Quantum stocks rip as IonQ discloses new contracts, hits benchmark milestones
It’s World Quantum Day , so why wouldn’t quantum stocks be ripping? Shares of and its quantum computing peers surged Tuesday as IonQ disclosed new contracts and a new set of benchmarks, investors pou...
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The toughest AI benchmark just got a whole lot tougher
The flood of new AI models with increasingly advanced “reasoning” capabilities is forcing the AI industry to abandon early benchmark tests and invent new ones to test for many skills. To watch the evo...
AI leaderboard maker LMArena hits $1.7 billion valuation
If you want to know who’s up and who’s down in the AI model world, look no further than LMArena’s leaderboard . The startup has just raised a $150 million series A fundraising round, with a valuation ...
D-Wave Quantum touts tech breakthrough that lets gate models scale
has announced a breakthrough that addresses a key challenge in developing superconducting gate-based quantum computers: how to gather a ton of quantum bits (or qubits) in the same place while keeping ...
Gemini 3 is insanely good at visual reasoning... and running a vending machine
How do you measure what an AI model can do? You ask it to spell strawberry, make a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti, or do some basic math. But, once you’ve exhausted all of the obvious tests, you...
How well can top AI models do these jobs?
One of the biggest fears fueling the public’s apprehension toward AI is that the technology will eventually take their jobs . We’ve already seen evidence that some roles like entry-level software deve...
Meta scrambling to defend its AI after Llama 4 benchmark bungle
This weekend, surprised everyone and released two flavors (“Maverick” medium and “Scout” small) of its highly anticipated Llama 4 AI model. Llama 4’s release is a big deal, as the company has been hy...
OpenAI’s record-breaking test score might have cost $30,000 per puzzle
In December, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that its new o3 “reasoning” model had, for the first time, achieved a winning score on the ARC-AGI benchmark, a notoriously difficult test that had stumped...
Quit the yapping: New AI technique could cut costs 90% by saying less
A consensus is emerging in AI circles that the way forward involves models that use “chain of reasoning” to get better performance, at the expense of costlier computing resources. This process involve...
Microsoft and OpenAI have agreed on a definition of artificial general intelligence
OpenAI can terminate its $13 billion partnership with when the startup achieves artificial general intelligence — a squishy, debated term that generally means when AI can perform any tasks a human do...
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“Snacks Mix”: Zuck and Musk play nice, quantum goes to the moon, and our hot takes for 2025
What we’re talking about this week on the podcast: Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk teaming up against OpenAI, Databricks raising a massive Series J, and Google’s quantum-computing breakthrough sending s...
If AI models can ace every test, it’s actually not a good thing
AI companies are eager to show how much “smarter” and more capable their latest large language models are. To highlight these improvements, companies point to scores on widely used standardized tests ...
The crash test dummies for new AI models
When a car manufacturer develops a new vehicle, it delivers one to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to be tested. The NHTSA drives the vehicle into a head-on collision with a concret...
Scientists can’t figure out your emotions and AI can’t either
Bad news for the “emotion AI system” tasked with determining how you’re feeling in everything from job interviews to the classroom: Scientists can’t tell what anyone is feeling from their facial expre...
How do AI models stack up vs. humans on standardized benchmarks?
The state of AI As AI has gone mainstream, companies haven’t been shy in deploying the technology — applying it to manual and repetitive tasks and even citing it as a reason for mass layoffs . But ho...