Stagwell CEO Mark Penn said the agency holding company will double its new business team after posting a 45% year-over-year increase in new business revenue, reaching $171 million in Q2, and winning accounts including IB…
Vojta, writing for the AI Alignment Forum, argues that AI oversight is currently necessary despite uncertainty about AI moral value, and that fewer AIs than typical X-risk arguments suggest will benefit from scheming due…
OpenAI slashed prices for its GPT-5.6 models by 80% just three weeks after launch, citing internal efficiency gains. DeepMind unveiled a whole-body robotics system with a single unified policy achieving 92% success on a …
Amazon employees have identified cases of "catastrophically expensive" cost overruns from internal AI usage, including a $1.8 million overspend using Anthropic's Claude Sonnet AI for a product listing task that went 860 …
The AI infrastructure boom is squeezing the gaming industry by consuming up to 70% of the world's high-end memory output, leading to soaring component costs and hardware shortages. Enterprise AI chips require 288 GB of h…
Oracle Corp.'s credit rating was cut to BBB- by S&P Global Ratings on July 9, 2026, and its stock has fallen more than 60% from its September 2025 high, as investors question whether the company's massive AI infrastructu…
SpaceX announced Thursday it will remove the unpermitted gas turbines powering its xAI data centers near Memphis, but not until July 2027, as it transitions to a permanent 1.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant. The compan…
Average Google search query length in the US has grown from a flat 3.33–3.36 words to over 3.51 words as of May 2026, according to data from Similarweb, with the rise beginning around October 2025 after AI Mode launched …
Forbes Councils member Vivek Ahuja argues that standard model benchmarks are insufficient for evaluating enterprise AI, urging businesses to measure AI performance against their own business objectives instead. Ahuja emp…
GPTZero's July 28 investigation found that four PwC Middle East reports published from 2024 through 2026 contained fabricated, mismatched, or unsupported citations, classifying four citations as fake. The reports covered…
NVIDIA released Video Codec SDK 13.1, adding AV1 Hierarchical Reference Mode with up to 31 B-frames, per-macroblock decode statistics for H.264 and HEVC, frame-accurate seek, and application-allocated CUarray for zero-co…
U.S. Senators Mark Kelly, Jim Banks, and Todd Young introduced the bipartisan AI DATA Act (S. 4742) on June 10, 2026, to modernize three federal labor-market surveys and add quarterly AI-adoption questions to a Census Bu…
Roblox Corp. shares fell as much as 26%, the largest intraday decline in about 4½ years, after the gaming company reported second-quarter daily active users of 123 million, missing analysts' estimates of 128.7 million, a…
YouTube and Substack are taking different approaches to curb AI-generated content, with YouTube restricting monetization for certain AI-narrated videos and Substack rolling out an AI detector powered by Pangram. Content-…
Space-Eyes, founded by CEO Jatin Bains, agreed to go public via a merger with McKinley Acquisition Corp., valuing the post-merger business at $638 million despite generating only about $1 million in annual revenue, as re…
Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are collectively spending over $200 billion annually on AI infrastructure, with margins compressing as costs outpace revenue growth. Analysts at Goldman Sachs and Bernstein project p…
Moonshot AI, the Chinese lab behind the Kimi models, runs a large share of its training and serving on roughly 20,000 Nvidia H200 chips supplied through a compute agreement with Alibaba Cloud, according to Bloomberg. The…
Factory AI released Cursed Plugins, a suite of 10 AI-powered codebase analysis tools that provide humorous and critical insights into software health, architecture, and viability. The plugins, which include modules like …
An SEO professional who runs a content pipeline across 11 WordPress sites using Model Context Protocol servers detailed several failure modes encountered in production, including connectors that appear registered but fai…
Montage Technology announced the industry's first trial production of its CXL 3.2 Memory eXpander Controller (MXC) chip, which supports 8000 MT/s DDR5 memory and PCIe 6.x with data transfer rates up to 64 GT/s, targeting…