The Top Open AI Models Are Chinese. Arcee AI Thinks That’s A Problem.

The American startup is pitching investors on a $1 billion+ valuation to train a model over a trillion parameters, aiming to reclaim the open-weight lead from Chinese labs like Moonshot and DeepSeek.

Wisconsin towns reportedly signed secret NDAs for billion-dollar data center deals — Microsoft and Meta hide behind confidential agreements

At least four Wisconsin municipalities are understood to have signed underhanded nondisclosure agreements concerning new data centers while negotiating their development.

Nvidia’s plan to invest $100 billion in OpenAI appears unlikely — Jensen reportedly criticizing OpenAI’s business decisions in private discussions

Nvidia and OpenAI are still in talks about the $100-billion MOU the two parties signed in September 2025, and it seems that deal will be modified for a much “smaller” sum of tens of billions of dollars.

Vibe Coding Startup Cognition Mints A New AI Billionaire

Steven Hao, the $10 billion startup’s CTO, is the latest AI founder to join the three comma club, with an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion.

World’s largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider — CERN’s accelerator leverages its massive cooling network to help slash local carbon emissions

A new heat exchange system between the LHC and the French town of Ferney-Voltaire is directing waste heat energy from CERN’s accelerator to warm thousands of homes and businesses.

Gaming industry has embraced AI, but most game developers still think it’s bad

Game studios are increasingly using AI tools, yet more than half of industry professionals now say generative AI is hurting game development rather than helping it, according to a new survey.
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Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women

Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—is letting users buy custom instruction files for generating celebrity deepfakes. Some of these files were specifically designed to make pornographic images banned by the site, a new analysis has found. The study, from researchers at Stanford and Indiana…

The tech gender gap in the UK will not be equal until 2060

The UK loves to congratulate itself on innovation. We have world-class universities, globally admired research and a spinout ecosystem that, compared to many other countries, does a respectable job of…

The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job

Everyone is panicking because AI is very bad; everyone is panicking because AI is very good. It’s just that you never know which one you’re going to get. Grok is a pornography machine. Claude Code can do anything from building websites to reading your MRI. So of course Gen Z is spooked by what this…