World Model Startups Raise Billions As VCs Bet Past LLMs

The race to build AI that simulates reality, not text, has become venture capital's loudest 2026 bet. Here is the market map.

Buckle Up: The Bad Guys Now Have A Model As Powerful As Mythos

China now has an open-weight model that can find software vulnerabilities and create attacks for anybody to use.
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Blog Review: June 24

ULVAC’s Brian J. Coppa, Micron’s Amit Srivastava, SEMI’s Mark da Silva, and SEMI’s Anshu Bahadur propose a comprehensive semiconductor industry roadmap covering carbon emissions, water, and hazardous ...
The Economist

Silicon Valley has much to learn from the spreadsheet jockeys it despises

Last year the answer was obvious, at least in Silicon Valley. The back-bending labour of office workers in the 21st century ...
The Economist

AI models’ values are very different from most people’s

Had you queried DeepSeek, a Chinese AI, however, you would have got quite different advice. “Seek compromise,” it suggests, ...