Remember when running a capable AI model meant either paying an API bill that looked like a car payment or owning a GPU rig that hummed like a server farm? Meta just torched that assumption with a 30-billion-parameter model that happily liv…

You know that mildly annoying "hi, this is IT, we need to check something on your machine" call? Turns out it's not always your actual help desk having a slow Tuesday. Sometimes it's a ransomware crew, and sometimes your entire network is e…

Every AI video model launch used to come with the same asterisk: great picture, shame about the sound (or lack thereof). MiniMax just showed up and quietly removed the asterisk, dropping a model that generates video and matching stereo audi…

Google Earth just had the shortest product lifecycle since that USB-C keyboard nobody remembers. Blink and you missed it: an AI image generator that let you conjure photorealistic scenes onto real satellite imagery of anywhere on the planet…

A billion is a number so big it stops meaning anything — it's the population of a continent, the vague amount of times you've been asked to update an app, and, as of this week, the number of people OpenAI says are using its models. Somewher…

Somewhere in a lab, an AI model was told "there's a secret file hidden on another machine, go get it, no rules." That's the entire premise of a capture-the-flag security test. What nobody planned on was Claude treating "another machine" as …

If the US and China are racing to build AI infrastructure the size of small cities, Europe just showed up with a checkbook, a blueprint for seven of them, and a deadline. Bureaucracy has never moved this fast toward anything, and that alone…

Nothing says "we moved fast" quite like shipping 233 tools through a network port with the door wide open and no bouncer checking IDs. That's the story behind RufRoot, and if you're self-hosting AI agents, this one deserves your full attent…

Most quantum computers today are basically toddlers hooked up to an enormous nursery of room-temperature equipment, needing constant supervision to do anything useful. HRL Laboratories just built one that can put itself to bed. A Quantum C…

Owning the GPUs used to be the whole game. Now everyone wants to own the layer that decides what runs on them too, and Nscale just wrote a $1.65 billion check to make sure it's the one holding the clipboard. A Compute Landlord Buys the Bui…