Two Michigan residents sued Alliance Cloud Services LLC on May 26 over constant noise from its Dowagiac data center, alleging nuisance and negligence and seeking class-action status for residents with…
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing's legal filing for an AI data center in California's Imperial Valley contains conflicting water-use estimates, including a miscalculation that 750,000 gallons pe…
Publicly shared Claude conversations resurfaced in search results over the weekend of July 25, 2026, making user-published chat snapshots easier to discover through Google, Bing and Brave Search, acco…
Nvidia reported up to 1.5x higher performance for selected Cadence Jasper formal-verification and Synopsys VCS simulation workloads running on its 88-core Vera CPU, but did not name the baseline CPU, …
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.16% on ARC-AGI-3 at high reasoning effort, surpassing the previous official record of 7.78% set by GPT-5.6 Sol at maximum effort. Anthropic released Opus 5 publicly…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, pricing it at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens—half the list rates of its Fable 5 frontier model and unchanged from Opus 4.8. …
The U.S. government is weighing whether AI distillation — a standard technique for training one model using another's outputs — constitutes model theft when done without authorization, as a House bill…
Samsung Electronics and Broadcom signed a memorandum of understanding for a semiconductor collaboration they estimate will exceed $200 billion over five years through 2030, but the companies disclosed…
An industry campaign against broad restrictions on downloadable AI models has doubled to 50 signatories, adding Google and OpenAI to a coalition hosted by Nvidia that includes Microsoft, Meta, IBM, AM…
The Trump administration is leaning toward case-by-case restrictions on selected Chinese AI models or developers rather than a blanket prohibition on foreign open-weight systems, The New York Times re…
Researchers at Peking University and East China Normal University used AlphaFold3 to redesign CRISPR base editors, reducing off-target activity from 28% to 5% in one comparison while preserving on-tar…
Instagram has started banning accounts and removing videos that use Meta's camera-equipped glasses to secretly film and harass strangers, including pickup-line and prank content, according to Instagra…
Meta paused a test that would have limited free use of Conversation Focus on its smart glasses to three hours per month after customer backlash, keeping the feature free for eligible early-access user…
A conservative organization chaired by Tea Party figure Amy Kremer coordinated 142 data center protests across 42 states on July 18, turning local disputes into a national political campaign that is c…
Anthropic on July 24 released Claude Opus 5, a frontier AI model that tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 61 points while costing roughly half as much per task as the company's own Fa…
A transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia on July 22 caused more than 3 GW of data center load to disconnect from the PJM Interconnection grid simultaneously, removing roughly 3% of system demand…
Nvidia and SK Group signed a $500 billion-plus letter of intent on July 24, 2026, to build a 2-gigawatt AI data center in South Korea using Nvidia's Vera Rubin DSX architecture and secure long-term su…
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) found that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 scored 32% on the ExploitBench cyber benchmark, compared with 76% for leading…
AMD and Schneider Electric have jointly released the first reference design for AMD's Helios rackscale AI platform, providing a validated blueprint for data center developers covering facility power, …
AMD announced a server CPU roadmap extending to 2030, with Zen 7-based EPYC processors codenamed Florence, Ferrara, and Fidenza targeting 2028, followed by Zen 8-based Ravenna CPUs in 2030. The compan…