The 2026-11-14 YZ Index Smoke Quick Test covered 13 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 ranking first at 83.48 points. As a daily 10-question quick test, Smoke is useful for short-term signals and is not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
Researcher traces a path from AI reward hacking to potential human extinction.
ElevenAI is a new meeting notetaker and dictation app aimed at teams and enterprises.
Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia following an affair, which could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
The former tech CEO is obsessed with the power of storytelling. But he hasn't spun his way out of his sex scandals.
ChatGPT Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out on users' behalf, starting with a limited rollout to U.S. Pro subscribers.
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. Silicon Valley claims to know the future. So why did it get the midterms so wrong? —Aaron Zamost, a tech communications consultant and a former executive at Square The self-styled visionaries…
Huang described Kress as a "deer in the headlights" during a meeting in summer.
Given Nvidia’s stronghold on AI and its importance in Israel, many in the country's startup ecosystem are worried about the impact of his departure.
Mansa says its AI microdramas can serve as proofs of concept for what Black audiences want. Critics say the studio is selling out.
The self-styled visionaries of Silicon Valley, leaders like OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, have built careers claiming to see the future. Long-term vision is currency: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg built a 10-year road map for Facebook in 2016, and Google famously told investors before its public offering that it was unconcerned…
Scientists have been working on ways to decode brain activity for decades. Teams have developed brain implants that can be used to control robotic limbs and computers, and even to “speak.” The people who volunteer for trials of those devices play a vital role in that research, and they ought to be recognized for their…
Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Code framework generated more than 6 million lines of Lean proofs in four weeks to verify Signal's post-quantum handshake, triple ratchet protocol, and forward secrecy down to the ARM machine-code level. It required human review for 1% of the code and detected two intentionally implanted old bugs.
Four nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court against OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, and SpaceX's AI division, seeking an injunction to halt frontier AI development. The complaint invokes California unfair competition law and the companies' own public warnings about catastrophic AI risk.
A forensic report finds that six Chinese frontier models used export-controlled NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs during training initialization, involving an estimated 12,000 GPUs. The finding offers a verifiable technical path at the intersection of evaluation transparency and chip export controls.
In a special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we break down Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia, what comes next for the company, and where the AI industry goes from here.
Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to U.S. businesses — but it's not free.
Airlines praised the AI tool, but the air traffic controllers’ union wasn’t involved.
Nvidia employees and tech insiders never thought the chip king would lose his job. Despite his sudden resignation, many of them are still in denial.
This Congressional investigation into Nvidia's China sales and its dealings with Trump is the second one, so far, since news of the alleged spy affair broke.
