James Dacombe, the 25-year-old founder of AI chip-making firm Olix and brain monitoring startup CoMind, has become Europe's youngest self-made billionaire with a net worth exceeding $1 billion after O…
Barracuda researchers demonstrated that Microsoft Copilot can turn a single stolen Microsoft 365 login into a $247,500 wire fraud chain, using the AI assistant to hide login alerts, map company struct…
Unitree, the Chinese humanoid robotics maker, is drawing more investor excitement than Shein's larger IPO, with its Shanghai STAR market debut expected this week after retail investors oversubscribed …
Cava CFO Tricia Tolivar said the company is using AI tools built into its proprietary data platforms, Cava Core and Cava Current, to enhance Q&A preparation and business analysis, while emphasizing th…
Thieves stole more than $200 million of goods from 75,000 thefts on US freight rail networks in 2025, according to an industry group representing CSX Corp., BNSF Railway Co., and Union Pacific Corp. I…
Micron launched a $250 million fund to invest in AI startups that buy its memory chips, aiming to gain early insight into future demand for DRAM, HBM, and NAND. The move follows Micron Ventures' earli…
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announced the company is expanding into AI services for developing countries, following a KPMG audit that confirmed Tether's reserves exceed liabilities by $6.8 billion and in…
Wispr, a dictation and voice AI startup cofounded by Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg, has raised a $280 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Notable C…
Robotera, a Beijing-based humanoid robotics company founded in August 2023 and incubated by Tsinghua University, is reportedly considering a Hong Kong IPO to raise up to $1 billion, according to sourc…
Japan has become one of the world's most advanced climate-adaptation labs, with the government strengthening workplace heatstroke-prevention rules last year and companies like Obayashi Corp. shifting …
The U.S. State Department is preparing a letter telling the 35 signatories of its AI Opportunity Statement, including Japan, Australia, and South Korea, that they cannot join both Washington's Pax Sil…
Most startups shipping autonomous AI agents lack a true kill switch, relying instead on stop buttons that cannot halt an agent mid-task, according to an analysis of agent safety mechanisms. A real kil…
OpenAI has dissolved its Preparedness safety team, the third such unit shut down in two years, as the company prepares for an IPO that could value it above $850 billion. The team, built to assess cata…
Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single Microsoft Copilot experience, with mobile and web rollout starting in August and Windows and Mac users expected to…
DeepSeek raised API prices by up to 11-fold, effective August 16, 2025, with V4-Flash output tokens jumping from $0.28 to $1.32 per million during peak hours and V4-Pro output nearly quadrupling to $3…
Andrew Ng, in his newsletter The Batch, identified four AI skills that determine which teams successfully ship products: LLM prompting, agentic frameworks, evals, and effective use of AI coding agents…
Nvidia has spent over $40 billion on equity stakes and supply-chain investments in companies that buy its chips, including $30 billion into OpenAI, $21 billion into SpaceX, and $30 billion into Intel,…
Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged that AI suffers from a 'crisis of trust,' saying ordinary people suspect companies and governments are 'cooking up some new way to screw them over…
SanDisk announced at its Investor Day on August 13 that eight customers have signed New Business Model agreements, locking in $16.5 billion in enforceable financial guarantees and a minimum of $93.9 b…
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6, released August 12, 2026, scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and beating Grok 4.5 by five points, while costing $2 per million inp…