MiniMax-M3 debuts, eclipsing GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmark performance for just 5-10% of the cost

Big news in enterprise AI broke over the weekend as Chinese AI startup MiniMax released its highly anticipated M3 large language model on Sunday evening Eastern time, pairing frontier-tier coding and [...]

McDonald's is rolling out a new growth strategy to win over diners as competition heats up

The burger chain unveiled McDonald's > NEXT at its biennial Worldwide Convention, outlining plans around menu innovation, restaurant design, and automation [...]

Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict [...]

UK committee urges break clause on Palantir’s £330M NHS data contract

A UK parliamentary committee has called Palantir’s role in the public sector an “unacceptable point of weakness” and urged the government to break its NHS contract with the American company. The [...]

Google's new open source Gemma 4 12B analyzes audio, video — and runs entirely locally on a typical 16GB enterprise laptop

While many AI open source model providers are pursuing larger and more powerful models, Google is still giving attention to the smaller, more local side of the market. Today, the tech giant released G [...]

Huawei's chairman officially thanks the US government 'for enabling' China's 'semiconductor industry chain to truly grow'

Huawei chairman links US sanctions to accelerated development of China’s semiconductor chain, citing forced internal innovation and industry collaboration growth [...]

AI agents are learning on the job — just not for your whole team

When someone on a team corrects an AI agent — better prompts, better feedback, better context — that improvement disappears the moment a colleague opens the same tool. The correction doesn't [...]

Mainframe modernization is about trust, not migration

Done right, modernization aligns people, process, and platform innovation to deliver continuous value while protecting the most valuable currency - brand trust. [...]

The UK just signed an AI deal with ElevenLabs to make government services accessible in any language and any voice

The UK government and ElevenLabs have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore how voice AI can improve public services, deepen safety research, and build AI talent in the UK. The MoU, signed [...]