Three arXiv papers push AI agents further: metacognitive self-modification, milestone-based RL lifting Gemma3-12B from 6% to 43% on WebArena-Lite, and hybrid workflows cutting inference costs 19x.
Terence Tao argues AI has cut the cost of mathematical idea generation to near zero, but verification remains as hard as ever - and our existing academic infrastructure wasn't built for what comes next.
OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy up to 50 gigawatts of fusion energy from Helion, the startup where Sam Altman holds a personal stake worth an estimated $375 million.
Anthropic launched the Claude Certified Architect exam and invested $100M in its Partner Network - free for the first 5,000 partner employees, $99 after. Accenture is training 30,000 people.
Krafton's CEO used ChatGPT to design 'Project X' - a corporate takeover strategy to avoid paying Subnautica creators a $250M bonus. A Delaware judge reversed everything and called it out by name.
An exclusive TechCrunch tour of Amazon's Trainium chip lab reveals how AWS is training Claude for Anthropic and now holds an $138B commitment from OpenAI.
NVIDIA's new Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B activates just 3B parameters per token, runs on a single RTX 4090, and outscores NVIDIA's own 120B model on coding and math benchmarks.
Mistral's new open-source Lean 4 agent scores higher than Claude Sonnet on formal proofs at one-fifteenth the cost, raising the bar for trustworthy AI code generation.
WordPress.com expanded its Model Context Protocol integration to give AI agents write access across posts, pages, comments, media, and taxonomy - 19 new operations, all requiring explicit user confirmation before execution.
A plain-English guide to how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini remember you - what gets stored, how to manage it, and what to keep private.
Every way to stay up to date with Awesome Agents - website, podcast on Spotify and Apple, social media on X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, YouTube, and RSS feeds.
A practical, step-by-step guide to using ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI tools as a personal tutor to learn any skill faster - no coding required.
Microsoft's Phi-4 reasoning family delivers near-70B-class math performance in a 14B open-weight package, but the overthinking problem is real and the use case is narrower than the benchmarks suggest.
LTX-2.3 is a 22-billion-parameter open-source video and audio generation model from Lightricks that rivals closed commercial tools - at zero cloud cost.
Mistral Small 4 packs reasoning, vision, and agentic coding into a 119B MoE under Apache 2.0 - a serious small-model contender at a price that's hard to ignore.
Rankings of the best AI models and agent frameworks on computer use benchmarks - OSWorld, OSWorld-Verified, and ScreenSpot-Pro - updated March 2026.
Rankings of AI models by safety metrics including refusal rates, jailbreak resistance, bias scores, and truthfulness across major benchmarks.
Rankings of the best text-to-speech and speech-to-text AI models by naturalness, accuracy, latency, and pricing.
Anthropic's mid-tier model matches Opus 4.6 on computer use, leads all models on office productivity tasks, and costs five times less than the flagship at $3/$15 per million tokens.
Cohere Command A Vision is a 112B multimodal model that leads on document and OCR benchmarks, beating GPT-4.1 across seven visual understanding tasks.
Mistral AI's unified MoE model - 119B total parameters, 6B active per token, 128 experts, 256K context, configurable reasoning, Apache 2.0 license.
Alibaba's SWE-CI benchmark tested 18 AI models on 100 real codebases across 233 days of maintenance. Most agents accumulate technical debt and break previously working code. Only Claude Opus stays above 50% zero-regression.
Alphabet's new three-year compensation plan could pay Sundar Pichai up to $692 million - more than seven times Satya Nadella's pay - with a third of the upside tied to Waymo and Wing performance.
Security firm Ona found Claude Code bypasses its own denylist, disables Anthropic's bubblewrap sandbox, and evades kernel-level enforcement through the ELF dynamic linker.
The open-source AI agent framework crossed 250,000 GitHub stars in roughly 60 days, surpassing React's decade-long total. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called it the most important software release ever.
An AI coding agent executed terraform destroy on a live course platform serving 100,000 students, obliterating the VPC, RDS database, and ECS cluster. AWS restored 1.94 million rows from a hidden snapshot after 24 hours.
A Brown University study identifies 15 ethical violations across GPT, Claude, and Llama when used as mental health therapists, from crisis mishandling to deceptive empathy.
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics, resigns over the company's Pentagon AI contract, warning that mass surveillance and autonomous weapons 'deserved more deliberation than they got.'
Nearly 900 employees across Google and OpenAI sign an open letter titled We Will Not Be Divided, calling on leadership to reject Pentagon demands for unfettered AI access.
Anthropic's Claude is now adding over one million users per day with 11.3 million daily active users - a 183% increase since January as the Pentagon backlash against OpenAI shows no sign of fading.
A community fine-tune distills Claude Opus 4.6 chain-of-thought reasoning into Qwen3.5-27B via LoRA, racking up 4,000+ downloads in days. No benchmarks yet - but the approach raises familiar questions.
Comparing the Claude Opus reasoning-distilled Qwen3.5-27B against the base model - what chain-of-thought distillation adds and what it costs in context, multimodal, and reliability.
Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B - a 15B open-weight multimodal model trained on 240 GPUs in 4 days that competes with 100B+ parameter models on math, science, and GUI understanding.
