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…
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Inside Putin’s $26 Billion Quest to Conquer Aging — From Pig Organs to Immortality
Russia has launched a $26B state program to combat aging through bioprinting, gene therapy, and pig-grown organs, with Putin personally backing the moonshot initiative.
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.
Big Tech AI Researchers Are Leaving in Droves—And Taking Billions With Them
VCs funneled $18.8 billion into AI startups founded since 2025, as top researchers exit Meta, Google, and OpenAI. Ineffable Intelligence, AMI Labs, and Ricursive Intelligence lead…
China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Acquisition Amid Singapore-Washing Crackdown
China's NDRC ordered Meta to unwind its $2B deal for Manus AI, ruling it violated foreign investment rules and setting a precedent against "Singapore-washing.
DeepSeek V4 Just Buried Three Washington AI Narratives in 12 Hours
DeepSeek V4 Pro shipped 12 hours after GPT-5.5 at 2% of the price, on Huawei silicon, with a 1.5-billion-token "distillation corpus" Washington calls industrial-scale theft. The…
Meta Layoffs 2026: Employees Brace for May Cuts as Uncertainty Reigns
Meta's upcoming layoffs have plunged thousands of employees into weeks of stress and uncertainty as the May 20 cut date looms closer.
Brazil Bans Kalshi, Polymarket and Prediction Market Derivatives
Brazil's central bank banned prediction market derivatives effective May 4. Kalshi's $22B Brazil expansion through XP Inc is now blocked.
AI Was Supposed to Augment Workers—Instead, It’s Copying Corporate America’s Layoff Playbook
Microsoft and Meta are cutting nearly 25,000 jobs combined while promising 'efficiency.' Anthropic research shows AI makes workers work more, not better.
DeepSeek V4 Debuts at $3.48/M Tokens—12 Hours After GPT-5.5 and at 1/20th the Cost of Claude
DeepSeek launched V4 Pro and V4 Flash with pricing that undercuts OpenAI and Anthropic by massive margins. The 1.6T parameter model runs on Huawei chips amid…