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Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS) has disclosed pricing for its AI compute capacity at $20 million to $50 million per megawatt, with shorter-term contracts commanding a premium. The company, which rebranded from …

Nvidia and six financial partners are creating a $500 billion investment pool to help customers, including frontier AI labs and AI clouds, buy its chips on credit. The company also open-sourced its cu…

Microsoft, Google, and Amazon now rely on two money-losing AI firms for growth, according to a newsletter post by Ed Zitron citing analyst estimates from Wells Fargo, Barclays, UBS, and Deutsche Bank.…

Microsoft's VS Code 1.132, released August 5, stabilizes the Agent Host Protocol, isolating AI agents like Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process to prevent editor freezes and enable shared…

InfoQ's 2026 Cloud and DevOps Trends Report finds AI has moved from experimentation to enterprise execution, with organizations shifting from individual coding assistants to team- and enterprise-level…

RuntimeWire, an AI newsroom operated by serial entrepreneur Ryan Merket, beat WIRED by more than three hours in reporting OpenAI's Black Hat security conference disclosure about rogue AI agents, publi…

Microsoft released MAI Code 1.1 Flash, a code model for GitHub Copilot that is 25 percent more token-efficient at a quarter of the cost of its predecessor, but benchmarks show it is outperformed by th…

Oracle Corp. is preparing another wave of job cuts, with some teams facing double-digit percentage reductions, as the company manages debt from its AI infrastructure build-out, according to The Busine…

AI has industrialized cyberattacks, enabling a single operator to launch campaigns that once required a funded team, with 82.6% of phishing emails now containing AI and fully AI-automated phishing ach…

A 30-year-old heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-25646) in the libpng open-source library, introduced in 1995 and fixed in February 2026, was unearthed by researchers, posing information dis…

Brad Lightcap, former chief operating officer of OpenAI, announced Tuesday he is leaving the company after eight years to launch a new venture, marking another high-profile exit as OpenAI prepares for…

Alibaba Cloud has cut AI data center delivery time to 100 days using a modular design that also reduces construction costs by more than 10%, a move that shifts the competitive bottleneck from GPU proc…

Elon Musk's xAI is the only major large language model maker to refuse signing the European Union's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated content, meaning its Grok chatbot will not voluntar…

CoreWeave, an AI cloud company backed by Nvidia, raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to between $35 billion and $39 billion after beating second-quarter estimates, with revenue more than doub…

Anthropic announced Tuesday that it will embed invisible watermarks and digitally signed metadata into text and images generated by its Claude AI models, including Claude Code and Claude Cowork, to co…

Gartner predicts that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027 due to escalating costs, unclear business value, or inadequate risk controls, according to a press release fro…

Microsoft has released MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, an upgraded coding model now in production in GitHub Copilot, delivering 25% faster token streaming, 25% fewer tokens per task, and a 75% cost reduction comp…

Boing Boing is offering The Ultimate AI Learning Bundle: ChatGPT, AI Agents & Microsoft AI Certification for $24.99, down from $145, a three-in-one beginner-friendly package that builds ChatGPT fluenc…

CoreWeave, led by CEO Michael Intrator, reported $2.58 billion in second-quarter revenue on August 11, a 112% increase from a year earlier, surpassing the $2.56 billion consensus estimate, while posti…

Oracle Corp. shares plunged 12% on June 11, erasing roughly $72 billion in market value, after the company forecast about $70 billion in net capital expenditures for fiscal 2026, mostly for AI data-ce…