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…
Amazon is requiring third-party sellers to tag product images containing photorealistic AI-generated people with the keyword 'contains-synthetic-performer' in XMP metadata, following a New York law th…
AI-powered insurance startup Corgi closed a Series B extension at a $4 billion valuation in July 2026, its third funding round in approximately eight weeks, according to Forbes. The two-year-old compa…
Amazon is expanding Alexa+ with a Smart Home AI Toolkit that lets device makers connect natural-language requests to specialized appliance functions, naming 14 initial brands including Bosch, Ecovacs,…
Black Forest Labs has opened gated early access to Flux 3, its first model trained jointly across images, video and audio, which can generate video with synchronized sound for up to 20 seconds from te…
AMD has launched six Ryzen AI Embedded X100 processors that adapt its Strix Halo architecture for robots and autonomous machines, with the flagship X199 featuring 16 Zen 5 cores, 40 RDNA 3.5 compute u…
The 21 APEC economies endorsed support for open-source AI with strong security assurance in the Chengdu Statement adopted at the APEC Digital and AI Ministerial Meeting on July 23, hosted and chaired …
Intel Corp. reported second-quarter revenue of $16.1 billion, up 25% year-over-year, driven by a 59% surge in Data Center and AI revenue to $6.3 billion as demand for server CPUs exceeded supply. The …
AI guardrails designed to prevent models from helping hackers are blocking offensive-security researchers from conducting proof-of-concept development and exploit validation needed to assess real thre…
Meta has left RE100, ending a membership that began in 2016, as the company finances gigawatts of new natural gas generation for its AI data centers. Meta confirmed the departure to TechCrunch on July…
Runway launched Media Router on July 23, an automated selection layer for its Runway Dev platform that chooses among generative AI models for image, video and audio based on developer preferences for …
Anthropic has expanded Claude's voice mode to support its Opus and Sonnet models, ending a period in which voice conversations were limited to the lighter Haiku model, unlocking longer reasoning and t…
Tesla shares plunged 14% and Alphabet fell 6% on Wednesday after both companies reported second-quarter earnings that beat revenue estimates but revealed surging AI capital expenditure plans that push…
Patreon is laying off 93 employees, 20% of its workforce, as CEO Jack Conte restructures the company around AI-era operations. Conte told staff and creators that AI has 'fundamentally transformed the …
AMD and Cerebras Systems announced a partnership to build a disaggregated AI inference system combining AMD's Helios rackscale solution with Cerebras's Wafer-Scale Engine, claiming up to 5x higher tok…
OpenAI on Wednesday relaunched ChatGPT Health to all U.S. users aged 18 and older across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, integrating with Apple Health, medical records via b.well covering roughly 2.2 m…