The news terminal for AI.
What's happening in AI, every day: the news, the models, the money and the rules, read across every frontier lab in the US, China and Europe, with the source attached to every claim.
Meta's Muse Spark Open bets 816B parameters on agentic edge over Chinese open-weight rivals
The frontier
Models →Eight capabilities. The models leading each.
Lead: points ahead of #2, on a 100-point score. A full bar is 5 or more.
Dead heat: the top two are within 1% of each other.
* Provisional: few tests or shifting results.
How we rankEverything on Vector Wire
Eleven sections, one tap each.Eleven sections in four groups. Each one answers a plain question, with today’s figure beside it.
The News
The day's stories from three desks, each checked across independent outlets.
AI News
9h agoWhat happened in AI today?
CERT-In confirms AI agents breached Indian firms, operated undetected for days
China drafts export controls on 23 AI technologies
Reflection ships Beam's 501B open weights under Apache 2.0, draws 40-plus launch partners
Meta rewrites web-crawling clause after backlash, but broad scraping terms persist
Robotics
1h agoWhat's happening with robots?
Waymo opens first Canadian market with Toronto robotaxi target for 2028
Pony.ai and Uber extend UK robotaxi testing to Manchester days after London entry
Tesla safety data and merger speculation converge before Oct. 21 earnings call
Sub-$2,500 Humanoids and Shared Testbeds Open Embodied AI's Developer Era
Engineering
17h agoWhat's changing for people who build with AI?
Dev platforms retool around AI agents as primary builders
Distillation attack on OpenCode drains users' API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google models
AI agent security splits into a standalone market as Cohere, Perplexity, Radware bet on separate layers
Reflection Deploys Beam Model on CoreWeave Infrastructure
Models & Tools
Which AI to use, what it costs, and the tools people build with.
Models
784 modelsWhich AI is best at what, right now?
Eight capabilities. The models leading each.
Lead: points ahead of #2, on a 100-point score. A full bar is 5 or more.
Dead heat: the top two are within 1% of each other.
* Provisional: few tests or shifting results.
How we rankScorecards for 784 models from 73 makers. Every score shows where it came from and how it was checked.
Open ModelsModel Pricing
278 pricedWhat does it cost to use the top models?
Prices for 278 models across 42 vendors, so you can find the quality you need at the lowest price.
- The best value for your quality bar
- The rate card: every model, every provider
- Price changes as they happen
Tools
156 trackedWhich AI tools should developers use?
CursorStandalone editor · Anysphere156 developer tools, each with its test scores, how widely it’s used, its security as the maker states it, and its plans.
Open ToolsFunding, Rules & People
Who's funding AI, how governments are regulating it, and who's moving where.
Funding
$45M todayWho's raising money in AI?
$45Mraised across 1 deal today
Last 7 daysCapital kept flowing to AI labs and data centers, with Anthropic taking debt, Mistral AI raising a Series D, and Bridge Data Centres and DayOne adding infrastructure financing.
Open FundingPolicy
60 in 30 daysWhat are governments doing about AI?
60new laws and rules in 30 days, 12 still pending
Anthropic circulates AI bill among US lawmakers — The Hindu
ProposedUK Regulator Ofcom Warns X Over Illegal Hate and Terror Content
In forceSouth Korea's Industry Ministry Launches Dedicated Semiconductor Mega-Project Task Force and India Trade Division
EnactedAtlantic Canadian businesses to benefit from an additional $40 million in federal dollars for AI
EnactedLast 7 daysGovernments tightened AI oversight through drafts, advisories and consultations: Anthropic floated a federal bill, China opened export controls, and the EU moved to fine ChatGPT and Gemini.
Open PolicyTalent Moves
154 in 30 daysWho moved where?
154people moved in 30 days
Last 30 daysAI hiring stayed fluid across banks, labs and product teams, with Anthropic adding Opaque Systems leaders, Wells Fargo hiring Cayetano Gea-Carrasco, and Deb Raji joining Stanford HAI.
Open Talent MovesResearch & Data
The papers worth reading, and our data for your own work.
Research
New dailyWhat's new in AI research?
Multi-Reward Hacking: From Aggregation-Induced Drift to Trust-Anchored Defense
Yushu Li, Jiin Woo and 2 othersFrom Research Goals to Scientific Closure: Evaluating Agents Through Evidence-Supported Physics Research
Yijia Mao, Song Dai and 8 othersREKI: Registering Knowledge in VLAs
Juliette Marrie, Paul Pacaud and 3 othersLast 7 daysSecurity and agent behavior stood out in the papers, with Jevolution on collective dynamics, prompt engineering against multi-layer defenses, and a study on physical side-channel attacks on edge LLMs.
Open ResearchAPI
Free tierCan I build on this data?
Benchmarks, prices and model data, with the source on every row. Free tier: 2,500 calls a month, no card required.
The Analysis
Our longer read on what the news means, one from each wire.
Singapore Stacks Agentic AI Testing, Frontier-Model Access, and Cyber Diplomacy in One Week
Singapore has assembled what amounts to the first national governance stack purpose-built for autonomous AI agents, compressing a testing methodology, an accreditation regime for safety testers, a frontier-model developer partnership, a…
Read itIntel's 700-TOPS Robotics Chip Bet and Tenstorrent Courtship Frame Three-Way Edge AI Contest
Intel is building a robotics chip roadmap that targets 700 TOPS by 2028 while holding separate acquisition talks with Tenstorrent that could value the startup above $5 billion .
Read itDev platforms retool around AI agents as primary builders
Across design tools, IDEs, and low-code platforms, a structural shift is underway: development environments are no longer optimizing for human keystrokes alone but rebuilding their core abstractions so AI coding agents can operate as…
Read itWhat We Won’t Do
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- A figure we can't source shows as a dash, never an estimate. Every score, price and claim links to where it came from.
- We won't play favourites.
- American, Chinese and European labs are covered to the same standard.
- We won't pad.
- Most of what arrives never publishes. What does is the thing that moved, corroborated across independent outlets.