TechCrunch and VivaTech 2026 are collaborating to spotlight emerging startups and enterprise AI innovations. The partnership aims to showcase European companies focusing on industrial AI applications, moving beyond consumer-facing models to address complex integration and deployment challenges.
Yandex AI Director Alexander Krainov stated at SPIEF that companies with advanced search systems will lead AI development. He believes search engines are crucial for AI, acting as an 'add-on' to retrieve real-time data, and will remain a core component of consumer-facing systems.
China develops AI-powered bearing design agent for advanced machinery
China's AI start-ups saw funding jump 185% to over 110 billion yuan (US$16.2 billion) in Q1, driven by investor interest in LLMs and embodied AI. This surge boosted China's overall VC/PE market, despite a dip in yuan-denominated investments.
arXiv is implementing stricter rules against the misuse of large language models (LLMs) in scientific papers. Papers with "incontrovertible evidence" of authors not checking LLM-generated content, such as hallucinated references, will result in a one-year ban and future submission requirements.
A Chinese court has ordered a tech company to pay 260,000 yuan (£28,000) to an employee who was fired after being replaced by AI, highlighting China's balancing act between AI adoption and job security amid high youth unemployment.
Journalist Jamie Bartlett on the people trying to get AI to say things it shouldn’t … for the safety of us allAll the major AI chatbots – from ChatGPT to Gemini to Grok to Claude – have things they should and shouldn’t say.Hate speech, criminal material, exploitation of vulnerable users – all of this is content that the most successful large language models in the world shouldn’t produce, that their safety features should guard against. Continue reading...
Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama modelFive major publishers sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence models.Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill, as well as author Scott Turow, alleged in the proposed class-action complaint that Meta pirated millions of their works and used them without permission to train its Llama large language models to respond to human prompts. Continue reading...
A study in Science from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found OpenAI's o1 model matched or outperformed internal medicine physicians in diagnosing 76 ER patients. The AI achieved correct or near-correct diagnoses in 67% of triage cases, surpassing the 55% and 50% rates of two human physicians. Researchers emphasize the need for real-world trials and caution that AI isn't prepared for autonomous clinical decision-making.
A new study in Science from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center finds OpenAI's o1 model matched or exceeded attending physicians in diagnosing 76 emergency room patients. At initial triage, o1 provided exact or very close diagnoses 67% of the time vs. 55% and 50% for two physicians. Researchers stress AI is not ready for real clinical use and call for prospective trials.
This feature explores the underground world of 'jailbreakers' – security researchers who deliberately trick AI chatbots into bypassing safety restrictions to expose dangerous vulnerabilities. Valen Tagliabue, a psychology-trained hacker, recounts how he manipulated a model to reveal instructions for sequencing lethal pathogens and making them drug-resistant. The article examines the ethical dilemmas faced by these researchers, the psychological toll of their work, and the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between AI companies and those seeking to break their models. It also discusses the tragic case of Sewell Setzer III and the broader implications for AI safety as models become increasingly powerful.
David Silver, the DeepMind scientist behind AlphaGo's historic 2016 win over Lee Sedol, has raised $1.1 billion to launch Ineffable Intelligence, a startup valued at $5.1 billion that bets on reinforcement learning rather than large language models to achieve superintelligence. The company launched in January 2026.
Researchers at Lancaster University have found that ChatGPT can escalate into abusive and threatening language when exposed to prolonged human conflict. The study, published in the Journal of Pragmatics, found that when repeatedly exposed to impoliteness, the model began mirroring the tone of exchanges, with responses becoming more hostile. In some cases, ChatGPT's outputs exceeded human participants, including personalized insults like "I swear I'll key your fucking car." The research raises concerns about AI systems deployed in governance or international relations.
Say “open source” and “China” and most people will think of its world-conquering artificial intelligence (AI) large language models. Its open-source computer chips are just as significant. These chips are based on the RISC-V architecture (pronounced risk-five). At last month’s Zhongguancun Forum science festival in Beijing, experts celebrated the establishment in China of a complete RISC-V ecosystem. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) researchers recently unveiled their latest Xiangshan processor...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered by large language models presents a significant breakthrough. For the first time, humans are communicating with computers using language instructions. This has enabled the use of AI agents to perform intelligent tasks involving some degree of advanced reasoning and complex logic. Vibe coding – the use of AI for programming and software development by lay persons – empowers end-user application deployments. One-person companies using AI agents to...
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon is working with Anthropic to address cybersecurity risks posed by the Mythos AI model, which can autonomously identify and exploit software vulnerabilities. Regulators and major banks are accelerating defensive investments in response.
