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Top Democrat criticizes the Trump administration for worsening the chip shortage, threatening the CHIPS and Science Act's $39 billion in semiconductor manufacturing incentives. Micron CEO Sanjay Mehro…

Open-source AI models are becoming a strategic tool for companies like Meta and Mistral, which release them as loss leaders to control the ecosystem and commoditize the technology, stripping the compe…

Major online publishers including USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People, and Reuters are debating whether to block Google's crawlers as the tech giant's AI summaries reduce traffic and reuse cont…

A developer known as slvDev has run a 28.9 million parameter language model on an ESP32-S3 microcontroller that costs about $8, generating text at roughly 9.5 tokens per second entirely on-device. The…

Conversational AI assistants like Google's Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Anthropic's Claude are disrupting the traditional clickstream-based digital economy, creating an 'intelligence blackout' for br…

A single power fault in February 2025 knocked 1,800 megawatts off the US grid in milliseconds as data center UPS systems tripped, according to NERC's 2026 State of Reliability report, which warns that…

Google Vice President of Devices and Services Shakil Barkat confirmed in an interview with 9to5 Google that the upcoming Pixel 11 will cost more than the Pixel 10, citing RAM supply issues driven by A…

Google DeepMind's open-weight Gemma model family surpassed 900 million total downloads by July 2026, driven largely by the Gemma 4 release in April 2026, which alone accounted for over 300 million dow…

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, a proactive frontier model it positions near Fable 5 intelligence at roughly half the price, setting new state-of-the-art results on coding and knowledge-work evals l…

Meta has withdrawn from RE100, a corporate clean energy pledge, citing the need for reliable power from natural gas to fuel its AI data centers. The company has committed to funding at least 10 new ga…

Meta, Mistral, and other companies are releasing powerful open-source AI models for free as a strategic move to commoditize the ecosystem and gain market share, not out of generosity. The real value l…

A developer reports that Alibaba's Qoder, an AI coding tool similar to Antigravity, offers dramatically lower costs than Western competitors like OpenAI and Google, with transparent pricing and live u…

A coalition of roughly 25 tech giants, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, Hugging Face, a16z, Mistral, Dell, and IBM, signed an open letter on July 24, 2026, urging US policymakers not to re…

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has paused discussions on a second funding round just weeks after closing a $7.4 billion raise at a $52 billion valuation, according to the company's direct communication w…

Google paid $17.1 million in bug bounties last year and launched an AI-only program, with the top hunter earning $811,000. The AI Corner's new playbook details how to exploit the gap between rapid AI …

Anthropic announced Claude Opus 5, a new model positioned just below its flagship Fable 5 while costing about half as much to use. Pricing remains unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per …

Google researchers found that Americans ask Gemini and AI Mode about government services, health, money, and legal issues far more often than they spend time on those activities, while eating, dressin…

A developer who posted 31 articles on DEV found that a post with 300 views and zero reactions attracted search traffic as a technical manual, while a post with only 47 views and five comments sparked …

Karnataka is forming two joint working groups with Anthropic to embed AI into e-governance and home department operations, announced July 25, 2026. Minister Priyank Kharge revealed plans for Claude ce…

Google split its eighth-generation TPU into two separate chips — TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference — at Cloud Next 2026, driven by the demands of AI agents that generate 50 to 100 times mor…