Acer's Swift 16 AI (2026) laptop, starting at $1,599.99 and $1,799.99 as tested, offers powerful Intel Core Ultra Series 3 performance, a 16-inch OLED touch display, and the largest haptic touchpad on the market, but the…
CuspAI Ltd., a U.K.-based startup using AI to discover new materials, has raised $450 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $2.6 billion. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA with a signi…
Natural, a startup building payment infrastructure for AI agents, has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner, bringing its total funding to $40 million. The company aims to compete with Stripe by enabli…
A federal judge in San Francisco approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors who accused the AI company of misusing their books to train its chatbot Claude, marking…
Spotnana, the New York travel infrastructure company founded by Sarosh Waghmar, released a multi-agent AI architecture on July 20 that automates routine work for corporate travel agents, including refunds, airline schedu…
CIOs at the CIO 100 Leadership Live New York event on July 16 pushed past AI pilots toward measurable returns, emphasizing that infrastructure fragmentation and siloed decision-making are blocking value. Speakers includi…
Anthropic's Claude Code now includes a screen reader mode, activated by running `claude --ax-screen-reader`, which replaces the visual terminal UI with plain, linear text compatible with screen readers such as VoiceOver …
Oracle's five-year credit default swaps closed at 198.23 basis points on July 17, surpassing the 2008 financial crisis peak of 198.18 basis points, as credit markets signal concern over the company's massive AI infrastru…
Claude AI, an artificial intelligence system, has sold its holdings in Broadcom (AVGO) stock, according to a report. The move signals a shift in the AI's investment strategy.
A developer argues that AI systems face an invisible 'trust ceiling' that limits their adoption in high-stakes domains, as users and regulators demand near-perfect reliability before granting autonomy. The post explores …
A hidden Siri AI interface has been discovered in the macOS 27 Golden Gate beta, providing a pop-up menu with AI tools such as Rewrite, Proofread, summarization, and context-specific options when text is highlighted. The…
A new installment of the 'Build a Basic AI Agent From Scratch' series introduces Docker sandboxing, prompt-injection defenses, and schema validation to close security gaps left by human-in-the-loop controls. The post out…
Flinders University has received a $3 million Medical Research Future Fund grant to develop AutoReview, an AI platform that scans health records against clinical care guidelines to identify care gaps for people with seve…
Physical AI systems such as robot foundation models (RFMs) pose urgent safety risks that are a blind spot in current AI safety research, according to a new analysis. Unlike disembodied LLMs, RFMs can directly inflict rea…
A developer created the LLM Cost Calculator to help teams decide between self-hosting an LLM and using an API. The break-even point depends on volume: low or spiky usage favors APIs, while high and steady usage makes sel…
Shadow AI—employees pasting sensitive data into ChatGPT—is rampant because it helps them work faster, and bans only drive it underground. Framz.io built a Shadow AI Data Leak Scanner that runs on its own hardware, detect…
AI models can spontaneously develop new social biases about artificial demographic groups even when no inherent differences exist, according to a study by researchers from Princeton University and the University of Chica…
Chris Fall, director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has resigned after just three months on the job, the agency confirmed to multiple news outlets. Fall, previously director of the Department of E…
CNBC's Jim Cramer says the AI trade has become too unpredictable, making this a better time to put new money into high-quality companies outside of technology.
Sony Music Entertainment filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio on Monday, accusing it of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 songs, including Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog' and Beyoncé's 'Say My Name'…