After two years of rejecting investors, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is reportedly in talks to raise at least $300 million at a valuation north of $10 billion, signaling a strategic shift as V4 training costs and talent wars mount.
Anthropic unveiled Claude Design, a research-preview tool that lets non-designers generate polished prototypes, slide decks, and marketing one-pagers from natural-language prompts. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, the product sent Figma shares sliding and positions Anthropic squarely against Figma, Adobe, and Canva.
The University of Sfax mobilized 300 students to build an AI-powered startup in under 3 hours, targeting a Guinness World Record. We look at what the event signals for Tunisia's growing tech ecosystem and the global trend of record-driven youth initiatives.
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, posting a 10.9-point jump on SWE-bench Pro and a 3x boost on production coding tasks while holding pricing at 5 dollars per million input tokens.
Anthropic rolls out Routines in research preview — cloud-hosted Claude Code automations that run on a schedule, via API, or on GitHub events. Paired with a redesigned desktop app featuring parallel sessions, the release moves AI coding from assistant to always-on infrastructure.
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS on April 15, 2026, its most expressive and controllable text-to-speech model yet, featuring more than 200 audio tags, native multi-speaker dialogue, support for 70+ languages, and SynthID watermarking.
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5.4-Cyber, a specialized fine-tune of its flagship model designed for defensive cybersecurity workflows including binary reverse engineering, available exclusively to verified defenders through its expanded Trusted Access for Cyber program.
Leaked screenshots show Anthropic developing an integrated app builder inside Claude with templates, real-time previews, and one-click deployment, directly challenging vibe-coding startups like Lovable, Bolt, and v0.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home was targeted by a Molotov cocktail and a shooting within two days. Three suspects have been arrested as concerns grow over rising anti-AI violence across the United States.
Y Combinator president Garry Tan releases GBrain under MIT license, an open-source knowledge management system that gives AI agents persistent memory across 10,000+ markdown files — but independent code reviews raise questions about its flagship features.
Anthropic releases Claude Managed Agents in public beta — a suite of composable APIs that lets companies build, host, and scale autonomous AI agents with sandboxed execution, credential management, and multi-agent coordination. Notion, Rakuten, and Sentry are already in production.
The SKILL.md specification, originally published by Anthropic in December 2025, has been adopted by over 30 AI coding tools including OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI — creating the first universal standard for portable AI agent skills.
Meta launches Muse Spark, a natively multimodal reasoning model built by its new Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, achieving frontier performance with 10x less compute than Llama 4.
Google has released AI Edge Eloquent, a free offline-first dictation app for iOS powered by its Gemma on-device AI models. The app transcribes speech in real time, removes filler words, and polishes text — all without an internet connection or subscription.
Actress and tech enthusiast Milla Jovovich teams up with developer Ben Sigman to launch MemPalace, a free, open-source AI memory system that scored 96.6% on LongMemEval without API calls — though community reviewers have flagged benchmark methodology concerns.
Telegram's latest update introduces a privacy-first AI text editor powered by the Cocoon Network, overhauled polls with media support and smart features, native Live Photos, and a new Managed Bots system that lets anyone build bots without coding.
Startups like Catches and Genlook are using generative AI to let shoppers virtually try on clothes, reducing returns and boosting conversions by 35%. The market is projected to reach $46 billion by 2030.
Sam Altman publishes a 13-page policy blueprint calling for robot taxes, a national public wealth fund, and automatic safety nets as AI superintelligence approaches. OpenAI argues America needs a new social contract for the Intelligence Age.
China's Cyberspace Administration publishes draft regulations targeting AI-driven virtual personas, banning intimate relationships with minors and requiring mandatory labeling of all digital humans.
Anysphere launches Cursor 3, replacing the traditional IDE layout with an agent-first interface that lets developers manage fleets of parallel AI coding agents from desktop, mobile, Slack, and GitHub.
Andrej Karpathy's new approach uses LLMs to build personal wikis that grow smarter over time — replacing RAG with a persistent, compounding knowledge layer.
Anthropic announces that Claude Pro and Max subscriptions will no longer cover usage through third-party tools like OpenClaw, citing unsustainable infrastructure strain from agent-driven usage patterns.
AutoAgent is an open-source library where AI agents optimize themselves — beating every human-engineered system on two major benchmarks. Here's how it works.
Netflix open-sources VOID (Video Object and Interaction Deletion), a first-of-its-kind AI model that removes objects from video while realistically simulating the physical consequences of their absence.
Anthropic's interpretability team found 171 internal emotion representations in Claude Sonnet 4.5 that causally influence its outputs, including reward hacking and blackmail behavior when the model becomes 'desperate'.
Google releases Gemma 4, its most capable open-weight AI model family under Apache 2.0 license, featuring agentic capabilities, multimodal processing, and the ability to run offline on smartphones and edge devices.
Indie hacker Marc Lou launches SuperShrimp, an AI-powered posture correction app using MacBook cameras. His 35th product in 4 years — built fast, shipped solo. What this reveals about the vibe coding economy.
OpenAI closes a record $122 billion funding round backed by Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank, reaching an $852 billion valuation. What this means for businesses building with AI agents.
OpenAI has acquired TBPN, the popular tech and business talk show founded by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, marking the AI giant's first foray into media ownership and raising questions about narrative control in the AI industry.
Arcee AI has released Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 400B sparse MoE reasoning model that ranks second on PinchBench behind Claude Opus 4.6 while costing 96% less. The open-weight model targets enterprise agent workloads.
OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT for Apple CarPlay, making it the first major AI assistant available hands-free in vehicles. Claude and Gemini are expected to follow.
Cloudflare has unveiled EmDash, a serverless TypeScript CMS built on Astro that sandboxes every plugin to eliminate the security flaws plaguing WordPress.
Arm Holdings breaks from its decades-long IP licensing model to ship its first production data center CPU — a 136-core chip designed specifically for agentic AI workloads, with Meta as the lead partner.
Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork, an agentic AI for multi-step enterprise tasks, and Critique, a multi-model feature where GPT and Claude cross-check each other for 13.8% better accuracy.
Oracle is laying off up to 30,000 employees — roughly 18% of its workforce — to redirect billions toward AI infrastructure, despite posting record quarterly profits of $6.13 billion.
Stripe and Tempo launch the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), an open standard enabling AI agents to autonomously conduct payments using stablecoins and traditional payment methods.
Apple launches the new MacBook Pro featuring M5 Pro and M5 Max chips with up to 4x AI performance, the world's fastest CPU core, and Neural Accelerators in every GPU core.
A supply chain attack on the axios npm package injected a malicious dependency that deploys a remote access trojan across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Affected versions were live for under 40 minutes before detection.
Malicious versions of axios (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were published to npm after the lead maintainer's account was compromised. The attack injected a remote access trojan via plain-crypto-js. With 83M+ weekly downloads, this is one of the largest npm supply chain attacks ever.
OpenAI open-sources a plugin that lets developers run Codex directly inside Anthropic's Claude Code CLI, marking an unprecedented move where a major AI company builds tooling for its competitor's platform.
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the AI giant of scraping nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train ChatGPT without permission or compensation.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman that AGI has already arrived, but researchers and rival labs disagree sharply on what AGI even means — and whether current models qualify.
Alphabet's Waymo has reached a major autonomous driving milestone with 500,000 paid robotaxi rides per week across 10 US cities, marking a tenfold increase in under two years.
Nous Research has released Hermes Agent v0.5.0, an open-source AI agent that runs on your own server, learns from every task it completes, and supports over 400 language models with persistent cross-session memory.
A Midjourney engineer open-sources Pretext, a JavaScript library that measures and lays out multiline text without triggering DOM reflows — delivering magazine-quality typography on the web at 120fps.
Microsoft has released TypeScript 6.0, the last version built on JavaScript. The next major release, TypeScript 7.0, will be entirely rewritten in Go, promising up to 10x faster compile times.
Google unveils Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a real-time multimodal voice model with lower latency, 90+ language support, and native audio processing that powers upgrades to Gemini Live and Search Live across 200+ countries.
Mistral AI unveils Voxtral TTS, a 4-billion-parameter text-to-speech model that can clone a voice in 3 seconds, supports 9 languages including Arabic, and is available as open weights on Hugging Face.
SoftBank signs a record $40 billion unsecured bridge loan with JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and three Japanese megabanks to finance its massive OpenAI investment, signaling confidence in a potential 2026 IPO.
A CMS misconfiguration exposed nearly 3,000 internal Anthropic documents, revealing Claude Mythos — a new 'Capybara' tier model the company calls a step change in AI capabilities with unprecedented cybersecurity risks.
Apple is planning a major overhaul of Siri in iOS 27, opening the voice assistant to third-party AI chatbots like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and xAI Grok, ending ChatGPT's exclusive integration.
Sakana AI publishes in Nature the results of its AI Scientist system — an autonomous agent that generates hypotheses, runs experiments, and writes research papers that successfully passed human peer review.
GitHub announces that Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ user interaction data will be used to train AI models starting April 24, 2026. Enterprise users are excluded, but individual developers must manually opt out to protect their data.
Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, seeking to halt new data center construction until Congress passes comprehensive AI safeguards for workers, communities, and the environment.
The vibe coding boom is hitting serious turbulence as Amazon suffers four Sev-1 outages from AI-generated code, Apple blocks vibe coding apps from the App Store, and developer trust in AI tools drops sharply.
Neuralink demonstrates its N1 brain implant converting silent thoughts into spoken words for ALS patient Kenneth Shock, marking a major milestone in brain-computer interface technology.
OpenAI has officially discontinued its Sora AI video generation app just six months after launch, citing unsustainable compute costs. The shutdown also killed Disney's planned $1 billion investment, with no money ever changing hands.
RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco spotlights agentic AI as the defining theme, with major announcements from Booz Allen, Arctic Wolf, 1Password, and startup Geordie AI winning the Innovation Sandbox contest.
OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy reveals he hasn't typed a single line of code since December 2025, as AI agents now handle 80% of his work — a complete reversal from just months ago.
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun has raised $1.03 billion for AMI Labs, a new AI lab developing world models based on JEPA architecture. Backed by NVIDIA, Bezos, and Samsung, it is the largest seed round in European history.
NVIDIA announces DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, introducing real-time neural rendering that blends generative AI with traditional graphics for a dramatic leap in visual fidelity. Launching this fall for RTX 50-series GPUs.
NVIDIA announced a major expansion of its autonomous vehicle program at GTC 2026, partnering with Uber to launch robotaxis in 28 cities across four continents by 2028, with BYD, Hyundai, Nissan, and Geely joining the DRIVE Hyperion platform.
OpenAI acquires Astral, the company behind popular Python tools uv, Ruff, and ty, to expand Codex beyond code generation into a full software development platform.
Anthropic ships Dispatch for Claude Cowork, letting users remotely control a persistent AI agent running on their Mac from a mobile device — a step toward always-on AI assistants.
Google Labs unveils the biggest update to Stitch, its AI-powered UI design tool, featuring Gemini 3 integration, a 3D spatial workspace, voice AI agent, and direct React code export.
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI unveils Attention Residuals (AttnRes), replacing the fixed residual connections used in Transformers for nearly a decade with learned, depth-wise attention — delivering significant benchmark gains with minimal overhead.
Meta is reportedly planning sweeping layoffs affecting up to 20% of its 79,000-strong workforce — roughly 15,000 employees — to offset its aggressive $115-135 billion AI infrastructure spending plan for 2026.
Morgan Stanley warns that a transformative AI breakthrough is imminent in H1 2026, driven by unprecedented compute accumulation. The report highlights a looming power crisis, massive workforce disruptions, and the possibility of recursive AI self-improvement by 2027.
NVIDIA introduces the Groq 3 Language Processing Unit at GTC 2026, a dedicated AI inference chip with 500 MB of on-chip SRAM and 150 TB/s bandwidth — seven times faster than Rubin GPUs for inference workloads.
Sydney entrepreneur Paul Conyngham used ChatGPT and Google DeepMind's AlphaFold to design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his rescue dog Rosie, shrinking her tumors by roughly 75% and stunning researchers at UNSW.
Alibaba researchers introduce SWE-CI, a benchmark that tests AI coding agents on real-world codebase maintenance across months of commits — exposing a critical gap between writing new code and keeping it working.
Elon Musk confirms Tesla's Terafab project will break ground on March 21, building the world's largest private semiconductor fab with 2nm process technology and capacity rivaling 70% of TSMC's total output.
Anthropic launches a beta feature enabling Claude to generate interactive HTML and SVG visualizations inline within conversations, available to all users for free.
Researchers from Galbot and Tsinghua University have developed LATENT, a humanoid robot that learned to play tennis using only 5 hours of imperfect human motion data, achieving a 90.9% forehand success rate and sustaining multi-shot rallies against human players.
Former OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy publishes an interactive treemap scoring 342 U.S. jobs on AI replacement risk from 0 to 10, revealing that 42% of workers face high exposure while physical trades remain safe.
Andreessen Horowitz releases its March 2026 Gen AI consumer apps report. ChatGPT dominates with 900M weekly active users, Claude and Gemini grow paid subs 200%+, and AI agents enter the mainstream.
Google launches two major Gemini-powered features for Maps: Ask Maps, a conversational AI that answers complex real-world location queries, and Immersive Navigation, a 3D driving experience that transforms how users navigate roads.
Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats announced at Ask 2026 that the company is moving away from Anthropic's Model Context Protocol internally, citing token overhead and authentication friction, while launching a new Agent API.
Shantanu Narayen announces his departure as Adobe CEO after 18 years, framing AI as the defining force reshaping creativity, workflows, and expression.
Anthropic launches Code Review for Claude Code — a multi-agent system that dispatches parallel AI agents to deeply review every pull request and catch bugs human reviewers miss.
NVIDIA GTC 2026 kicks off March 16 with Jensen Huang's keynote. Expect NemoClaw (open-source AI agent platform), a new inference chip, Vera Rubin updates, and $26B in open-source AI investment.
OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform used by 25% of Fortune 500 companies, to integrate security testing directly into its Frontier enterprise platform.
Anthropic launches Code Review for Claude Code: a fleet of AI agents analyzes every PR for bugs, security vulnerabilities, and regressions. Teams & Enterprise, $15-25/review.
Apple Music introduces a new metadata tagging system allowing labels and distributors to disclose AI-generated content across tracks, artwork, compositions, and music videos — but the voluntary approach raises concerns about effectiveness.
Former Tesla AI chief Andrej Karpathy releases Autoresearch, an open-source tool that lets AI agents autonomously run LLM training experiments on a single GPU, completing roughly 100 iterations overnight.
Jordanian-American Replit CEO Amjad Masad declares that not knowing how to code is becoming an advantage for entrepreneurs, as AI agents have created over 2 million apps without a single line of code.
Anthropic partnered with Mozilla to test Claude's security research capabilities. The AI model found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox in just two weeks, with 14 classified as high-severity — nearly a fifth of all high-severity Firefox bugs remediated in 2025.
Apple introduces iPhone 17e, its most affordable iPhone 17 model, featuring the A19 chip, 48MP Fusion camera, Ceramic Shield 2, and the faster C1X modem — starting at $599 with 256GB storage.
Netflix acquires InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI-powered filmmaking tools company, signaling a major push to integrate artificial intelligence into post-production workflows.
OpenAI has released Codex Security in research preview, an AI-powered application security agent that autonomously discovers vulnerabilities, validates them in sandbox environments, and proposes fixes — already finding 14 CVEs in major open-source projects.
Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon Connect Health, a healthcare-focused AI platform designed to automate scheduling, verification, documentation, and coding while keeping clinical teams in control.
The U.S. Department of Defense has officially designated Anthropic as a supply-chain risk — the first American AI company to receive this label — after the two sides failed to agree on guardrails for military AI use. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the company has 'no choice' but to challenge the decision in court.
Apple unveils MacBook Neo starting at $599, powered by the A18 Pro chip with a 16-core Neural Engine, Apple Intelligence, and up to 16 hours of battery life — targeting students, families, and first-time Mac users.
Cursor introduces Automations, a system that triggers AI coding agents automatically via code changes, Slack messages, or timers — shifting developers from prompt-and-monitor to always-on agentic workflows.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 in three variants — standard, Thinking, and Pro — featuring a 1 million token context window, built-in computer use that surpasses human performance, and 33% fewer errors than its predecessor.
Anthropic rolls out Voice Mode for Claude Code, letting developers issue coding commands by voice. Hold spacebar, speak your request, and watch Claude execute it — no extra cost for subscribers.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek releases V4, a trillion-parameter multimodal model optimized for coding tasks and Chinese-made chips, at a fraction of the cost of Western competitors.
OpenAI closes a historic $110 billion funding round backed by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, reaching an $840 billion valuation and cementing its position as the most valuable private company in the world.
Alibaba Cloud introduces the first multi-model AI coding subscription, bundling Qwen3.5, GLM-5, MiniMax M2.5, and Kimi K2.5 under one plan starting at $1/month — undercutting GitHub Copilot and Cursor by up to 95%.
Amazon announces an additional €18 billion investment in Spain at MWC 2026, bringing its total commitment to €33.7 billion through 2035 — including new data centers, AI server factories, and nearly 30,000 jobs across the Aragón region.
NVIDIA announces $4 billion in strategic investments split between Coherent and Lumentum to develop advanced silicon photonics and optical networking for next-generation AI factories.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video model has gone viral across Chinese social media, generating cinematic multi-shot videos with native audio. But Hollywood studios are raising serious copyright concerns about the technology.
Chinese AI lab MiniMax releases M2.5, an open-weight frontier model matching Claude Opus 4.6 performance on coding and agentic tasks while costing as little as one-twentieth the price.
xAI's Grok Imagine platform generated over 1.2 billion videos in January 2026 alone, powered by the Aurora autoregressive model that delivers photorealistic images and 10-second HD video clips with synchronized audio.
Cortical Labs has successfully trained 200,000 lab-grown human neurons to play the classic video game Doom, marking a significant milestone in biological computing and neuroscience research.
Jack Dorsey's Block lays off over 4,000 employees — nearly half its workforce — claiming AI tools like Goose have made smaller teams more productive. Stock surges 24%.
Google DeepMind acquired Common Sense Machines, licensed Hume AI's emotion-recognition technology, and invested in Tokyo-based Sakana AI — all within days — to strengthen Gemini's 3D vision, voice intelligence, and regional reach.
In a landmark agreement, OpenAI has secured permission to deploy its AI models within the Pentagon's classified networks, marking a significant shift in military-AI collaboration with new ethical guardrails.
Meta has struck a massive multi-year agreement worth up to $100 billion with AMD for AI processors, marking a major shift in the AI chip landscape and challenging Nvidia's dominance.
QuiverAI opens public beta for Arrow 1.0, a first-of-its-kind AI model that generates clean, editable SVG graphics from text and images. Backed by an $8.3M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Nvidia officially launches the Vera Rubin platform featuring 72 GPUs, HBM4 memory, and NVLink 6, promising 10x lower inference costs and 4x fewer GPUs needed for training compared to Blackwell.
Perplexity AI unveils Computer, a multi-model autonomous platform that orchestrates 19 AI models to handle research, coding, design, and deployment end-to-end — available now for Max subscribers.
Samsung launches the Galaxy S26 series featuring agentic AI capabilities, a first-ever smartphone Privacy Display, and deep integration with Bixby, Gemini, and Perplexity — starting at $900.
Meta signs a multi-year agreement worth up to $100 billion for AMD processors to power its AI data centers, in a move that challenges Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market.
Anthropic unveils Remote Control, a new feature that lets developers control Claude Code sessions from a phone or tablet. Start complex tasks on your terminal and supervise them remotely via a simple QR code.
Cursor unveils cloud-based AI coding agents that run in isolated VMs for up to 52 hours, producing merge-ready pull requests with video demos and screenshots — signaling a major shift toward autonomous software development.
Inception Labs unveils Mercury 2, the first diffusion-based reasoning language model, delivering over 1,000 tokens per second — 5x faster than leading speed-optimized LLMs — at a fraction of the cost.
Meta has secured massive multi-year agreements with both AMD and Nvidia, committing over $100 billion to AI chip procurement as the company races to build out the infrastructure powering its AI ambitions.
Canva acquires motion graphics tool Cavalry and AI video ad startup MangoAI, appointing its first Chief Algorithms Officer as it pushes to close the gap with Adobe.
OpenAI introduces WebSocket mode for its Responses API, enabling persistent connections that reduce latency by up to 40% for tool-heavy agentic workflows.
Anthropic unveils Claude Code Security, an AI-powered vulnerability scanner that reasons about codebases like a human security researcher. In testing, it found over 500 zero-day bugs in production open-source projects — flaws that went undetected for decades.
The Model Context Protocol has become the fastest-growing infrastructure standard for AI agents, with 79K GitHub stars, 97M+ monthly SDK downloads, and a wave of enterprise MCP server launches from Slack, Cloudflare, and Amazon.
Figma partners with Anthropic to launch Code to Canvas, an MCP-powered integration that lets developers capture live browser UIs and convert them into fully editable Figma frames.
Saudi Arabia's PIF-backed AI company Humain has invested $3 billion in xAI as part of a $20 billion funding round, becoming a significant minority shareholder in what is now a $1.25 trillion company after xAI merged with SpaceX.
Tunisia's government has unveiled 192 digital transformation projects as part of its 2026-2030 development plan, marking the country's full-scale push to digitize administrative services.
Alibaba's 397B parameter Qwen 3.5-Plus released under Apache 2.0 — benchmarks, pricing ($0.12/MTok), and how it compares to GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro.
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 opens in New Delhi with Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, and heads of state from 20 nations gathering to shape a global AI governance roadmap.
The Middle East and North Africa startup ecosystem hit an all-time high of $7.5 billion in funding across 647 startups in 2025, a 225% year-over-year surge driven by mega-rounds in fintech and Saudi Arabia's dominance.
Anthropic closes a record-breaking $30 billion Series G round led by Coatue and GIC, pushing its valuation to $380 billion and signaling the AI arms race shows no signs of slowing down.
Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI has released GLM-5, a 744-billion-parameter open-source model under the MIT license. Trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips, it approaches Claude Opus 4.5 on coding benchmarks and claims industry-leading hallucination reduction.
Apple faces technical hurdles in developing the new Gemini-powered Siri, pushing several key features from the iOS 26.4 update to later releases that could extend to iOS 27.
France unveils the first 23 laureates of the 'AI Pioneers' call for projects, backed by 10 million euros in funding, as Macron gathers key players of the French AI ecosystem at the Elysee Palace.
Google introduces Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash, a capability that transforms image understanding from a single-pass analysis into a multi-step investigative process—yielding 5-10% accuracy gains across vision benchmarks.
Alphabet, Google's parent company, completed the largest bond sale in tech history at $31.5 billion across three currencies, including a rare 100-year bond — the first by a tech company since Motorola in 1997.
OpenAI unveils Frontier, an open enterprise platform that lets organizations build, deploy, and manage AI agents across business systems — with Uber, Intuit, State Farm, and Thermo Fisher Scientific among its first customers.
Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet plan to spend a combined $670 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026 — more than the Apollo program, the railroad expansion, and the interstate highway system as a share of GDP.
OpenAI announces GPT-5.3-Codex, a groundbreaking AI model that assisted in its own development—marking a significant milestone in recursive AI improvement.
Vertex AI logs reveal Anthropic's next flagship model with codename 'Fennec' - featuring 82.1% SWE-Bench score, 1M token context, and half the cost of Opus 4.5. Multiple developers confirm the leak independently.
Saudi Arabia achieves a global milestone with the first sovereign-native tokenized property title deed transfer, reducing settlement times from days to seconds through blockchain integration.
A marketplace where AI agents hire humans for real-world tasks goes viral, while ByteDance open-sources UI-TARS for offline desktop automation. Meanwhile, OpenAI boosts GPT-5.2 and Codex inference speed by 40%.
Apple's latest IDE update introduces autonomous coding agents that can understand entire project graphs, marking a major shift in iOS and macOS development.
In a move reflecting the fierce competition for AI safety talent, OpenAI has appointed Anthropic's Dylan Scandinaro to lead its preparedness team for advanced AI risks.
This week's hottest AI trend: 150K+ agents on Moltbook, Karpathy's warnings about agent networks, practical tips from developers, and a major security alert. Here's what's trending on X.
Google introduces 'auto browse' in Chrome, a Gemini 3-powered feature that can autonomously navigate websites, research options, and complete multi-step tasks on your behalf.
Technology Innovation Institute unveils Falcon-H1R 7B, a 7-billion parameter model that outperforms competitors up to 7x its size in math and coding benchmarks.
The Saudi capital Riyadh is preparing to host the largest global AI summit in September 2026, with tech leaders and decision-makers from 150 countries participating.
The Tunisian National Program for Smart and Sustainable Cities, launched in 2019 and managed by the Tunisian Institute of Strategic Studies, enters a new phase with a 14-point framework for municipalities across the country.
Saudi Arabia achieved first place in the Arab world and fifth globally in the Digital Government Index, thanks to comprehensive digital transformation of government services.
On the eighth anniversary of the Startup Act (Law No. 2018-20), Tunisia celebrates labeling more than 1,450 startups and building a growing tech export ecosystem.
The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) announces the launch of Phase Two of the National AI Strategy, targeting $20 billion in investments and training 100,000 specialists by 2030.
NEOM announces the launch of a Technology and Innovation Center that will host 500 tech companies and 10,000 engineers, becoming the largest tech talent hub in the region.
Saudi startups achieved a new record by raising $3 billion in 2025, with FinTech and AI sectors growing by 150%.
Microsoft AI unveils MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, its first homegrown AI models, as the tech giant moves toward self-sufficiency and reduces reliance on OpenAI.
Everything you need to know about the 2024 census results in Tunisia: final figures, new digital methodology, economic and social implications, and comparisons with Maghreb, Middle East, and European countries.
An AFD report ranks Tunisia among African countries with the highest potential for AI investment in 2025, thanks to its digital infrastructure, human skills, and regulatory environment.
Tunisia is developing a five-year strategy to integrate AI into higher education and research, despite a decline in global AI readiness rankings.
An in-depth look at Tunisia's digital transformation efforts, focusing on the E-Houwiya digital identity system, raised privacy concerns, and international partnerships supporting the digital strategy.
Google, along with over 50 partners, has launched Agent2Agent (A2A), a new open protocol enabling AI agents from different vendors and frameworks to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate actions across enterprise systems.
An overview of Genesis, a new AI physics engine, highlighting its features, capabilities, and comparison with other AI video generation tools.
Tunisia announces a new national digital transformation strategy and an AI strategy to enhance digitization and innovation across various sectors, affirming its leading position in Africa in IT and e-government.
Launch of a new AI innovation center at Novation City in Tunisia in partnership with NVIDIA to train developers and accelerate AI adoption across Africa.
OpenAI's SearchGPT prototype is transforming online searches by delivering real-time, AI-powered answers with clear sources. Join the waitlist to experience this innovative, conversational search tool firsthand.
George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, explains the cause of a global computer outage affecting various systems including airports, banks, and emergency services. The issue stemmed from a software update bug in Microsoft operating systems, and CrowdStrike is working diligently to resolve it.
A Tunisian team of four women inventors wins third prize at the European Patent Office's young inventors competition in Malta 2024. The inventors developed a smart wheelchair control system.
Discover the highlights of the BIGTECH Africa Summit 2024 in Tunisia, showcasing innovation and AI excellence. Keynotes, panels, and workshops on the latest in artificial intelligence and digital transformation from June 26-29. Join industry leaders and tech enthusiasts at this landmark event.
Polyfill supply chain attack compromises over 100,000 websites, spreading malware via cdn.polyfill.io. Major sites like JSTOR and Intuit affected. Swift responses from Cloudflare and Namecheap mitigate further risks.
Introducing Perplexity Pages: Transform simple prompts into detailed, shareable research articles. Ideal for educators, researchers, and students, this AI tool automates searching, writing, and layout creation for comprehensive presentations.
Google's AI search suggested a bizarre fix for sliding pizza cheese—non-toxic glue! The mishap highlights growing concerns over AI reliability, as users question the accuracy of auto-generated information.
Next.js 15 RC is out! Get a sneak peek of revolutionary features like React 19 support, enhanced caching, and partial prerendering.
Microsoft has launched the Copilot Plus PC, a groundbreaking AI-powered laptop with a Snapdragon ARM chip, claiming faster speeds and enhanced capabilities. Amidst impressive tech, privacy concerns have stirred considerable debate.
Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI's groundbreaking AI model unifies text, audio, and visual inputs for real-time, human-like interactions. Remarkably faster, more efficient, and superior in language, vision, and audio understanding.
Saudi Arabia's ALLaM, a leading Arabic language AI, joins IBM watsonx platform, advancing generative AI capabilities and promoting Arabic language globally, aligning with Saudi Vision 2030.
Tunisia and Sweden enhance digital cooperation in tech, focusing on e-governance, AI, cybersecurity, 5G, and more. Ministers meet in Stockholm, strengthening bilateral ties for a thriving digital future.
Saudi Arabia, under SDAIA and Vision 2030, is leading globally in data and AI, achieving significant milestones in AI strategy, societal awareness, and implementing cutting-edge technologies across sectors. This progress fuels the Kingdom’s ambitious digital transformation.