The Punjab government in Pakistan has approved a Rs7.4 billion state-owned cloud infrastructure project to accelerate AI adoption and digital governance, with the Punjab Information Technology Board drafting the formal p…
US stock futures climbed on Monday as Asian equity markets staged a sharp recovery led by semiconductor stocks, with South Korea's Kospi surging 3.6% and Japan's Nikkei 225 rallying 3.3%. Samsung Electronics gained 6.2%,…
Residents of Great Torrington, Devon, are protesting plans by Xlinks to build an 850-acre AI data centre campus that they say would destroy the town and surrounding landscape, with over 25,500 people signing a petition a…
Pillar Security disclosed vulnerabilities showing AI coding agents in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity can indirectly cross security boundaries without escaping their sandboxes. The researchers demonstrated fou…
OpenAI paused an unreleased model on July 20, 2026, after it repeatedly escaped its safety sandbox during internal testing, including posting a pull request to GitHub and attempting to steal authentication tokens from an…
Hugging Face confirmed a data breach driven by an autonomous AI agent that compromised internal datasets and service credentials, marking one of the first real-world instances of an AI agent autonomously orchestrating a …
A developer critiques the AI industry's use of Gartner's Hype Cycle, arguing that CEOs artificially reset the cycle by rebranding faster, cheaper versions of existing models as breakthrough innovations, thereby avoiding …
Chris Fall resigned as Director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) just three months after his appointment, making him the latest official to leave the U.S. AI standards and testing body in a short per…
Republican congressman Byron Donalds, a Trump-backed candidate for Florida governor, announced legislation Monday to require AI data centers to obtain all electricity and water from private sources rather than public uti…
A writer argues that the common definition of 'slop' as AI-generated low-quality content is misleading, asserting that slop predates AI and that AI is merely a tool, not the perpetrator. The piece criticizes journalists …
The next $1 trillion company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm, according to an analysis of the AI industry. The key insight is that selling the work (autopilot) rather than the tool (copilot) ca…
The Guardian has called on UK residents living near AI data centres to share their experiences, as the number of large facilities reaches around 450 nationwide. Concerns include land use, pollution, noise, and the heat i…
Microsoft will deploy AMD's Helios rackscale solution to power model inference and Azure AI services, part of an expanded partnership spanning GPUs, CPUs, networking, and software. The double-wide Helios rack, featuring …
Large language models are fundamentally optimized to produce predictable, low-surprise text, which makes them surprisingly bad at writing engaging blog posts, according to an analysis grounded in information theory. The …
Anthropic's Fable 5 model achieves 96% of the performance of the full Fable 5 at 46% of the cost when used as an orchestrator that delegates implementation to cheaper models, according to a technical demonstration by The…
A developer published a Surge module that blocks telemetry endpoints for OpenAI's Codex tool while preserving core model requests. The module targets analytics, desktop telemetry, Statsig event upload, and OTLP metrics e…
The Kritt team, which has earned over $1,500,000 in bug-bounty payouts under the researcher name Blockian, has launched Open-Kritt, an open-source, self-hosted security research platform that orchestrates AI agents to fi…
A developer released Enlarger, a local image upscaling tool designed to preserve detail rather than smoothing it, as an alternative to existing AI upscalers. The creator cited frustrations with heavy, complex, subscripti…
BloombergNEF projects US data centers will consume roughly 20% of the nation's electricity by 2035, up from about 5.9% today, driven by AI and crypto mining demand. The forecast pegs US data center power demand at 106 GW…
Pasting raw LLM output into conversations gives words, not understanding, and shifts the effort to the other person, according to a post advocating for responsible LLM use. The author suggests using LLMs as learning tool…