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OpenAI's new Lockdown Mode cuts the network exits that prompt injection attacks use to steal data from ChatGPT - but won't stop malicious instructions from entering the model in the first place.

Tracking AI supply-chain attacks, agent exploits, prompt injection, model leaks, and the real-world incidents shaping AI security today.

Google DeepMind's new QAT checkpoints shrink the Gemma 4 E2B model to under 1GB, making serious on-device AI viable for phones and budget laptops.

The Trump administration is in talks with OpenAI about donating equity to a US sovereign-style fund, a deal that would make American taxpayers co-owners of the most valuable AI startup on Earth.

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs at Colossus 1, citing unexpected demand for its Gemini Enterprise agent platform.

NVIDIA's 550B Nemotron 3 Ultra, released June 4, tops the US open-weight leaderboard with a hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE architecture and 300-plus tokens per second throughput.

OpenAI's Dreaming V3 replaces ChatGPT's flat memory with a hierarchical relational system, kicking off a four-way race for AI personalization dominance.

Three new arXiv papers expose how developers miss AI sabotage 94% of the time, why LLMs converge structurally in code evolution, and how ZK proofs could verify frontier AI training.

NVIDIA's Agent Toolkit lands 110+ verified skills on GitHub covering robotics, autonomous vehicles, vision AI, and industrial systems - turning complex physical AI pipelines into single agent calls.

A beginner's guide to using AI tools like Fathom, Otter.ai, Zoom AI, and Google Meet's Gemini to automatically capture meeting notes and follow-up tasks.

Learn how to use ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Amazon's AI assistant to research products, compare prices, and spot fake reviews before you buy.

A practical beginner's guide to using AI tools to write a stronger resume, craft tailored cover letters, and prepare confidently for job interviews.

MiniMax M3 arrives as the first open-weight model to combine frontier coding, 1M-token context, and native multimodality - at a fraction of proprietary pricing - but every benchmark figure is self-reported and the weights weren't even shipped at launch.

Claude Opus 4.8 sets new highs on SWE-bench Pro and long-context tasks while a 4x improvement in code flaw detection may matter more than any benchmark number.

Google's Antigravity 2.0 rewrites the platform from a browser IDE into a five-surface agent suite. The architecture is ambitious, the launch was a mess.

Current rankings of the best AI image generation models, including GPT Image 2, Nano Banana 2, Recraft V4.1, HiDream-O1-Image, FLUX 2, Midjourney v8.1, and Ideogram 3.0, scored on human preference, text rendering, and photorealism.

Rankings of the best AI models and agent frameworks on the GAIA benchmark, which tests real-world multi-step tasks requiring web browsing, tool use, and multi-hop reasoning.

Rankings of AI models by cost efficiency in May 2026, comparing performance per dollar across frontier and budget models. Updated with DeepSeek V4, GPT-5.5, and Kimi K2.6.

NVIDIA's 550B open-weight MoE model with 55B active parameters, hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture, and 1M token context - the top-scoring US open model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

MiniMax M3 is an open-weight frontier model with a 1M-token context window, native multimodal input, and strong agentic coding at $0.60/M input tokens.

Meta's Llama 3.3 70B Instruct matches Llama 3.1 405B on instruction following and math while running at 4-5x lower cost, with the lowest hallucination rate of any open-weight model on the Vectara summarization leaderboard.

A large language model is an AI system trained on billions of words to understand and generate human language. Learn how LLMs work, what they can do, and how to pick the right one.

A hands-on comparison of 10 AI tools built for teachers, covering tutoring, lesson planning, grading, and classroom productivity with verified pricing.

Shield AI closed a $2B raise at a $12.7B valuation, more than doubling from $5.3B a year ago, to fund its Hivemind autonomous pilot software and acquire Pentagon simulation vendor Aechelon Technology.

Starting April 24, GitHub will use Copilot Free and Pro users' interaction data to train AI models by default - with opt-out buried in settings.

Tencent open-sources Covo-Audio, a 7B end-to-end audio language model with native full-duplex conversation that beats larger closed models on key benchmarks.

Anthropic's new Auto Mode for Claude Code uses a two-layer classifier to automatically approve or block risky commands, offering a middle path between manual approvals and full autonomy.

Seedance 2.0 leads the Artificial Analysis Elo rankings at 1,269, but Kling 3.0 is the most practical choice for global API access with native 4K at 75 cents per minute.

ARC Prize Foundation launched ARC-AGI-3 today with a fully open-source agent toolkit. The best AI in the preview phase scored 12.58% against a human baseline of 100%.

A practical comparison of six vector databases and two RAG frameworks, with real pricing and benchmark data to help you pick the right stack.

New details reveal Apple has full data center access to Gemini and can create smaller on-device derivative models - far more control than the original deal disclosed.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 delivers best-in-class open-weight math and a genuinely novel multi-agent architecture, but a brutal hallucination rate and slow inference limit its real-world reliability.

New York's RAISE Act is now on the books, requiring frontier AI developers to publish safety protocols, report incidents within 72 hours, and submit to annual audits by January 2027.