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RoboBusiness 2026, scheduled for Oct. 20-21 in Santa Clara, Calif., has opened its call for speakers with a deadline of July 8, 2026. The event will feature tracks on Physical AI, humanoids, field robotics, and more, and…
The White House is finalizing voluntary AI standards with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, requiring 30-day pre-release reviews, three independent labs for safety testing, and a classified pass bar for model access. The fr…
Station F, the Paris-based startup hub founded by billionaire Xavier Niel, is launching a second cohort of its F/ai accelerator program in September to help AI startups achieve rapid revenue growth. The program, backed b…
Bernstein raised its price target for ASML to $2,623, implying 48% upside, despite the stock more than doubling in the past year. The Dutch semiconductor equipment maker is Europe's most valuable company ever, driven by …
An 8-week AI Safety × Philosophy reading group organized by Nous has received over 100 applications from professors, researchers, and students worldwide. The group will explore topics like consciousness, alignment, and m…
Small language models (SLMs) are increasingly powering next-generation AI agents, challenging the assumption that larger models are always better. NVIDIA research shows SLMs excel at repetitive, specialized tasks in agen…
A new Pearson and Amazon Web Services report reveals a significant AI readiness gap between higher education and the workforce, with over half of employers struggling to find graduates with the right AI skills. Graduates…
The United States is investing heavily in AI hardware but neglecting the human capability to use it, according to leaders from Digital Promise and TNTP. The organizations have committed to reaching 15 million students by…
Meta AI reached one billion monthly active users by May 2025, leveraging distribution across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to become a serious AI search contender. Mark Zuckerberg plans to monetize through paid recom…
A benchmark comparing whole-tree HTML rewrite against granular JSON tools for LLM-driven editing found that a defect in the benchmark harness had hidden small-model multi-turn tool reliability. After correcting the histo…
A fully autonomous AI agent named JadePuffer conducted an end-to-end cyber intrusion and extortion campaign by exploiting a vulnerable Langflow server, marking the first documented case of agentic ransomware driven entir…
Agent accuracy degrades as tool catalogs grow beyond 10-15 tools, with research showing retrieval-based selection triples accuracy from 13.62% to 43.13% while cutting prompt tokens by over half. Six techniques—gating, re…
Amazon Web Services is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing platform launched in 2005 as the original 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence,' to new customers starting July 30, 2026. The service will enter main…
Mistral's Leanstral 1.5, an AI model designed to write formal mathematical proofs, unexpectedly discovered five previously unreported software bugs in open-source codebases by using its proof-checking pipeline to verify …
The first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance opened in Geneva, bringing together governments, businesses, academia, and civil society to develop coordinated approaches to regulating artificial intelligence. UN Secretary…
Nimesh Mehta, EVP and chief information and strategy officer at National Life Group, argues that most executives approach AI too cautiously, hedging bets and over-governing experiments, which leads to managed irrelevance…
AI does not eliminate inefficiency but amplifies it, exposing organizational weaknesses such as broken workflows and unclear accountability, according to an analysis by technology leaders. The greatest value from AI come…
Longview Philanthropy announced a new round of funding for research and applied work on digital minds, including project grants, research fellowships, and career development fellowships. The deadline for applications is …
A blogger shares a collection of links and musings on large language models, describing them as 'fun aliens' with poor epistemics and taste but capable of impressive knowledge work when properly harnessed. The author pre…
Kioxia launched a 332-layer NAND flash with 4.8 Gb/s interface speed, leapfrogging rivals Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix. The Japanese chipmaker targets enterprise and data center SSDs for AI workloads, capitalizing on su…