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…
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…