Shield AI Raises $2B at $12.7B in Defense AI Bet
Shield AI closed a $2B raise at a $12.7B valuation, more than doubling from $5.3B a year ago, to fund its Hivemind autonomous pilot software and acquire Pentagon simulation vendor Aechelon Technology.
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Meta TRIBE v2 Predicts Brain Activity From Any Media
Meta's TRIBE v2 foundation model predicts fMRI brain activity from video, audio, and text, trained on 720 volunteers and achieving 2-3x gains over prior methods.
Shield AI Raises $2B at $12.7B in Defense AI Bet
Shield AI closed a $2B raise at a $12.7B valuation, more than doubling from $5.3B a year ago, to fund its Hivemind autonomous pilot software and acquire Pentagon simulation vendor Aechelon Technology.
GitHub Copilot Will Train on Your Code This April
Starting April 24, GitHub will use Copilot Free and Pro users' interaction data to train AI models by default - with opt-out buried in settings.
Tencent's 7B Voice AI Targets OpenAI's Realtime API
Tencent open-sources Covo-Audio, a 7B end-to-end audio language model with native full-duplex conversation that beats larger closed models on key benchmarks.
Anthropic Adds Auto Mode to Claude Code with Safety Gates
Anthropic's new Auto Mode for Claude Code uses a two-layer classifier to automatically approve or block risky commands, offering a middle path between manual approvals and full autonomy.
ARC-AGI-3 Launches - AI Agents Must Learn, Not Memorize
ARC Prize Foundation launched ARC-AGI-3 today with a fully open-source agent toolkit. The best AI in the preview phase scored 12.58% against a human baseline of 100%.
Apple Can Distill Google Gemini for On-Device Siri
New details reveal Apple has full data center access to Gemini and can create smaller on-device derivative models - far more control than the original deal disclosed.
New York's RAISE Act Is Law - AI Labs Have Until 2027
New York's RAISE Act is now on the books, requiring frontier AI developers to publish safety protocols, report incidents within 72 hours, and submit to annual audits by January 2027.
Kleiner Perkins Goes All-In on AI With $3.5B Raise
Kleiner Perkins closes a $3.5B dual fund - its largest raise in the current era - betting on Anthropic, Harvey, and a 2026 IPO window.
Guides
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AI for Coding Beginners - Start Without Dev Experience
A step-by-step guide to building your first app with AI coding tools, even if you have zero programming experience.
RAG vs Fine-Tuning - When to Use Each
A practical guide to choosing between RAG and fine-tuning for your AI project, with cost comparisons, latency trade-offs, and a decision framework.
How to Use AI for Project Management
A practical guide to using AI tools for task prioritization, sprint planning, meeting notes, and risk detection in project management.
Reviews
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Kimi K2.5 Review: Open Weights, Agent Swarms, Caveats
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 delivers best-in-class open-weight math and a genuinely novel multi-agent architecture, but a brutal hallucination rate and slow inference limit its real-world reliability.
Microsoft Phi-4 Reasoning: Small Model, Big Math
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 Review: Open-Source Video AI That Delivers
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.
Leaderboards
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MCP Server Ecosystem Leaderboard - Top Servers Ranked
Rankings of the most popular MCP servers across development, data, web automation, and productivity categories based on installs, search volume, and GitHub activity.
Computer Use Leaderboard: Desktop AI Agent Rankings
Rankings of the best AI models and agent frameworks on computer use benchmarks - OSWorld, OSWorld-Verified, and ScreenSpot-Pro - updated March 2026.
AI Safety Leaderboard: Refusal and Jailbreak Rankings
Rankings of AI models by safety metrics including refusal rates, jailbreak resistance, bias scores, and truthfulness across major benchmarks.
Models
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Helios: Real-Time 14B Open-Source Video Model
Helios is a 14B open-source autoregressive diffusion model that generates minute-long videos at 19.5 FPS on a single H100, matching 1.3B distilled model speeds at full 14B quality.
Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Pro - Agentic 1T MoE Model
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.
Claude Sonnet 4.6: Mid-Tier Model, Flagship Results
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.
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Midjourney V7 Review: Still the King of AI Art
A hands-on review of Midjourney V7, the latest image generation model with a new web interface, stunning aesthetic quality, and improved character consistency.
Open-Source vs Proprietary AI: Which Should You Use?
A comprehensive comparison of open-source and proprietary AI models, helping you decide when to use Llama, Qwen, or DeepSeek versus GPT-5, Claude, or Gemini.
Best Free AI Tools You Can Use Right Now (2026)
A comprehensive roundup of the best free and freemium AI tools available in 2026, organized by category. Start using AI today without spending a dime.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.6 With Agent Teams and 1M Context Window
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6 featuring agent teams, adaptive thinking, 1M token context window, and state-of-the-art performance on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and Humanity's Last Exam.
Open-Source LLM Leaderboard: February 2026
Rankings of the best open-weight and open-source large language models in February 2026, including DeepSeek V3.2, Qwen 3.5, Llama 4 Maverick, GLM-5, and Mistral 3.
Gemini 3 Pro Review: Google's Vision AI Powerhouse
A detailed review of Google's Gemini 3 Pro, a natively multimodal AI model that leads in vision, spatial reasoning, and video understanding.
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: Which AI Assistant Should You Use?
Head-to-head comparison of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in 2026. Pricing, strengths, weaknesses, and best use cases for each AI assistant.
What Are AI Agents? A Plain-English Explanation
A beginner-friendly explanation of AI agents, covering what makes them different from chatbots, real-world examples, key frameworks, and the growing agent economy.
MMLU-Pro Leaderboard: Graduate-Level Knowledge Rankings
Complete MMLU-Pro benchmark rankings measuring graduate-level knowledge across 14 subjects with 12,000 questions and 10 answer options per question.
GLM-5 Arrives: 744B-Parameter Open-Source Model Built for Agents
Z.ai releases GLM-5, a 744B parameter open-source Mixture-of-Experts model purpose-built for agentic tasks, scoring 77.8% on SWE-bench Verified and 56.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.0.
Cursor Review: The AI-Native IDE That Changed How We Code
A thorough review of Cursor, the VS Code fork that has become the gold standard for AI-assisted coding with Composer mode, full project understanding, and multi-file edits.
Best Tools for Running LLMs Locally in 2026
Compare the best tools for running large language models locally: Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, GPT4All, and LocalAI. Includes hardware requirements and model recommendations.
