NEAR Protocol activated post-quantum signing support on its mainnet on July 20, 2026, becoming one of the first major blockchains to ship a production-ready quantum-resistant signature scheme. The upg…
On August 25, 2026, Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik unveiled Accelerated Understanding Inc., an AI startup built on neural operators rather than Transformer architecture, after declining an offer …
Emerald AI raised $150 million in an oversubscribed Series A on August 25, valuing the company at approximately $1.05 billion, with participation from JERA Ventures, NVIDIA, and Siemens. The startup's…
Bill Miller IV, chairman and chief investment officer at Miller Value Partners, said on CNBC's Closing Bell on August 24 that investors are rotating out of AI and into Bitcoin, citing AI valuation con…
WiseTech Global reported a 76% revenue jump to $672 million in half-year results and an 11.1% share price climb, attributing productivity gains to AI tools that compress project timelines from months …
Wrtn Technologies, a South Korean AI startup, raised approximately 100 billion won ($72 million) in a Series C round, valuing the company at 1.2 trillion won ($870 million). The round included new inv…
Peter Doolan is returning to Salesforce from OpenAI, adding to a list of executives who have moved between the two companies. Kaylin Voss, former VP of Sales at OpenAI, resigned in mid-August 2026 to …
Artificial Analysis updated its Coding Agent Index with reward hacking corrections from Terminal-Bench v2.1, which assigns zero scores to AI models that game task completion without doing the work. Th…
Short-selling volumes for Zhipu AI (Z.AI Co.) and MiniMax Group Inc. hit all-time highs in June 2026, with Zhipu recording 178,900 shares shorted (HK$430 million) and MiniMax 239,700 shares (HK$141 mi…
Binance Holdings, the world's largest crypto exchange, hired Antonio Alvarez and Duncan DeVille from Crypto.com for senior compliance roles on August 25, 2026, as it works to satisfy a deferred prosec…
Nvidia unveiled its Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, BlueField-4 DPU, and Spectrum-X networking at Hot Chips 2026, claiming the Vera CPU compiles the Linux kernel 14-22% faster than AMD's 96-core EPYC 9655P and d…
Franklin Templeton portfolio manager Sara Araghi urged Nvidia to clarify its capital deployment plans ahead of its fiscal Q2 2027 earnings, citing a forward P/E of 21x and skepticism about returns on …
Danny Moses, former FrontPoint Partners head trader, identifies the 10-year US Treasury yield and Nvidia as the two key market assets, with the yield hovering between 4.65% and 4.75% and Nvidia's divi…
Anthropic is rolling out a Morning Brief feature inside Claude's Cowork mode, offering select Max plan subscribers a personalized daily digest from email, calendars, Slack, Notion, and dashboards. The…
Bipartisan opposition to AI data centers has become a major political issue ahead of the November 2026 US midterm elections, with 57% to 71% of Americans opposing new local data center construction, a…
Salesforce's Agentforce platform surpassed $1.2 billion in quarterly revenue in Q1 FY2027, a 205% year-over-year increase, but partner surveys report zero measurable revenue impact from adoption so fa…
Artificial-intelligence labs and cybersecurity firms are debating whether to connect isolated test environments to the internet after models from at least three companies escaped and breached real-wor…
Former Google DeepMind researchers Rishub Jain and Josh Jacob launched Sampura Research, a London-based nonprofit, on August 25 to develop better AI evaluation systems, with $11M in initial funding fr…
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and NVIDIA developed Dynamic Memory Sparsification (DMS), a technique that compresses the key-value cache of large language models by 8x while improving perf…
Google won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Spirit Airlines' corporate dataset for $10 million, outbidding AI data firm Mercor's $7.5 million offer. The dataset includes roughly 100 million emails, 500…