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Friday January 2, 2026. 09:18 PM
When people discuss artificial intelligence in 2026, the same handful of companies tend to dominate the conversation. Google. OpenAI. Nvidia. Microsoft. Amazon. However, there are some burgeoning, under-the-radar vendors focused on making AI systems easier to deploy, manage, ...
Screens had a good run. Now OpenAI is betting that the future of AI lives in your ears, not on your phone. OpenAI is ramping up work on its audio AI as it prepares for an upcoming personal device that will rely primarily on voice, according to The Information. The device is...
Robots are no longer limited to factory floors or research labs. Across the world, they are stepping into jobs that are simply too risky for people — from fighting fires and disarming bombs to inspecting radioactive sites and navigating deep underground pipelines. As...
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is pushing robots into one of the hardest jobs in emergency medicine: triage. Through its multi-year DARPA Triage Challenge, the agency is testing whether machines can help overwhelmed responders quickly locate...
The AI funding boom just rewrote the record books. In 2025, startups raised roughly $150 billion, setting a new high for venture capital investment. Data released on Dec. 28 confirms this marks the third consecutive year of record growth, surpassing the 2021 peak by $92...
Thursday January 1, 2026. 01:00 PM
Since its debut in August, Google’s Nano Banana image model has gone from a cool tech demo to a daily companion for millions. With the November release of Nano Banana Pro, the capabilities jumped from nice-to-have to studio-quality. Google’s latest update notes that the...
Wednesday December 31, 2025. 08:16 PM
A 24-year-old just raised $64 million to build an AI mathematician that’s smarter than Terence Tao (widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician). Her name is Carina Hong, and her startup Axiom Math has already solved a 130-year-old problem and disproved a...
MiniMax is no longer just another AI startup. It’s preparing for a public debut. The Chinese AI company is targeting a $600 million IPO with backing from Alibaba and Abu Dhabi investment authorities, according to people familiar with the matter. The final size and timing...
Most people choose chatbots the wrong way. They compare model names, skim benchmarks, or follow brand momentum, then wonder why the tool feels unreliable in daily use. But the problem isn’t intelligence; it’s fit. AI chatbots fail in different ways depending on the task. ...
Das Jahr 2025 endete mit einer beispiellosen Welle von Cyberangriffen auf öffentliche Institutionen in Europa. Mehrere EU-Ministerien meldeten gezielte Phishing-Kampagnen, die durch generative KI unterstützt wurden, während neue Vorschriften – wie die erweiterte...
Das Jahr 2025 endete mit einer beispiellosen Welle von Cyberangriffen auf öffentliche Institutionen in Europa. Mehrere EU-Ministerien meldeten gezielte Phishing-Kampagnen, die durch generative KI unterstützt wurden, während neue Vorschriften – wie die erweiterte...
A new generation of AI tools is reshaping offensive cybersecurity, making vulnerability discovery faster, cheaper, and far more automated. NeuroSploitv2 exemplifies that shift. The AI-powered penetration testing framework works across multiple large language models,...
“Human intelligence is becoming irrelevant.” That was Geoffrey Hinton’s warning as the AI pioneer predicted that millions of jobs could disappear by 2026, driven by artificial intelligence advancing faster than workers, companies, and governments can respond. On Dec....
Tuesday December 30, 2025. 07:40 PM
SoftBank has finally written the check. A $40 billion gamble is now fully funded. SoftBank Group has completed its previously announced roughly $40 billion investment in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, fulfilling the largest private tech funding commitment in history. As...
Every New Year starts with a fresh set of goals. Maybe you’re finally sticking to a workout routine, staying consistent with learning something new, or building better daily habits. But then life happens — schedules get busy, motivation fades, and well-intentioned...
Humanoid robots are moving past simple metal and gears to something much more sensitive. In a major leap for embodied intelligence, researchers in China have developed a “neuromorphic” electronic skin (NRE-skin) that allows robots to experience touch, detect injury, and even...
Developers can now submit apps to be hosted inside ChatGPT that extend conversations with real functionality. These aren’t your ma or pa’s GPTs… these are real applications for ordering groceries, building slide decks, booking apartments, all without leaving the chat....
Generative AI has become powerful enough to create a brand-new kind of problem… and OpenAI is willing to pay handsomely for someone brave enough to deal with it. That role is OpenAI’s new “head of preparedness,” a job that comes with enormous responsibility,...
ChatGPT can feel either incredibly smart or oddly unhelpful. The difference, it turns out, often comes down to how people use it. As more workers, students, and creators lean on AI tools every day, experts are sharing practical ways to get sharper, more useful answers from...
Meta Platforms has officially announced the acquisition of Manus, a high-flying startup known for building autonomous AI agents that don’t just chat, but actually get work done. This acquisition marks a major pivot for Meta, moving from its focus on open-source Llama models...
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