Carolina Principles bet US deregulatory AI agenda against a fragmenting global field
Washington is using its G20 host role to lock in a deregulatory default for AI governance worldwide, even as the EU tightens its own rules and an OpenAI executive publicly calls for the one form of cooperation the framework conspicuously o…
Apple trade-secret case tests Ternus CEO era from day one
Apple's escalating legal battle with OpenAI over alleged hardware trade-secret theft is no longer just a courtroom dispute; it arrives as a defining early test for incoming CEO John Ternus, whose entire career at Apple has been built around…
South Korea's $597B Budget Bets on AI With Record 12.8% Spending Jump
South Korea has proposed a record US$596.9 billion budget for 2027, combining expanded AI and semiconductor investment with fiscal room created by a semiconductor-driven tax windfall . The proposal represents a 12.8% increase from 2026, th…
World Labs Drops Atlas, a Unified World Model Grounding Video and 3D in One Architecture
World Labs, the spatial-intelligence company founded by Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates image and video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D . The company describes Atl…
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DeepSeek Open-Sources First Vision Model, Undercuts Gemini 3.7 Flash on Price
DeepSeek released the weights and inference code for V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on Hugging Face on August 31 under an MIT license, marking the company's first open-source multimodal model . The 305-billion-parameter model had been available throug…
Cognition AI Nears $1B Round at $47B Valuation, Up From $26B in May
Cognition AI is closing a funding round of approximately $1 billion at a valuation of roughly $47 billion, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg . The valuation represents an increase of nearly 81% from the $26 bil…
Google Readies Gemini 3.8 Flash Coding Model for Wednesday Drop
Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash, a new model with strengthened coding capabilities, as early as Wednesday, according to a Wall Street Journal report by Erin Woo . The model, developed under the internal codename "Skimaki," has narr…
UK AI Strategy Architect Matt Clifford Joins Anthropic as International Affairs Chief
Matt Clifford, who drafted the UK government's AI action plan and advised both Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his predecessor Rishi Sunak, has joined Anthropic as managing director of international affairs . In the role, Clifford will lea…