General Intuition, an AI startup focused on training agents for spatial-temporal reasoning, is reportedly in talks to raise approximately $300 million. This funding round would value the company at over $2 billion and comes eight months after its $134 million seed round.
A Stanford-led study found law professors preferred AI-generated answers over human-written ones in legal reasoning tasks. Google's Gemini and NotebookLM outperformed human instructors, with AI answers also deemed less harmful.
Microsoft's Build conference showcased a new AI-first strategy, featuring in-house reasoning models like MAI-Thinking-1, a cybersecurity tool (MDASH), and 'Autopilot' AI agents integrated into a Copilot super app. This marks a significant pivot from its reliance on OpenAI, as Microsoft aims to compete directly with top AI labs.
Microsoft announced seven new AI models at its Build event, claiming they outperform competitors like Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Google's Nano Banana 2 in benchmarks. The company aims to establish itself as a leading AI developer with proprietary systems.
An article compares AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Gemini with traditional mothers in offering advice for life's crises. It highlights AI's logical, structured responses versus a mother's instinctual, emotionally driven, and deeply personal guidance, concluding that while AI offers objective help, a mother's love and lifelong investment provide a unique, irreplaceable form of care.
Tech leaders are increasingly concerned about "AI psychosis" among CEOs who overestimate AI capabilities due to their distance from practical implementation. This euphoria leads to rushed, unsafe AI integrations and a societal risk of sycophancy, mirroring political and corporate environments where flattery undermines reality.
A Chinese research team develops HG-STR, an algorithm enabling drone swarms to autonomously hunt and destroy targets with 100% efficiency, even under jammed communications and blocked vision.
President Trump reversed course on an executive order mandating AI safety reviews before model release, citing competition with China. Tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, lobbied against the order, which was seen as a victory for the industry's push for rapid advancement.
OpenAI's AI model has reportedly disproven a long-held mathematical conjecture by Paul Erdős, discovering new constructions for the planar unit distance problem. While the AI didn't solve the problem entirely, its findings were validated by mathematicians.
Google I/O 2026 kicks off tonight, promising updates on Android 17, Gemini Intelligence, and new Googlebook laptops. Expect AI advancements, AR glasses demos, and the unveiling of 'Aluminium OS'.
Galileo Galilei's quote "There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly" resonates today due to online misinformation and emotional reactions overpowering logic.
Tian Yuandong, ex-Meta AI research director, co-founds Recursive Superintelligence, raising $650M at a $4.65B valuation to develop self-improving AI systems capable of autonomous code refinement and reasoning.
Cyber-attacks, disinformation and blockading of supplies. This is what living in a war zone can look like nowWe are at war. Four words that sound ludicrously melodramatic on a sunny spring day, when all may not be exactly right with the world – but when you can still shut your eyes to a lot of it just by switching off the news and cracking on with life. No bombs are falling, no bullets flying, no sirens sounding. Though the idea that Britain is already under a form of hybrid attack is commonplace in defence circles, politicians still mostly skirt around it; and it was jolting at first to hear the Labour MP (and former RAF wing commander) Calvin Bailey make the case for conflict being our new reality at a conference hosted by the Good Growth Foundation thinktank last week in London. But then he started to unpack his reasoning for why war is no longer what you think it is.If war can be considered an assault on five fronts – against a country’s political leadership, critical infrastructure, essentials such as food or fuel supplies, civilian population and armed forces – then Britain is arguably now being attacked on the first four without a shot being fired. Think of rampant, Russian-generated political disinformation on social media and attempts to bribe British politicians; of Russian submarine surveillance of the British undersea cables carrying most of our internet traffic, or the four “nationally significant” cyber-attacks recorded every week; of the blockading of food and fuel supplies through the strait of Hormuz. Think, too, of Keir Starmer’s warning in the Sunday Times last week of conflict with Iran coming home to British civilians via “the use of proxies in this country”. He didn’t elaborate, but counter-terrorism police say they are investigating whether a spate of arson attacks on synagogues, Jewish-owned businesses and Iranians living in Britain may have been sponsored by Tehran – a thugs-for-hire tactic familiar from the Russian playbook for sowing division and hate.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnistGuardian Newsroom: Can Labour come back from the brink? On Thursday 30 April, join Gaby Hinsliff, Zoe Williams, Polly Toynbee and Rafael Behr as they discuss how much of a threat Labour faces from the Green party and Reform UK – and whether Keir Starmer can survive as leader. Book tickets here or at guardian.live Continue reading...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked debate with predictions of economic collapse post-AGI due to mass unemployment. Ironically, he's adopting polyphasic sleep, claiming GPT-5.5's advancements are too compelling to miss. This comes as OpenAI launched GPT-5.5, boasting enhanced reasoning and coding, outperforming rivals.
DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.
Elon Musk’ın yapay zeka şirketi xAI, sesli asistan dünyasında taşları yerinden oynatacak yeni hamlesini gerçekleştirdi. Duyurulan Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, karmaşık sorunları çözme yeteneğiyle de rakiplerine büyük bir fark atıyor. Yapay zeka dünyasında “muhakeme” (reasoning) yeteneğini sesli iletişime entegre eden bu yeni model, paylaşılan son benchmark verilerine göre Google ve OpenAI gibi devleri geride […]
Tencent unveiled Hy3 preview, an open-source 295-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts AI model with only 21 billion active parameters. The model demonstrates dramatic improvements: SWE-bench coding benchmark jumped from 53.0% to 74.4%, Terminal-Bench rose to 54.4%, and BrowseComp reached 67.1%. Priced at $0.18/$0.59 per million input/output tokens, it outperforms Chinese competitors like GLM-5 and Kimi-K2.5 while using a fraction of the compute cost.
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...
