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…
Wynd Kaufman, a 69-year-old retired teacher from Berkeley, surrendered to San Francisco authorities on Friday, becoming the first person jailed for protesting artificial intelligence after chaining th…
Apple has trained its own large language model for the China market with support from Alibaba Group, according to three people familiar with the matter, marking a strategic shift from its earlier reli…
McAfee research shows AI models can identify locations from holiday photos posted on Instagram or Facebook, enabling scams that steal bank details. In tests of more than 21,000 travel images, one mode…
Guangdong, China's most populous province, is struggling to retain AI talent as founders choose Beijing and Hangzhou, with Beijing hosting 19 of China's top 50 AI companies and Shanghai 14, while Guan…
Pangram, a $20-per-month web tool, correctly identified AI-generated text in dozens of tests by a technology journalist, including flagging AI sentences inside human essays, but it and Hive Detect fai…
A man in India used ChatGPT to locate a single lost clog among more than 1,000 pairs of footwear, a feat captured on video and shared on Instagram by user Shubhang Borkar, drawing over 2 million views…