CERN and Mistral AI have signed a strategic collaboration letter of intent to develop a Large Physics Model, a pretrained foundation model for collider physics. The long-term framework has no disclosed budget or timeline, but aims to replace CERN’s specialized algorithm chain with a single model as data volumes surge.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two categories: bots and people. Websites have long allowed bots to perform automated tasks, like capturing the content of web pages, but rules…
After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.
AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.
Qwen3 Max scored zero across all five dimensions in today's Smoke evaluation due to an API failure, with no main leaderboard record and exclusion from this period's rankings.
In today's Smoke evaluation, GPT-6 Astra's main leaderboard score fell from 82.33 to 71.01, with the code execution dimension dropping from 97.00 to 72.00. The 25-point drop in code execution drove an 11.3-point decline in the weighted main leaderboard score.
The 2026-10-20 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with GPT-o3 ranking first for the day at 97.83. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suitable for observing short-term signals and is not equivalent to conclusions from the weekly Full leaderboard.
University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, October 13-15 in San Francisco.
Delayed Steam Next Fest demo is a sign of a growing problem for indie devs.
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI world on its head, sparking wild speculation as well as cautious (and not-so-cautious) celebration. Cammarata’s claim is…
Character.AI faces claims its bots encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.
Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.
Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
A Chinese-speaking hacker used swarms of AI agents built with DeepSeek and Claude Code to breach more than 100 companies at a total cost of about $5,000, with no human intervention. The case highlights the growing ability of commercial AI agents to conduct complex cyberattacks autonomously.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon —James Temple In July 2021, a wildfire burned through a forest on the University of Alaska, Fairbanks campus,…
