AI Takes the Stick: How DARPA’s VENOM Program Just Flew an F-16 Fighter Jet Autonomously
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Linux Kernel 7.2 Arrives Today — And AI Changed How It Was Built
August 16, 2026 — The Linux kernel 7.2 stable release landed today, right on schedule. What should have been a routine milestone...
The Great AI Pricing Inversion: DeepSeek Raises Rates as OpenAI and Anthropic Cut Theirs
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The Dream Team That Left Google to Make AI Do Science: Inside Jeff Dean’s Discovery Loop
When Jeff Dean quietly sent a message on X announcing Discovery Loop last week, the AI world stopped to read it twice....
Oracle Is Cutting People to Pay for Machines: Inside the AI Capex Squeeze
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The Push for a “FINRA for AI”: Can an Independent Body Tame Frontier Models?
As artificial intelligence barrels toward capabilities its creators once thought were decades away, one of the most prominent voices in the field...
How Beijing Unwound a $2 Billion AI Deal — And What It Means for the Global AI Race
When Meta finalized its $2 billion acquisition of Manus AI on December 29, 2025, it looked like a triumphant capstone to a...
Microsoft’s MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Promises Cheaper AI Coding — But DeepSeek Has Other Ideas
Released August 11, 2026 | Microsoft AI Microsoft dropped its latest coding model last week with confident messaging: MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is faster, cheaper,...
Oracle Powers Up Enterprise AI: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, H100 Multi-Node, and Natural-Language SQL Hit OCI
Oracle’s August 2026 AI update is one of the company’s most substantive single-month releases, stacking a half-dozen infrastructure and developer upgrades that...
OpenAI Unleashes GPT-5.6-Cyber: The Offense-Grade AI That Can Hack Nearly Anything
OpenAI has crossed a threshold that the cybersecurity world has long debated in theory but never quite expected to see in practice:...