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Truist Securities analyst Matthew Niknam upgraded Corning Incorporated from Hold to Buy on August 3, setting a $175 price target, citing AI-driven demand for optical communications. Corning's optical communications reven…

A Platform Engineering team at an unnamed company built a self-service system using Amazon Bedrock to generate Terraform code dynamically, but later removed it, concluding that AI reasoning should not be used for determi…

Invenio Imaging, a San Jose medical-device maker, has completed enrollment in its ON-SITE study of 1,006 patients across seven U.S. medical centers to evaluate its AI-based NIO Lung Cancer Reveal system for assessing lun…

A developer created Pipe, a small runtime that treats AI operations like summarize, translate, classify, and ask as first-class language primitives, aiming to simplify AI integration in scripts. The project is available …

China's National Development and Reform Commission said on July 31 that AI-related sectors grew more than 30% in the first half of 2026, with national intelligent computing capacity reaching 2.8 times its year-earlier le…

Ed Zitron, CEO of EZPR and founder of EZ Primary Research, warns that the massive AI infrastructure spending by Microsoft and Amazon masks a risky bet, arguing that much of the capital expenditure supports two unprofitab…

A massive leak has revealed the full press image set for the upcoming Lenovo Googlebook 15, showcasing its design, Android-powered 'Aluminium OS' desktop interface, and a dedicated hardware Gemini key. The images, shared…

The highest-paying AI/tech job with a published salary band advertises $824,000, according to Executive Tech Jobs, a job board that compiles senior tech roles with disclosed compensation from 10 countries. The board list…

PwC's US senior partner and CEO Paul Griggs said the firm hired fewer consultants and accountants this year than two years ago, a trend he expects to continue as it hires more data scientists, engineers, and machine lear…

Chron, an MCP server that logs and audits AI-assisted coding sessions, has surpassed 6,000 downloads. The tool, built by a developer to address compliance gaps such as SOC 2 evidence requirements, records every message, …

Paris Saint-Germain is reportedly partnering with Google to develop AI technology, though no official announcement has been made as of August 3, 2026. The French football club, which publicly announced a Bitcoin treasury…

Kuvu AI launched an all-in-one AI creative studio that bundles access to Gemini, ChatGPT, Seedance, Kling, and Flux for $15/month, compared to nearly $100/month when purchased separately. The platform offers AI image and…

Olix Computing, a UK-based startup founded by 25-year-old Thiel Fellow James Dacombe, closed a $312 million Series B at a $3.3 billion valuation to scale its photonic AI chips, up from roughly $1 billion after a $220 mil…

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios alleged on X in late July that Chinese AI company Moonshot, maker of the Kimi K3 model, developed a platform for large-scale distillation of U…

Jonathan Reynolds, the new business secretary, has outlined an industrial strategy that combines public ownership with private sector partnerships, a vision criticized as nostalgic and confusing. Reynolds, appointed by P…

The European Union's new artificial intelligence transparency rules have entered into force, requiring companies to clearly label AI-generated content, including deepfakes, with watermarks or other markers, and to inform…

AEON, a settlement layer for the agentic economy, has integrated Bangladesh's mobile financial services bKash and Nagad, allowing users to pay merchants with crypto while AEON converts and settles payments in Bangladeshi…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's recent comments highlight that the AI deceleration debate is falsely framed as a binary choice, arguing that no single company or country can unilaterally pause AI development given its global and…

MiniMax's Hailuo 2.3 video model remains its current API offering as of August 3, with pricing at $0.28 for a 768p six-second clip, $0.56 for a 768p ten-second clip, and $0.49 for a 1080p six-second clip, according to Mi…

A developer built a multiplayer tank game with destructible terrain, ELO matchmaking, and lag compensation in a week and a half, with most of the code written by Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool. The project began as a te…