News
Anthropic and Blackstone Launch ‘Ode with Anthropic’ to Bet Big on AI Implementation
Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman officially launched Ode with Anthropic, a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services company built on…
News
SAP Completes Prior Labs Acquisition to Build European Frontier AI Lab for Tabular Data
SAP has completed its acquisition of Prior Labs, a pioneer of Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) known for its TabPFN model…
News
Chai Discovery Raises $400 Million Series C to Scale AI Drug Discovery Platform
Chai Discovery raised a $400 million Series C round led by Index Ventures, tripling its valuation to $3.8 billion in…
Opinions
The Future of AI Depends on Sharing Innovation, Not Restricting It
This Xinhua commentary argues that AI’s future depends on international cooperation and open innovation rather than restrictive, unilateral policies. It…
Opinions
China’s Open AI Models Are Advancing Its Global Soft Power
Nathan Gardels argues that China is gaining geopolitical influence by releasing open-weight AI models freely, while the US concentrates on…
Opinions
AI Is Rapidly Changing Education and Research Needs To Keep Up
Stacey Alicea and Meghan McCormick argue that traditional randomized controlled trials move too slowly to evaluate fast-evolving AI education tools.…
Opinions
China’s Crackdown on AI Companions Won’t Fill the Emotional Void
Phoebe Zhang writes that China’s new regulations, imposed on July 15, 2026, restrict AI companion services out of concern for…
Opinions
What AI Companions Do to Our Deepest Psychological Needs
Sefik Tagay examines how AI companions affect well-being through a framework of six fundamental human needs: safety, belonging, autonomy, competence,…
Opinions
If You Flirt With an AI Companion, Does That Count as Cheating?
A study of 1,815 Canadian adults found that roughly half consider a partner’s use of a romantic AI companion to…
Opinions
The Missing Ingredient for European Tech Sovereignty
Giorgos Verdi argues that Europe’s dependence on US technology firms is both an economic and strategic vulnerability that the European…
Opinions
Superintelligence Soon: How Seriously Should I Take the AI 2040 Scenario?
This AEI commentary critically analyzes the AI Futures Project’s ‘AI 2040: Plan A’ scenario, which proposes delaying superintelligence until 2040…
Engineering
Be Ready Before the Attack: A Practical Guide to Self-Hosting an Open Model for Cyber Defense
This guide details how to deploy the open-weight GLM 5.2 model on enterprise infrastructure for cybersecurity incident response, arguing that…