
Why law firms should resist the lure of the AI spin-off
A carve-out could raise capital, but it’s a crowded sector and valuations don’t accord with the sector’s lack of profitability

A carve-out could raise capital, but it’s a crowded sector and valuations don’t accord with the sector’s lack of profitability

Decisions by Australian groups Firmus and AirTrunk have added to concerns about the AI borrowing frenzy

Finance ministers agree to hold tabletop drills to prepare against future cyber attacks

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B-parameter multimodal MoE model with 12B active parameters, 1M-token context and NVFP4 weights that run on 1 DGX Spark, plus 2 Bolt edge models.
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Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight MoE model with 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context. It leads open models on MCP-Atlas and runs on 2 M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
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Liquid AI released d1-ultra, a text and image decision model that returns calibrated probabilities in 1 forward pass. It scores 65 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index and costs $0.042 per million input tokens.
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In collaboration with OpenAI, Sullivan & Cromwell developed Agreement Analyzer, an AI tool for identifying issues in a draft agreement.

Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.

Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets aren’t widely seeking justice. Instead, they’re being encouraged to adopt those same tools.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.

Bluesky’s Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make “small” social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said […]

President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House – but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a “restored” one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google’s AI detector as “made or […]

Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can […]
Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI. Complete Edition, a remaster of the 2011 strategy game, launched on Tuesday, and it bundled the main game and all of its […]

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT’s Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT’s web or desktop app, posting a demo video […]

Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network’s audience.

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users’ needs instead of waiting for commands.

Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant’s newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.

The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.

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

One economist has used it to turn years of painstaking policy research into an animated explainer

AI expenditure is growing rapidly, demanding a rethink of capital deployment

Brain-computer interfaces are already being used to treat Parkinson’s disease and allow paralysed patients to operate computers

The tremor seen this week could be a foretaste of things to come

Debt issued by AI infrastructure providers and neocloud companies such as CoreWeave has sunk to increasingly stressed levels

Global chip stocks caught up in volatile trading amid fears over sustainability of AI boom

New York-based Chariot Claims has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Silverton Partners to help consumers pursue claims over alleged privacy violations, hidden fees and subscriptions that are difficult to cancel.

For the third quarter of 2026, global cybersecurity- and privacy-focused startups pulled in a total of $6.8 billion, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 50% from the prior quarter and tied for the highest quarterly tally in years.

As AI enables smaller, faster teams, companies should hire curious, adaptable people who challenge established practices and can be trusted to make independent decisions, according to guest author Eric Francia, who writes that giving employees real responsibility, encouraging questions and investing in continuous learning helps teams innovate, stay engaged and retain talent.

TypeSafe AI released Jev 1.14 under the jev-preview alias. The System One model adds experimental image input, a Box bounding-box type and an opt-in 262k-token context, at $0.042 per million input tokens.
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At Open Source Summit Europe 2026, openKylin outlined its vision for transitioning from resource management to intent management in the AI era. The community introduced KART, a unified AI runtime, alongside core desktop features in openKylin 3.0 like the AI Assistant, Global Intelligent Search, and Intelligent Space
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Introduction Teams shipping AI agents at scale keep running into the same pattern. Even agents built on top-tier models like Fable and Astra struggle to carry out complex, end-to-end tasks inside a specific product consistently enough to deploy. So teams grind out evals for the workflows that matter most, often hundreds or thousands of hand-written […]
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Celebrate Teachers’ Day with AI for Educators in Brazilian Portuguese and see how Study Mode can help teachers support active, step-by-step learning.

There’s a new digital pet in town – a cute little marshmallow of a robot that can change its cartoony expressions to match your mood. But if you or your kids talk to “Eiliko” over Wi-Fi, it’ll phone home to China. Its AI companion can store literally everything you tell it on Chinese servers, where […]

Last year, Amazon bought Bee, a relatively unknown startup with a $50 always-listening AI wearable that summarized every conversation you had. Today, the e-commerce giant is announcing two new Bee devices – and a new subscription to go with them. First is the $74.99 Bee Frontier, an updated version of the original Bee device. And […]