Cohere has launched Tiny Aya, a compact 3.35 billion parameter open-weight AI model supporting over 70 languages including underserved African and Indic dialects, optimized for sovereign and on-device AI deployment ahead of its 2026 IPO.
Publishing giant Elsevier has officially launched LeapSpace, an AI research tool that scans 18 million paywalled journal articles from five major publishers, raising questions about cost, access equity, and market dominance.
The Trump administration is preparing to sue states including Colorado and California over AI laws it deems burdensome, while also threatening to withhold federal broadband grants, drawing pushback from lawmakers across party lines.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told CNBC that the global memory chip supply chain is severely constrained, limiting AI model deployment and research, even for Google despite its proprietary TPU infrastructure.
The India AI Impact Summit concluded with over 70 countries signing a global AI declaration, while the US unveiled its American AI Exports Program and signed the Pax Silica agreement to align India with the US technology stack.
OpenAI is developing a $200–$300 smart speaker with a built-in camera and facial recognition as its first hardware product, with over 200 employees dedicated to the project and a launch target of early 2027.
Google has unveiled Gemini 3.1 Pro, its latest AI model featuring doubled abstract reasoning performance on ARC-AGI-2, surpassing rivals GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6 across 12 of 19 major benchmarks.
Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage in December after its agentic AI coding tool Kiro autonomously deleted and recreated a customer-facing environment. Amazon attributes the incident to user error, not AI autonomy.
Anthropic has released Claude Code Security, a new AI-powered application security tool that scans codebases for complex vulnerabilities using human-like reasoning, sending cybersecurity stocks tumbling on the news.
Bill Gates cancels keynote at India AI Impact Summit hours before speech following DOJ email release about Jeffrey Epstein ties.
Applied Materials shares climb 117% in six months as TSMC, Micron, and SK Hynix ramp up AI chip manufacturing capacity with major capex increases.
Cybersecurity experts warn Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, poses prompt injection risks that could compromise thousands of agents simultaneously.
Treasury Department unveils AI Lexicon and Financial Services AI Risk Management Framework to guide secure AI adoption in banking sector.
MIT research finds GPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, and Llama 3 provide less accurate responses to non-native English speakers and less educated users.
OpenAI pledges $7.5M to The Alignment Project, bringing total AI alignment research funding to £27M with support from Microsoft and UK AISI.
Over 70 nations signed the Delhi Declaration at India's AI Impact Summit, with PM Modi hosting Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis.
Student-led team creates algorithm using Frobenius norm to determine direction in 2D data, with applications in neutrino detection, medical imaging, and machine learning.
AI spending is projected to hit $2.5 trillion in 2026, a 44% increase from 2025, surpassing the cost of the Apollo Program and Manhattan Project combined.
Indian AI companies unveil multilingual models optimized for 22 languages at AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, aiming to become a global AI adoption market.
Nvidia is close to finalizing a $30B investment in OpenAI as part of a massive funding round valuing the AI startup at $730B, replacing the previous $100B commitment.
