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April 8, 2026
Meta’s New AI Model Gives Mark Zuckerberg a Seat at the Big Kid’s Table
Muse Spark is Meta’s first model since its AI reboot, and the benchmarks suggest formidable performance.
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April 8, 2026
The US Army Is Building Its Own Chatbot for Combat
The AI system, trained on real military data, is meant to give soldiers mission-critical information.
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April 2, 2026
Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.
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April 1, 2026
AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models From Being Deleted
A new study from researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz suggests models will disobey human commands to protect their own kind.
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March 27, 2026
AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
A policy change announced by NeurIPS, the world’s leading AI research conference, drew widespread backlash from Chinese researchers this week and then was quickly reversed.
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March 25, 2026
OpenClaw Agents Can Be Guilt-Tripped Into Self-Sabotage
In a controlled experiment, OpenClaw agents proved prone to panic and vulnerable to manipulation. They even disabled their own functionality when gaslit by humans.
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March 11, 2026
Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
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March 4, 2026
What AI Models for War Actually Look Like
While companies like Anthropic debate limits on military uses of AI, Smack Technologies is training models to plan battlefield operations.
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February 28, 2026
Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government
The Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.
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February 28, 2026
Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a 'Supply Chain Risk'
Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.
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February 27, 2026
Trump Moves to Ban Anthropic From the US Government
President Donald Trump’s sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.
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February 18, 2026
This Defense Company Made AI Agents That Blow Things Up
Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.
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February 11, 2026
I Loved My OpenClaw AI Agent—Until It Turned on Me
I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals. Then it decided to scam me.
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February 5, 2026
Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race
Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.
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February 4, 2026
A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.
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February 4, 2026
AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic
New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses.
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January 28, 2026
Give Your Problems (and Passwords) to Moltbot, Then Watch It Go
A viral new virtual assistant formerly known as Clawdbot is complex and brings security risks—but some early adopters say it feels like the future.
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January 27, 2026
This Humanoid Is Ready to Bring You a Toothbrush
Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and entertainers.
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January 22, 2026
Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal
Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.
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January 21, 2026
The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think
WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI’s Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.
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January 20, 2026
Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese
Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong?
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January 14, 2026
AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’
AI models are getting so good at finding vulnerabilities that some experts say the tech industry might need to rethink how software is built.
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