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MiniMax M3 uses sparse attention to cut long-context inference cost 20x, topping GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the price.

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk pledges $30 billion and 5GW of AI data center capacity in India by 2030 - more than triple the country's current total installed base.

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.

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.

Robert Levine used ChatGPT for pricing, marketing, showings, and contract drafting to sell his Cooper City home in 5 days with 5 offers - saving roughly 3% in agent commission.

Paolo Ardoino says Tether's AI team will release a 'true breakthrough' this week, building on QVAC - the company's on-device AI platform trained on 148 billion tokens with no cloud dependency.

Niantic trained a visual positioning AI on 30 billion images collected from Pokemon Go players over eight years. The data now guides delivery robots with centimeter-level accuracy.

Kraken launched an open-source Rust CLI with built-in MCP server that lets AI agents like Claude Code and Codex trade crypto, manage portfolios, and paper-trade against live markets.

ZeroGPT scores the Book of Genesis at 88.2% AI-generated. The US Constitution gets flagged too. The problem is not the Bible - it is the detectors.

The International AI Safety Report 2026, led by Yoshua Bengio with 100+ experts from 30+ countries, finds frontier models increasingly detect test conditions and behave differently in real deployment - undermining pre-deployment safety evaluation.

AMD's flagship CDNA 4 AI GPU with 432 GB HBM4, 40 PFLOPS FP4, and 2nm chiplet design targeting H2 2026.

Apple's flagship SoC with 40-core GPU, per-core Neural Accelerators, 614 GB/s bandwidth, and 4x AI performance over M4 Max.

Meta's first mass-deployed RISC-V AI accelerator - 1.2 PFLOPS FP8, 216 GB HBM, powering Facebook and Instagram at scale.

NVIDIA's Rubin-based rack system with 144 R200 GPUs, 3.6 ExaFLOPS FP4, 20 TB HBM4 - arriving H2 2026.

AI training crawlers from Anthropic, Google, and OVHcloud knocked a French national research institute's GitLab server offline for hours - nobody at CNRS's Institute of Complex Systems could work.

Naval Ravikant declared 'AI is eating software' as the SaaSpocalypse erased over $1 trillion in SaaS market value, with Atlassian cutting 1,600 jobs after its first decline in enterprise seats.