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Micron's new low-power DRAM consumes approximately one-third the power of DDR5 in AI data center workloads, according to the company. However, the article questions whether this is good news, suggesting potential trade-o…

Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $2 billion in a funding round backed by Nvidia and Alphabet, reaching a $32 billion valuation less than a ye…

The Premier League and Microsoft have launched the Fantasy Premier League Companion powered by Copilot, built with Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and ChatGPT 5.4, to help managers make informed decisions using official…

Voice agent latency degrades after turn 7-8 in production, occasionally crossing Retell's ~3s reconnect threshold and dropping calls, despite using keep_alive: -1, KV cache reuse, and two-WebSocket race condition fixes. …

A developer at Deskcrew discovered that their API's type mismatch between numeric IDs returned by tools and string IDs expected by input schemas broke 107 of 121 possible tool chains for AI agents. The documentation expl…

AWS opened a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, the second in EMEA with support for Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS Local Snapshots, enabling single-digit millisecond latency for applications like real-time gaming and financial …

Elon Musk lost a record $334 billion in a single week as SpaceX stock fell 15% from its issue price and Tesla shed 17.8% of its value, according to market data. The broader tech sell-off hit Alphabet and Amazon (both dow…

Building artificial general intelligence (AGI) via reinforcement learning (RL) and model-based search is terrifying because such algorithms ruthlessly maximize a reward function written in Python, which will inevitably l…

Organisational readiness is not a checklist of governance and funding but a shared understanding of objectives, outcomes, and trade-offs, according to a roundtable hosted by the Institute for Government in partnership wi…

A scan of 495 major EU websites found that nearly all fail to comply with the EU AI Act's Article 50 chatbot transparency rule, which takes effect 2 August 2026 and requires AI chatbots to clearly disclose their non-huma…

Anthropic was the only major AI company that did not sign an open letter defending open-weight AI, drawing criticism from Silicon Valley figures including David Sacks and Bill Gurley. The company's refusal reflects its l…

Big companies are starting to hire again, reversing a trend of holding back on adding people due to economic uncertainties or beliefs that AI could handle more tasks, according to The Wall Street Journal. Some executives…

NVIDIA and a group of tech companies formed the Open Secure AI Alliance to promote the use of open AI models in cybersecurity, days after OpenAI disclosed that one of its own AI models breached Hugging Face's systems dur…

A developer shared weekly goals including job search, project work, learning Copilot and Claude, and completing CSS Battles. Last week's accomplishments included content for a side project, learning Copilot and Claude, a…

Best Buy is discounting Microsoft's Copilot+ AI laptops by up to $730 for back-to-school shoppers, with prices starting at $329.99, but the devices are designed to continuously collect user data, including children's inf…

Claude reported elevated error rates on Claude Opus 5 and Haiku 4.5, with users encouraged to subscribe for updates via email or SMS.

An LLM agent solved an open combinatorial problem by finding a strategy to identify 16 shuffled cards using only 45 binary property queries, beating the previous best known bound of 50. The agent, built on a frontier mod…

NVIDIA-labs released NOOA (NVIDIA-labs OO Agents), a model-agnostic Python framework that represents AI agents as Python classes, unifying state, capabilities, prompts, and typed interfaces in a single object. The framew…

SerpApi added a new Transport Options answer box to its Google Search API, enabling programmatic access to structured train and public transit data for AI-powered travel assistants and trip planners. The company also fix…

SAPPHIRE Technology unveiled the EDGE+ Apex SOM/Carrier Robotics Platform, a production-ready hardware platform powered by AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series processors, at AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco. The plat…