Chinese startup Z.ai reported its open-source GLM-5.3 model scored 84.5% on the CyberGym benchmark, edging out the 83.8% it reported for Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5, but lagged on exploit developm…
Japan's June trade deficit and the yen's slide reveal structural economic decay as its auto sector loses ground in the electric vehicle transition, with Chinese competitors leading in battery costs, s…
NASA astronauts Anil Menon and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot will perform a spacewalk on August 18, 2026, to replace a failed high-speed antenna on the International Space Station's Z1…
Guangdong, China's wealthiest province with a GDP exceeding $2 trillion, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Alibaba Group Holding on Thursday in Guangzhou to expand investment in computing …
NVIDIA signed a memorandum of understanding with Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to build a compute financing platform targeting ov…
A bar in Beijing's Zhongguancun district, the AGI Bar, offers customers free access to the DeepSeek V4 Flash AI model via two Nvidia supercomputers, removing cost barriers for developers and start-ups…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin privately urged Google DeepMind staff to accelerate work on the Gemini model, as Alphabet Inc. seeks to close the gap with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, according to two p…
DeepSeek's V4-Pro-0813 model scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, trailing OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra by 4 points and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 by 7 points, while ranking 12th on the Vals …
Google announced the Pixel 11 series at Made by Google 2026 on August 13, 2026, introducing AI features including Rambler, a transcription engine that strips filler words, and Magic Capture, a camera …
IIT Roorkee has launched a four-month postgraduate certificate programme in Building AI-Powered Business Applications, designed by its iHUB DivyaSampark for working professionals with at least three y…
Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has begun its pre-IPO tutoring process, hiring Citic Securities to guide preparations for a mainland China listing, with a mandatory tutoring period of at least three mon…
Mirage, the AI video company formerly known as Captions, launched the world's first AI news network streaming live on X through its @TryMirage account on August 12, 2026, featuring AI-generated anchor…
Hedge funds significantly increased short positions against AI-related stocks in July, according to data platform Hazeltree, which tracks securities lending and cash activity across approximately 700 …
Oracle Corp. is preparing another wave of job cuts, with some teams facing double-digit percentage reductions, as the company manages debt from its AI infrastructure build-out, according to The Busine…
Chinese AI company Zhipu is approaching 7 million registered API users on its MaaS open platform, adding roughly 2 million since early July, and has activated more than 50,000 domestically developed A…
ByteDance has elevated AI data and safety to a top-level department, placing it on par with its core units Seed, Flow, and Douyin, according to Chinese tech media IT Home. The new department, led by f…
Alibaba Cloud launched its M890 AI supernode in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, on August 12, 2026, enabling enterprises to provision 64-card high-speed-interconnect computing units for inference on mixture-…
Hong Kong is revamping its stock market to attract AI hardware listings, with the Hang Seng Indexes Company proposing changes to the Hang Seng Tech Index to include more growth-oriented firms and reve…
Brad Lightcap, former chief operating officer of OpenAI, announced Tuesday he is leaving the company after eight years to launch a new venture, marking another high-profile exit as OpenAI prepares for…
Alibaba Cloud has cut AI data center delivery time to 100 days using a modular design that also reduces construction costs by more than 10%, a move that shifts the competitive bottleneck from GPU proc…