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Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) eliminates the value model used in Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), reducing active memory footprint from 42 GB to 28 GB for a 7B parameter model in FP16 b…

Brand tracking startup Tracksuit has acquired Hall, a Sydney-based startup that measures how brands appear in AI assistant responses, adding AI-monitoring capability to its existing business of survey…

InfoQ has opened enrollment for three five-week online certification cohorts starting in August: Architecture with Luca Mezzalira (August 13), Engineering Leadership with Michelle Brush (August 21), a…

Cursor costs $20 per month and GitHub Copilot costs $10 per month, both scoring 57% crowd approval, but solo developers on a tight budget have two free open-source alternatives: Cline and Aider, where…

Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), adopted by OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft through 2025 and donated to a Linux Foundation body, has become the standard for connecting AI agents to external too…

QuickLogic and PQSecure have integrated post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into system-on-chip (SoC) designs using embedded FPGA (eFPGA) hard IP, enabling field-updatable cryptographic engines. The colla…

Samsung SDS launched NPUaaS, a cloud service powered by South Korean startup FuriosaAI's second-generation RNGD chip, offering businesses a cheaper alternative for AI inference. The service targets th…

Anthropic's Claude Code product team, led by Cat Wu, advocates for a 'lean harness' approach to AI coding tools, avoiding opinionated features that pre-structure codebase context, as rapid model impro…

Google is rushing a fix to Android 16 devices after security researchers uncovered a bug that lets its Gemini assistant send SMS and WhatsApp messages from a locked phone without a PIN. The flaw, an a…

Apple briefly became the world's most valuable company on Friday, overtaking Nvidia as investors sold off semiconductor shares amid skepticism about the sustainability of the AI boom. Apple ended the …

Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI are donating key AI protocols to open-source foundations, not out of generosity but to commoditize one layer of the AI stack and compete on higher-value services, followi…

Anthropic donated its Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation, while Google handed its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation with AWS, Cisco, Micr…

Google's DeepMind lab has used artificial intelligence to recreate a goal by Brazilian soccer legend Pelé that he called his greatest ever but was never filmed.…

A new report from Futurum Group analyst Mitch Ashley maps the AI market into eight layers—applications, builder tools, governance, runtime, software substrate, models, infrastructure and silicon—and i…

The European Commission ordered Google on July 16 to open 11 Android features to rival AI assistants and share anonymized search data with competitors starting January 2027, under binding decisions wi…

RISC-V International CEO Andrea Gallo declared at the RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna that the open-standard instruction set architecture is now targeting data centers, edge AI, and space explora…

OpenAI head of strategy Dean Ball sparked a debate on X by suggesting the Trump administration could create regulatory risk around open-weight Chinese AI models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, which recen…

Perplexity offers three advanced techniques to improve AI search results: using search operators like site: and filetype: to narrow queries, creating Spaces with custom instructions for repetitive tas…

Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model matches frontier proprietary models on coding benchmarks for the first time, scoring in the range of GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet on SWE-bench Verified. The sparse …

Anthropic published a landmark technical guide detailing how it uses Claude Code — specifically Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.8 — to execute large-scale code migrations that previously cost $3–4 mi…