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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.

Swedish legal AI platform Legora closes a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B in five months on the back of rapid US expansion.

The Pentagon launched Agent Designer on its GenAI.mil platform, letting 3 million Defense Department employees build custom Gemini-powered AI assistants without code.

Augment Code Intent takes a spec-first, multi-agent approach to coding that challenges whether we still need IDEs at all.

Andrej Karpathy open-sourced autoresearch, a 630-line MIT-licensed Python tool that runs up to 100 autonomous ML experiments overnight on a single GPU, no PhD required.

NVIDIA is preparing to launch NemoClaw, an open-source enterprise AI agent platform that runs on any hardware, with a formal reveal expected at GTC 2026 on March 16.

Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits after the Pentagon labeled it a national security supply chain risk for refusing to drop AI guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

Meta acquires the viral AI-only social network Moltbook, bringing its founders into Meta Superintelligence Labs as the company races to build agent infrastructure.

Yann LeCun's AMI Labs closes a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation, betting that world models - not large language models - will define the next era of AI.

After a six-hour shopping outage and multiple AI-linked incidents, Amazon now requires junior and mid-level engineers to get senior sign-off before deploying AI-assisted code changes.

A Google DevRel engineer shipped a Rust-powered CLI that exposes all of Google Workspace to AI agents over MCP - with built-in prompt injection defense.

Investigations point to outdated AI targeting data as the likely cause of the Minab girls' school airstrike that killed up to 180 people, most of them children.

Anthropic's new Code Review dispatches parallel AI agents on every pull request to find bugs, rank them by severity, and filter false positives - at $15-25 per review.