CANADA LAUNCHES AI STRATEGY, TARGETS 250K JOBS BY 2031

Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, a compact open-weight coding model that achieves better benchmark performance than significantly larger competitors. The company trained the model to self-correct, revise failed approaches, and persist through extended agentic sessions.

In a leaked four-hour investor presentation, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng argues that compute access—not software moats—defines the US-China AI gap, while claiming Nvidia's CUDA dominance is eroding.

Bipartisan lawmakers introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday, which would grant the Department of Homeland Security authority to shut down or throttle AI models deemed dangerous.

Major AI companies are recruiting top university researchers at an accelerating pace, shifting research from public institutions to private industry labs. This brain drain is transforming once-open academic work into proprietary, closed-door projects.