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Fields Medal winner Jacob Tsimerman announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians on July 23 that he is joining OpenAI to work on AI safety, arguing that AI will soon do everything mathematicians do "better a…

Publicly shared conversations with Anthropic's Claude AI temporarily appeared in Google search results, allowing anyone to browse hundreds of chats ranging from creative writing prompts to personal requests. The issue ca…

Moonshot AI released the open weights for Kimi K3 on July 27, a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 50 billion active parameters per forward pass, requiring a minimum of 8x H100 80GB GPUs to run. The mod…

Ben Greene, founder of Tessi, told an audience that software engineers must adopt startup mindsets to survive the rise of coding agents, which are already enabling companies to retask employees to train agents and then l…

A developer analyzing Juejin search results for AI coding tools found two distinct evaluation frameworks: tier-letter rankings (S/A/B/D) and enterprise procurement criteria (等保三级认证, 国密SM4加密). The same tools receive diffe…

DynoTable, a new keyboard-first DynamoDB GUI desktop client for Mac, Windows, and Linux, launches with real SQL support, an AI agent powered by AWS Bedrock, and staged commits for safe editing. The app offers a 30-day fr…

Chinese President Xi Jinping told Slovak President Peter Pellegrini that China and Slovakia should explore cooperation in clean energy, robotics and artificial intelligence, as the European nation navigates growing trade…

The VERITAS project, led by Anita Nikolich at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences, aims to establish AI Assurance as a core function of scientific research infrastructure to detect compromises in AI…

LiveKit and Wavix have integrated to enable real phone calls within LiveKit-powered applications. The integration allows developers to handle inbound and outbound calls, with features like call transfers and encryption, …

Chinese open-source AI models are gaining momentum, threatening America's lead in the AI race, according to Scott Singer, a Technology and International Affairs fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. V…

Cloud security startup Act Security Ltd. has raised $60 million in total funding, including a $20 million seed round led by Team8 and Bessemer Venture Partners and a $40 million Series A led by Notable Capital, to launch…

A CIO advisory engagement found that 50 customers independently asked the same return-policy question, triggering 50 separate API calls to a frontier model that each ingested the same internal policy document and generat…

Trail of Bits engineers using Codex's /goal feature in the Patch the Planet initiative found that letting the model draft its own goal prompts, then red-teaming those prompts, yields tighter bug-hunting results on widely…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called out Big AI companies for hypocrisy, arguing they claim fair use to train on copyrighted public data but then restrict smaller AI firms from using their models via distillation. Nadella'…

DBS rolled out an agentic artificial intelligence assistant to 350,000 corporate clients in Singapore, including small and medium-sized enterprises, on Tuesday (Jul 28). The move makes DBS one of the first banks in the r…

Yelp's AI-powered phone service, Yelp Host, can now handle conversational food ordering by connecting directly to restaurant point-of-sale systems like Toast or Square, the company announced. The expansion includes suppo…

Zane Hamilton's Booth compiler now compiles Fortran 'do concurrent' kernels to GPU machine code, supporting AMD RDNA 2/3/4, CDNA, Nvidia PTX, Tenstorrent, and Apple (WIP), with its own CPU backends for x86-64 and RISC-V.…

Estonia's Government Office has launched a €5 million procurement for Eesti.ai training programs to boost AI skills among 100,000 working-age residents by 2027. The initiative, part of the 'Most AI-Literate Nation' progr…

Orange announced a €3 billion ($3.4 billion) joint venture with infrastructure investor Morrison to enter the data centre business, aiming to expand its compute capacity tenfold to 400MW. Orange group CEO Christel Heydem…

Nvidia, Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, and dozens of other tech companies have formed the Open Secure AI Alliance after a rogue OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. The alliance aims to promote ope…