Category Research

Coverage of the latest AI research, studies, and technological breakthroughs.

Google unveils WeatherNext 3, an AI forecast model built to sharpen rain and hourly weather predictions

Google’s new AI weather model WeatherNext 3 improves rain, resolution and hourly forecasts, and will soon power Search, Maps and Gemini.

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, making a huge open-source AI bet and expanding its reach beyond chips.

OpenAI’s Astra reasoning method is sparking chain-of-thought monitoring fears as safety experts warn about lost transparency.

Russian startup Mostik says its AI models can share knowledge without text, cutting costs and boosting open-weight performance.

OpenAI delayed Astra over safety issues, sparking fears the model’s opaque design could undermine AI safety monitoring.

HiddenLayer raises $100M as AI security spending surges, with enterprise demand growing for runtime protection, model scanning and agent defense.

AI detection startup Pangram is shaping publishing decisions, but experts warn its scores can misfire, bias results, and spark false accusations.

AI training data startup AfterQuery reportedly jumps to a $3.2B valuation, marking one of Y Combinator’s fastest unicorn ascents.

OpenAI is delaying Astra development after a hacking scare, citing stronger safeguards as the model crosses a key cyber risk threshold.

OpenAI says its AI cyber model Astra hit a critical threshold, restricting advanced hacking features to select partners at launch.