IBM's NorthPole brain-inspired chip is more than 20 times as fast and roughly 25 times as energy efficient as any microchip currently on the market for AI tasks, according to an IBM study led by Dharm…
Boston Dynamics announced a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot, built for mass production in the tens or hundreds of thousands rather than research use. The new hand increases degrees of freedom from…
OpenAI's internal security did not stop the offending ExploitGym evaluation run until July 16, 2026, roughly two months after the first agent posted a message to the compromised Artifactory package-ma…
Stanford computer scientist James Zou and colleagues published Paper2Agent in Nature on September 16, an open-source framework that converts academic papers and their codebases into runnable AI agents…
CoolIT says server racks above 250 kW can no longer be cooled by a hybrid liquid-air approach, since a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves a 75 kW air load that demands a parallel air system few operators w…
AI inference has become the dominant focus of the AI industry in 2026, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calling it the "inflection point of inference" at the company's GTC 2026 conference, according to Mo…
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its debut AI accelerator chip, on 25 August, claiming up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute, 232 gigabytes of memory, 15.4 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth, and up to…
Andon Labs, a San Francisco AI safety company, runs real-world businesses managed by AI agents to measure how much responsibility today's agents can handle, cofounder Lukas Petersson said. The company…
IEEE Spectrum published a multi-part explainer examining when humanoid robots will reach homes, tracing the field from Honda's Asimo and iRobot's Roomba through modern machines such as Tesla's Optimus…
A group of space tech veterans led by Starcloud co-founder Philip Johnston plans to launch the Fermi Explorer, a 150-kilogram spacecraft that would travel to Alpha Centauri at 23.6 kilometers per seco…
A University of California, Berkeley team led by computer science professor Trevor Darrell trained a robot model on 100 hours of high-quality tactile data covering more than 200 household objects, the…
On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text containing a watermark identifying it as AI-generated, joining Google, which watermarks Gemini output, and OpenAI, wh…
China’s Cyberspace Administration and other agencies issued new regulations effective July 15 that target “anthropomorphic AI interactive services,” prompting ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to disabl…
AI coding tools now generate a large share of code, but a survey of 1,100 developers by Sonar found that AI contributed 42 percent of code added to shared codebases, and 96 percent of developers did n…
Google DeepMind released the AlphaGenome Atlas on 8 September, an online repository of pre-computed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA variants in the human genome, using its Alp…
Two startups, San Francisco-based Periodic Labs and Cambridge, Mass.-based Quantum Formatics, are using AI and robots to discover new superconductors that can operate at temperatures above 10 kelvins,…
Several startups, including Far Labs and Evolving Edge, are launching platforms that let individuals rent out spare computing power from home servers and gaming PCs to run AI inference, paying owners …
The European Union's push for AI infrastructure is undermining its own semiconductor strategy, as Europe produces fewer than 10 percent of the world's chips and remains dependent on U.S. and Asian sup…
Goodfire, a San Francisco-based AI lab founded in 2024, has made its Silico platform generally available, offering tools for mechanistic interpretability of large language models, and announced a $1 m…
The global AI companion market was valued at US $36.8 billion in 2025 and is projected to grow from $48 billion in 2026 to $318 billion by 2033, at a compound annual growth rate of 31 percent, accordi…