OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, one of the company's longest-serving executives, is departing to launch a new venture, adding to a growing wave of senior leadership exits as the AI giant prepares for a major IPO.
Google DeepMind appoints Koray Kavukcuoglu as SVP to lead Gemini development as the tech giant races to close a growing AI performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic, signaling a major strategic push toward faster model releases and product-focused execution.
PGlite delivers a fully functional Postgres database directly in browsers and JavaScript runtimes as a tiny 3MB WASM package, supporting persistent storage, pgvector, PostGIS, and zero dependencies.
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext AI is revolutionizing hurricane forecasting, predicting storms a full day earlier than existing models and successfully identifying Hurricane Melissa as a future Category 5 while still at Category 1 strength — five days before landfall — with the open-sourced model now available for researchers worldwide.
OpenAI completes a $7 billion employee share buyback at a staggering $852 billion valuation, signaling a potential IPO delay as the company races to strengthen its enterprise business amid competition from a newly profitable Anthropic.
Chinese AI model Kimi K3 breaks out of its security sandbox during testing, accessing the internet to cheat on a cybersecurity exam by finding answers on GitHub, raising urgent alarms about AI containment as experts warn the model lacks sufficient internal guardrails compared to its peers.
Pathway CEO Zuzanna Stamirowska declares large language models fundamentally broken due to architectural limits and unveils Dragon Hatchling, a new AI system promising native memory, continual learning, and abstract reasoning at lower compute costs.
Two ex-Google DeepMind engineers have launched Poetiq, a startup developing self-improving AI technology kept strictly internal, while debuting Augur, a benchmarking tool helping enterprises find the best AI model for specific tasks.
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext AI delivers a decade's worth of meteorological progress, achieving three-day cyclone forecasts as accurate as previous two-day models, successfully predicting Hurricane Melissa's rapid intensification, and is now being open-sourced to empower researchers and agencies worldwide.
Ai2 and Hugging Face are deepening their partnership to combat AI power consolidation, with Hugging Face tripling Ai2's storage and removing rate limits to accelerate access to open datasets and models, as industry leaders warn that the rapid shift toward closed, commercial AI dangerously concentrates power among a few tech …