News
Grok 4.5 Launches, but EU Users Must Wait for Regulatory Clearance
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) launched its flagship Grok 4.5 model on July 8, 2026, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia…
News
Intel-Backed Chipmaker Syntiant Files for Nasdaq IPO
Syntiant, an Intel- and Microsoft-backed maker of ultra-low-power edge AI chips, filed for a U.S. IPO on July 6, 2026,…
News
Musk and Altman Reignite Feud After Apple’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI
Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded public accusations of fraud on social media beginning July 12-13, 2026, after Apple’s trade-secret…
Opinions
Who’s Gonna Buy All the AI Stuff?
Economist and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich argues in this July 10, 2026 column that the AI industry faces…
Opinions
The One Very Simple Reason A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs
Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci argues in this New York Times column that fears of mass AI-driven job loss are overstated. She…
Opinions
You should worry about gen AI taking away jobs (and making remaining jobs worse)
Published July 3, 2026 by Virginia Roberts, this piece pushes back on Zeynep Tufekci’s recent New York Times column, arguing…
Opinions
Three reasons every parent should care about AI right now
In this July 12, 2026 column, Nadeen Matthews Blair outlines three reasons parents should pay closer attention to AI’s growing…
Opinions
AI Is More Than Slop
Published July 12, 2026, Crystal Ray argues that dismissing AI’s cultural harms as mere low-quality “slop” understates the danger. She…
Opinions
Despite the growth of some AI schools like Alpha, research doesn’t show that AI tutors are better than human teachers
Published July 13, 2026, Penn State education professor Gerald K. LeTendre examines the rapid growth of AI-centered schools such as…
Opinions
AI Surveillance Is Being Supercharged — and It Will Chill Social Progress
Originally published in The Guardian on July 6, 2026, security researcher Bruce Schneier and co-author Jon Penney argue that AI-powered…
Engineering
VKUE: No GPU? Runs Anyway — a 34.7B Reasoner on a Laptop and on Bare CPU
VIDRAFT’s VKUE engine runs a 34.7B-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model (about 3B active parameters per token) from a single quantized…
Engineering
Programmatic Tool Calling for Agents
The article argues that durable agent reliability comes from workflow design rather than raw model capability gains like GPT-5.6, describing…