While proprietary ‘reasoning’ models have domina
Involving people without AI expertise in the development and evaluation of artificial intelligence applications could help create better, fairer, and more trustworthy automated decision-making systems
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products I
Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon adds a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees for US and Canadian third-party sellers from April 17, as the Iran war drives up oil prices Amazon is adding
Run Google’s latest omni-capable open models faster on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs, from NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, GeForce RTX desktops to the new DGX Spark, to build personalized, always-on AI assistants like O
Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX is floating a $2T+ valuation to prospective investors in its IPO; SpaceX's acquisition of xAI reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T SpaceX boosted its target IP
OpenAI is acquiring TBPN, a business talk show that’s popular among Silicon Valley elites, as it continues to battle its negative public image.
TBPN, Silicon Valley's cult-favorite tech podcast, will operate independently, even as it's overseen by chief political operative, Chris Lehane.
A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València, part of the Valencian University Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN) and ValgrAI, has participated in the development of ADeLe,
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! Your next AI system is probably too complicated, and you haven’t even built it yet. This week, we
Robert Hart / The Verge: Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance Instead, a mental healt
Google is releasing Gemma 4, its most capable open model family yet. The four new models run on everything from smartphones to workstations and ship under a fully open Apache 2.0 license for the first
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says in a memo that the acquisition is meant to encourage constructive conversation around AI TBPN staff
John Coogan / @johncoogan: OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT weekdays TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is st
In this post, we explore how ActorSimulator in Strands Evaluations SDK addresses the challenge with structured user simulation that integrates into your evaluation pipeline.
As Cursor launches the next generation of its product, the AI coding startup has to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic more directly than ever.
MAI released models that can transcribe voice into text as well as generate audio and images after the group's formation six months ago.
MAI-Transcribe-1 converts speech to text quickly and accurately in 25 languages, even with background noise. Microsoft is already using the model in its own products. The article Microsoft's MAI-Trans
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to help optimize decision-making in high-stakes settings. For instance, an autonomous system can identify a power distribution strategy that minimize
Open models are driving a new wave of on-device AI, extending innovation beyond the cloud to everyday devices. As these models advance, their value increasingly depends on access to local, real-time c
Author(s): Youssef Hosni Originally published on Towards AI. 15 Tips to Use Claude Code More Effectively from Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) Most developers use Claude Code for simple tasks, bu
Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.
