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Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has achieved a milestone in biological computing by demonstrating its CL1 system running Doom using 200,000 living human neurons. The $35,000 commercial platform represents a leap from the company's 2022 Pong experiment, offering developers access through Cortical Cloud to explore what they call Synthetic Biological Intelligence.
Researchers created Humanity's Last Exam, a PhD-level AI benchmark with 2,500 questions designed to assess the limits of AI reasoning. Google's Gemini 3 Deep Think achieved the highest score at 48.4%, while human experts score around 90%. Despite progress, experts emphasize this doesn't signal the arrival of Artificial General Intelligence.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced it will transform its London office into its biggest research hub outside the United States, targeting top talent from British universities. The expansion puts OpenAI in direct competition with Google DeepMind for researchers and signals Britain's growing role in global AI development.
HCLTech and IIT Kanpur signed an MoU to transform research into practical solutions for Global Capability Centers. The partnership focuses on advanced engineering and deep tech innovation, including AI and robotics. It will help GCCs accelerate innovation, access specialized skills, and reduce time-to-market through bridging academic research and enterprise needs.
A Harvard-led study reveals that AI can predict 71% of mutual fund trading decisions, suggesting much of active management follows detectable patterns. The research, analyzing data from 1990 to 2023, found that the unpredictable 29% of trades is where genuine alpha lives. The findings challenge the justification for high active-management fees and highlight how automation could reshape the $54 trillion asset management industry.
San Francisco startup Guide Labs has open-sourced Steerling-8B, an 8-billion parameter language model built with a novel architecture that makes every generated token traceable to its training data origins. Founded by Julius Adebayo and Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, the company aims to solve AI's black box problem by engineering interpretability directly into the model rather than analyzing it post-hoc.
Canva announced the acquisition of Cavalry and MangoAI to strengthen its animation and marketing capabilities as software stocks face pressure from artificial intelligence concerns. The deals mark Canva's fourth and fifth acquisitions in two years, expanding its professional creative suite with 2D animation tools and AI-powered video advertising optimization to compete directly with Adobe.
Researchers from Vanderbilt University and partners developed an AI model that predicts bone removal during cochlear implant surgery. The system analyzes CT scans to forecast mastoidectomy shape, achieving a 0.72 Dice score across 751 cases. This medical imaging technology could support robotic surgical tools and improve patient outcomes.
Bharti Airtel and cloud security provider Zscaler unveiled the AI & Cyber Threat Research Center at the India AI Impact Summit. The initiative aims to protect India's critical infrastructure from cyberattacks by leveraging telemetry data and AI technologies. The center will process over 500 billion daily transactions to identify threats targeting telecommunications, banking, and energy sectors.
Tech Mahindra and University College London announced a collaboration to advance joint research in emerging technologies including Generative AI and quantum computing. The partnership will develop domain-specific Small Language Models, world models, and quantum machine learning solutions across healthcare, telecommunications, and manufacturing sectors.
Ranvir Sachdeva, an eight-year-old coder, made history as the youngest speaker at India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi. He addressed global tech leaders about linking ancient Indian philosophies with modern Artificial Intelligence and met Google CEO Sundar Pichai and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the event.
ChatGPT solved a complex gluon amplitude problem that had stumped theoretical physicists for decades, proving that certain particle interactions previously thought impossible can actually occur. Working alongside Andrew Strominger and a team of researchers, the AI simplified complex mathematical expressions and generated a proof in just 12 hours—what might have taken humans indefinitely to solve.
Chinese tech giant ByteDance is hiring nearly 100 people for its US-based AI teams within its Seed division, expanding capabilities in large language models, video generation, and drug discovery. The move comes despite ongoing national security concerns and recent intellectual property disputes with Hollywood studios over its Seedance 2.0 video generation tool.
Former Google DeepMind scientist David Silver is raising $1 billion for his startup Ineffable Intelligence, led by Sequoia Capital at a $4 billion valuation. The London-based company aims to build superhuman intelligence using advanced reinforcement learning techniques, with potential backing from Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft despite having no product yet.
Microsoft's Project Silica has demonstrated a breakthrough in glass data storage technology that could preserve information for more than 10,000 years. Using femtosecond lasers to etch data into silica glass plates, the system offers a sustainable alternative to traditional data centres while withstanding extreme temperatures and environmental conditions.
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