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Meta announced Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic tasks, with improvements in computer use, coding, and multimodal understanding. The model, released by Meta's Superintelligence Labs led by Alexan…
Pittsburg will host a virtual workshop on July 30 to address resident concerns over a data center project approved in 2024, following backlash about environmental impacts and resource constraints. The workshop aims to ed…
SK Hynix priced its American depositary receipts at $149 each on July 9, raising approximately $26.5 billion in the largest foreign offering in history, surpassing Alibaba's 2014 record. The South Korean chipmaker's Nasd…
A team building an AI tutor for children ages 4-9 developed a custom architecture that streams multiple actions in a single response to achieve sub-second latency, replacing the standard agent loop to prevent children's …
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a new AI model specializing in agentic tasks, outperforming Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on four benchmarks. CEO Mark Zuckerberg promoted the model as a cheaper alternative, off…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 on July 9, 2026, introducing a three-tier model family (Sol, Terra, Luna) with tiered pricing and Programmatic Tool Calling that runs model-written JavaScript in an isolated V8 runtime. The new mo…
A rare bacteria was discovered in a Wyoming city's water supply, traced to wastewater from an under-construction Meta AI data center, raising public health concerns.
Developer Raj Patil built Local AI Orchestrator, an offline, privacy-first AI system that runs on consumer hardware like an NVIDIA RTX 3050, achieving sub-100ms token generation times through LLM quantization. He also de…
Perplexity released a research preview of a post-trained version of Z.AI's GLM 5.2, a Chinese open-source model, that matches Claude Opus 4.8 performance at one-third the cost by using an advisor tool to escalate only co…
Lyzr is raising approximately $100 million in a Series B funding round at a $500 million valuation, with over $400 million in investor interest, according to Bloomberg. The company's enterprise AI agents, including its A…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is pressuring Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to build memory chip production facilities in the US or face 100% tariffs on chips sold into the American market. The push comes as AI-driv…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, adding picture-in-picture mode and faster execution to turn the chatbot into an autonomous project manager that can research, build spreadsheets, and create presentations. The feat…
Meta announced Wednesday it will invest more than $9.1 billion to build its first AI data center in Canada, located in Sturgeon County, Alberta, making it the company's largest such facility outside the United States. Th…
Nvidia announced its first series of GeForce Trading Cards, featuring 14 designs that highlight key moments in its GPU history, as the company reflects on its origins in PC gaming amid the AI boom that has made it the wo…
Bank of America predicts the US could face a major electricity shortage between 2026 and 2030, driven by the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence. The warning highlights the strain AI data centers could plac…
Cloudflare Radar data shows automated bots now generate 57.4% of HTML page requests, surpassing human traffic for the first time. The milestone signals a shift in web infrastructure demands, as AI-driven automation and s…
Niles Investment Management founder Dan Niles said AI spending is hitting a "speed bump" as companies reduce tokenmaxxing and cut AI costs, speaking on Market Domination.
A security researcher disclosed a pull-based prompt-injection attack called HalluSquatting that targets coding assistants and agentic tools including Cursor, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, and GitHub Copilot. The attack exploits …
Wall Street closed higher on Thursday, with the S&P 500 up 0.8%, the Dow Jones up 0.2%, and the Nasdaq Composite up 1.6%. Meta Platforms announced a cheaper AI model called Muse Spark 1.1, sending its stock up over 4%, w…
Europe's AI strategy relies on open-weight models from China and the US, but access to these models is being restricted by Beijing, Washington, and private labs, leaving the continent without a viable path to frontier AI…