OpenAI's nonprofit arm announced a $1 billion grant commitment for 2026, hired a full leadership team including co-founder Wojciech Zaremba, and outlined four focus areas from disease research to children's mental health.
Ai2's MolmoWeb is a fully open-source web agent that navigates browsers by screenshot alone, beating GPT-4o-based agents at the 8B scale with weights, training data, and code all released under Apache 2.0.
LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 contain a credential-stealing payload that exfiltrates SSH keys, cloud credentials, and crypto wallets to a lookalike domain. The package has 97 million monthly downloads.
Alibaba's T-Head division launched the XuanTie C950, a 5nm 3.2GHz RISC-V server chip that sets a new world record for RISC-V single-core performance and natively runs billion-parameter models like DeepSeek V3 and Qwen3.
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.
A step-by-step beginner's guide to using AI tools to optimize your resume, write cover letters, prep for interviews, and negotiate your salary.
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.
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.
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro is a 1-trillion-parameter MoE model with 42B active params, 1M context, and agentic coding performance that rivals Claude Sonnet 4.6 at a fraction of the cost.
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.
A complete guide to building, marketing, and scaling a one-person SaaS business using AI coding tools in 2026
Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is raising tens of billions through a manufacturing transformation vehicle to acquire industrial companies and rebuild them with AI.
Figma integrates OpenAI Codex via its MCP server just nine days after adding Claude Code, turning the design tool into a universal bridge between design and AI-powered coding.
An OECD report reveals AI firms captured 61% of global venture capital in 2025 at $258.7 billion, doubling their share since 2022, while mega-deals above $1 billion account for half of all investment value.
Rankings of the best AI models and agent frameworks on agentic benchmarks measuring real-world task completion, web navigation, function calling, and multi-turn tool use.
CoreWeave stock plunged nearly 19% after Q4 earnings revealed widening losses, an 894% debt-to-equity ratio, and plans to spend up to $35 billion on data center expansion in 2026.
OpenAI secured a Pentagon classified network deal with prohibitions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons - the exact same terms that got Anthropic banned from all federal agencies hours earlier.
Block CEO Jack Dorsey cut 4,000 employees - nearly half the company - citing AI tools as the reason, then predicted the majority of companies will make similar structural changes within 12 months. Wall Street rewarded him with a 25% stock surge. The evidence says he is wrong.
Awni Hannun, the Stanford-trained researcher who co-created Apple's MLX machine learning framework, announced his departure from Apple. His exit is the latest in a devastating exodus of AI talent that has hollowed out Apple's ML research bench over the past year.
President Trump directed all U.S. government agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic's technology after the company refused to drop AI safety guardrails for the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security.
OpenAI terminated an employee for using confidential company information to trade on Polymarket, the first confirmed firing of its kind at a major AI lab. An Unusual Whales analysis of on-chain data found 60 suspicious wallets and 77 positions tied to unreleased OpenAI products.
A State Department cable signed by Secretary Rubio directs U.S. embassies worldwide to oppose data localization mandates, calling the EU's GDPR 'unnecessarily burdensome' and framing unrestricted cross-border data flows as critical AI infrastructure.
