A developer who built a desktop with 96GB of memory for local AI models found that speed matters more than raw size, abandoning large models that take 30 minutes to check code. After five months of testing models from 4B…
Google Earth now uses Gemini's Nano Banana 2 image generation model to create AI-powered visual concepts based on real-world locations, using satellite, aerial, and 3D map data. The feature, rolling out globally today fo…
ByteDance's projected annual AI revenue of US$4 billion is the largest known to the public among Chinese rivals, as the Beijing-based company restructures its office tool Lark by integrating its product team into the Dou…
Boris Cherny, head of Anthropic's Claude Code, said prompt engineering is largely not important and that users should focus on giving Claude hard tasks and enabling verification. In an interview with Y Combinator's Diana…
Intropy, a startup founded by Oxford physicist Franziska Kirschner, has raised $11 million to apply AI automation to the spare parts industry, aiming to streamline inventory management and supply chain logistics.
A developer warns that the common pattern of using a markdown file for AI agent memory leads to stale and contradictory facts, as the file only grows without updating or expiring entries. They provide a script to audit s…
Google is integrating its latest AI image generation model, known as Nano Banana 2, into Google Earth on the web, allowing users to generate AI images based on aerial, satellite, and 3D imagery. The feature enables histo…
A critical vulnerability in the open-source AI agent platform Ruflo, tracked as CVE-2026-59726 and dubbed RufRoot, carries a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code, stea…
An architect at a company built Memsprout, a platform for sharing AI context among teammates, after finding existing solutions inadequate for non-repo teams like product, design, and support. The tool allows agents to ca…
The U.S. government awarded GlobalFoundries $300 million to accelerate development of its silicon photonics platform at Fab 8 in Malta, New York, aiming to improve bandwidth density, power efficiency, and reach for AI ch…
Nscale, led by CEO Josh Payne, has agreed to acquire Anyscale for about $1.65 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal gives the AI infrastructure provider control of Ray, the distributed computing framework used to man…
CoreWeave and Leidos announced on July 30, 2026 a partnership to deliver secure AI cloud services for U.S. intelligence and defense agencies, with CoreWeave's platform running inside Sensitive Compartmented Information F…
Microsoft stock rose while Meta stock fell after both reported quarterly earnings, as investors showed impatience with AI spending. Microsoft posted Q4 2026 revenue of $90 billion, up 18%, and adjusted EPS of $4.74, beat…
Apple's stock has climbed roughly 24% to 25% year-to-date, closing near $338 as of late July, outperforming Big Tech peers that are spending heavily on AI infrastructure. Apple's capital expenditures in fiscal 2025 were …
Meta's Q2 earnings report showed AI spending nearly doubled to $31.1 billion, eating up free cash flow that plunged from $8.55 billion to $784 million, and investors responded by sending the stock down nearly 10% in afte…
XPO reported second-quarter adjusted earnings per share of $1.70, beating the consensus estimate by 23 cents, driven by record operating results in its less-than-truckload unit. Consolidated revenue rose 13% year over ye…
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced its third-generation DDR5 MRDIMM chipset solutions, delivering speeds up to 16,000 MT/s for AI data centers and cloud infrastructure. The new MRCD (RRG5013) and MDB (RRG5103) dev…
At Wikimania 2026, with 1,250 in-person and over 2,000 online attendees, the Wikimedia community grappled with AI as a paradigm shift, not just a tool. Hay Kranen, a 21-year Wikimedian and developer, argues that Wikimedi…
NVIDIA and 60+ companies, including Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Cloudflare, and GitHub, launched the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAIA) three days ago to build open-source security tools for AI agents, following an incident in m…
Nscale, the AI cloud operator that builds its own data centers and generates its own power, has agreed to buy Anyscale, the company behind the Ray distributed-computing framework, in a deal announced on July 30, 2026. Th…