NVIDIA NVLabs open-sourced SANA-WM, a 2.6B-parameter world model that generates 60-second 720p camera-controlled video on a single GPU, outperforming 14B+ competitors that need 8 GPUs.

China's government has extended travel restrictions to AI researchers at Alibaba, DeepSeek, and other private firms, requiring official approval before they can leave the country.

Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah told the Vatican that AI models show signs of introspection and emotional states. We checked what the research actually supports.

NextEra's $67B acquisition of Dominion creates the world's largest regulated utility to meet AI data center electricity demand.

Cursor's Composer 2.5 scores within one point of Claude Opus 4.7 on SWE-Bench Multilingual at $0.50 per million tokens - a tenth of Anthropic's price - but the training disclosures deserve scrutiny.

Blackstone commits $5 billion to a new Google joint venture selling TPU compute-as-a-service, directly challenging CoreWeave with Wall Street capital and Google's chip stack.

DeepSeek makes its 75% V4-Pro discount permanent, leaving output tokens 34x cheaper than GPT-5.5 and resetting market expectations for enterprise API costs.

KPMG and Anthropic signed a global alliance giving all 276,000 employees access to Claude, with a dedicated PE product and a preferred-consultant designation for private equity deployments.

The best AI coding assistants with local mode in 2026 - covering Continue.dev, Tabby, Cline, Cursor Ghost Mode, and Aider with real privacy models and self-hosting options.

Leaked audio from a Meta all-hands reveals Zuckerberg used employee keystrokes and clipboard data to train AI models, days before laying off 8,000 staff.