Operators of India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platforms have privately warned the government that Anthropic's Mythos Preview, a frontier AI model, poses a rising security threat to the network…
Meta Platforms is fully unwinding its $2 billion acquisition of AI agent start-up Manus after Beijing blocked the deal on national security grounds more than three months ago. Manus told users on Tues…
Spotify will add 'AI Persona' badges to artist profiles starting in mid-September to label AI-generated personas, the company confirmed Tuesday. The badges aim to clarify whether a creator is human or…
Two UC Berkeley scientists, Carl Boettiger and Fernando Pérez, argue in a Nature commentary that smaller open-source AI models can slash data center energy and water demands, challenging the industry'…
Silicon Valley is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Super Pacs to elect candidates who oppose AI regulation, mirroring the crypto industry's 2024 playbook. Groups like Leading the Future ha…
China's Meteorological Administration deployed AI weather models from Huawei and Alibaba alongside traditional physics-based systems during Typhoon Dolphin, marking a major real-world test for AI-driv…
A new documentary, Replica, by filmmaker Chouwa Liang, reveals that women in China are increasingly choosing AI companions over human relationships, with one user, Qin, sustaining a 840-day romance wi…
Chinese AI startup Manus will resume operations as an independent company after its acquisition deal with Meta unraveled, forcing the deletion of some user data, the company confirmed Tuesday. The Bei…
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is deploying artificial intelligence to crack down on tax underreporting, Chairman Shafqat Mahmood Langrial announced on August 11, 2026. The AI tools, third-party d…
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter hybrid Mixture-of-Experts model that activates only 3 billion parameters per forward pass, is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, deliv…
A new wave of generative AI tools is transforming strategic decision-making, with a recent closed-door workshop for Fortune 100 executives producing 50 distinct market entry strategies in under an hou…
Nvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure financing, u…
Brad Lightcap, special projects lead at OpenAI, announced on Tuesday that he is leaving the company to start a new venture, according to Reuters. Lightcap, who joined OpenAI in 2018 and oversaw initia…
French media outlets have formally asked the Autorité de la Concurrence to intervene against Google's AI-generated article summaries, claiming they siphon traffic and revenue from original publishers.…
Nvidia has partnered with six major financial institutions to launch compute financing platforms offering loans or lease-to-own options for its hardware and cloud services, aiming to lower barriers to…
Alibaba Group Holding has introduced paid subscription tiers for its AI office assistant QwenWork, with annual plans priced at 200 yuan (US$29.6), 498 yuan, and 1,499 yuan, plus video generation credi…
IBM and Together AI have signed a $240 million multi-year deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud powered by Nvidia's HGX B300 systems with Blackwell processors and Spectrum-X Ethernet netw…
A first-of-its-kind study finds that AI will boost fossil fuel production more than renewable energy, causing annual carbon emissions to rise by 0.47 to 1.8 gigatonnes, equivalent to 1% to 5% of the e…
Alibaba Cloud can now build large-scale AI data centres in 100 days using its proprietary CUBE 5.0 modular architecture, cutting construction timelines by up to 85 percent and costs by 10 percent, acc…
An open letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind warns that uncontrolled AI development risks outpacing human control, urging the US government to l…