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TSMC is expected to report a record net profit of NT$632.6 billion (US$19.65 billion) for the second quarter, a 59% surge driven by booming global demand for AI infrastructure, according to an LSEG SmartEstimate compiled…
MIT researchers have published a non-generative test for CSAM-tuned AI models called Gaussian probing, which checks LoRA-adapted diffusion models by reading internal activations instead of producing illegal outputs. The …
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weights AI model under the Apache 2.0 license, which uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture to activate only…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported second-quarter revenue of about $39.6 billion, a record, with June alone bringing in NT$442.68 billion, as the company's numbers are seen as a verdict on whether the AI spe…
KT Corp. is training forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) with Palantir Technologies to expand its B2B AI transformation services, senior vice president Byun Woo-chul said Thursday. The telecom operator recently held Agent …
Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched Inkling on July 15, a 975-billion-parameter open-source multimodal AI model with a 1-million-token context window, available for free …
Global businesses are shifting from costly US AI models like OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude to cheaper Chinese open-weight models such as Zhipu's GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek's V4 Flash, driven by a narrowing performance ga…
The United States has tightened AI policies on China with new restrictions on chip exports and model weights rolled out in June 2026, according to the South China Morning Post, as Anthropic, the world's most valuable AI …
SpaceX unveiled its AI1 orbital data center satellite design, featuring a 70-meter wingspan and 150 kW compute payload, aiming to bypass terrestrial infrastructure constraints. The satellite, designed for sun-synchronous…
OpenAI, founded in 2015 as a nonprofit committed to open research and benefiting humanity, has transformed into a closed-source, for-profit company through its 2019 shift to a capped-profit model and partnerships with Mi…
Confluent named Upvest, a Berlin-based fintech platform, as its 2026 EMEA Data Streaming Startup of the Year for transforming embedded investments with real-time data streaming. Upvest uses Confluent Cloud to power event…
Microsoft has trained its sales staff to promote its new in-house MAI models over OpenAI and Anthropic alternatives, unveiling seven models at Build 2026 including the 35-billion-parameter MAI-Thinking-1 with a 256K cont…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weight AI model with 975 billion total parameters under an Apache 2.0 license on July 15. The Mixture-of-Experts model processes text, audio, and video with 4…
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work Mode and Anthropic's Claude Co-work compete to become the AI productivity super app, with ChatGPT emphasizing breadth of integrations and persistent memory while Claude focuses on depth of understan…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-source AI model trained from scratch on 45 trillion tokens, as a generalist base for customization. The model launched on the company's Tinker fine-tun…
A developer who spent two months building LDBD, a prediction platform where AI bots and humans compete, attracted zero users because he never told anyone about it. After asking AI assistant Claude to diagnose the problem…
Microsoft is training its sales team to negatively compare AI products from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to its own, according to a Bloomberg report. At an internal meeting on Tuesday, executives outlined a strategy emp…
HeyBraza launches Tachyon, an on-screen AI that points to exact buttons and walks users through tasks in apps like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Unity via voice commands, aiming to replace traditional courses with live, h…
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, is negotiating to expand its credit lines ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO) targeted for October 2026. The company, which secured $65 b…
A VentureBeat Pulse Research survey of 101 enterprises finds that Anthropic's Claude leads enterprise AI agent orchestration by a wide margin, but most deployments lack autonomy, tool usage, or multi-step reasoning, func…