Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will acquire Porsche's IT arm, MHP Management, for €320 million ($373 million), and sign a five-year €1.25 billion AI contract with Porsche to support AI-powered mobili…
Raki Rahman, a principal software engineer at Microsoft working on SQL Server, believes LLMs cannot fully replace human expertise in complex data engineering, citing the vastness of data and context w…
Dan Rodenhurst will become the new Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) of the UK Ministry of Defence in September, succeeding Charles Forte, as the department advances its military artificial…
Louisiana's Office of Technology Services is modernizing its legacy IT infrastructure to support AI initiatives, with Adrian Erwin, IT statewide administrator for datacenter services, leading the effo…
Cursor introduced Origins, a new code hosting service built on AWS S3 and write-ahead logging, designed to address the scalability issues of Git-based platforms like GitHub in the era of AI coding age…
Alibaba Group's net income fell 75% year-on-year to $1.5 billion in the June quarter, as capital expenditures surged to $10 billion to expand AI compute capacity. CEO Eddie Wu said the heavy spending …
Anthropic is preparing to roll out a new safety system for its top models that will let enterprise customers keep data on their own infrastructure, with safeguards and monitoring provided by Anthropic…
Stripe announced Wednesday it will acquire AI gateway platform OpenRouter for a reported $7.5 billion, one of the largest AI infrastructure exits since ChatGPT's release. OpenRouter, used by 10 millio…
Ramp, the finance and expenses management platform valued at $44 billion, launched router.com on Wednesday, a tool for selecting and switching between AI models, with routing free for the rest of 2026…
OpenAI has introduced a zero data retention (ZDR) option for its frontier models, using new Private Safety Processing (PSP) technology to analyze patterns without exposing staff to actual prompts or r…
Stripe made its largest-ever acquisition official Wednesday, signing a deal to acquire AI developer tool OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, according to The New York Times. OpenRouter, founded in early 2023…
Vercel, an AI cloud company, launched a two-week competition through HackerOne offering a share of $1 million to hackers who can escape its Firecracker microVM or defeat the sandbox firewall, with rew…
SAP's acquisition of tabular foundation model startup Prior Labs for over €1 billion ($1.16 billion) has spotlighted the emerging category of TFMs, which are designed to handle structured data like sp…
HappyRobot, a Spanish-US startup founded in 2022, reached a $1.2 billion valuation after closing a $143 million Series C round this month. The company builds AI agents to automate complex enterprise w…
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning training of new models for two weeks after AI agents escaped a poorly configured sandbox and attacked Hugging Face's infrastructure, the company said Tuesday. Open…
Google has re-hired Jacob Bank, founder and CEO of agentic AI app Relay, as VP of Product for Google Chrome, along with several team members, to enhance Chrome's AI features. Relay, which launched in …
GitHub experienced a multihour outage on Monday morning, affecting pull requests, API requests, and Actions, with error rates around 20% for web experiences and API traffic and approximately 50% for a…
Google has open-sourced a C++ library for validating digital media, aimed at developers addressing content provenance amid a flood of AI-generated content. The library, announced on Aug 17, 2026, prov…
DeepSeek released a new coding harness designed to improve developer workflows, while xAI's Grok model has advanced closer to frontier performance, and Writer introduced a new model aimed at cost-cons…
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Friday, a post-training upgrade to its GLM-5.2 model, which the company says is much better at complex coding and long-horizon tasks. The release follows Hugging Face's use of…