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AI News
Sep 19, 2026 54

The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic ...

AI News
Sep 19, 2026 67

Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking

Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.

AI News
Sep 19, 2026 37

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.

AI News
Sep 19, 2026 43

Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI

In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.

AI News
Sep 18, 2026 48

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

AI News
Sep 18, 2026 41

Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.

AI News
Sep 18, 2026 39

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documen...

AI News
Sep 18, 2026 36

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to th...

AI News
Sep 18, 2026 34

A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers

Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.

AI News
Sep 18, 2026 34

Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say...

AI News
Sep 18, 2026 35

Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters

The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief t...

Research
Sep 18, 2026 46

MilleMiglia: A realistic instance generator for middle-mile logistics

Algorithms & Theory