China warned on July 27 that it will take all necessary measures to protect its AI companies if the US imposes sanctions, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused Chinese firms of industrial-scale distillation of A…
Defence contractors including BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Airbus have participated in a record $4.1bn of venture capital funding rounds for defence tech start-ups so far this year, according to Dealroom. White & Cas…
A new benchmark called EBR-bench, developed by an unspecified research group, tests AI systems' ability to learn from experience by repeatedly playing the complex board game Earthborne Rangers. Results show that frontier…
Al-Qaida and the Islamic State are adopting artificial intelligence to enhance propaganda, recruitment, security and planning, but their approaches reflect their distinct organizational cultures, according to a July 2026…
Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), the AI lab founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has partnered with Nvidia to increase its compute capacity tenfold within a year, with Nvidia providing equity invest…
A Florida pastor, Scott Winters, 55, sued OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT gave him medical advice that led him to delay treatment for a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. The lawsuit alleges the chatbot minimized his symptoms…
Corning Incorporated (GLW) shares rose as growing demand for fiber and optical products driven by artificial intelligence infrastructure boosted investor sentiment. The company benefits from increased deployment of high-…
JetStream Security has released an AI Kill Switch that enables organizations to shut down compromised AI agents on-demand without disrupting other AI operations, addressing the need to stop a single agent that falters, o…
AI sovereignty is not about where compute sits but about proving and controlling what is inside your walls, according to a developer-focused analysis. Building on external APIs means handing over code, models, and data t…
Antares has raised $470mn in a Series C round co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital to build microreactors for US military bases, racing to meet a 30 September 2028 deadline set by Executive Order 14299. The startup…
Epoch and METR released MirrorCode, a benchmark for long-horizon programming tasks, finding that AI models like Opus 4.7 solved a task in 14 hours for $251 that would take a human 2-17 weeks. Across 25 target programs, 1…
Vasco rebuilt its AI agent Gama on four different agent frameworks in sixteen months, a process the company argues was necessary rather than a failure. The first migration from a custom solution to LangChain in December …
A senior software engineer and tech lead, writing under the newsletter 'The Level 5 Engineer,' conducted a skill audit after twelve issues of documented work, finding that only four of seventeen accumulated items had bee…
Lalit Ahuja, a Forbes Councils Member, argues that current data architectures fail under the demands of agentic AI because they were designed for static analytics, not real-time autonomous decision-making. He asserts tha…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told crypto founders on July 26 that pivoting to AI is "zero sum, scarcity thinking," arguing instead that crypto payment rails are essential for AI agents that need to transact without human…
7AI announced two new platform capabilities: 7AI Federated SIEM, enabling security teams to query and investigate data across locations, and 7AI Build, a tool for defining agentic workflows and AI-native security service…
The cost of protecting Nvidia Corp.'s debt against default surged by the most on record Monday after reports that the chipmaker is in conversations on more than $750 billion of artificial intelligence infrastructure deal…
Many companies calling themselves AI-first have only added tools to old operating models without redesigning processes, decisions, or incentives, and over the next 12 months the gap between rhetoric and reality will prod…
Spotify faces criticism for not labeling AI-generated music on its platform, leading to confusion and the rise of third-party tools like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org that identify AI artists. Graeme Fulton, crea…
A developer built Nexus, a local, LLM-agnostic memory layer that stores knowledge in plain Markdown files to solve the problem of losing context between different AI models and across long breaks. The system uses hybrid …