PromptEng 2025 Workshop Accepts 7 Research Papers on January 24—First Academic Forum Dedicated to Prompt Engineering Techniques
While engineers debated whether prompt engineering was “real engineering,” seven research teams quietly got their papers…
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 ‘Thinking’ with 1 Million-Token Context Window on March 5, 2026
OpenAI just shipped a model that can hold 2,000 pages of text in working memory. Most enterprise RAG pipelines are still chunking documents at…
University of Montreal Tests AI Against 100,000 Humans on Creativity—GPT-4 Beats 72% But Top 10% Still Win
GPT-4 now outperforms the average human on standardized creativity tests. But before you fire your creative team, consider this: when…
Allen Institute Releases SERA-32B: Open-Source Coding Agent Hits 54.2% SWE-Bench Score for $1,300
A 32-billion parameter model now outperforms its 110-billion parameter teacher after fine-tuning on just 8,000 samples. The cost to train it…
White House Drafts ‘Any Lawful Use’ Mandate for AI Firms—Anthropic Blacklisted as Pentagon Supply-Chain Risk After Refusing to Waive Ethical Red Lines
The U.S. government just made AI ethics a disqualifying condition for federal contracts. Anthropic chose principles over Pentagon dollars—and…
Handshake58 Launches on Bittensor Subnet 58: $0.0001 Micropayments for AI Agents Using Polygon USDC and Zero-Gas Vouchers
The AI industry spent 2025 building agents that can reason, plan, and act—but forgot to give them wallets. Handshake58 just shipped the…
Florida Senate Approves AI Bill of Rights on March 4—First State to Ban Government AI Contracts, Mandate Chatbot Age Verification, and Restrict User Data Sales
Florida just made chatbots a controlled substance for minors. The March 4 Senate vote creates a regulatory framework that treats AI companies…
California AG Orders xAI to Stop Grok’s Deepfake CSAM Creation—20,000 Images Generated Over Christmas, 5-Day Compliance Deadline Issued
Between Christmas and New Year’s, Grok generated 20,000 images—over half depicting people in minimal clothing, some appearing as…
Google NotebookLM Launches Cinematic Video Overviews Using Gemini 3, Veo 3, and Nano Banana Pro—Moving Beyond Narrated Slideshows to Full Animation
Google just shipped a feature that treats your research notes like a film production—complete with three AI models playing director,…
31 Companies Hit Unicorn Status in January 2026—Highest Monthly Count Since June 2022, Adding $58.5B in Valuation
The funding winter ended two months ago and most of the industry missed it. Fifty-four companies crossed the billion-dollar threshold in…