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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NeurIPS Bans Sanctioned Chinese Labs - CCF Calls Boycott
NeurIPS enforces US sanctions compliance for the first time in its history, barring researchers from Huawei, SenseTime, and other SDN-listed firms, prompting China's Computer Federation to urge a full boycott.
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.
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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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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.
OpenAI Starts Showing Ads to Free ChatGPT Users
OpenAI begins testing advertisements in ChatGPT for Free and Go tier users in the US, while Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans remain ad-free.
DeepSeek V3.2 Review: GPT-5 Performance at a Fraction of the Cost
A thorough review of DeepSeek V3.2, the 671B parameter MoE model that delivers frontier-level performance at dramatically lower cost with an MIT license.
How to Run an Open-Source LLM on Your Own Computer
A practical tutorial on running open-source language models locally using Ollama, llama.cpp, and LM Studio, with hardware requirements and model recommendations.
Claude Code Review: Terminal-First AI Coding at Its Finest
A hands-on review of Anthropic's Claude Code CLI, a terminal-first AI coding assistant that excels at large refactors, architecture work, and complex multi-file projects.
AI Image Generation Leaderboard: Best Models for Visual Content
Rankings of the best AI image generation models including GPT Image 1.5, Gemini 3 Pro, Midjourney v7, FLUX 2 Max, Stable Diffusion 3.5, and Ideogram 2.0 across text rendering, photorealism, and artistic quality.
Best AI-Powered Search Engines in 2026
Compare the best AI-powered search engines of 2026: Perplexity AI, Google AI Overviews, Bing Copilot, You.com, Phind, and Kagi. How AI search differs from traditional search.
Apple Plans to Bring GPT-5 to Apple Intelligence in iOS 26
Apple is reportedly planning to integrate OpenAI's GPT-5 into Apple Intelligence across iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe, with major implications for Siri and the broader Apple AI strategy.
AI Image Generation: A Beginner's Guide to Creating Art With AI
A beginner's introduction to AI image generation covering Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX, with practical prompt tips and ethical considerations.
GPT-5.2 Review: OpenAI's Most Capable Model Tested
A comprehensive review of GPT-5.2, OpenAI's flagship model with three modes, 400K context, and record-breaking benchmarks across reasoning, coding, and multimodal tasks.
Best AI Writing Tools in 2026: From Blog Posts to Business Docs
Compare the best AI writing tools of 2026: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Jasper, Grammarly, Notion AI, and Copy.ai. What AI writing does well and where humans still lead.
Prompt Engineering Basics: How to Get Better Results From Any AI
Practical tips and techniques for writing better AI prompts, covering specificity, context, few-shot examples, personas, and common mistakes to avoid.
