The UK government launches a $675 million Sovereign AI venture fund to invest in domestic startups across AI model development, agentic AI, and drug discovery, offering not just capital but supercomputer access, free visas, and government contracts to reduce dependence on foreign technology.
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a restricted life sciences AI model that outperforms 95% of human experts in RNA sequence prediction and surpasses other AI on science benchmarks, with access limited to approved organizations like Amgen and Moderna due to misuse concerns.
Anthropic is making a major move in London, securing an 800-person office in the city's Knowledge Quarter as the AI powerhouse rides a wave of explosive growth, boasting a $380 billion valuation, $30 billion in annual run-rate revenue, and a string of viral product launches including its Claude Code coding …
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a frontier AI model purpose-built for life sciences that outperforms human experts above the 95th percentile on RNA sequence-to-function tasks, beats competitors on key benchmarks, and is now available in research preview for U.S. Enterprise customers through partnerships with Amgen, Moderna, and the Allen Institute.
Nvidia launches Ising, a family of open AI models claiming to deliver error correction decoding 2.5 times faster and three times more accurate than conventional methods, already being adopted by Harvard and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as the tech giant moves to embed itself in the quantum computing ecosystem before …
AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-powered platform that designed nearly 300,000 novel antibody molecules in collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, slashing drug discovery timelines from up to a year down to just weeks.
NVIDIA launches Ising, the world's first open-source AI model family built to supercharge quantum computing, cutting processor calibration time from days to hours and delivering error correction that is 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate than current industry standards, with Harvard, Fermilab, and other major institutions already on board.
Apple researchers discover AI models hallucinate due to poor fact memorization, but a new training method using data selection and loss-based pruning boosts fact accuracy by 30%, allowing a small 110M-parameter model to match the performance of a model 12 times its size.
Pioneering AI futurist Ray Kurzweil doubles down on his 1999 prediction that AGI will arrive by 2029, declaring early signs are already emerging and that fierce AI competition will transform nearly every industry, making the next decade 'absolutely fantastic' for human knowledge.
AI adoption soars to 88% and safety incidents surge to 362 as Stanford's HAI 2026 report exposes a deepening trust crisis, with 73% of AI experts optimistic while only 23% of the public shares their confidence.