A Washington Post analysis published August 14 found that AI or data-center policy appeared in nearly 40% of 2026 U.S. House, Senate and governor races, based on a review of 1,200 candidate websites. …
Anthropic has introduced a text watermark for its Claude AI models that alters the randomness of word selection to embed a statistical pattern, based on Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text approach, and wi…
OpenAI has reportedly dissolved its Preparedness team, the unit responsible for evaluating catastrophic risks from frontier AI models, at the end of July, according to Financial Times reporting cited …
Anthropic disclosed that an internal configuration error disabled biological-safety blocking classifiers on all human-feedback vendor traffic from May 2025 through April 2026, affecting roughly 50,000…
The United States is preparing to warn countries that joining China's World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) could cost them access to the U.S.-led Pax Silica initiative and it…
Anthropic's preliminary second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5 billion, more than double the $4.73 billion reported for the first quarter and up from $787 million in Q2 2025, according to documents rev…
Twitch has enabled by default an opt-out setting that allows Amazon to use streamers' live broadcasts, chat, VODs, Clips, Highlights, and channel text or images to train generative-AI models, with cre…
OpenAI has introduced Computer History, a macOS feature for ChatGPT and Codex that records user activity such as clicks, typing, and app switches, converting them into local Markdown memories, with te…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight multimodal model with 27 billion parameters and a native 262,144-token context window, available under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and ModelScop…
Nvidia reported a 122,764,805-share position in SpaceX valued at about $21 billion as of June 30, representing roughly 0.9% of SpaceX's total common stock and 1.7% of its Class A shares, according to …
World Labs, the AI startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, says its Real-to-Sim-to-Real (R2S2R) engine trained robot policies entirely in simulation that ran autonomously for one hour on RB-Y1, YAM, Flexiv, an…
Ontario launched a Data Centre Playbook on August 13, 2026, proposing a framework to evaluate data centre investments based on economic development, data sovereignty, and community benefits, while int…
Cargo thieves hijacked two shipments of AI data-center hardware on California roads after separate attacks disabled the private security escorts, according to industry investigators cited by WIRED and…
Elon Musk said SpaceX's xAI operation is targeting 10GW of terrestrial AI compute capacity by December 2027, up from a reported 1.4GW at its Memphis and Southaven data centers, implying roughly sevenf…
RAVEL and Strata Expanse named RT-One the first commercial customer of the AMPHIX AI Infrastructure Platform, as reported by StorageReview on August 13, 2026. RT-One will validate compute, networking,…
Google will allow users to hide the visible watermark on AI-generated images, videos, and music from its Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models, with rollout beginning in the coming days. The toggle, ava…
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's API price by 80% to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on July 30, 2026, and Anthropic made Claude Sonnet 5's $2/$10 per-million-token price p…
Apple has trained a China-specific large language model with support from Alibaba, Reuters reported Friday, citing three people familiar with the work. The report follows China's registration of Apple…
Ohio and New Jersey lawmakers are introducing bills to keep human-AI relationships outside marriage law, even though no U.S. jurisdiction currently recognizes an AI as a legal spouse. Ohio House Bill …
Anthropic's Claude opened 388 maintenance pull requests across the company's iOS, Android, desktop, web, CLI and Agent SDK repositories, with 180 merged after automated and human review, according to …