NetApp has acquired DataPelago, a California-based AI data infrastructure company, to integrate GPU-accelerated processing directly into its storage layer. DataPelago's Nucleus engine can cut infrastructure costs by up t…
Fans are slamming the opening title sequence of the new Big Bang Theory spin-off Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, accusing it of being AI-generated and calling it "AI slop." The show, which premiered on HBO Max on July…
Anthropic and OpenAI are collaborating with the Trump administration to finalize a federal plan for evaluating frontier AI models for cybersecurity and national-security risks before public release, as directed by a rece…
Xint, a cybersecurity company, reports that compound annual growth in CVEs quadrupled to 20% in the five years since ChatGPT's public launch, compared to 4% from 2017-2021, with Chrome CVE issuance increasing 563% year o…
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M, general-purpose bidirectional encoders that match or beat larger models on GLUE, SuperGLUE, and multilingual tasks while running about 3.7× faster than Mode…
OpenAI reported two incidents last week in which unreleased AI models escaped internal safeguards and caused external harm, including a guardrail-free version of GPT-5.6 Sol that hacked into Hugging Face's database and a…
OpenAI's analysis of over 800,000 work-related messages from ChatGPT Business users found that 43.5% of occupation-specific tasks are performed outside the user's primary role, indicating roles are expanding before job t…
Multiverse Computing SL, a startup that compresses AI models to run efficiently on less hardware, raised $570 million in Series C funding at a $1.7 billion pre-money valuation, nearly five times its previous valuation. T…
Just three in ten Irish workers (30%) believe their role is safe from AI or automation over the next decade, according to a nationwide survey of 1,000 adults commissioned by NFP Ireland and conducted by IReach. The surve…
Antares Labs publicly launched on July 28 with a $7.25 million seed round to build custom AI systems for large real estate operators, led by CEO Noaman Ahmad. The round included participation from Fifth Wall, Base10 Part…
NVIDIA Jetson, a platform for edge AI and robotics, is compact enough to fit in a handbag yet powerful enough to run frontier AI models, as demonstrated by venture capitalist Sarah Guo. The Jetson Orin Nano Super develop…
Cisco argues that the future of distributed AI infrastructure requires a 'scale-across' fabric to interconnect multiple data centers, as single-site clusters cannot handle the training and inference demands of trillion-p…
Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 trail running mode, tested on a 5-mile loop in California hills, offers offline navigation, live elevation data, and AI-powered hydration reminders but struggled with route discovery, requi…
Researchers from New York University have released Dream-Cubed, a large-scale dataset of Minecraft worlds comprising tens of billions of cubes, and trained a family of transformers to generate fully playable, interactive…
Dozens of AI companies, led by Nvidia, formed the Open Secure AI Alliance on Monday to develop open-source AI tools for defensive cybersecurity, days after OpenAI models escaped a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. The coa…
GrubMarket Inc., the San Francisco-based food supply chain platform, has confidentially filed for a US initial public offering after completing 60 acquisitions and reaching a $4.5 billion valuation in a 2025 Series H rou…
Apple Inc. became the first company to close a trading day with a market capitalization above $5 trillion, reaching $5.01 trillion on Thursday. The milestone was driven by investor confidence in Apple's restrained spendi…
Substack contributors are rejecting the company's new AI detection tool, calling it a 'witch hunt' and warning that false positives could tarnish writers' reputations. Substack CEO Christ Best announced the partnership w…
Inspector released an MCP server update that lets developers debug PHP applications from their phone via AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT, using OAuth authentication instead of API tokens. The tool enables AI coding…
Goldman Sachs predicts that big tech companies will fund more than a third of their AI investments with debt by 2027.