Feeding the machine
When he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire software engineers overseas. It launche...
USENIX study finds AI extensions collect medical, banking data
A USENIX study by researchers from University College London, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, and University of California, Davis, found that popular AI browser extensions collect sensitiv...
Microsoft’s AI chief says “superhuman” AI is already here
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI chief for 18 months, detailed AI’s superhuman status and humanist superintelligence goals in a remote interview from Seattle with Mishal Husain, following a revis...
Alibaba’s Qwen3 surpasses Llama as top open-source model
Alibaba’s Qwen3 model family has surpassed Meta’s Llama as the most-downloaded open-source AI model worldwide, with over 600 million downloads, according to Interconnect‘s 2025 Open Models Year ...
Santa Rally Hopes Meet AI Reality Check
As 2025 draws to a close, Wall Street finds itself caught between two forces: growing doubts about the AI trade that powered this year’s gains and the historically reliable seasonal patterns that ha...
