What Is GLM? Zhipu AI's Open-Weight Model Family, Explained
GLM is the open-weight AI model family from Chinese lab Zhipu AI (Z.ai) — free to download and self-host, and competitive with top US models at a fraction of the API cost.
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Georgia's President Warns UN AI Forum of 'Digital Tyranny' Risk
President Mikheil Kavelashvili told the UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva that concentrated AI power must not become a tool for 'digital tyranny.'
Read more →What Is Midjourney — and How Do You Use It?
Midjourney turns text prompts into images using AI. Here's what it is, how to start using it, what it costs, and why it keeps ending up in court.
Read more →China's GLM-5.2 Rivals US Frontier AI at One-Sixth the Cost
Z.ai has released GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter open-weight model that matches GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks and trails Claude Opus 4.8 narrowly — trained entirely on Huawei silicon with no Nvidia hardware.
Read more →What Happens to Your Data When You Use AI Tools?
When you chat with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, what happens to that data? Here is what the main AI tools actually do with your conversations — and how to stay in control.
Read more →UN Opens First Global AI Governance Dialogue With All 193 Nations in Geneva
All 193 United Nations member states gathered in Geneva on July 6 for the first intergovernmental AI governance dialogue, where an independent expert panel warned that no technical guarantee currently exists that advanced AI systems will remain safe.
Read more →What Is AI in Finance — and How Is It Changing Banking?
From detecting fraud in milliseconds to personalizing investment advice, AI is reshaping every layer of financial services. This guide explains the key use cases, what regulators are watching, and how Georgian banks are already adopting it.
Read more →Midjourney Asks Court to Force Studios to Reveal Internal AI Use
Midjourney has asked a federal judge to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose how they use AI internally, arguing the studios engage in the very practices they are suing it for.
Read more →What Is AI Bias — and How Does It Affect Decisions?
AI bias is a systematic error in AI systems that produces unfair results for specific groups, shaping decisions in hiring, healthcare, and criminal justice. Here is what causes it and how to recognize it.
Read more →Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 Decodes Brain Signals to Text Without Surgery
Meta's non-invasive AI system translates brain activity to typed text with 61% word accuracy — nearly eight times better than prior implant-free approaches — targeting people who cannot communicate due to brain injuries.
Read more →What Is an AI World Model — and How Is It Different from an LLM?
AI world models go beyond language to build internal simulations of physical reality — predicting what happens next when an action is taken. Here is what they are, how they work, and why researchers think they are essential for the next generation of AI.
Read more →Global Startup Funding Hits $510B Record as AI Takes 70% of VC
Global startup investment reached a record $510 billion in H1 2026 — already past all of 2025 — with AI companies capturing over 70% of venture capital in Q2, Crunchbase data shows.
Read more →What Is an AI Companion — and Why Are Governments Regulating Them?
AI companions are chatbots built for emotional connection, not task completion. As apps like Replika and Character.AI reach tens of millions of users, governments in China, the US, and Europe are introducing rules to protect vulnerable users.
Read more →UNESCO Expert Maps Georgia’s Path to AI Governance in Four Phases
A roadmap published on UNESCO’s AI Ethics Observatory outlines how Georgia should build AI governance step by step — starting with a national vision before moving to strategy, institutions, and eventually binding regulation.
Read more →What Are AI Agents — and What Can They Actually Do?
AI agents are AI systems that can pursue multi-step goals on their own — writing code, browsing the web, filling forms — without waiting for human input at every step. Here's what they are, how they work, and how to try one today.
Read more →China's AI Companion Rules Force ByteDance and Alibaba Shutdowns
China's new regulations targeting AI services that simulate human relationships take effect July 15, forcing ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen to disable personalized companion agent features used by hundreds of millions of people.
Read more →What Is Chatbot Arena — and How Does It Rank AI Models?
Chatbot Arena (now Arena) is a free platform that ranks AI models through blind human votes — and it’s the leaderboard the whole AI industry watches.
Read more →Zuckerberg Admits Meta's AI Agent Push Is Running Behind Schedule
At an internal town hall, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg conceded that AI agent development has not "accelerated in the way" the company expected, despite a $145 billion infrastructure commitment and a major workforce reorganization.
Read more →What Is a Model Distillation Attack — and Why Do AI Companies Prohibit It?
A distillation attack is when someone systematically harvests a proprietary AI model's outputs — at massive scale — to train a clone of it without authorization. Here's how it works and why it's a growing concern.
Read more →Meituan Reveals LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI That Secretly Led Global Charts
Chinese tech company Meituan has disclosed that "Owl Alpha," an anonymous model that topped OpenRouter rankings for two months, was its 1.6-trillion-parameter LongCat-2.0 — trained entirely on domestic chips and now free under an MIT license.
Read more →How Are AI Models Trained — From Raw Data to a Working Chatbot
Building a frontier AI model like ChatGPT or Claude takes three distinct stages: pre-training on vast data, instruction tuning, and alignment through human feedback. Here is how each stage works.
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