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A developer argues that AI agents should not be given standing API keys due to security risks, and proposes using short-lived, scoped credentials delivered via a credential broker. The approach limits damage from leaks b…
By mid-2026, the agentic AI ecosystem has coalesced around a layered protocol stack—including MCP, A2A, WebMCP, and OSI—that converts the quadratic N×M integration problem into a linear N+M problem. A developer tracking …
Scotland's governing SNP voted to freeze all new datacentre projects, threatening a core pillar of the UK's AI strategy that relies on Scotland's renewable energy. The moratorium could halt 24 hyperscale projects drawing…
Google's Pixel 11 launch event is set for August 12 in New York City, with possible price increases due to an AI-driven component shortage. Leaks suggest the base storage will double to 256GB, but European prices may ris…
Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip for inference, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips. The move marks a major strategic shift for the company, which is hailed as China's AI champion, …
South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI has activated its RNGD AI accelerators at Equinix's Lisbon datacentre, offering European enterprises a cooler, cheaper alternative to Nvidia chips. The 180-watt accelerators deliver 51…
Google announced new Managed Agents features in the Gemini API on July 7, including background tasks, remote MCP, function calling, and credential refresh, aiming to reduce production deployment complexity. The update al…
Meta launched Muse Image, an image-generation capability available in the Meta AI app on July 7, 2026, and integrated across Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, and Meta's advertising tools. The move embeds generat…
Hyperscale Data, a NYSE American-listed company, acquired 50.65 Bitcoin, increasing its total holdings to 899.65 BTC valued at $57.2 million, as it pursues a $100 million Bitcoin treasury while expanding AI data center i…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that U.S. power consumption will surpass record highs in 2026 and 2027, driven by surging demand from artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers.
A developer benchmarked REST API latency for nine crypto exchanges from a US-east datacenter, finding that Binance.US had the lowest p95 latency at 12.3ms while OKX had the highest at 262.7ms. Two major exchanges refused…
ElevenLabs opened its first Canadian office in Toronto and appointed Max Lemmens as General Manager for Canada, aiming to double its 13-person Canadian workforce by the end of 2026. The voice-AI company already serves 30…
Scotiabank, Sun Life, TELUS and Lightworks launched the AI Consortium to jointly build and govern enterprise AI control systems. The consortium's Agentic Control Plane processes over two trillion tokens monthly across me…
Meta launched Muse Image, its first AI image-generation model built under the Superintelligence Labs division led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, rolling out across Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The model allows u…
Microsoft has started routing some AI prompts in Excel and Outlook from OpenAI and Anthropic models to its own MAI models, with tens of thousands of weekly prompts already handled internally, according to Bloomberg. The …
Chinese authorities discussed potential restrictions on overseas access to the country's most advanced AI models with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, according to Reuters. The proposed controls would expand beyond chips to…
Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook, with tens of thousands of queries per week already running through them. AI chief Mustafa Suleyman ai…
Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own in-house MAI models in some app features, prioritizing cost and data residency. The shift is incremental, with OpenAI and Anthropic still handling mo…
A new survey from Uberall reveals that only 1 in 4 location marketers can demonstrate the impact of their marketing on sales, with disjointed AI tools exacerbating the problem. The article argues that multi-location bran…
China is considering restricting overseas access to its advanced AI models, including unreleased systems and some open-weight releases, according to a Reuters report. The Ministry of Commerce has held meetings with Aliba…