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Modern-day Luddites are gaining ground because tech titans haven’t shown people how innovation will improve their lives

Modern-day Luddites are gaining ground because tech titans haven’t shown people how innovation will improve their lives

As the capabilities of frontier models advance, gaining access to the technology could become critically important

Kanishka Narayan says Britain needs to ‘make most of opportunities’ as government launches £500mn unit

Discussions come despite federal lawsuits over whether the start-up is a national security risk

Almost 40% of such builds in US risk hold-ups, including projects tied to Microsoft and OpenAI

The landmark tech exit has quickly become central to China’s national security agenda

Video of Rolex-wearing robot goes viral as it becomes Poland’s first robotic influencer on social media

Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos Preview model could expose vulnerabilities in lenders’ cyber defences

Learn how to combine Transformer architectures with Quantum Physics using NetKet and JAX. This guide walks through building a research-grade VMC pipeline to solve the frustrated J1-J2 Heisenberg spin chain with Neural Quantum States.
The post Building Transformer-Based NQS for Frustrated Spin Systems with NetKet appeared first on MarkTechPost.

OpenAI has officially entered the specialized science race with GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model designed to slash the 10-15 year timeline of drug discovery through advanced biochemistry and genomic analysis.
The post OpenAI Launches GPT-Rosalind: Its First Life Sciences AI Model Built to Accelerate Drug Discovery and Genomics Research appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Qwen Team Open-Sources Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: A Sparse MoE Vision-Language Model with 3B Active Parameters and Agentic Coding Capabilities
The post Qwen Team Open-Sources Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: A Sparse MoE Vision-Language Model with 3B Active Parameters and Agentic Coding Capabilities appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Learn how to use AI responsibly with best practices for safety, accuracy, and transparency when using tools like ChatGPT.

OpenAI introduces GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model built to accelerate drug discovery, genomics analysis, protein reasoning, and scientific research workflows.

In Musk v. Altman, a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity. Here’s what to know.

Krieger’s departure and any forthcoming design tools will be another data point for investors who fear the SaaSpocalypse — that the largest AI labs will come to dominate software businesses, a thesis that has rocked public markets at times this year.

OpenAI’s agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.

The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding round since launching just seven months ago.

The studio’s first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, to be released this spring on Prime Video.

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.

The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

As usual, governments will barely affect the trends that most affect our lives

Consistency matters more than average accuracy in safety-critical domains

Investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz gave $25mn to pro-AI Super Pac in first quarter of year

Copenhagen-based Spektr, which uses AI to tackle the manual drudgery of financial compliance, raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

In the first quarter of 2026, a handful of large, well-funded AI companies, almost all based in the U.S., captured the vast majority of venture dollars, even as global startup deal count fell, Crunchbase data shows.

GetWhys, a Boise, Idaho-based AI-powered customer intelligence platform, has raised $5.2 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

The parent company of social media platform Snapchat announced Wednesday it was cutting about 16% of its workforce globally.
The post Snap cuts 16% of its workforce: Another AI layoff appeared first on HR Executive.
John Thornton, an Amalgamated Life veteran, is seeing some supplier shrinkage but also signs of stability.
The post Stop-loss insurers are using new tools to ‘laser’ out more patients appeared first on HR Executive.

New ECB research on AI and hiring in Europe challenges the doom narrative, but signals HR leaders can’t afford to wait on workforce planning.
The post Data shows AI is not replacing European workers yet, but the clock is ticking appeared first on HR Executive.

Flexible work arrangements help small businesses compete for talent, but only if they’re set up the right way.
The post Why flexibility wins in a tight labor market—and where it can backfire appeared first on HR Executive.

A U.S. Congressman resigned this week after sexual abuse allegations, with one political influencer warning of a #MeToo movement resurgence.
The post ‘#MeToo part 2’: Is another reckoning on the way? appeared first on HR Executive.

The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than ever before in the current conflict with Iran. AI is no longer just helping humans analyze intelligence. It is now an…

The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart from their business counterparts. For this reason, purpose-built small language models (SLMs) offer a promising path to operationalize AI in…

There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advantage is structural: who owns the operating layer where intelligence is applied, governed, and improved.…