DeepSeek debuted V4 Flash Vision Exp, a multimodal large language model available on its paid developer platform, which outperformed Anthropic PBCC's Opus 4.8 on two visual benchmarks (ALE and ZeroBen…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model on its API platform on August 21, adding image understanding to its V4-Flash line while retaining text capabilities. Th…
Data centers have emerged as a prime political issue ahead of the midterm elections, with Republicans concerned that opposition to AI data centers could give Democrats a potent campaign issue, accordi…
Astromech, an artificial intelligence startup developing models that can predict biological change, has raised $20 million in funding, lifting its valuation to $3.8 billion. The round was led by biote…
Waymo on August 20 disclosed technical details of its sixth-generation autonomous driving system's compute module, featuring two custom ASICs that deliver more than 1,000 trillion calculations per sec…
Twin1 AI Inc. launched today with $20 million in seed funding to build AI-powered digital twins that carry an individual professional's expertise across their organization. The San Mateo, California-b…
The AI Workforce Consortium reported that the share of cybersecurity job postings across Group of Seven economies asking for artificial intelligence skills doubled over the year, while junior hiring h…
VentureBeat has named Rob Strechay, former managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, as its first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research, expanding its enterpri…
Telemetry data company Cribl Inc. has acquired technology assets from AI security operations startup Radiant Security Inc., including the intellectual property behind software that autonomously triage…
Graphwise, a Bulgarian graph database startup, has secured a significant investment from European venture capital firm Oakley Capital, which acquired a majority stake in the company. The funds will be…
OpenAI Group PBC launched ChatGPT for Teens, a stricter version of its chatbot for users aged 13-17, with guardrails on topics like violence, self-harm, sex, and mental disorders, and features such as…
Nigeria-based defense technology startup Terra Industries has raised $52 million in what it says is the largest-ever seed funding round for an African defense tech company. The company develops automa…
Anthropic PBC revealed it has developed an unreleased AI model more capable than Claude Mythos 5, detailing the algorithm in its latest AI alignment report. The report, published every three to six mo…
Flashpoint's 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report: Midyear Edition found that criminals now use artificial intelligence in day-to-day operations, moving beyond experimental use. The report, based on…
Cisco Systems Inc. reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.22 per share on revenue of $17.25 billion, up 18% year-over-year, beating analyst estimates, but its stock fell more than 4% in after-hours tr…
At the Neo4j GraphTalk event, theCUBE Research's John Furrier highlighted graph intelligence as the enterprise's missing connective tissue, enabling AI systems to move from prototypes to reliable deci…
CoreWeave Inc. shares jumped more than 14% in extended trading after the artificial intelligence data center firm reported a second-quarter loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.0…
OpenWALDO, a Ctrl IQ Inc.-sponsored open-source project led by Gregory M. Kurtzer, launched publicly on July 29 with an August 11 index listing 167.3 billion reference tokens across 93.9 million docum…
OpenWALDO, a new open-source artificial intelligence project sponsored by Ctrl IQ Inc., launched today, led by Gregory Kutzer, founder of Rocky Linux, CentOS and Apptainer, to build a community-led, o…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters, and NeMo Switchyard, an open-source routing library, on August 11. The router, which dynamic…