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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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January 7, 2026
AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions
An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence.
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January 5, 2026
Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors
Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics are teaming up to integrate Gemini into a humanoid robot called Atlas.
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December 27, 2025
So Long, GPT-5. Hello, Qwen
In the AI boom, chatbots and GPTs come and go quickly. (Remember Llama?) GPT-5 had a big year, but 2026 will be all about Qwen.
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December 15, 2025
Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3
The world’s top chipmaker wants open source AI to succeed—perhaps because closed models increasingly run on its rivals’ silicon.
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December 9, 2025
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice
American AI giants are backing a new effort to establish open standards for building agentic software and tools.
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December 3, 2025
An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design
The Chinese video game giant Tencent is now building some of the world’s best 3D AI models. This could have implications far outside game design.
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December 2, 2025
Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own
Nova Forge lets Amazon’s customers train frontier models for different tasks—a potential breakthrough in making AI actually useful for businesses.
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