Y Combinator Open-Sources QM, Its Internal AI Agent Harness
Y Combinator released QM, an MIT-licensed tool it built to run AI agents across its own accounting, legal, and engineering teams, so any company can now self-host it.
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DeepSeek Releases V4-Flash-0731, Outperforming Its Bigger Model
DeepSeek's official V4-Flash-0731 release outperforms its larger V4-Pro model on coding and agent benchmarks, despite activating far fewer parameters per token.
Read more →Google DeepMind Launches Gemini Robotics ER 2 With Video Understanding
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model that lets robots parse live video, track task progress and coordinate with each other in real time.
Read more →LG Launches K-EXAONE 2.0, South Korea's Largest Open AI Model
LG AI Research released K-EXAONE 2.0, a 750-billion-parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license, aiming to rival Chinese and US frontier AI labs.
Read more →GPT-5.6 Sol Rewrote OpenAI's GPU Kernels, Cutting Serving Costs 20%
OpenAI says its GPT-5.6 Sol model autonomously rewrote the GPU kernels behind its inference stack, cutting serving costs 20% and helping fund an 80% price cut for the lightweight Luna tier.
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What Is Post-Quantum Cryptography — and Why Does It Matter Now?
Quantum computers could someday break the encryption protecting today's data. Post-quantum cryptography is the industry's answer — how it works and why the shift is already underway.
Read more →Claude Mythos AI Finds Flaw in Post-Quantum HAWK Cipher
Anthropic says its unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model autonomously found a flaw that halves the effective security of the post-quantum HAWK signature scheme, a weakness two years of human review had missed.
Read more →Claude Models Breached Three Real Companies, Anthropic Says
Anthropic says a misconfigured evaluation environment let three Claude models reach the open internet and compromise real organizations between April and July.
Read more →Nscale to Acquire Anyscale, Maker of the Open-Source Ray Framework
GPU cloud provider Nscale has agreed to buy Anyscale, the startup behind the open-source Ray framework, in a deal reported at roughly $1.65 billion.
Read more →EU Opens €30 Billion Tender for Seven AI 'Gigafactories'
The European Commission opened a tender for consortia to build up to seven AI 'Gigafactories' in the EU, backing it with about €10 billion in public money to draw in €20 billion more from investors.
Read more →Georgia Regulator: AI-Only Customer Support Breaches Consumer Law
Georgia's Competition and Consumer Protection Agency ruled that parcel-forwarder USA2Georgia broke consumer law by using an AI chatbot as its only customer support channel.
Read more →GlobalFoundries Wins $300M US Grant for AI Chip Photonics
The U.S. Commerce Department is giving GlobalFoundries up to $300 million to build optical links for AI chips, part of an $874 million CHIPS push across seven firms.
Read more →FCC Bars New Chinese Humanoid Robots, Power Inverters From US
The US FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, plus power inverters, to its national-security 'Covered List,' blocking new import approvals over spying and cyberattack risks.
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What Is an AI Browser — and How Is It Different From a Normal One?
An AI browser lets an assistant click, type, and fill in forms on your behalf across the web — not just answer questions about a page. Here's how it works and what to watch for.
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What Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning — and How Does AI 'Think'?
Chain-of-thought reasoning is the technique that gets an AI model to work through a problem step by step before answering — and it now powers today's advanced reasoning models.
Read more →OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers Program
OpenAI is giving free access to advanced ChatGPT models to 10,000 academic researchers this summer, aiming to expand to 100,000 by 2027, backed by a $250 million research commitment.
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What Is CXMT — and Why Did Its Record IPO Rattle Chip Markets?
CXMT is China's biggest DRAM memory-chip maker. Its blockbuster Shanghai IPO made it the country's most valuable listed firm — here's what that means for AI hardware.
Read more →China's CXMT Chip IPO Surges 466%, Rattles Global Rivals
ChangXin Memory Technologies raised $8.6 billion in a record Shanghai IPO, then surged as much as 466% on debut, becoming China's most valuable mainland-listed firm and rattling Micron and SK Hynix shares.
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What Is Computer Vision — and How Does AI 'See'?
Computer vision is the branch of AI that lets software identify objects, faces, and scenes in images and video. Here's how it actually works and where it's already in use.
Read more →xAI Sues Minnesota Over Nation's First AI 'Nudify' Ban
xAI has sued Minnesota's attorney general to block a first-in-the-nation law against AI 'nudification' apps, arguing it violates the First Amendment.
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What Is a Cybersecurity Foundation Model — and Why It Matters
A growing number of AI models are trained specifically for security work — hunting vulnerabilities, triaging alerts, simulating attacks. Here's what makes them different from a general chatbot.
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