The European Commission designated OpenAI's ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) under the Digital Services Act on August 31, 2026, making it the first generative AI chatbot to face th…
Nvidia and MediaTek announced a partnership on June 1, 2026, to build AI-powered laptops, automotive cockpits, and data-center infrastructure, with reports of a $3.5B–$4B investment by Nvidia in Media…
Amazon AGI researchers found that reinforcement learning fine-tuning with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) improves long-context model performance by up to 20 points on HotpotQA benchmarks an…
Etherscan launched its 'Build with AI' suite in late August 2026, introducing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents structured, read-only access to on-chain data across more than …
Anthropic began contacting affected Claude users on August 30, 2026, after discovering that infostealer malware had compromised their computers and stolen active login session cookies, allowing attack…
AMD, Cisco, and HUMAIN launched a joint venture to build up to 1 GW of AI data center infrastructure in Saudi Arabia by 2030, starting with a 100 MW deployment using AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs and Cisco …
On August 27, 2026, a federal judge ruled that the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was unlawful retaliation against the AI company's First Amendment rights, after Anthropic …
Adobe is committing over $4 billion to expand its AI partnership with Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN, integrating HUMAIN's Arabic-first ALLAM model into Creative Cloud and offering free access to Firefly and E…
Hong Kong's four financial regulators selected 36 AI use cases from nearly 100 proposals for the GenAI Sandbox++ program, involving 30 financial institutions and 27 technology partners, with trials se…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) launched FSTI 4.0 on August 31, committing up to S$220 million (US$173 million) over three years to bolster the country's fintech ecosystem, a step up from th…
Build American AI, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit tied to the AI industry, is reportedly spending $50 million to support data-center-friendly candidates in battleground states for the 2026 election cycle, acco…
The Data Center Coalition, led by President Josh Levi, has launched its America Connects initiative in battleground states including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and Ohio to counter opposition from r…
Financial Stability Board chair Andrew Bailey told G20 finance ministers on September 1 that frontier AI models pose the single most pressing threat to global financial stability, warning that they co…
Andrew Bailey, chair of the Financial Stability Board and governor of the Bank of England, warned G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in a letter released August 31 that frontier AI model…
OpenAI has reportedly purchased tens of thousands of Apple Mac minis and Mac Studios to train reinforcement learning agents and computer-use AI, a shift from its reliance on GPU cloud clusters, accord…
President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on Truth Social on July 26 depicting the destruction of Iran's Kharg Island oil hub, which handles roughly 90% of the country's crude exports. The p…
Anthropic has introduced a local Bash sandbox mode for Claude Code on desktop, using OS-level isolation to restrict command execution and cutting permission prompts by 84% since development began in O…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a $2 billion partnership with Coherent to expand a facility in Sherman, Texas, producing indium phosphide lasers for chip interconnects, creating roughly 1,000 jobs. …
NuScale Power, the company behind the only small modular reactor design certified by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, announced a partnership with Nuclearn and Nuclear Promise X to develop AI too…
OpenAI has acquired tens of thousands of Apple Mac minis and Mac Studios to support its reinforcement learning and computer-use agent training, according to The Information. The move reflects a shift …