Poolside emerges from 18 months of silence with its open-source AI model Laguna, which rivals top American and Chinese competitors despite being a fraction of their size, while the startup also holds an unreported stake in Fluidstack now worth roughly $860 million following the neocloud's $830 million raise.
Chinese AI giants Moonshot and Alibaba are unveiling powerful new frontier models — Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 — claiming to rival top US systems from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost, with both companies making their advanced models publicly available in a move that signals America's lead …
AI is slashing drug development costs by up to 70% and driving a projected $1 billion surge in new biopharma spending, but critics warn that no AI-discovered drug has yet received FDA approval, and the industry's notorious 90% failure rate may persist if human biological variability isn't properly addressed before …
CAISI Director Chris Fall resigns after just three months on the job, with NIST Chief Dr. Arvind Raman stepping in as Acting Director while the Trump administration searches for a permanent replacement in the coming weeks.
Alibaba shares surge 5.4% after launching its flagship Qwen3.8 Max AI model, boasting 2.4 trillion parameters and claiming second place only to Anthropic's best, intensifying fears that China is rapidly closing the AI gap with global leaders.
The head of the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation resigns after just three months with no explanation, leaving American AI leadership in turmoil as China's AI models surge and the Trump administration races to establish new regulatory frameworks.
A researcher burns through his entire Claude Max token limit in just 30 minutes after launching 111 AI agents, then redesigns his pipeline by assigning cheaper models to basic tasks, reserving frontier models for planning only, and enforcing strict verification rules — cutting agent usage by 45% and extending research …
A new open-source C++17 port of ByteDance's Depth Anything 3 model runs up to 1.31x faster than PyTorch on CPU, uses half the memory, loads 6.7x faster, and requires no Python, PyTorch, or CUDA — delivering monocular depth estimation and 3D point cloud export from a single image in a …
Alphabet shares tumble 4% as its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model faces months-long delays due to coding performance struggles, leaving Google scrambling to keep pace with rivals OpenAI and Meta who are already debuting powerful new AI coding models.
Anthropic is racing toward a potential October IPO backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan, which could see the Claude AI maker beat rival OpenAI to public markets at a staggering $61.5 billion valuation driven by surging enterprise demand for its AI models.