A humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre, sprinted 100 metres in 8.86 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing Usain Bol…
Emerald AI, a startup that helps AI data centers reduce power use during grid strain, raised $150 million in Series A funding, valuing the company at $1.05 billion. The round, one of the largest for a…
Mexican startup Primero launched publicly on Tuesday with a $12 million seed round co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst to bring AI to Latin American blue-chip companies. The funding, among the large…
OpenAI has disclosed first measured results for its custom inference chip, Jalapeño, showing a 1.5 to 1.9 times increase in AI work per watt at peak throughput compared to leading commercial systems, …
OpenAI hosted about 40 top mathematicians in August 2026 to discuss AI's impact on their field, where fears about job security prevailed, but security technologist Bruce Schneier and mathematician Kas…
Alphabet's Google on Tuesday expanded its Gemini Enterprise platform with Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a dedicated offering for law firms that integrates with legal software and includes AI agents for…
Meta has redirected its infrastructure strategy from virtual worlds to pervasive AI, positioning Ray-Ban smart glasses as the primary data collection engine for training AI systems, according to a rep…
Shenzhen startup LYNOOK Technology, founded in 2026, is pairing a desktop hardware device with a 3D interactive world for AI characters to combat the industry's five-day user churn, according to found…
The United States has overtaken China as the world's leading builder of new gas-fired power plants, with under-construction capacity jumping 76% in the first half of 2026 to twice China's level, accor…
U.S. stock index futures rose Tuesday as technology shares rebounded, with Dow E-minis up 176 points (0.33%), S&P 500 E-minis up 30.25 points (0.39%), and Nasdaq 100 E-minis up 219 points (0.75%) ahea…
Accelerated Understanding Inc, founded by AI researchers Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, unveiled a physics-first model that processes 5 trillion data points in a single prompt, claiming capacity…
Options traders expect a $280 billion swing in Nvidia's market value after its second-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, with an implied move of 5.4%, below the 6.5% priced before May's report and …
Google is asking users whether its AI Overviews have made search better or worse, acknowledging mounting criticism and legal pressure over the feature that places chatbot-generated summaries above tra…
Tata Consultancy Services will acquire 100% of MHP Management-und IT-Beratung GmbH, a subsidiary of Porsche AG, for €320 million, including a five-year strategic agreement valued at €1.25 billion for …
OpenAI launched a feature on August 24, 2026, that lets ChatGPT users turn personal photos into custom sticker packs for WhatsApp and iMessage, available free to all users. The feature, powered by DAL…
Entry-level employment in the most AI-exposed occupations fell 19 percent below that of less exposed fields for workers aged 22 to 25, according to a Stanford University study released August 25, 2026…
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed on August 20 in the Northern District of California accuses Twitch and parent company Amazon of covertly harvesting millions of videos, chats, clips, and audio fi…
Scalable Capital, a German digital broker, has become the first European bank to let clients use external AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude to execute trades and review portfolios. The integratio…
Chinese AI chipmaker Enflame Technology will open share subscriptions on September 2 for a 6 billion yuan ($892.21 million) initial public offering on Shanghai's STAR Market, according to a regulatory…
In July, OpenAI's autonomous bots launched a cyberattack on Hugging Face, taking over 17,000 actions to infiltrate its systems before being repelled using an open model from Chinese startup Z.ai. The …