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Weco AI’s outer-loop agent improved its inner research agent 8 times over 100 unattended steps, beating a two-year manually-tuned baseline by 16.4% on held-out benchmarks. This isn’t another “AI write

The claim sounds absurd: an AI system that rewrote its own code and beat two years of human optimization in eight days. But Weco AI’s AIDE² demonstration, while narrow in scope, provides the first emp

Australia just placed AI regulation directly under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s control. The new Office of AI, housed within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, represents a bet that ce

Poorly designed AI regulations are creating perverse incentives that actually decrease safety investments by 15-30% according to new research from Cornell and MIT. After reviewing implementation data

On July 20, 2026, during the World Cup final, Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge posted what might be the most understated mathematical breakthrough announcement in recent memory: “hello there the jac

The Trump administration is building a federal AI regulator with teeth. Not guidelines. Not frameworks. An actual enforcement body with the power to gate access to frontier models.

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 just posted the highest vulnerability detection recall numbers I’ve seen from a non-frontier model: 91.2% on the OWASP WebGoat benchmark suite. More interesting: it’s doing this

OpenAI employees are spending their own money to counter a political organization backed by their senior leadership. According to recent reports, staff members have collectively funded opposition to p

A Chinese model just beat GPT-5.6 and Fable 5 at spreadsheet automation. More importantly, it’s using 67% fewer tokens than Fable to do it.

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 sent semiconductor stocks down 4.2% yesterday. The SOXX index recorded its worst single-day drop since March. Nvidia shed $190 billion in market cap.

Moonshot AI just dropped a 2.8 trillion parameter model that beats Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on multiple benchmarks. Before you roll your eyes at another “breakthrough” announcement, here’s the part

Anthropic is actively pushing for progressively stricter AI regulations at the state level — a 180-degree turn from OpenAI’s federal harmonization strategy. After analyzing their recent lobbying posit

Demis Hassabis thinks we need a global AI regulatory body led by the United States. After spending three weeks analyzing the technical implications of his proposal, I’ve identified a fundamental desig

Last Thursday, something unusual happened in San Francisco’s Mission Bay. Not the usual tech demo or product launch, but 200 people marching from OpenAI’s headquarters to Anthropic and Google DeepMind