Engineering
Qwen 3.8 27B Is Excellent, But It Defaults to Wildly Overthinking Things
Simon Willison tested Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8 27B, a 27-billion-parameter vision-capable open-weight model that fits in a 17GB file, and found…
Opinions
A Brown Professor Caught His Students Using AI to Cheat. Here’s What Happened Next
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano writes that after allowing a take-home midterm in his welfare economics course, the median…
News
IBM and OpenAI Announce Strategic Partnership for Enterprise AI Deployment
IBM and OpenAI announced a strategic partnership on August 13, 2026 to help enterprises deploy AI securely across core operations…
Opinions
Book Publishers Face Mounting Questions Over Authors’ Use of AI
The Christian Science Monitor reports that book publishing is facing a reckoning over undisclosed AI use, citing the withdrawal of…
News
Higgsfield Raises $400 Million Series B at $5.4 Billion Valuation
Higgsfield, a generative AI platform for producing video and image content, has raised $400 million in Series B funding, quadrupling…
Opinions
AI Is Now America’s Second-Favorite Financial Advisor. Should You Trust It?
Northeast Times reports that two out of three Americans who have used generative AI say they have asked it for…
News
Unitree Prices Shanghai STAR Market IPO at $9 Billion Valuation
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics has priced its initial public offering on Shanghai’s STAR Market at 150.80 yuan per…
Opinions
Study of 17 Million ChatGPT Messages Shows How Companies Actually Use AI
A working paper posted to arXiv on August 12 by researchers including Aaron Chatterji, David Holtz, and Prasanna Tambe analyzes…
News
SMIC Tops $3 Billion Quarterly Revenue as AI Demand Tightens Chip Supply
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, China’s largest chip foundry, reported quarterly revenue exceeding $3 billion for the first time, driven by…
News
Neros Technologies Raises $250 Million to Scale Autonomous Defense Drones
Neros Technologies has raised $250 million in Series C funding at a $2.5 billion valuation to scale production of its…
Opinions
Math’s AI Crisis Has a Lesson for the Rest of Us
Artificial intelligence is beginning to solve longstanding mathematical problems, prompting concerns among mathematicians that the field may shift from a…
Opinions
No Widespread AI Job Losses, But the Employment Gap for Young Workers Has Widened to 19%
A Stanford Digital Economy Lab study finds that while AI has not caused widespread job displacement across the economy, young…