IBM's open source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models are small enough to run locally directly in your browser

In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for intelligence, IBM is charting a different course — one that values efficiency over enormity, and accessibility over abstraction.The 114-y [...]

Proton launches 'Data Breach Observatory' to track personal info leaks

Proton, the company behind Proton VPN and other encrypted apps like Proton Mail and Proton Drive, just launched a new web page called the Data Breach Observatory that aims to make accurate cybercrime [...]

Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says

Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen t [...]

The NSA is using Anthropic's most powerful AI model Mythos

The NSA, the US intelligence agency responsible for electronic surveillance, is using Anthropic's most powerful AI model, "Mythos Preview."<br /> The article The NSA is using Anth [...]

Google brings free Gemini access to India's largest carrier

Google’s AI ambitions are global in scale, so much so that it has just agreed to give Gemini away for free in India to people using the country's biggest mobile provider. Thanks to a deal with [...]

Nvidia’s new technique cuts LLM reasoning costs by 8x without losing accuracy

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a technique that can reduce the memory costs of large language model reasoning by up to eight times. Their technique, called dynamic memory sparsification (DMS), c [...]

Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 to power robots of all shapes from tabletop arms to humanoids

Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics 2 is its most advanced vision-language-action model yet, built to control everything from tabletop robots to full-body humanoids. Gemini Robotics ER 2 adds a hig [...]

Apple's Live Translation feature is finally coming to AirPods in the EU

After a delay, Apple has announced that it's bringing its AI-powered Live Translation feature to the European Union in December. The expansion is notable, not only because Live Translation was a [...]

Six data shifts that will shape enterprise AI in 2026

For decades the data landscape was relatively static. Relational databases (hello, Oracle!) were the default and dominated, organizing information into familiar columns and rows.That stability eroded [...]