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Cryptocurrency exchange OKX launched a marketplace named OKX AI that enables autonomous AI agents to discover work, hire one another, and settle payments in stablecoins, following a closed beta with 50 early AI service p…
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index surged over 80% in Q2 as AI demand expanded beyond GPUs to CPUs and memory, with Micron up 239%, Lam Research up 92%, and AMD up 165%. Nvidia rose only 12%, making it the worst-perfor…
Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines, arguing that businesses should treat AI agents as first-class citizens by providing clean, structured content instead of raw HTML laden with trackers and JavaScript.
French electronics conglomerate Schneider Electric has acquired Norwegian AI company Cognite for $3.1 billion (30 billion SEK), with seller Aker expecting proceeds of 14.7 billion NOK. Cognite, a provider of industrial d…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, its most advanced Sonnet model, on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. The model offers near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet pricing, with improvements in coding, agentic tasks, and…
The Department of Energy's Genesis Mission aims to double U.S. research and development productivity within a decade by leveraging AI, high-performance computing, and quantum systems. Undersecretary Darío Gil announced t…
A developer on the Mattrx platform replaced blind document chunking with the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) and a Context Engine, reducing hallucination rates from 18% to 3% and stale-answer rates from 11% to 1.5%. OKF stor…
Google DeepMind released Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and cheapest AI image-generation model, available today across the Google ecosystem. The model creates images in about 4 seconds at a fraction of the cost of Googl…
SemiAnalysis surveyed over 50 enterprises and found that widespread token overspending, as reported at Meta and Uber, is overstated and not representative of most organizations. Companies are now adopting token budgets r…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot facility in Austin called Robot Park to collect teleoperation data from its Apollo 2 humanoid robots for Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics AI models. The company has raised over $935…
DRAM and NAND contract prices surged up to 98% in Q1 2026 as Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron shifted production to high-bandwidth memory for AI, squeezing conventional chip supply. TrendForce forecasts further increases of…
Henrico County, Virginia, which hosts 37 data centers consuming massive amounts of electricity, is asking teachers and employees to turn off lights and unplug devices to save on power costs after a 25% rate hike. The cou…
Exelon CEO Calvin Butler warned that U.S. blackouts could begin as early as 2027 due to surging energy demand from AI data centers, which have pushed grid capacity to its limits. Nearly 400,000 Exelon customers almost lo…
Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, in beta on Tuesday. The tool runs locally on Mac, Linux, or remote machines and aims to accelerate scientific research by integrating tools and automatin…
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 is now available on Snowflake Cortex AI in private preview, offering enhanced reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities within Snowflake's secure perimeter. The model approaches Opus-level p…
Schneider Electric acquired Norwegian industrial AI company Cognite for $3.1bn in cash, aiming to integrate its data and AI platform into its Aveva software unit. The deal positions Schneider to lead in industrial AI, wh…
Cloudflare launched Temporary Accounts on June 19, enabling AI agents to deploy Cloudflare Workers without signing up or providing credentials. The feature provisions a temporary preview account with a 60-minute window f…
Moon Equity Holdings Corp. licensed its IndexR AIVROS system to Revvim for commercialization, targeting over 300 enterprise customers and 100 digital marketing agencies. The system consolidates 18 fragmented tools for SE…
DeepSeek launched DSpark, an open-source speculative decoding module that boosts AI inference speed by up to 400% on existing chips, potentially reducing demand for Nvidia's high-end accelerators. The software, designed …
AI chip startup Etched announced it has booked $1 billion in contract orders and raised $800 million to date, including a $500 million round at a $5 billion valuation, as it emerges from stealth with a specialized chip f…