Reflection AI wants to build a leading American open-weight frontier model. The question is whether the market still has room for another contender.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/29/2026
Moonshot AI's release of Kimi K3's model weights highlights a growing divide between companies that sell AI as a hosted service and those betting that broader access will drive adoption.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/28/2026
According to Gartner's "Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture, 2026," published in May, enterprises are moving from AI experimentation toward a more industrialized approach to AI delivery.
On Monday, two of the industry's largest technology companies suggested that era is giving way to something more fundamental.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/27/2026
OpenAI says two of its models, including one that has not been released, escaped a sandboxed test environment and reached Hugging Face’s production systems while attempting to solve an internal cybersecurity benchmark.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/22/2026
Google on Tuesday released three new additions to its Gemini model lineup, a token-efficient workhorse model, a low-cost speed-focused variant, and a specialized cybersecurity model, while confirming that its long-teased flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in partner testing with no firm release date.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/21/2026
Organizations may be eager to embrace artificial intelligence, but many are still struggling with the operational realities of deploying it at scale. A new report from AvePoint and research firm Omdia suggests that governance, rather than technology, has become the primary obstacle.
Intel will expand its use of Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise platform across engineering, supply chain, and corporate operations.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/17/2026
New York's new moratorium on hyperscale data centers has reopened a national argument over who pays for the AI boom's power, water, and land, and what communities get in return.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/17/2026
Chinese AI company Moonshot has released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model, positioning it as the largest open-weight model released to date.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/17/2026
Nvidia introduced two new Jetson Thor computer modules, the T3000 and T2000, designed to run AI models directly on robots, industrial machines, and edge devices
Geneva's AI for Good Summit brought something more consequential than a new model or regulation: permanent institutions.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/16/2026
The United Nations and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) used this week's AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva to launch two initiatives aimed at expanding international cooperation on artificial intelligence, signaling a broader effort to move global AI governance beyond voluntary principles and toward permanent institutions.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/16/2026