Meta says global time spent on Instagram grew by double digits year on year in the second quarter, driven by AI-tuned recommendations in the main feed and Reels. The company reported that a reworked R…
G2A.COM launched 'Dave', an autonomous AI customer support agent for sellers, after a two-month trial resolved 14,400 tickets in 63 days, reducing tickets submitted to seller support teams by 30%. The…
Atlassian has started giving its engineers a fixed monthly AI allowance of $500 to $2,000, capping spending to manage costs as token usage surges. The software maker, which cut 1,600 jobs to fund an A…
Meta Platforms Inc. told investors it will spend between $130 billion and $145 billion on artificial intelligence in 2026, up from a prior range starting at $125 billion, as second-quarter revenue jum…
A 1972 US Air Force study defined the three conditions for trusting a security component — tamperproof, invoked on every access, and small enough to be completely verified — and a modern frontier mode…
IntegraTRACE, a SOC 2 Type II compliant identity visibility platform founded by software engineer Steve Emmanuel, is expanding from North America into Europe and Asia as organizations struggle to trac…
Meta's free cash flow plunged 91% to $784 million in Q2 2026 as AI capital spending surged to about $31 billion for the quarter, while revenue rose 28% to $60.8 billion but profit fell 14% to $15.8 bi…
Microsoft's Azure cloud business surpassed $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time, with Azure and other cloud services growing 43% year over year in the quarter ending June 30, 2026, beatin…
OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027, starting with 10,000 users this summer under the ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program, which includes…
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, resigned Tuesday citing health issues from stress and workload, then rejoined OpenAI on Wednesday to work on recursive self-improvement, using AI to b…
Cambridge startup Qureight has raised $20m in Series B funding led by Molten Ventures to build a 'foundation model' for the chest that can speed drug trials by generating disease-specific AI imaging m…
OpenAI released the Codex Security CLI as open-source code this week, but the underlying vulnerability scanner remains a limited beta for approved customers. The tool, previously called 'Aardvark,' ha…
Google DeepMind has dismantled the team behind its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein-folding AI, reassigning most original authors and losing nearly a quarter of them, including Nobel co-winner Jo…
As AI-generated internal messages increase, organizations are finding that employee recognition creates the trust and attention that automated communications lack, according to Scott Johnson, CEO of M…
Ramu Donikana, founder of Invent Artificial, argues that the 239% surge in AI-generated applications has made resumes untrustworthy and that the solution is verified skill profiles rather than better …
PwC's Middle East thought-leadership reports on AI and electric vehicles contained fake footnotes, misattributed claims, and made-up sources, with one footnote's web address carrying the tag "utm_sour…
ChatGPT is about to hit 1 billion weekly active users, seven months later than OpenAI's target of reaching that milestone by the end of 2025, according to figures OpenAI shared internally and reported…
Cyera, a data-security firm, has agreed to acquire Oasis Security for about $1bn in a cash-and-stock deal, roughly $700m of it in cash, to secure non-human identities used by AI agents. The deal, the …
XAI, Elon Musk's AI company now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota's attorney general on Monday to strike down the first U.S. law banning 'nudification' technology, arguing the First Amendment protects t…
BuzzFeed laid off about 180 employees, roughly a third of its remaining workforce, on Monday, hitting HuffPost, Tasty and its film and TV studio. The cuts are the first major move by new controlling o…