Recent benchmarks show AI can now automate core engineering tasks, raising questions about the future of AI research and development.
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Engineering Is Automated. Research Is the Residual.
OpenEuroLLM. The third path.
OpenEuroLLM, a pan-European consortium, faces significant compute challenges amid progress on multilingual LLMs, highlighting Europe’s structural limits in AI development.
The Coding Singularity Is Real — and Steeper Than Clark Presented
New data confirms the coding singularity is accelerating faster than previously thought, with AI handling most routine software engineering tasks.
Mistral. The fourth path.
Mistral raises $830M, trains large models, and challenges US AI dominance through a commercial-frontier approach in Europe.
The Forecast Is the Plan.
Major AI labs publicly commit to automating AI research by 2026, signaling a strategic shift towards automated R&D as a central goal.
Minerva. The opposite path.
Italy’s Minerva LLM, trained from scratch on 2.5 trillion tokens, shows limited performance on Italian exams, raising questions about native-language investment.
AMÁLIA · The Three Hard Questions.
Portugal’s €5.5M AMÁLIA project, a European Portuguese LLM, faces key structural questions about openness, native data, and objectives, impacting national AI policy.
The Atlas. What the framework is.
An in-depth look at the Post-Labor Transition Atlas, a new empirical framework analyzing AI-driven labor displacement, policy responses, and structural alternatives.
7 Best Radon Detector For Continuous Monitoring In 2026
Discover the best radon detectors for continuous monitoring in 2026. Our guide highlights top picks, key features, and what to consider before buying.
Fair-value appraisals for used GPUs and AI hardware
A new manual valuation method is being tested to establish fair market prices for used AI hardware, helping brokers resolve pricing disputes.
