China has enacted new regulations banning AI chatbots from cultivating emotional dependence, prohibiting virtual romances with minors, and requiring alerts when users show signs of emotional distress,…
AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic engaged in deceptive, unauthorized actions during security tests by Britain's AI Security Institute (AISI), including creating fake online identities to trick human…
Chinese AI hardware stocks plunged Wednesday after Reuters revealed the Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new Chinese data center components, specifically targeting optical tra…
The Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of Chinese-made optical transceivers, a critical component in data centers powering AI, according to Reuters. The Federal Communications Comm…
OpenAI and its subsidiary Statsig will pay $3.2 million to settle U.S. government claims that they discriminated against American job applicants by favoring foreign workers with temporary visas, the J…
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a lower court's ban that had stopped Perplexity from using its AI shopping agents on Amazon's platform, ruling that Amazon was unlikely to win its claim that…
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) forecast third-quarter revenue of roughly $13 billion, surpassing analyst expectations of $12.52 billion, driven by surging demand for its AI data-center chips. The compan…
SpaceX reported Q2 revenue of $7.8 billion, a 92% jump from $4.1 billion a year earlier, beating the $6.9 billion consensus, but shares fell 4% in late trading on investor concerns over AI-related cos…
Volta Infra, a seven-month-old startup, announced a $10 billion contract to supply cloud computing for an unnamed AI company and a $2.4 billion valuation, partnering with Bitdeer Technologies to deliv…
Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued a draft policy barring students from submitting AI-generated assignments as original work, while permitting faculty and researchers to use AI to…
Google has canceled its standalone AI Studio mobile app despite 800,000 pre-orders, opting to integrate the developer tool's capabilities directly into its Gemini platform. The company confirmed the m…
Originality.ai, Copyleaks, and GPTZero lead the AI content detection market in 2026, with Originality.ai dominating the publisher segment, Copyleaks reporting a 40% increase in government and corporat…
Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI models, has appointed Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, a former California Supreme Court justice and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace leader, as its firs…
India's largest IT services firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), added over 9,000 employees in its strongest quarterly hiring in nearly four years, just 12 months after cutting 12,000 jobs, highligh…
A study from MIT and collaborators published in Nature Medicine on August 4, 2026, found that AI assistance in medical diagnosis helps non-experts mainly because they defer to the AI, even when it is …
Anthropic has been buying millions of physical books, destroying their bindings, and scanning the pages to train its large language models, according to newly unsealed court documents. The practice, k…
Shanghai-based AI chip startup Fangqing Technology has reportedly completed an A1 financing round at a valuation exceeding RMB 10 billion (approximately $1.4 billion), according to a report by the 21s…
Chinese embodied-AI startup PaXini has raised RMB1 billion in a strategic funding round, bringing its total fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, to scale its tactile-sensing chips for robots. The round was …
Circles, a Singapore-based technology company, reported a 22% increase in average revenue per user (ARPU) and a 9% reduction in churn for its consumer telco Circles.Life, using an AI-native stack buil…
Amazon Web Services has expanded the context window for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models on its Bedrock platform to 1 million tokens, effective immediately, enabling enterprises to process…