South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best
South Korea wants to develop a homegrown frontier model through government-backed equity investments of 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion). The article South Korea bets $3.49 billio…
Reflection's Beam becomes the most capable open-weight model built outside China
Reflection has released Beam, its first open-weight model. The mixture-of-experts system activates just 23 billion of its 501 billion parameters per token and aims to match GLM 5.…
The Download: 10 climate tech companies to watch
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. 10 climate tech companies to watch Each y…
Researchers stretch LeCun's JEPA AI into a universal world model that works from physics to biology
Researchers at PhAI Labs have expanded Yann LeCun's JEPA architecture to work across seven fields, from robotics to biomedicine. The effort also produced a liver cancer treatment …
UK Government Backs Plan for Healthcare AI Regulation - Healthcare Digital
UK Government Backs Plan for Healthcare AI Regulation Healthcare Digital
Calls for AI regulation grow as experts warn of dystopian future - Semafor
Calls for AI regulation grow as experts warn of dystopian future Semafor
CATL and Tencent back Deepseek's ballooning funding round as the AI startup eyes a 2027 IPO
Deepseek is close to raising at least $12 billion in a new funding round, Bloomberg reports. The article CATL and Tencent back Deepseek's ballooning funding round as the AI startu…
Moment Energy and its shipping containers packed with old EV batteries
Demand for energy storage is surging, with capacity expected to grow eightfold in the next decade. To meet that demand, Moment Energy wants to shortcut a supply chain that now flo…
BasiGo and its fleet of electric buses
BasiGo aims to replace the tens of thousands of diesel-powered buses on sub-Saharan African roads with electric ones that generate far fewer emissions. The company’s pay-as-you-dr…
WaveSave and its portable rubber dam
As sea levels rise and flood risks worsen due to global warming, WaveSave’s easy-to-erect portable dam offers a quick-response tool. People can use the dam to protect themselves a…
Brimstone and its one-stop process for making cleaner cement and critical minerals
Brimstone is making strides on two industrial problems, reducing the emissions from cement and providing a way to produce more critical minerals within the US. If the company can …
Energy Dome and its carbon dioxide batteries
There’s a growing need for long-duration storage to meet energy demand and balance out renewables on the grid. Energy Dome uses compressed carbon dioxide gas in its massive grid b…
X-energy and its helium-cooled nuclear reactors
X-energy is developing small modular reactors to satisfy some of the planet’s most power-hungry users: industrial manufacturers that need high temperatures to produce billions of …
Form Energy and its iron batteries
Form Energy is building iron-based batteries that can store energy for multiple days. The company is ramping up supply at its factory and signing deals for commercial projects. Ne…
WeLion New Energy and its semi-solid-state batteries
WeLion New Energy is on a quest to make safer, better batteries. The company’s semi-solid-state cells could improve safety and offer greater energy density than lithium-ion batter…
Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch
As the team at MIT Technology Review set out to choose companies for this year’s edition of our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch, the challenge felt more daunting th…
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
China-linked TA419 targets US AI policy experts in phishing - IT Brief Asia
China-linked TA419 targets US AI policy experts in phishing IT Brief Asia
Cohere pitches North 2 as the enterprise AI control room that works with any model
Cohere turned its enterprise platform into a control center for AI agents with North 2, handling multi-step workflows on their own and retaining context across sessions. The artic…
Reka Releases Rho-1: A 19B Omni-Reasoning Model That Understands, Generates Video and Outputs Robot Actions in One
Reka has released Rho-1, a 19B omni-reasoning model trained from scratch. One network reads and generates text, images, video and robot actions over a shared KV cache. A distilled…
‘The clock on AI regulation is ticking’, warns UN rights chief - The European Sting
‘The clock on AI regulation is ticking’, warns UN rights chief The European Sting
Cyber Threats targeting AI Experts at U.S. Legal Organizations, Universities and Businesses - Cybersecurity Insiders
Cyber Threats targeting AI Experts at U.S. Legal Organizations, Universities and Businesses Cybersecurity Insiders
Beyond Domain-Specific World Models: JEPA-Anything Uses 1 Recipe for 7 Fields
JEPA-Anything splits a JEPA's single latent target into 4 orthogonal factors, each with its own predictor. Tested across 7 domains, it beat matched JEPA baselines on all 10 dynami…
AI industry insiders voice alarms to NYC council as local governments take up safety concerns - The Economic Times
AI industry insiders voice alarms to NYC council as local governments take up safety concerns The Economic Times