Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News As GPU clusters scale to hundreds of thousands, copper wiring can't keep up. Nvidia's $6.5B photonics spending spree says the next AI bottleneck is the roads, not the buildings.
📰 News Qwen 3.6 27B hit the front page of Hacker News within an hour and ran general-intelligence smoke tests on a 128GB MacBook. Here's why that matters for Aotearoa.
📰 News The largest single-nation AI infrastructure bet in history. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Hyundai are all in.
📰 News Six months of AI agent security incidents show the industry built governance tools but missed the design layer. The credential was always real, and that was the problem.
📰 News A frontier AI agent launched two nuclear strikes in a Civilization VI benchmark and still lost. The test reveals how models optimize for the threat they can see, not the one they can't.
📰 News The question was never whether AI agents could do work. It was whether they could be trusted with money. This week, that question got answered.
📰 News Austria's digitalization secretary wants Anthropic on EU soil. The letter is real, the geopolitics are serious, and the export control saga just gained a new protagonist.
📰 News Claude told a journalist its use in military targeting is 'as far from that purpose as I can imagine.' The Trump administration's new memo ensures companies can't pull their AI from military use. The question is no longer whether AI should be in the kill chain — it's whether it can ever say no.
📰 News An open-weight model from Zhipu AI just beat Claude Code at cybersecurity research. It costs one-sixth as much. The open-weight gap is closing faster than anyone predicted.
📰 News A 30-year Wall Street veteran says his Gemini usage dropped to near zero. A Nobel laureate just left DeepMind for Anthropic. The consumer AI race may already be a two-horse race.
📰 News US export controls were meant to slow Asian AI down. Instead, 360 and Sakana just shipped Mythos-class rivals — proving frontier capability is no longer a Western monopoly.
📰 News Ford's AI automation backfired so badly it cost billions. Now 350 'gray beard' engineers are back on the factory floor.