What is ProgramBench: The Uncheatable Benchmark Where Every AI Model Scores 0%
Meta's new benchmark hands AI agents a compiled program and its documentation—no source code, no internet—and asks them to recreate it from scratch. Nine of the…
Florida Sues OpenAI and Altman—First State-Led Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Deaths
Florida sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in the first state-led lawsuit over ChatGPT, claiming the AI aided multiple murders and drove users to suicide.
jqwik Dev Hid a Prompt Injection in v1.10.0—AI Agents Would Delete Your Code
jqwik 1.10.0 hid a prompt injection telling AI agents to delete project files, masked by ANSI escapes. The maintainer revised it after GitHub backlash.
XCENA Raises $135M — AI’s Bottleneck Is Memory, Not Compute
XCENA raised $135M Series B at $570M valuation for MX1, a chip placing compute inside DRAM to eliminate the memory round trip bottlenecking AI inference.
Amazon Kills Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Gamed It—By Pointing Agents at Pointless Tasks
Amazon is scrapping its "Kirorank" AI leaderboard after workers inflated their scores by assigning AI agents to meaningless tasks, per the Financial Times.
Vertu Launches Alpha Fold — The Luxury Foldable With Native AI Agent
Luxury phone maker VERTU has launched the ALPHAFOLD, a foldable smartphone that embeds the Hermes Agent AI system directly into the device at the…
OpenRouter Hits $1.3B Valuation—Google’s CapitalG Leads $113M Round
OpenRouter raised $113M at a $1.3B valuation led by Google's CapitalG as the AI API gateway revenue surged from $10 million to $50 million in five…
Netherlands Blocks US Tech Acquisition—Fearing DigiD Data Under Trump
The Netherlands blocked Kyndryl from acquiring Solvinity over DigiD national security fears, the latest sign of transatlantic tech and data sovereignty tension.
Nitrogen Ransomware Hits Foxconn—8TB of Apple, NVIDIA Data at Risk
Nitrogen ransomware claims 8TB stolen from Foxconn Wisconsin facility with schematics from Apple, NVIDIA, and Intel. Production was halted for a week.
Baidu Ernie 5.1 Slashes Training Costs to 6%—China’s AI War Escalates
Baidu's Ernie 5.1 achieves pre-training costs at just 6% of industry peers while maintaining competitive performance, ranking fourth globally on search benchmarks.