Lucebox partnered with AMD to sell a $6,499 local AI inference computer combining a Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPU and Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 processor, achieving 51.1 tokens per second on a 284-billion-parameter DeepSeek V4 Flash m…
Harness released its 2026 State of AI in FinOps survey on July 29, estimating that enterprises waste 26% of AI spending. The survey of 700 engineering leaders across five countries found that 52% lacked a clear AI-cost o…
Burnless, a new protocol for LLM context management, separates conversation, memory, and execution into layers, reducing active context tokens from 1.4 million to 1,590 tokens in a real-world task, achieving a 908:1 oper…
Xsight Labs, the networking-silicon maker co-founded by Gal Malach and led by CEO Yossi Meyouhas, raised more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion post-money valuation, with Fidelity Management & Research Company leading …
Cognition announced on July 23 that it acquired The Interaction Company, maker of the texting-based AI assistant Poke, for a low-nine-figure valuation according to TechCrunch. Cognition plans to integrate Poke's proactiv…
PaperPush, a new open-source command-line tool from the Pachter Lab, automates manuscript submissions to preprint servers, journals, and conferences by filling out submission portals with a single command. The tool suppo…
The European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT as a 'very large online search engine' and Roblox as a 'very large online platform' under the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act, a move that could come…
Hyperscale Data (NYSE American: GPUS) announced on July 30, 2026 that it sold approximately 100 BTC for $6.5 million and established a Bitcoin-backed credit facility to finance construction and equipment at its Michigan …
Certinia is expanding its Veda platform into a context-aware AI-native services delivery system through the acquisition of Moonnox, according to theCUBE Research analysis. Principal analyst Scott Hebner said the integrat…
Quantum Solutions, Japan's largest publicly listed Ethereum holder, sold 1,000 ETH for approximately $1.9 million on July 30 to fund its AI data center expansion. The Tokyo-listed firm is converting its Ethereum treasury…
LinkedIn is introducing a new feature this week that lets users flag posts that 'seem like AI slop,' removing them from the feed and privately notifying the poster that their words 'may have come off as inauthentic,' acc…
A blogger known as moodywarlock argues that generative AI is a 'global grift' that ingests copyrighted material to enrich billionaires, calling large language models, chatbots, and art generators an 'insincere scam' that…
Okta has agreed to acquire Permiso Security for close to $200 million in an almost all-cash deal, the company announced on July 30, 2026, adding cloud identity threat detection as AI agents create new security vulnerabil…
Simile has raised more than $200 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion post-money valuation to scale its AI platform that simulates human decision-making. The round was led by Greenoaks with participation from exis…
Meta is developing a new initiative called Meta Compute to lease its excess AI infrastructure to outside clients, putting it in direct competition with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The company is reportedly in…
A Chatsee.ai report analyzing more than 10,000 observed enterprise AI failure events across 10+ industries finds that hallucination-related failures account for under 10% of incidents, with the majority stemming from iss…
Apollo Research published a July 30 white paper estimating that real-wage growth in high-AI-exposure occupations was 6.7 percentage points slower after 2023 than in lower-exposure occupations, with no statistically signi…
A developer argues that AI-agent testing should separate orchestration correctness from language quality, using deterministic checks for tool order, retry limits, and state transitions instead of relying on expensive LLM…
New official-looking images of Google's Pixel 11 Pro Fold, leaked by Evan Blass, show the foldable in a green color with a design similar to last year's but possibly thinner, with a folded thickness of 10.1mm compared to…
Lilian Weng, who led OpenAI's safety systems team before leaving for AI safety startup Thinking Machines Lab citing health concerns, has returned to OpenAI. The author questions the health narrative, suggesting strategic…