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.
Cursor doubled its annualized revenue to $2 billion in just three months, making it the fastest-growing SaaS company in history. But its dependence on model providers raises hard questions about margins and survival.
A 439,000-worker construction shortage is delaying AI data centers while electricians command $200K salaries and Big Tech scrambles to fill the gap.
A startup founder's vibe-coded app exposed Stripe secret keys in frontend code, letting attackers charge 175 customers $500 each before he could rotate the credentials.
OpenAI ships GPT-5.3 Instant with 27% fewer hallucinations, a less preachy tone, and better web search - available now across all ChatGPT tiers and the API.
Junyang Lin, the 32-year-old architect behind Alibaba's Qwen open-source AI models, announces his departure in a brief tweet - the fourth major exit from Tongyi Lab in two years.
AMD launches the first desktop processors with Copilot+ qualified NPUs, putting 50 TOPS of on-device AI into AM5 desktops starting Q2 2026.
Up to 500 protesters marched through London's King's Cross tech hub in the largest anti-AI demonstration globally, demanding a pause on frontier AI development and democratic oversight.
New research reveals no speech AI passes a Turing test, adaptive routing slashes LLM costs 82%, and pseudocode planning transforms agent reliability.
China's National People's Congress opens this week with a 15th Five-Year Plan that puts $70 billion in semiconductor subsidies and AI-plus manufacturing at the center of its tech race with the West.
Trump's executive order threatens to sue any state that regulates AI, but Republican governors, Heritage Foundation allies, and grassroots conservatives are pushing back hard - with Florida's AI Bill of Rights as the test case.
NVIDIA will unveil a new inference processor built on Groq's LPU architecture at GTC 2026, with OpenAI as its first major customer allocating 3 GW of dedicated capacity.
A data-driven comparison of xAI's Grok 4 and OpenAI's ChatGPT powered by GPT-5.2, covering benchmarks, pricing, features, and real-world performance.
