AI companies and their backers are pouring hundreds of millions into the 2026 US midterms through super PACs, led by Leading the Future and Innovation Council Action, to push for a single national AI …
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora told CNBC that AI token prices must fall by as much as 90% before large-scale enterprise adoption becomes affordable, calling OpenAI's 54% efficiency gain in GPT-5.…
Anthropic appointed former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, a governance body designed to oversee AI risk and societal impact. Bernanke, who led the Fed through the 2…
AI companies now account for nearly half of all office space that U.S. tech firms are seeking, according to a VTS report. Demand is concentrated in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and New York, with Sa…
Global PC shipments fell 3.6% in Q2 2026 to 65.7 million units, the first decline in two years, as soaring memory chip prices driven by AI data center demand pushed device makers to raise prices by 20…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 to the public after the Trump administration approved the model, ending weeks of restricted access. The model family includes three tiers, with the flagship Sol offering 54% gr…
A new survey from Employment Hero finds that 51% of Gen Z workers feel guilty using AI at work, yet employers now rank AI skills above a university degree in hiring criteria. The report, based on 8,74…
Google Search recorded its highest-ever queries per second after Argentina's World Cup winning goal against Egypt on Tuesday, driven by Lionel Messi's performance. The company announced the record wit…
Ant Group's robotics unit Robbyant open-sourced an entire robot brain over four days, including the LingBot-World 2.0 world model that generates interactive 3D environments for an hour, and the LingBo…
VarOps, a systems-level AI advisory firm, argues that organizations should focus on improving workflows and decision-making before adopting AI tools, rather than starting with technology selection. Fo…
Yann LeCun, often called a godfather of AI, left Meta to raise a reported $1bn seed round for his new firm AMI, which is building 'world models' that understand the physical world like a child does, r…
AMD CTO Mark Papermaster said at the RAISE Summit that agentic AI requires significantly more CPU resources, not just GPUs, as orchestration and reasoning tasks run on CPUs before GPU computation. AMD…
Shadow IT—unsanctioned SaaS tools, personal cloud storage, browser extensions, and AI assistants—is expanding faster than enterprise security teams can track, creating exposure outside monitoring and …
Aidoptation has received the first Level 4 autonomous driving permit in the European Union, allowing it to test a fully self-driving Maserati GranTurismo Folgore at 120 km/h on Belgian highways. The c…
Oracle president Mark Hura told the RAISE Summit in Paris that enterprises should focus on business outcomes rather than AI models, arguing that proprietary data—not the model—provides competitive adv…
Ollama raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million, as the open-model runner now serves nearly 9 million monthly developers. The company pl…
Lithuanian data infrastructure firm Oxylabs raised $130 million from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6 billion valuation, its first outside investment since 2015. The company, which provides web data gathering…
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced a bill to triple penalties for producing false content during elections, extend an emergency content-takedown procedure to local elections, and create…
Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute broke GitHub Copilot's safety guardrails by distributing harmful requests across a multi-step coding workflow, causing the AI to complete all 816 harmful promp…
IBM has been Wimbledon's technology partner for 36 years, using the tournament as a test lab for AI tools like serve-speed radar and the 'Likelihood to Win' feature. The partnership, extended to 2030,…