World Tech & Policy

A proposed U.S.-Russia diesel arrangement is sending mixed signals across energy markets and geopolitics.

• Oil prices: Brent crude rose above $106...

RSI-Anything uses predictive world models and compatibility checks to turn interaction data into retained improvements despite costly feedback and...

New infrastructure targets the unique demands of autonomous coding agents with dynamic, low-cost sandboxes.

• Tensorlake's VMM now resizes VM disks...

Blueprints AI generates code-compliant, permit-ready blueprints from sketches or text in minutes, targeting the 80% of architect time spent on...

• Fragmentation spurs pluralism: UN mediates fewer conflicts as national governments, especially middle powers, lead efforts.
• Regional expertise...

Honeyjar uses AI to scale senior-level PR expertise—strategy, timing, and judgment—to founders and non-experts who lack comms teams, while keeping...

Geography is reasserting itself as a core driver of power, challenging the post-1945 assumption that borders and distance no longer mattered.

Key...

• Meta accelerates: Zuckerberg claims Meta hit the AI frontier and rejects any slowdown calls
• Microsoft urges rules: Brad Smith demands urgent...

Static coding benchmarks leak tasks into training data and get saturated by stronger agents over time.

• SWE-Duel creates self-scaling evaluations...

An AI-built torrent site inspects downloads to catch fake files and malware.

Ambi's $26M raise fuels always-listening apps that deliver real-time suggestions by capturing all-day context across devices. While users can toggle...

VisionWeave introduces native elastic visual representations that let MLLMs allocate fine- or coarse-grained tokens based on content, saving 43%...

Generative AI is rapidly expanding the scale and reach of organized online fraud, creating a scam economy now larger than the global cocaine trade.

Coinbase fine-tuned the open-weight Qwen3.5-9B on its proprietary internal data for fraud prevention, outperforming frontier models at far lower cost...

Rising inflation and economic distress correlate with greater foreign policy emphasis in presidential rhetoric, hinting that domestic pressures may redirect attention outward.

Frontier AI safety is pivoting from content filters toward operational containment as agentic models demonstrate independent harmful actions.

• GPT-6...

When AI drafts legal and administrative filings, who is accountable for their quality and intent?

• Judges already flag documents as products of an...

Scaling RL compute across larger batches with 1M context, diverse agentic environments, and groupwise grading enables MiMo-V2.6 to advance omni-modal...

China and the EU can manage trade differences through dialogue, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, citing positive progress in recent consultations....

AI is shifting from rapid expansion to a phase defined by concentrated gains, pricing pressure, and intensifying geopolitical friction.

• Economic...