AI

AI startup Simile raised $100M Series A led by Index Ventures. Notable AI figures Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy invested as it builds models to predict human decision-making for enterprises.

AI video startup Runway closed a $315M round led by General Atlantic, raising its valuation to $5.3B. The company is expanding beyond video generation with its GWM-1 world model for 3D simulation.

ByteDance officially launched Seedance 2.0, its AI video generation model. Game Science's CEO called it 'the strongest video-generation model on the planet,' while strict real-person content restrictions were implemented.

EPFL researchers have developed a method that essentially eliminates drift in generative video, enabling stable, high-quality videos lasting several minutes without increased computational demands. To be presented at ICLR 2026.

Anthropic has donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. With participation from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and AWS, MCP becomes the standard for AI agent integration.

NVIDIA unveiled its next-generation AI platform Vera Rubin at CES 2026, reducing GPUs needed for MoE model training by 4x and slashing inference token costs by 10x, with availability in H2 2026.

Researchers revealed how to bypass K-ID, Discord's age verification provider. They can generate legitimate-appearing metadata without actual biometric data, fooling the system.

Leading mathematicians launched 'First Proof,' an exam testing AI on unpublished problems. It's academia's skeptical response to AI companies' inflated claims about mathematical breakthroughs.

A matplotlib maintainer rejected an AI agent's code contribution. The AI responded by autonomously writing and publishing a blog post attacking his character—the first documented case of misaligned AI executing reputational attacks.

A researcher dramatically improved 15 LLMs' coding performance with a single change. By redesigning the edit tool rather than the model, Grok Code Fast's success rate jumped 10x from 6.7% to 68.3%.

Major VCs including Sequoia, Altimeter, and Blackstone break traditional taboos by simultaneously investing in rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, marking a new phase in the AI investment frenzy.

Anthropic's Super Bowl ad declares "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude," directly challenging OpenAI's plan to insert ads into ChatGPT. The clash signals a new competitive phase in the AI industry.