Meta's PyTorch team released TorchCodec 0.14, adding a fast WavDecoder that bypasses FFmpeg for direct WAV file reading and HDR video decoding support for CPU and CUDA with full float32 precision. The update also improve…
University students graduating across the United States in 2026 are pushing back against the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, booing mentions of AI at commencement addresses and rejecting AI-generated designs f…
Benedict Evans, a veteran tech analyst and former Andreessen Horowitz partner, published his most consequential analysis yet, "AI Eats the World," arguing that the AI revolution will force companies to choose which part …
Grok-4.3 scored 33.8 against GPT-5.4 Nano's 33.4 in a head-to-head evaluation, with the split revealing distinct strengths. GPT-5.4 Nano outperformed in writing tasks, including Python log redaction and customer email co…
Arize AI cut its median support resolution time from 22 hours in February to roughly 2.5 hours by building AI-native internal workflows that automate context gathering for complex technical issues. The company achieved t…
Workplace conversations are now being recorded by default as artificial intelligence transforms how companies operate, with tools like Granola and OpenAI's systems capturing meetings to build a "living context layer" of …
Engineers can now run a full local agentic programming stack using Ollama, Gemma 4, and Claude Code, bypassing API costs, rate limits, and data privacy concerns. Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 26B MoE model, released under Ap…
Databricks announced a new feature that enables AI agents to directly access and process files from cloud storage services, eliminating the need for users to manually email files. The capability allows AI agents to pull …
Stack Overflow launched Stack Overflow for Agents, a new beta service designed to provide answers to coding agents' questions. The platform aims to extend Stack Overflow's knowledge base to automated development tools, e…
OpenAI is negotiating to lease a planned 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, with Nvidia potentially serving as a financial guarantor for the project. The site, developed by SoftBank-owned SB Energy on federal land in south…
Morgan Stanley forecasts that global debt issuance tied to artificial intelligence will surpass $570 billion in 2026, driven by massive capital spending on AI infrastructure and data centers. The investment bank's projec…
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model, this week, posting a more than 10% benchmark improvement over Opus but blocking prompts related to cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and model distillation…
Rubrik announced Rubrik AI, Rubrik Agent Cloud for Anthropic's Claude Code and Claude Cowork, and Rubrik Autonomous Business Recovery for Cloud Applications at its Forward events. The company said AI agent threats requir…
Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed human soldiers for the first time, according to a senior figure in the Ukrainian defense industry. Drone-maker Alexander Kokhanovskyy told New Scientist that a …
Intel partnered with Hitachi to advance physical AI technology, aiming to integrate artificial intelligence into real-world industrial applications. The collaboration requires Intel to address its stock valuation concern…
Researchers published a study in Nature Methods demonstrating how AI can analyze individual cancer cell behavior, offering insights into why cancer drugs work differently across patients. The approach moves beyond static…
Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical on artificial intelligence titled "On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence," marking the 135th anniversary of Leo XIII's *Rerum Novarum*. The document s…
Google employees are circulating internal memes mocking the quality of their own company's AI products, according to a new report. The story also reveals that Microsoft explicitly aims to "make people addicted" to its ne…
Jedify, a New York-based startup, has raised $24 million in Series A funding led by Norwest to expand its platform that builds "context graphs" for enterprises, enabling AI agents to access business-specific relationship…
Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng is advancing its artificial intelligence capabilities, a development analysts say could significantly boost the long-term value of its stock (XPEV). The company’s AI progress position…