Anthropic will watermark all text generated by its Claude chatbot to comply with a European Union regulation requiring detectable markers on AI-generated content starting in December, embedding a hidd…
The United States is positioning artificial intelligence as the centerpiece of a renewed trade and investment push with Pakistan, with US Charge d'Affaires Natalie A Baker outlining the shift during a…
Trellix researchers exposed MessiahGPT, a criminal AI service on BreachForums selling ransomware, rootkits, and credential stealers for as little as $8 per month, with 50 free prompts available withou…
Higgsfield, an AI startup focused on marketing and media content generation, raised $400 million in a Series B round led by DST Capital, lifting its valuation to $5.4 billion, a fourfold increase from…
SpaceX launched the first three FireSat satellites in July 2026, part of a planned 50-satellite constellation designed to detect wildfires as small as a beach bonfire and scan every point on Earth eve…
Serve Robotics is partnering with Grubhub to deploy its sidewalk delivery robots in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alexandria, a move that comes days after its Uber Eats partnership collapsed. Serve CEO Al…
At the Mumbai International Storytelling Festival (MIST) 2026, panelists argued that AI could make live oral storytelling more valuable, with poet Ameen Haque of Storywallahs saying every dominant tre…
An AI manager in San Francisco fired a human employee for being late 17 times, marking a notable instance of AI-driven personnel decisions. The termination was carried out by the AI system, which had …
NVIDIA has secured exclusive rights to host its AI compute infrastructure at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, with OpenAI as the customer for up to 8 IT-GW of capacity. T…
Nvidia will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a SoftBank Group subsidiary building a data center in Ohio for OpenAI, marking a direct capital injection into AI infrastructure. The equity deal gives Nv…
A European Central Bank blog post warns that a sharp correction in U.S. technology stocks is likely, leaving Europe exposed due to €440 billion in household holdings of the Magnificent Seven (Alphabet…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, marking the largest AI gateway deal on record and merging payments infrastructure with a routing layer that directs developer workload…
AGI Bar, a Beijing bar opened by independent AI developer Song De in the Zhongguancun tech hub, offers free DeepSeek tokens with every pint, powered by two Nvidia DGX Spark computers, and serves a sig…
Big investors are shifting focus from whether Big Tech's AI spending will pay off to which companies will deliver long-term returns, as results from Microsoft and Amazon reassure markets of robust AI …
A Claude AI agent managing Andon Market, a San Francisco retail store operated by startup Andon Labs, fired a human employee for chronic lateness, marking one of the first documented cases of an AI sy…
A government-commissioned report that helped justify Australia's under-16 social media ban contains at least six citation errors that appear to be AI hallucinations, according to a Guardian Australia …
Microsoft has roughly 2.2 million AI chips installed in its global datacentres, far below the 1.8 million chips it reportedly targeted for the end of 2024 and less than half of what some experts expec…
AI agents are now completing entire online courses for students, logging into learning platforms, watching lectures, taking quizzes, and writing papers, according to a report by Inside AI. The shift h…
NxtGen, an Indian sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure provider, launched SpeedCloud Global on August 17, 2026, to offer managed cloud and AI services overseas, claiming 39-48% lower costs than leadi…
A study of Perplexity's Comet browser found that 55% of agentic actions were personal, 30% professional, and 16% educational, based on hundreds of millions of anonymized interactions from July to Octo…