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Training a single large AI model can burn as much electricity as hundreds of homes use in a year

An autonomous AI agent surfaced in days what two decades of human reviewers had missed, a turning point for how software flaws get found

Researchers built an AI that runs climate simulations about 25 times faster by fusing physics with machine learning

The White House issued a new order to speed up American AI development while tightening its security, the latest move to stay ahead in the race

China’s open DeepSeek V4 now scores within a fraction of a point of Claude on a key coding test, at roughly a tenth of the price

Apple opens WWDC Monday with a rebuilt Siri powered by a Google AI model it licensed for about $1 billion a year, in Tim Cook’s final keynote

Apple is expected to add satellite messaging to Maps and smarter AI search to Wallet and Safari when iOS 27 debuts at WWDC

General AI now performs at or above human-expert level on standardized tests in many fields

AI tools are starting to read raw sensor data well enough to steer physical robots

Today’s general AI models spin photorealistic images, short HD video and 3D scenes from a single line of text

NVIDIA released what it calls the first fully open AI model that can see, simulate a world and generate a robot’s actions in one system

AI systems now match or beat human experts across a widening range of professional and scientific exams, Stanford’s 2026 index finds

Meta unveiled Muse Spark, an AI model it says matches rivals on a fraction of the compute, as it pours up to $135 billion into AI this year

Meta is budgeting $115 to $135 billion for AI in 2026 alone, a spend bigger than the annual revenue of most Fortune 100 companies

Meta says Muse Spark beats rivals on perception, reasoning and health tasks while using a fraction of the compute, its first flagship model since the AI superlab reshuffle

Amazon’s warehouse robot fleet just crossed 1 million machines as its new Sequoia system sped storage and identification by 75%

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