China is using artificial intelligence, big-data analytics and algorithmic distribution to shape international narratives about Tibet, according to a Bitter Winter report citing a June conference in L…
Poetic, an enterprise automation startup formerly known as Forge, raised $50 million in Series A funding at a $500 million valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from OpenAI. The company…
AI startup Ahoy launched its agentic meeting scheduler and business aide at a pirate-themed public event inside San Francisco's Pink Painted Lady on July 8, 2026, according to Mission Local. The event…
Nvidia shares have fallen about 16% since May 14, 2026, wiping out roughly $1 trillion in market value and pushing the stock's forward valuation back toward pre-AI-boom levels, according to Bloomberg …
Hugging Face announced that its Transformers modeling backend for vLLM now matches or exceeds native vLLM speed for compatible architectures, reducing the need for separate hand-optimized serving port…
San Francisco median home prices hit a record $1.76 million in May 2026, driven by concentrated wealth from AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Over 600 OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6 billion in…
CISA added an authorization-bypass vulnerability in Langflow, a visual framework for building AI-agent workflows, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 7, 2026, giving federal agencie…
Tensordyne announced its Napier inference processor, which uses logarithmic math to convert matrix multiplications into additions, and said the 3nm TSMC chip is now in production. The company claims t…
Meta is testing prototype 'super sensing' smart glasses that could continuously record audio and capture photos every few seconds, with metadata extracted and uploaded for AI queries rather than stori…
Topaz Labs has discontinued its legacy Topaz Video AI at version 7.1.5, shifting to a subscription-only Topaz Video app that continues to receive model updates. The transition raises concerns for edit…
The Federal Reserve's June FOMC minutes show a sharp increase in mentions of AI, with the term appearing 21 times compared to 8 in April, as policymakers flagged AI-driven demand as a contributor to c…
Meta has enabled reuse of public Instagram images by default for its new Muse Image AI model, allowing users to generate AI images referencing public posts without notifying the original posters. The …
Anthropic's expansion into science tooling and drug discovery is raising enterprise competition concerns among clients who worry the AI vendor may become a competitor. The concerns, reported by BetaKi…
Tech workers at major AI and cloud companies are organizing against military and surveillance contracts, with campaigns like No Azure for Apartheid at Microsoft challenging defense-linked work. The ad…
Grid interconnection delays, not electricity shortages, are slowing AI data center construction, with projects like Stargate in Abilene, Texas, facing multi-year waits for utility studies and transmis…
XAI rebranded to SpaceXAI after SpaceX's June IPO, releasing Grok 4.5 with claimed pricing of $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens. Elon Musk stated the model is an "Opus-class model, bu…
SambaNova combined four Nvidia H200 GPUs with 16 SN50 RDU chips to achieve 763 tokens per second on MiniMax M2.7 at a 10,000-token context, separating prefill and decode stages to accelerate inference…
Tesla is developing voice-intent support for its Full Self-Driving system, allowing drivers to give contextual instructions such as identifying the correct driveway or house near a destination, as con…
Five startups and small companies with 20 to 70 employees replaced Salesforce and HubSpot contracts with AI-built apps from Anthropic, Lovable, and Replit, cutting software costs by 40% to 80%. Gartne…
Meta Platforms is reportedly planning a large AI data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, with an expected investment of over $10 billion and a 932 MW natural-gas-linked power component, according to …