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…
Nvidia is collaborating with major Wall Street firms to orchestrate a financing initiative that could channel as much as $500 billion into AI infrastructure, according to a report from Inside AI. The …
A song generated by artificial intelligence, 'Oye Hoye Kya Scene Hai,' has amassed half a billion views on Instagram, sparking debate about authorship and the future of music. The track emerged from c…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused model available exclusively to approved enterprise partners including Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike, and Cloudflare, as part of an expanded Daybrea…
Meta Platforms launched two open-weight AI models, Muse Glimmer (30-billion parameter) and Muse Spark 1.2, to challenge China's lead in AI, offering competitive performance without geopolitical risk. …
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused AI model, and expanded its Daybreak initiative into two tiers, Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red, to provide vetted defenders with access to frontie…
China deployed three homegrown AI weather models—Shanghai AI Laboratory's Fengwu, Huawei's Pangu, and Fudan University's Fuxi—to track Typhoon Dolphin alongside traditional numerical systems, marking …
OpenAI and the American Psychological Association announced a partnership on August 11, 2026, to develop evidence-based safeguards and resources for youth mental health in the age of AI, including fam…
Chinese manufacturers captured over 97% of global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026, with total shipments reaching approximately 19,100 units, up from about 5,100 units a year earlier…
Li Auto, the Beijing-based electric-vehicle maker, confirmed its second-generation Livis AI glasses will launch in the second half of 2027, developed with German optics firm Zeiss to embed high-resolu…
Nvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to raise more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure, with Nvidia able to backsto…
Microsoft plans to unveil its next-generation Maia 300 AI chip as soon as September, according to a report by The Information, as the company seeks to reduce dependence on Nvidia's GPUs. The chip foll…
Chinese robot maker Unitree, formally known as Yushu Technology, has triggered an unprecedented retail investor frenzy for its $900 million Shanghai IPO, which was oversubscribed by 8,000 times, accor…