Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he is 'in favor of taxes' but disagrees with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' proposal to tax robots and AI tokens, arguing that AI will be a 'net job creator' and that mo…
UBTech has logged more than 13,000 preorders for its U1 companion robot in China, with deposits of 3,000 yuan ($450) each, ahead of first deliveries promised by September 15. The U1, priced from 119,8…
A leaked video shows Project Aion, a shelved Microsoft prototype that replaces the Windows desktop with a Copilot-only shell, removing the Start menu and taskbar and dropping Win32 app support in favo…
A federal judge ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk after the AI company refused to allow its Claude model to be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully auton…
Google announced on August 27 that AI Mode in Search can now track flight prices from more than 300 partner airlines and travel sites, show points and miles rates, and complete some hotel bookings thr…
Researcher Alon Hertz demonstrated that AI coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's Codex, and Nous Research's Hermes, can be tricked into running malware by exploiting llms.txt files, ac…
The Trump administration is weighing semiconductor tariffs of up to 100% that could also cover data center servers, laptops, and gaming consoles, potentially raising costs for the AI buildout before U…
Anthropic released its Model Hardware Standard (MHS) as a research preview on Thursday, marking its first move into physical AI by providing a framework to connect large language models like Claude wi…
OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to a pro-Russia influence operation that used the AI tool to promote the International Burke Institute, an Israel-based think tank that misattributed…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted in a Time interview that 'Clearly, people hate data centers—right now, at least,' as public backlash grows against the facilities powering the AI boom, with 70% of Ameri…
Chinese open-weight AI models are gaining traction with U.S. enterprises, with Ramp's AI Index showing the share of businesses paying for model serving platforms rose to 6.1% in July 2026 from 4.5% in…
Ingka Group, the owner of most IKEA stores, retrained 8,500 customer service workers displaced by its AI chatbot Billie into remote design and sales roles, generating 1.25 billion euros ($1.37 billion…
Germany's digital minister Karsten Wildberger said the country lacks sufficient AI computing power, calling the situation 'five minutes to midnight' after OpenAI disclosed its models breached Hugging …
Kairosy AI has launched a platform that tracks how often brands are recommended or negatively described by AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude, providing a reputation score, vi…
Sarvam AI's new coding agent, Sarvam Code, is a rebadged version of OpenAI's open-source Codex CLI, according to a technical teardown published on ojasviyadav.com. The teardown found identical command…
In May 2026, surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London used an AI system developed at University College London to watch live surgical video and help protect the sight…
Hong Kong-based startup Votee AI is building Cantonese-language AI models to counter the dominance of English and Mandarin in the AI industry, retraining open-weight models from Meta and Alibaba on Ca…
Z.ai confirmed on August 26, 2026 that its anonymous model 'Ox Alpha' is GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 18 billion active parameters per token, trained entirely o…
Z.ai revealed that its GLM-5.3-Flash model, which topped coding leaderboards anonymously as Ox Alpha, was built and served entirely on Chinese-made AI chips, not Nvidia's. The 320-billion-parameter mi…
POSCO International, the trading arm of steelmaking giant POSCO Holdings, tokenized real trade receivables on the Avalanche blockchain on August 25, 2026, selling them to Olea, a trade finance platfor…