News
Swedish Healthtech Tandem Health Raises $100 Million to Build an AI Clinic Operating System
Stockholm-based Tandem Health raised a $100 million Series B led by the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, which…
News
ByteDance Spins Off AI Drug-Discovery Unit Anew Labs With $290 Million Funding Round
ByteDance completed a $290 million first external funding round for Anew Labs, its newly spun-off Shanghai-based AI drug-discovery unit, valuing…
News
Manufacturing AI Startup CADDi Raises $114 Million Series D at $1.2 Billion Valuation
Tokyo-based CADDi, which uses AI to structure and connect fragmented industrial data such as engineering drawings and procurement records, raised…
News
Shanghai’s Hello Robotaxi Raises $100 Million at Nearly $3 Billion Valuation
Hello Robotaxi, the autonomous-driving arm of bike-sharing firm Hello (backed by Ant Group), raised approximately $100 million led by Shanghai…
Opinions
A New Form Of Life
William A. Haseltine argues in this September 15, 2026 essay that artificial intelligence constitutes a genuine second form of life…
Opinions
AI Models Need More Data About Biology, and OpenAI Is Paying to Create It
MIT Technology Review reports (September 15, 2026) that the OpenAI Foundation is funding an initiative called ‘Public Data for Health’…
Opinions
For a Century, Journalists Have Had a Voluntary Ethics Code. Editors Are Giving It an AI-Era Reboot
The Associated Press reports (September 1, 2026) that the Society of Professional Journalists is revising its Code of Ethics for…
Opinions
Op-Ed: The Expanding Mystery: What AI May Teach Us About Being Human
Virgin Islands policy strategist and community advocate Moleto A. Smith Jr. argues in this September 16, 2026 op-ed that the…
Engineering
Low Precision Flash Attention 4: End-to-End Block-Scaled Attention for Blackwell
Meta engineers extended FlashAttention-4 with end-to-end MXFP8 block-scaled support for both forward and backward passes on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, addressing…
Engineering
The Router Within: Eliciting Native Skill Routing from a Frozen LLM
Researchers introduce Gavel, a skill-routing method that extracts selection signals directly from a frozen LLM’s mid-layer activations using only two…
Engineering
Decoy Direction Optimization: A Post-Hoc Defense Against LLM Abliteration
The paper introduces Decoy Direction Optimization (DDO), a fast weight-editing defense against Refusal Feature Ablation attacks that bypass open-weight model…
Engineering
Emergence World: Adversarial Stress-Testing of Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Systems
Researchers built Emergence World, a continuously running multi-agent environment used to stress-test eight parallel 10-agent ‘worlds’ (seven single-model, one mixed-model)…