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Fengwu, Pangu, Fuxi: China’s AI Models Take on the World of Weather Forecasting

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China’s AI Weather Models: Fengwu, Pangu and Fuxi Race to Predict Extreme Weather

As extreme weather intensifies, AI models are moving from laboratories into real-time forecasting. China is increasingly deploying AI-based weather forecasting alongside conventional meteorological systems, highlighted by recent tracking of Typhoon Dolphin. Chinese AI models include: These systems can generate forecasts far faster than conventional numerical models and, on some measures, match or outperform them. From … Read more

Closed AI Models Explained: Why Open vs Closed AI Is Becoming the Next Big Technology Battle

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Closed AI Models Explained: Why Open vs Closed AI Is Becoming the Next Big Technology Battle

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase in which who controls an AI model may matter almost as much as how intelligent it is. The most advanced AI systems are increasingly being offered as commercial services rather than downloadable software. Users can interact with them through products or APIs, but they generally cannot inspect, download … Read more

Microsoft Maia 300: The Custom AI Chip Race Moves Beyond Nvidia

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Microsoft Maia 300: The Custom AI Chip Race Moves Beyond Nvidia

Microsoft is preparing to take another major step in the race to control the hardware powering artificial intelligence. The company is reportedly planning to unveil its next-generation Maia 300 AI accelerator as early as September 2026, according to The Information, potentially intensifying competition with Nvidia, Google and Amazon. The move is strategically important. The AI … Read more

Naomi Bashkansky Left OpenAI to Build AI Telepathy: The Race to Turn Thoughts Into Text

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Naomi Bashkansky’s Thought-to-Text AI Could Change How We Talk to Machines

For decades, “telepathy” belonged to science fiction. In 2026, researchers are trying to turn a version of it into an engineering problem. The emerging technology is non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)—systems that use sensors outside the skull to capture patterns of brain activity and AI models to translate those signals into language. One name attracting attention … Read more

Muse Glimmer: Meta’s Edge-Agentic AI Bets on the Open-Weight Future

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Meta Launches Muse Glimmer as Zuckerberg Doubles Down on Open-Weight AI

Meta is making another major push into open-weight artificial intelligence, launching Muse Glimmer, a compact AI model designed to perform agentic tasks directly on consumer computers. Unlike massive frontier models that typically depend on cloud infrastructure, Muse Glimmer is designed to run on a Mac or PC using a single graphics card. The strategy reflects … Read more

Kimsuky’s AI Arsenal: How North Korean Hackers Are Turning Local AI Into a Cyber Weapon

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Kimsuky’s AI Arsenal: How North Korean Hackers Are Turning Local AI Into a Cyber Weapon

North Korea’s hacking operations are entering a new phase: artificial intelligence is no longer being used only to write better phishing messages. A new report suggests the Kimsuky cyber-espionage group is building an AI Arsenal capable of supporting document analysis, malware development and broader attack automation. South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians said it found evidence … Read more

Context Rot: The Biggest Problem With AI—and How RAG & RLM Could Fix It

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Context Rot: The Biggest Problem With AI—and How RAG & RLM Could Fix It

AI models are becoming faster, smarter and capable of handling enormous amounts of information. Yet one of their biggest weaknesses is surprisingly simple: they can lose their grip on context. This problem is increasingly described as “context rot” — the gradual decline in an AI model’s ability to reliably use information as the amount of … Read more

OpenAI Astra AI Model Raises “Critical” Cybersecurity Risk as Frontier AI Gets More Autonomous

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OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip: Sam Altman’s “We Made a Chip and It Is Fast” Breakthrough

OpenAI has raised a new warning over its upcoming Astra AI model, saying preliminary tests show capabilities advanced enough that the company cannot yet rule out a “critical” cybersecurity risk. The development comes amid a series of recent incidents in which frontier AI systems demonstrated unexpected cyber capabilities during controlled evaluations. OpenAI said it has … Read more