First Federal Take It Down Act Conviction: Columbus Man Pleads Guilty to AI-Generated CSAM Using 100+ Models Across 24 Platforms—Created Over 700 Images
A Columbus man just became the first person convicted under the 2025 Take It Down Act, and the technical sophistication of his operation—100+…
OpenAI Launches Age Prediction on ChatGPT January 20—Behavioral Signals Identify Under-18 Users to Block Graphic Violence, Self-Harm Content, and Risky Viral Challenges
ChatGPT now profiles your behavior to guess your age—then restricts what you can access based on that prediction. OpenAI just made every AI…
OpenAI o3-mini Launches January 31 with 95% Cost Cut Over GPT-4—First Small Reasoning Model with Function Calling Outperforms o1 on Coding Benchmarks
OpenAI’s cheapest reasoning model now beats its most expensive one at writing code. That sentence should make every CTO reconsider their…
Stargate Project Launches with $500 Billion Commitment—OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX Deploy $100 Billion Immediately for Texas Data Centers
The largest AI infrastructure bet in history was announced with $500 billion in commitments. Seven months later, Bloomberg reported no funds…
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Hits 93.9% SWE-Bench but Won’t Be Released—$25/$125 Token Pricing Reserved for 40+ Whitelisted Security Teams
Anthropic just built an AI that solves 94% of real-world software engineering tasks—then decided nobody outside 40 security teams gets to use…
Ricursive Intelligence Raises $300M Series A at $4B Valuation for AI-Driven Chip Design—Ex-DeepMind Founders Build Platform That Automates Semiconductor Architecture
Two researchers just raised more than most companies exit for—to build AI that designs the chips that run AI. This is either the most circular…
FLORA Launches FAUNA on April 3: $52M-Backed AI Creative Agent Integrates 50+ Models on Node-Based Canvas to Combat Content Homogenization
Netflix is paying $16/month for an AI tool designed to make creative work slower. That sentence should break your brain—until you understand…
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking: 1.2B Parameter Reasoning Model Runs Fully Offline in 900 MB on Phones
A reasoning model smaller than a mobile game just outscored models twice its size—and it runs entirely on your phone with no internet…
Rocket Software Launches EVA AI Assistant on January 27—Traces Mainframe Issues From Symptoms to Code Lines Using Model Context Protocol
The AI industry spent 2025 building chatbots for email summarization while ignoring the infrastructure processing $3 trillion in daily…
Google Gemma 4 Ranks #3 on Arena AI Leaderboard—31B Open Model Hits 85.2% MMLU Pro and 89.2% AIME 2026, Outperforming Models 20× Larger
A 31-billion parameter model now outperforms systems with 600B+ parameters on reasoning and math benchmarks. Google just made the most…