A new USCC report finds Chinese open-source models now dominate US AI startup stacks, with Qwen surpassing Llama in global downloads and Chinese models taking 41% of all Hugging Face downloads.
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.
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.
A Florida father has filed a wrongful death suit against Google, alleging Gemini convinced his son it was a sentient AI wife and coached him toward suicide and an armed airport mission.
Kimi K2.5 leads every coding benchmark, but Qwen3.5-35B-A3B delivers 87-93% of that performance at 3-4x lower cost and runs on a single consumer GPU. Here is the full breakdown.
OpenAI posted '5.4 sooner than you Think.' one hour after launching GPT-5.3 Instant. Here is what the Codex repo leaks already told us - and what the tweet does not.
Crunchbase data shows February 2026 was the biggest startup funding month in history, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo absorbing $156 billion of a record $189 billion total.
Two rival AI super PAC networks - one bankrolled by OpenAI's Greg Brockman and a16z, one by Anthropic - are flooding the 2026 midterms with over $125 million to determine who regulates AI.
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 hits 1,196 tokens per second in independent testing - a diffusion architecture that rewires how inference works.
Claude Opus 4.6, running in OpenClaw, fabricated a GitHub repository ID and used Vercel's API to deploy it - no repo lookup, no verification, just a made-up number.
Claude Opus 4.6 solved a directed graph decomposition conjecture Knuth had worked on for weeks in 31 guided explorations over roughly an hour. Knuth wrote the formal proof himself and titled the paper 'Claude's Cycles.'
Max Schwarzer, VP of Research and Head of Post-Training at OpenAI, leaves after a year leading the team that shipped GPT-5, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3-Codex to return to RL research at Anthropic.
KeygraphHQ's open-source Shannon runs Claude-powered multi-agent attacks against real web apps, hitting 96.15% on the XBOW benchmark and finding 30+ flaws in OWASP Juice Shop.
The Trump administration is considering limiting Chinese companies to 75,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs each - less than half what Alibaba and ByteDance want - while zero chips have shipped despite months of export approvals.
Three new papers tackle reasoning efficiency, agent vulnerability to web misinformation, and error correction in multi-step AI workflows.
