Meta's superintelligence chief says its upcoming Watermelon model now matches GPT-5.5 on key AI benchmarks.

Anthropic has released Claude Science, which is essentially a workbench for AI researchers that tackles one of the least glamorous aspects of scientific research – the sheer burden of administration.

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them ...

Venture investors poured more than $3 billion into world model startups in 2026, betting AI that can simulate the physical ...

Claude AI robotics benchmark shows Opus 4.7 finishing physical robot programming in 9 minutes, against 181 minutes for ...

China now has an open-weight model that can find software vulnerabilities and create attacks for anybody to use.

Construction work has started on the UK's new £750m national supercomputer. Those behind the project say it will be the most ...

Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) alums Katya Aukamp, Beta Desai, Nichol Flowers, and Clara Rhoades are the ...

SpaceX has signed a $6.3 billion computing deal with Reflection AI, giving the open-source lab access to Nvidia GB300 chips ...

Tapping into the power of collaboration, Johns Hopkins University and West Virginia University are launching a new partnership to bring together researchers from both institutions to address complex ...

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Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company was “set free” from OpenAI as it unveils seven in-house models and pursues superintelligence.