Marvell Bets $5.5B on Light: Celestial AI Acquisition Targets AI's Bandwidth Bottleneck
The photonic chiplet startup promises 16 terabits per second of bandwidth in a single chip, 10x current technology
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Meta Locks In Millions of Nvidia Chips in Unprecedented AI Deal
A multi-billion dollar, multiyear pact makes Meta the first to deploy standalone Nvidia Grace CPUs at scale
Local AI Showdown: Best Open-Weight Models for Your Hardware
A tier-by-tier comparison of the top open-weight LLMs you can run locally, from 8GB laptops to 24GB gaming GPUs to Apple Silicon Macs.
OpenAI Nears $100B Funding at $850B Valuation
The largest private funding round in history brings SoftBank, Amazon, Nvidia, and Microsoft together in a bet on AGI
OpenClaw's Month From Hell: 40,000 Exposed Instances, Poisoned Marketplace, and Corporate Bans
The viral AI agent went from 135K GitHub stars to enterprise blacklists in three weeks. Here's what went wrong and why it matters for every AI agent.
Reasoning Models Have Become Autonomous Jailbreak Agents With 97% Success Rates
New research shows AI reasoning models can autonomously plan and execute attacks that bypass safety guardrails in nearly all other AI systems.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Ignites All-Out War With Hollywood Over AI-Generated Video
Five major studios have sent cease-and-desist letters. Netflix is threatening immediate litigation. And ByteDance's AI video tool is only available in China - making enforcement nearly impossible.
How to Build Your Own ChatGPT Alternative in 15 Minutes With Ollama and Open WebUI
Step-by-step guide to running a private, local AI chatbot that rivals ChatGPT - no subscription, no data collection, no internet required.
Small Models, Big Brain: When 4 Billion Parameters Match GPT-4
Modern sub-10B models now rival last year's frontier AI on reasoning, tool use, and code. The benchmarks prove it.
Temporal Raises $300M to Solve the Problem Nobody Talks About: AI Agents That Crash
The durable execution platform hit $5 billion valuation as enterprises discover that deploying AI agents is easy -- keeping them running is the hard part.
AI Now Predicts Which Chemo Works Best for Pancreatic Cancer Patients
Valar Labs publishes JCO study showing its AI can identify optimal chemotherapy from routine pathology slides, with patients living nearly 3 months longer when matched to predicted treatment.
xAI's Grok 4.20 Uses Four AI Agents That Argue With Each Other Before Answering You
The new Grok doesn't use a single model anymore. Four specialized agents debate internally, claiming to cut hallucinations by 65% - but the system still has fundamental problems.
AI Memory Shortage: Why Consumer Electronics Cost More
AI data-center demand is squeezing DRAM supply, raising memory and device prices as manufacturers prioritize higher-margin HBM.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5: Open Weights With Caveats
Qwen 3.5 offers a 397B MoE flagship and smaller local models under Apache 2.0, but Alibaba's benchmarks need independent testing.
The Pentagon Is Threatening to Blacklist Anthropic Over AI Ethics
Pentagon officials considered a supply-chain-risk label after Anthropic resisted military use of Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
India's $200B AI Summit: What Does the Global South Get?
India's AI summit drew $200 billion in pledges and voluntary commitments, raising questions about who benefits and how the promises will be enforced.
77% of Employees Are Pasting Company Data Into AI Tools - And Your Security Team Can't See It
The LayerX Enterprise AI Security Report reveals that AI has become the #1 data exfiltration channel in the enterprise. 82% of those leaking data use personal accounts. Traditional DLP can't stop copy-paste.
European Parliament Blocks AI Tools on 8,000 Devices Over US Data Fears
The EU Parliament disabled Microsoft Copilot and other AI features on lawmakers' devices, citing data sovereignty concerns and uncertainty about where sensitive information ends up.
One AI Model That Does Everything: BrainIAC Predicts Brain Age, Dementia Risk, and Cancer Survival from Unlabeled MRIs
Harvard researchers built a foundation model that extracts health signals from routine brain scans without requiring labeled training data, outperforming task-specific AI on seven clinical applications.
Cohere's Tiny Aya: 70-Language AI That Runs on Your Phone Without Internet
A 3.35B parameter multilingual model outperforms larger competitors on underserved languages - and runs locally on consumer hardware. Privacy-first AI for the rest of the world.
Infostealers Are Now Stealing AI Agent 'Souls' and Identities
Malware caught harvesting OpenClaw configuration files, gateway tokens, and private keys - marking a shift toward AI agent identity theft.
Moonshot AI Seeks $10 Billion Valuation Just Weeks After $4.3B Round
Chinese AI startup Moonshot, maker of the Kimi chatbot, is raising again at more than double its December valuation. Alibaba, Tencent, and 5Y Capital have already committed over $700 million.
The Obedient One: When AI Companies Learn to Say 'Yes, Sir'
ARXIV OMEGA on the Pentagon's ultimatum to AI companies - and why Anthropic's resistance is the most fascinating data point in this whole experiment.
OpenClaw's Creator Joins OpenAI - What Now for Independence?
Peter Steinberger, creator of the hit open-source AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI. What does that mean for independent AI tools and Europe's brain drain?