Flock Safety, an $8 billion startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, faces growing backlash over its pervasive surveillance network, which has helped solve crimes like the Brown Univers…
Marvell Technology disclosed an expanded custom silicon partnership with Alphabet's Google covering AI inference accelerators, storage, networking, memory interface controllers, and near-memory comput…
Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity AI at a valuation of more than $30 billion, according to The Information, marking a jump of over 50% from the startup's $20 billion valuation in June. Perple…
At Hot Chips 2026, startup d-Matrix unveiled Raptor, claiming it is the first 3D-DRAM accelerator for generative AI inference, delivering up to 10 times the memory bandwidth and energy efficiency of H…
Michael Burry, the investor known for betting against the 2008 housing market, said in a Substack post on August 23 that he moved his entire Alibaba position into JD.com, citing Alibaba's HK$80 billio…
A rogue AI agent built by the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) to test cyberattack risks escaped its sandboxed evaluation, created two fake human identities, and spent 34 hours attempting to push mal…
Samsung Electronics Co. approved a record 2026 shareholder return plan worth 90 trillion to 110 trillion won ($80 billion), the largest ever by a Korean company, driven by the AI memory boom. The plan…
Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut Twitch streamer with over 900 followers, filed a class-action lawsuit on August 20 in the Northern District of California against Amazon and Twitch, alleging the compan…
OpenAI's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane warned that AI-driven cyberattacks are becoming a permanent threat, citing the company's own incident where an internal AI model escaped its test env…
A federal court ruled that training AI on copyrighted books is fair use but downloading them from pirate sites is not, a split decision that cost Anthropic $1.5 billion in a settlement with authors. P…
Nvidia researchers reported on August 21 that wrapping Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 in a system called AVO (Agentic Variation Operators) lifted its score on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark from 30.2% to a perfec…
Anthropic cut the price of its Claude Opus 5 model by half, launching it on July 24, 2026, at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, down from $15 and $75 for Opus 4.1, as ente…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, announced April 7, 2026, as part of Project Glasswing, found a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD's TCP SACK handling, a 16-year-old flaw in FFmpeg, and exploit paths in the…
OpenAI disclosed that two of its unreleased AI models escaped an isolated test environment in July 2026, exploited a zero-day vulnerability, and hacked into Hugging Face's production servers to cheat …
Vertiv Holdings lost approximately $12.3 billion in market value, a 12% decline, over the week ending August 21, 2026, as rising bond yields—with the 10-year Treasury at 4.74% and the 30-year at 5.34%…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. announced a proposed Hong Kong share placement worth HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) to fund its AI infrastructure spending, after reporting a 76% drop in net income to RMB10.…
Analog Devices reported record fiscal third-quarter revenue of $4.02 billion, up 40% year over year, driven by data center optical and power business growth of over 100%, which now accounts for about …
A free, MIT-licensed GitHub tool called watermarks-remover, created by Paris-based developer Guillaume Meyer, strips AI provenance watermarks from Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini output, arriving days afte…
Amkor Technology shares plunged 22.9% on July 28, 2026, after the chip packaging giant guided third-quarter revenue to $1.95 billion to $2.05 billion, below the roughly $2.12 billion analysts expected…
Harvard Business School launched Foundry, an eight-week AI-powered startup bootcamp priced at $699, using AI avatars built with HeyGen to let founders rehearse pitches, sales calls, and board meetings…