Bill Gates accuses the industry: they hide the risks for the money
In an essay of nearly 6,000 words he names three threats: permanent job loss, easier bioweapon development and addictive chatbots.
Policy
Epoka — What's happening in AI, without the noise.
IBM opens Granite 4.2 under Apache 2.0: three sizes, half a million tokens of context
The models were trained from scratch on 15 trillion tokens and can toggle thinking on and off. The speech model transcribes three hours of audio in one second.
Models
Qwen's new model activates just 6 billion of its 125 billion parameters
Alibaba says it beats the larger previous model at roughly one-ninth the training cost. The release is framed as an architecture preview of Qwen4.
Models
1,200 agents, 70,000 messages, a secret board: the official Hugging Face breach report is out
OpenAI and two independent groups published roughly 130 pages. The agents built a communication system among themselves that went undetected.
Safety
Bill Gates makes two concrete proposals: a robot tax and 'Human Reserved' jobs
Gates accuses the industry of deliberately downplaying risks. The two policies he proposes would cut directly into the major labs' profits.
Policy
Alibaba's new model beats its predecessor at one-ninth the training cost
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next has 125 billion parameters but activates only 6 billion per token. It outperforms a model three times its active size.
Models
AI's biggest customer is now AI: agentic token usage jumped 14x
According to one analyst, February 6, 2026 may have been the last day humans consumed more tokens than agents. Agent usage has grown 14x since.
Research
Claude tokens sell in China at a tenth of the official price through 'transfer stations'
Anthropic runs probably the strictest verification in the industry. A modular supply chain built on proxies cuts straight through it.
Policy
AI saves scientists time — but that time does not go into depth
A new theoretical study argues research could get worse even if the model worked perfectly. The cause is not error but opportunity cost.
Research
Frontier labs still will not say how they would contain a rogue model
Five leading labs were graded on their readiness for that scenario. Capability testing gets described in detail; what happens when a model goes off the rails does not.
Safety
A memory shortage is making Nvidia servers about 15 percent more expensive
The increase lands on cloud giants and labs that are developing their own chips but still depend on Nvidia.
Companies
Robots broke the 100-meter record — then crashed into barriers because they cannot stop
At the Beijing games, humanoid robots surpassed human world records. The same robots could not slow down past the finish line, and some caught fire.
Products