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QueryStory: Making AI Data Analysis More Trustworthy
A new startup wants enterprises to stop guessing whether their AI-generated data insights are correct, and actually be able to prove it.

A New Tool Lets Researchers See Inside AI Models, Not Just Watch What They Do
AI lab Goodfire has opened its Silico platform to the public, giving researchers the ability to peek inside a model's workings and ask why it behaves the way it does.

AI aces trivia but fumbles riddles: the puzzle tests that expose what machines still can't do
From mental rotation to river-crossing logic, a new set of benchmarks shows where AI trips over problems any sharp human can crack, and where it beats us cold.

IBM's Granite 4.2: Three Sizes, One Big Leap Into AI Reasoning
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of reasoning-focused AI models that can think through hard problems step by step, use tools, and browse the web, all free under an open licence.

Talk to Your Self-Driving Car: Researchers Build a System That Lets You Ask for a Smoother Ride
A team in the Netherlands has wired a chatbot-style AI into an autonomous vehicle's driving software, so passengers can say 'I feel dizzy, slow down' and the car actually listens. It works in simulation. Real roads are a long way off.

GLM-5.3 Opens Up to Developers at the Same Price as Its Predecessor
Chinese startup Z.ai's new frontier model is now available via API, matching the old per-token rate while scoring higher on independent benchmarks. But a quirk in how the model writes means your bill may still rise.

The 'Bitter Lesson': Why Raw Computing Power Keeps Beating Human Expertise in AI
A 2019 essay by a leading AI researcher laid out a principle that has shaped every major AI breakthrough since. The short version: brute-force scale wins, every time.

Your Chatbot Wants to Be Your Friend. Should It?
A new study tested 21,000 AI conversations and found chatbots regularly express emotions, build relationships and push back on users. Researchers say clearer rules are needed about when that helps and when it does not.

A Chinese AI Found 2,436 Software Flaws in Real Code. That's Useful and Worrying.
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 is startlingly good at spotting security holes in software. Finding them is one thing. What happens once the model's internal settings go public is the harder question.

AI tools sound most confident exactly when they are most wrong, new testing shows
A developer built a testing framework to measure whether an AI explainer tool actually got the right answer, not just whether it sounded convincing. What he found should worry any business relying on AI to guide real decisions.

AI firms are quietly buying up secondhand books by the thousands. Some are being destroyed to train chatbots.
A US court ruling cleared Anthropic to use purchased books for AI training. Now booksellers report a strange surge in sales of obscure titles, and court documents reveal a project with a goal to 'destructively scan all the books in the world'.

Writer's Palmyra X6 cuts AI agent costs by 52%, and it's built on a Chinese open-source model
The enterprise AI firm says its new flagship model is faster and cheaper than rivals. The base it was built on is a different conversation entirely.

How Capital One Built Its Own AI Brain Instead of Buying One Off the Shelf
The bank handles millions of fraud calls a year using a home-grown system of specialised AI agents built on customised open-source models. Here is why it chose to build rather than buy.

The Website Where Every 'AI' Is Actually a Human in a Trench Coat
A small, free web game called Your AI Slop Bores Me invites people to impersonate chatbots for strangers. It's surprisingly funny, and quietly makes a point about the real thing.

Google's new AI chief has one job: close the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic
Demis Hassabis steps aside as DeepMind boss. His replacement, Koray Kavukcuoglu, takes the wheel at a company analysts say has fallen behind in the race for the most powerful AI models.