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Stanford 2026 AI Index: China Has Erased the US Lead

Stanford HAI's annual AI Index report reveals China and the US are now neck-and-neck on AI performance benchmarks — a historic shift with major implications for business and policy.

2026-04-13Read more

DeepSeek R2 Hits 92.7% on AIME With Just 32B Parameters

China's DeepSeek releases an open-weight reasoning model that runs on a single consumer GPU and undercuts Western API pricing by 70%.

GLM-5.1 Tops SWE-Bench Pro, Beating GPT-5.4 and Claude

Z.ai's open-source 754B model achieves state-of-the-art coding benchmarks and runs autonomously for 8 hours straight.

India Bets Big on Sovereign AI With Sarvam's $350M Raise

Sarvam AI is closing a $350M round at a $1.5B valuation as India races to build homegrown AI that works in 22 languages.

OpenAI's $122B Round: The Biggest AI Deal Ever, Decoded

OpenAI closed a record $122 billion fundraise at an $852B valuation — but how much is real cash? Here's what the numbers actually mean.

AI Venture Funding Hits $300B in Q1 2026, Shattering Every Record

Investors poured $300 billion into startups in Q1 2026, with AI claiming 80% of the total — more than all of 2025 combined.

Google Bakes NotebookLM Into Gemini for All Users

Google's AI research tool NotebookLM now lives inside Gemini, bringing persistent memory, source syncing, and project notebooks to every subscriber.

2026-04-11Read more

This AI Breakthrough Cuts Energy Use by 100x

Tufts University researchers combine neural networks with symbolic reasoning to slash AI energy consumption by 100x while tripling accuracy.

2026-04-11Read more

80,000 Tech Jobs Cut in Q1 2026 — Half Blamed on AI

Tech layoffs hit 80,000 in Q1 2026, with nearly half attributed to AI automation. But experts say the real story is more complicated.

2026-04-11Read more

LM Studio Acquires Locally AI, Bringing Local Models to Mobile

LM Studio's acquisition of Locally AI extends on-device AI from desktop to iPhone, iPad, and Mac with cross-device sync.

NVIDIA Bets Big on Physical AI for National Robotics Week

NVIDIA unveiled new Cosmos world models and GR00T robot foundations during National Robotics Week, signaling the next frontier of AI beyond chatbots.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 'Spud' Is Coming: What We Know

OpenAI's next frontier model, codenamed Spud, finished pretraining in late March. Here's what GPT-5.5 means for developers, businesses, and the AI race.

Revolut Launches AIR: An AI Co-Pilot for Your Money

Revolut's new AI assistant AIR rolls out to 13 million UK users, handling spending insights, card management, and trip planning.

Shopify Launches AI Toolkit: Agents Can Now Run Your Store

Shopify's free, open-source AI Toolkit lets Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex manage stores through natural language.

CoreWeave and Meta Expand AI Cloud Deal to $35 Billion

Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave for AI infrastructure through 2032, featuring Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips and a major shift toward inference workloads.

Google's Gemma 4 Outperforms Models 20x Its Size

Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0, delivering frontier-level reasoning and agentic capabilities in models small enough to run on a laptop.

HeyGen Avatar V: One 15-Second Clip, Unlimited AI Videos

HeyGen's new Avatar V captures your likeness in 15 seconds and generates studio-quality videos in 175+ languages — with full-body movement and consistent identity across every clip.

Perplexity Launches $1B Build Competition as Revenue Surges 50%

Perplexity's pivot to AI agents pushed ARR past $450M in a single month. Now it's daring entrepreneurs to build a billion-dollar company using its Computer platform.

Visa Enables AI Agents to Spend Money Autonomously

Nevermined's integration of Visa Intelligent Commerce and Coinbase's x402 protocol lets AI agents make purchases within user-defined guardrails — no human click required.