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.
Federal prosecutors indicted Supermicro's co-founder and SVP along with two associates for smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI accelerator servers to China using fake hardware and stripped serial numbers.
Google confirmed it is testing AI-generated headline rewrites in search results - not pulling from existing page elements, but creating entirely new titles that can change the meaning of articles.
Three new papers expose a gap between what AI models know and what they do - and why that gap is harder to close than anyone assumed.
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.
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.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers frontier-class benchmarks at a fraction of the cost of Pro - but a sluggish first-token response and preview-only status mean it's not for every workload.
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.
OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the startup behind Python's dominant uv package manager and Ruff linter, folding critical developer infrastructure into its Codex coding agent team.
Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI and Amazon after a $50 billion AWS cloud deal may breach its exclusive cloud hosting agreement signed when it backed OpenAI with $13 billion.
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano 4B packs a Mamba-dominant hybrid architecture, 262K token context, and 95.4% on MATH500 into a model that fits an 8GB Jetson Orin Nano.
Jensen Huang confirmed at GTC 2026 that NVIDIA has export licenses for multiple Chinese customers and is restarting H200 production, with 82,000 GPUs ready to ship after nearly a year of zero deliveries.
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 leads speech-to-text at 2.3% WER while ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 sets the pace for TTS with 75ms latency - but Google and Mistral are closing in fast.
Three new arXiv papers tackle constitutional AI rule learning, sleeper agent defense for multi-agent pipelines, and skill-evolving reinforcement learning for math reasoning.
A hands-on comparison of the top AI browser automation tools in 2026, covering Browser Use, Stagehand, Playwright MCP, Skyvern, Browserbase, and Firecrawl - with pricing, benchmarks, and pick-by-use-case.
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and nano on March 17, bringing near-flagship performance at 70% and 92% lower cost respectively.
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.
A 1-trillion-parameter model called Hunter Alpha appeared anonymously on OpenRouter on March 11. Developers say it's DeepSeek V4 in disguise. The signals are strong but the precedent cuts both ways.
Tencent's 2025 results beat estimates, with the company spending $2.6B on AI last year and planning to at least double that in 2026 despite ongoing GPU supply constraints from US export controls.
Seven AI and cloud companies pool $12.5M through OpenSSF and Alpha-Omega to build tools that help open-source maintainers cope with a flood of AI-generated vulnerability reports they can't triage.
