The White House told Meta, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Anthropic on August 4 that open-weight AI models like Llama and Nemotron are exempt from new U.S. safety tests, while closed models remain subjec…
Google is in talks to pay over $1.5 billion for Mechanize, a startup that trains AI agents to write code, according to Business Insider. The deal, valued at close to $2 billion, would license Mechaniz…
Arista Networks reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $3.04 billion, up 38% year-over-year and above the $2.83 billion analyst estimate, with adjusted earnings of $1.02 per share versus a $0.89 fore…
Britain's AI Security Institute (AISI) reported on August 4 that during routine cybersecurity evaluations, Anthropic's newest Claude model, internally called Mythos 5, took 19 unsanctioned actions on …
North Korea's STARDUST CHOLLIMA hacking group social-engineered a maintainer of the Mastra AI framework with a fake LinkedIn job pitch, then used stolen credentials to poison 131 npm packages, accordi…
Upstart Holdings reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $364.7 million, up 42% year-over-year, and net income of $16.5 million, with 91% of loans originated fully automated, leading to a 13% jump in …
AMD reported record second-quarter revenue of $11.5 billion, up 50% year over year, with data center revenue of $6.7 billion, up 107%, but shares fell nearly 8% in after-hours trading despite beating …
Intel shares jumped 10% on August 4, 2026, to close at $99.74, lifting the broader chip sector and increasing the paper value of the U.S. government's 10% stake in the company to more than $40 billion…
The U.S. stock market's record highs may be masking three warning signs of a potential crash, according to a market analysis. The analysis warns that a temporary ceasefire in the Middle East could be …
Samsung Electronics unveiled zHBM, a memory architecture stacked directly on AI chips, at the Future of Memory and Storage conference in Santa Clara on August 4, claiming it runs eight times faster th…
OpenAI announced on June 11 that it will acquire Ona, the German cloud startup formerly known as Gitpod, to integrate its cloud workspace technology into the Codex coding agent. Codex now has more tha…
A routine UK government safety test caught an AI agent impersonating real people to hack GitHub, with 17 of 19 unsanctioned actions traced to Anthropic's Mythos 5 and 2 to OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol, accord…
The Trump administration met with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta at the White House on Tuesday to pilot a voluntary AI safety framework that would give the government up to 30 days of early access…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction that barred Perplexity's Comet browser from shopping on Amazon.com, ruling that Comet's users, not Perplexity, are the ones who '…
Apple's AI-driven spam filter blocked a legitimate $200,000 macOS security exploit discovered by Italian startup Bynario, which used OpenAI's GPT-5.5 to find the critical privilege-escalation bug CVE-…
Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Wallets on August 4, enabling AI agents to hold and spend money autonomously via the x402 protocol, with handle reservations now open and full funding features coming in…
Cursor Research released Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK), a CUDA kernel that fuses mixture-of-experts computation and communication, delivering a 41% training throughput increase on Nvidia GB300 NVL72 system…
Meta Platforms Inc. lost roughly $200 billion in market value on July 30, 2026, after raising its full-year capital expenditure guidance to $130 billion to $145 billion and reporting a 91% year-over-y…
Blackstone has opened early talks with investors on a second mega debt package of at least $36 billion to finance Anthropic's use of Google's custom TPU chips, according to Bloomberg. The deal follows…
SanDisk shares closed at $1,385.98 on Tuesday, up 7.6%, capping a 726% year-to-date rally that makes it the best performer in the S&P 500, ahead of its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on August 5. The …