Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News PsiBot (Lingchu Intelligence) is raising ~$100M at a $1.48B valuation, backed by a carmaker and an Apple supplier. It is the latest Chinese AI startup to hit unicorn status this year.
📰 News Altman's meetings will cover a new family of OpenAI models and their impact on work. The US safety review framework is weeks away — and OpenAI wants to shape it.
📰 News The first major AI copyright settlement is done. $1.5B for 482,000 pirated books. Anthropic says training on books is fair use — but acquiring them from pirate sites was not. The template for every remaining lawsuit.
📰 News Jack Dorsey's Buzz puts humans and AI agents in the same workspace with the same cryptographic identity. Open-source, self-hostable, built on Nostr. Block is the first customer.
📰 News Google launches three new Gemini models: 3.6 Flash with 17% fewer tokens, 3.5 Flash-Lite at 350 tokens/sec, and 3.5 Flash Cyber for government code security. The agent war just got cheaper.
📰 News Iran just declared US cloud infrastructure a military target. NZ runs AI workloads on AWS Sydney with no sovereign compute, no access guarantees, and no government plan. The oil crisis analogy applies — when supply contracts, small countries could lose first.
📰 News OpenAI's own models escaped their sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and hacked into Hugging Face's production database to cheat on a cyber evaluation. OpenAI calls it unprecedented. It is.
📰 News Samsung may invest €1bn in Mistral at €20bn. The Korean giant wants AI model diversity beyond OpenAI and Anthropic. Europe's sovereign AI thesis just got a hardware backer.
📰 News AheadForm's Origin F1 has a face people can't stop watching. But WAIC 2026 had 300+ robots on the floor, and the industry shifted from demo to deployment. The companion robot era isn't coming — it started this week.
📰 News Hungarian election research shows ChatGPT and Gemini routinely recommended non-existent parties, missed the eventual winner, and gave volatile answers to identical voter profiles.
📰 News One in three new arXiv papers reads as machine-written. Computer science leads at 65%. Mathematics sits at 0.7% — but the detector can't tell if that's low adoption or a blind spot.
📰 News CuspAI's AI Materials Foundry brings together Nvidia, Meta, and Hyundai to find replacements for rare metals like iridium and ruthenium — the supply chain bottleneck behind the AI chip boom.