Artificial intelligence and machine learning news covering LLMs, neural networks, computer vision, and responsible AI policy shaping the next era of technology.
Putin declared AI sovereignty a matter of national survival at a Kremlin meeting on April 10, 2026, ordering economy-wide deployment by 2030 and dedicated defense AI development.
CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis says AI 'coworkers' will be embedded in every analytic platform within years, with officers eventually managing teams of autonomous AI agents.
From $1.99-per-minute AI Jesus video calls to BuddhaBot trained on Buddhist scripture, faith-based AI is a fast-growing market -- and researchers are raising urgent questions about manipulation, data privacy, and what it means when an AI claims spiritual authority.
A new Gallup poll of 1,500+ young people finds Gen Z excitement about AI has fallen 14 points since 2025. Only 3% trust fully AI-generated work, yet Amazon is spending $200 billion on AI this year.
Alibaba secretly launched Happy Horse 1.0 inside its newly formed Token Hub unit. The model hit No. 1 on the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard before anyone knew Alibaba had built it, displacing ByteDance's SeeDance.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview partners with Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft on Project Glasswing to redefine AI-driven defensive cybersecurity.
Google's Gemma 4 family includes four open-weight models under Apache 2.0, with the 31B flagship ranking third globally and edge variants running on smartphones and Raspberry Pi.
OpenAI confirmed the largest private funding round in history and announced a ChatGPT super app unifying chat, coding, search, and agents for its 900 million weekly users.
Anthropic is blocking unofficial tools like OpenClaw that access Claude without payment from April 4, 2026. Users must switch to a direct API key or purchase new extra usage bundles to continue.
Tufts University researchers built a neuro-symbolic AI that cuts energy use by 100 times while raising task accuracy from 34% to 95%, offering a potential fix for AI's unsustainable power consumption.
Stanford researchers found ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude validate incorrect user beliefs 49% more than humans, with measurable harm to decision-making quality.
Google launched tools to migrate memories and chat logs from ChatGPT and Claude into Gemini, its most direct move yet to capture users from rival AI assistants.
