China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open-source AI skyrockets

Moonshot’s annualized recurring revenue topped $200 million in April, driven by rapid growth in paid subscriptions and API usage.

With $1 Cyberattacks on the Rise, Durable Defenses Pay Off
With $1 Cyberattacks on the Rise, Durable Defenses Pay Off

Transforming a newly discovered software vulnerability into a cyberattack used to take months. Today—as the recent headlines over Anthropic’s Project Glasswing have shown—generative AI can do the job in minutes, often for less than a dollar of cloud c…

GPU Renters Are Playing a Silicon Lottery
GPU Renters Are Playing a Silicon Lottery

Think one GPU is very much like another? Think again. It turns out that there’s surprising variability in the performance delivered by chips of the same model. That can make getting your money’s worth by renting time on a GPU from a cloud provider a r…

Decentralized Training Can Help Solve AI’s Energy Woes
Decentralized Training Can Help Solve AI’s Energy Woes

Artificial intelligence harbors an enormousenergy appetite. Such constant cravings are evident in thehefty carbon footprint of thedata centers behind the AI boom and the steady increase over time ofcarbon emissions from training frontierAI models.No w…

Gemini, ChatGPT and most other AI chatbots think alike, and it’s bad for human creativity

AI chatbots may feel creative on their own, but new research shows they often converge on the same ideas, raising concerns that relying on them could quietly narrow human creativity.

Why AI Chatbots Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong
Why AI Chatbots Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong

In April of 2025, OpenAI released a new version of GPT-4o, one of the AI algorithms users could select to power ChatGPT, the company’s chatbot. The next week, OpenAI reverted to the previous version. “The update we removed was overly flattering or agr…

AI and Humans Verify Fields Medal Proof for the First Time
AI and Humans Verify Fields Medal Proof for the First Time

When Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska received a Fields Medal—widely regarded as the Nobel Prize for mathematics—in July 2022, it was big news. Not only was she the second woman to accept the honor in the award’s 86-year history, but she colle…

AI Is Acing Math Exams Faster Than Scientist Write Them
AI Is Acing Math Exams Faster Than Scientist Write Them

Mathematics is often regarded as the ideal domain for measuring AI progress effectively. Math’s step-by-step logic is easy to track, and its definitive automatically verifiable answers remove any human or subjective factors. But AI systems are improvi…

How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful?
How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful?

For a different perspective on AI companions, see ourQ&A with Jaime Banks: How Do You Define an AI Companion?Novel technology is often a double-edged sword. New capabilities come with new risks, and artificial intelligence is certainly no exception.AI…

Carbon Robotics built an AI model that detects and identifies plants 

Carbon Robotics’ Large Plant Model will allow farmers to kill new types of weeds without having to retrain the machines.