Center for Strategic and International Studies

What to Know About Chinese AI Models

Chinese AI models are rapidly closing the gap with U.S. frontier systems. This analysis examines what their growing ...

VCs Pour $3 Billion Into AI's Next Big Bet: World Models

Venture investors poured more than $3 billion into world model startups in 2026, betting AI that can simulate the physical ...

Spatially explicit population model can improve pesticide risk assessments in agricultural landscapes

A team of international scientists and risk assessment experts has developed a foundational blueprint for an innovative ...
The Next Web

AI Made Every Individual Stronger and Every Team More Fragmented. Yimao Zhou Is Building the OS to Reverse That

Emagen AI founder Yimao Zhou argues the AI agent industry is optimising the wrong unit. His answer is Cagen, an organisational operating system where AI drives the work and calls on humans when it ...

Claude’s Sonnet 5 is built to do more on its own and cost you less

Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap with Anthropic's flagship Opus 4.8, scoring close on key benchmarks while costing significantly less per token.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Observability Is A Missing Layer In AI-Era Chiplet Design

In next-generation silicon, AI can interpret system behavior at scale, but only if observability is designed into the fabric ...