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Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck announced the $8 billion acquisition of Iridium Communications to challenge SpaceX's dominance in the satellite communications market, particularly in direct-to-mobile services. The deal positio…
Nvidia dominates AI training hardware, but the inference market is wide open as companies like Cerebras, Groq, d-Matrix, Etched, and Taalas challenge Nvidia's GPU-based approach by designing chips optimized for low-laten…
Purdue researchers tested 24 deepfake detection systems and found commercial tools generally performed better as AI identity fraud raises new risks for crypto KYC. The study found Incode's DeepSight achieved the lowest f…
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine achieves 61% word accuracy, an improvement over prior projects, but still lags behind implanted brain-computer interfaces and cannot support real-time communication, as it relies …
University of Washington researchers created PaperTok, a platform that uses Google's Gemini AI to turn academic papers into 45-second TikTok-style science videos. The tool aims to make research accessible to general audi…
US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn on Prime Day, with AI chatbot referrals converting 40% better than search, email, or social media for the first time. Adobe data shows AI-referred traffic to retail sites nearly doubled…
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, a custom inference ASIC co-designed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC, aiming for 50% lower inference cost per token than Nvidia GPUs. Production is planned for 2027, with broader deploymen…
Microsoft unveiled the Majorana 2 quantum chip at Build conference on June 2, claiming a 1,000-fold improvement in qubit reliability, while President Trump signed two executive orders on June 22 to accelerate US quantum …
At the AI Engineer World's Fair, workshops shifted from RAG and prompt engineering toward evals and open models, reflecting a broader industry focus on measuring and trusting AI outputs. A developer argues that engineers…
DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-source family of coding models that learn to build their own task scaffolds, moving intelligence from the surrounding harness into the model itself. The models, ranging from 9B …
Schrödinger partnered with Google Cloud to deploy AlphaEvolve, an AI coding agent from Google DeepMind, achieving a 4x speedup in molecular discovery by optimizing machine-learned force field training algorithms. The opt…
Mozilla.ai announced the release of transcribe.cpp, an open-source C/C++ speech-to-text inference library with GPU-accelerated support for multiple STT models. Developed through the Builders in Residence program, the lib…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed fears about AI-related job displacement, arguing that a focus on empowering individuals rather than automating knowledge work could lead to more jobs. He contrasted Meta's vision with t…
The Pentagon is fast-tracking civilians with AI expertise into officer ranks to address concerns about slow adoption of frontier AI technology. The U.S. Army has commissioned Silicon Valley executives as lieutenant colon…
A developer released Evaluation Context Protocol (ECP), a vendor-neutral protocol for testing AI agent outputs, tool calls, and audit context across frameworks and CI systems. ECP complements MCP by focusing on evaluatio…
Europe's AI opportunity lies not in competing for the largest frontier models but in building enterprise architectures that turn models into corporate intelligence, a race where Europe's strengths in formalization, gover…
Grant Sanderson, creator of 3Blue1Brown, discussed the rapid progress of AI in mathematics and its implications for other fields in a podcast interview. He explored whether AI discoveries constitute AGI, the nature of co…
The Unjournal launched a suite of tools and resources to help researchers prioritize high-impact research questions, including a Research Prioritization Dashboard, a Cruxes & Pivotal Questions Explorer, and evaluation gu…
Researchers have introduced DS-ISA, the first instruction set architecture for dynamical system hardware, aiming to standardize software interfaces for analog computing. The architecture, presented at ISCA 2026, enables …
Context engineering has emerged as a critical discipline in AI development, moving beyond prompt engineering to manage an AI's working memory. Developers are grappling with the challenge that models lose focus as their c…