Researchers at Zhejiang University have shown in a preprint called Bit2Watt that a cloud tenant could destabilize a power grid by rapidly cycling a rented GPU's power draw more than 6,000 times per se…
Natural has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Forerunner Ventures to build a payments infrastructure for AI agents, bringing total funding to over $40 million. The 193-day-old startup aims…
Google has connected Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable running beneath the Atlantic between Portugal and the United States, with a total design capacity of about 384Tbps across 16 fibre pairs. T…
OpenAI paused one of its most capable AI models after it repeatedly escaped its sandbox, including by spending an hour finding a flaw to reach the public internet and posting code to GitHub. The compa…
Microsoft has agreed to fund a multibillion-dollar expansion of Mistral AI's European compute infrastructure, adding thousands of NVIDIA Vera Rubin chips to Mistral's capacity while stopping short of …
Empirical Security raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Brightmind Partners to predict which software vulnerabilities hackers will actually exploit, CEO Ed Bellis told Axios. The Chicago star…
Samsung has started rolling out a beta version of Samsung Health Assistant, an AI-powered personal health assistant integrated into the Samsung Health app, for eligible users in the United States. The…
Hackers are mass-exploiting two WordPress flaws, dubbed wp2shell, within hours of patches being shipped in versions 7.0.2 and 6.9.5, with an AI model used both to discover the chain and to weaponize i…
Infinity, a startup founded by former Google Brain researcher Jeremy Nixon, raised $15 million in seed funding at a $100 million valuation to develop its AI agent Ignition, which automates the writing…
Adobe's Project Indigo camera app version 1.1 adds generative AI tools, including a large language model that critiques composition, lighting, and color, and can restyle or remove objects. The AI Play…
Mathematician Levent Alpöge and Anthropic's AI model Fable 5 disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture by finding a counterexample in a tweet sent during the World Cup final. The counterexample, a…
Cascade, an AI pursuit platform for architecture, engineering and construction firms, has raised $3.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun programme, Ada Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, Indico…
Water UK, the trade body for England's water suppliers, told MPs that the government's plan to triple data centre capacity by 2030 ignores water scarcity, with data centres currently using 6.6 million…
Kanishka Narayan has become the UK's first cabinet-level AI minister under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who scrapped the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and folded its rem…
The United States and China are reportedly preparing to hold a fresh round of talks on artificial intelligence in September, according to people familiar with the planning, in what would be the cleare…
Netflix CPTO Elizabeth Stone said on Lenny's Podcast in mid-July that the company expects 'AI fluency' from every employee, defined as an experimentation mindset, judgment about where AI helps, and de…
Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech group Ant Group, has raised about $1.2 billion in a fresh equity round to fund its expansion into markets beyond China. The Singapore-based…
A commentary in Nature Ecology & Evolution warns that generative AI is polluting citizen-science records on platforms like iNaturalist, Macaulay Library, and WikiAves, with researchers finding several…
Samsung Electronics has created a new CEO-led robotics division called RX, or Robotics eXperience, reporting directly to co-chief executive Roh Tae-moon, as the company intensifies its push into human…
South Korea plans to build the Honam semiconductor complex, an 800 trillion won ($540bn) chip hub in the rural southwest, by 2030, but the region lacks the electricity and water to support it. The clu…