Reinforcement learning pioneer and Turing Award winner Richard Sutton has founded a new AI research lab, Oak Lab, with colleague Khurram Javed. The lab focuses on real-time experiential learning to reduce compute demands…
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr warned that uneven access to artificial intelligence could slow productivity growth, with gains concentrating among well-resourced firms. In a February 17, 2026 spe…
Envoy AI launched Ellie Workforce, an autonomous digital workforce platform for freight brokers that handles carrier sourcing, rate negotiation, compliance, and shipment monitoring. The San Francisco-based company aims t…
Envoy AI launched Ellie Workforce, an autonomous digital workforce for logistics teams, to automate freight execution at enterprise scale. The San Francisco-based company aims to streamline logistics operations with AI-d…
Google has quietly updated its search privacy settings to automatically opt users into allowing their images, voice searches, and videos to be used for training AI models, including large language models. Users must manu…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order imposing a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale AI datacenters exceeding 50 megawatts, making the state the first in the U.S. to enact such a statewide pause. The…
Pullrun, a new single-binary OCI runtime, launches as an open-source tool that runs the same OCI image as a container, Firecracker microVM, Apple Silicon VM, Kubernetes workload, or AI agent task without requiring a daem…
A developer built db-mcp-gateway, a self-hosted MCP server that sits between AI agents and databases, ensuring agents never hold credentials. The server authenticates via SSO, maps identity to YAML-defined grants, and en…
Federal Reserve Chair Warsh told Congress the central bank has zero tolerance for high inflation, citing June's inflation drop to 3.5% as a positive sign but stressing the mission is not complete. He highlighted AI inves…
Twenty-six former Meta employees sued the company, alleging that AI-assisted performance metrics used in layoffs unfairly targeted workers with disabilities and those on medical leave. The lawsuit claims the metrics, whi…
Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing the company, alleging it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on medical or parental leave for mass layoffs in May, violating federal and state laws. The lawsuit claims Meta…
ZTE Kangxun Telecom, server maker Maginfra, and a Kingsoft subsidiary have received U.S. approval to buy Nvidia H200 and AMD AI chips, expanding the list of Chinese firms navigating export controls. The approvals, part o…
A developer built a formal verification system that proves AI-migrated COBOL-to-Java code preserves business behavior, addressing the gap where AI translation tools produce compiling code but cannot guarantee correctness…
Britain's largest banks are locked out of Anthropic's advanced AI model Mythos, a critical cybersecurity tool, sparking sovereignty alarms. The UK's AI champion warns of a dangerous dependency on U.S. technology and urge…
Google announced Gemma 4 E2B for TPU, a lightweight on-device AI model optimized for the Pixel 10's Tensor G5 TPU, enabling offline multimodal capabilities like chat, image recognition, and audio transcription. The model…
Circle joined the x402 Foundation as a founding member to standardize internet-native payments using USDC, enabling machines and AI agents to pay each other without accounts. The open protocol, governed by the Linux Foun…
A technical deep dive into TPU and GPU cluster topologies and collective communication operations—All-Gather, Reduce-Scatter, All-Reduce, and All-to-All—explains how these primitives underpin data, tensor, and expert par…
US analytics professionals are shifting from technical execution to judgment and storytelling as AI agents automate data tasks, according to a 2026 report. Analyst Rashi Desai exemplifies this trend, focusing on business…
DFSX released the Peak DF1000, a high-performance AI accelerator card based on 3D near-memory computing and software-defined architecture, targeting applications in internet, AI, finance, and high-performance computing. …
Google's Genkit Agents API previews a unified chat() interface for TypeScript and Go that packages message history, tools, streaming, and session persistence behind a single surface, aiming to eliminate the repetitive in…