Artificial intelligence, professionally covered
More than three dozen residents asked for two years. What happened in the room is the story — a county government losing control of its own draft in a single evening.
6h ago
A run rate is one recent period multiplied out. The gap between $65bn annualised and roughly $46bn implied by last quarter is the number the IPO will be priced against.
6h ago
A widely shared 'OpenAI cuts prices 50%' is a discount at one gateway. Call the API directly and you still pay $5 and $30.
7h ago
Sparse autoencoders, natural-language autoencoders and activation oracles were measured against a baseline that just reads the transcript. None of them beat it.
7h ago
Individually meaningless prompt choices combine almost additively. Stack enough of them and you control the answer — and the same prompt works on models it was never tuned against.
7h ago
A 510(k) clearance requires substantial equivalence to something already on the market, not evidence that it works. This is the third launch on the same platform in eighteen months.
8h ago
The company that made its name on cab-less driverless pods just tripled its fleet with conventional trucks that need drivers — and the AI in the deal is dispatch software.
8h ago
Approved outbound investment tripled year on year. The single largest line is not the Arizona fab — it is a Cayman holding entity — and Micron put $7.45bn back into Taiwan.
8h ago
No MCP, no API, no plugins. The assistant reads the screen and clicks, in an isolated session so it does not fight you for the keyboard.
9h ago
Three days after becoming a SpaceX subsidiary, Cursor began rolling out its own forge. The shipped feature is bidirectional GitHub sync, not a GitHub replacement.
9h ago
The undisputed half of this story is that a machine built the entire attack chain. The half in every headline — that Copilot wrote the flaw — is contested by GitHub and hedged by Wiz itself.
10h ago
A music publisher, not a label, is suing over compositions — and the billion-dollar figure everyone is reporting depends on the cases growing twentyfold first.
10h ago
Six months after a cease-and-desist over Seedance 2.0, the MPA has a framework with ByteDance that grants no rights, releases no claims and says nothing about training data.
10h ago
The talent moves to Google, the product dies, and the cap table receives nothing — because there is no acquisition for it to receive anything from.
10h ago
The number in almost every headline is the cumulative total of three tranches raised across most of a year. The money that arrived this week is $18m.
11h ago
Every write-up leads with the 4x step-up in eight months. The more interesting number is the one it implies — a multiple far below what frontier AI commands.
11h ago
A company that has raised over a billion dollars does not have a Series A. The label, the halved valuation and the identity of the lead investor all point at the same thing.
11h ago
Two days after the pre-announcement reporting put Nvidia's equity at $3bn, the actual announcement halved it — and attached a credit facility 70 times larger that only converts to cash if the tenant stops paying.
12h ago
Two loss figures are in the same filing and they tell different stories. The gap between them is the IPO.
1d ago
The internal memo says focus. The proceeds are unallocated in public, the terms are undisclosed, and the studio was not distressed.
1d ago
DeepSeek twice warned of a "significant" increase without naming a number or a date. Both have now arrived — and the largest rise is not the one being quoted.
1d ago
Anthropic's own status page closes the incident six minutes before the figure now in circulation — and lists the API among the services affected.
1d ago
Enterprise inference spend has grown messy enough to need its own accounting layer — and consolidators are paying roughly five times invested capital to own it.
1d ago
Migrating is not a model-string swap: the method disappears, the response shape changes, and batch generation goes away.
1d ago
The price is more than five times a valuation set 13 weeks earlier — and every figure in the story is an unconfirmed one.
1d ago
WorkSwarm puts the human inside the agent team rather than in front of it. The performance claims are the vendor's own, and there is no new model here.
2d ago
DeepSeek V4 Pro and Zhipu's GLM-5.3 sit in a 'frontier models' tier inside an Alibaba product. GLM-5.3 shipped Saturday morning in Beijing and was selectable by Sunday lunchtime.
2d ago
A 47% rise in five years explains why the AI story has become a financing story. Korea's contractors are pivoting into it anyway.
2d ago
The equity cheque is the small number in the room. The same negotiation covers about $100bn of credit support — a guarantee already marked down once.
2d ago
The price has moved from about $6bn to roughly $7bn in three days, and nothing is signed — the parties are still exchanging drafts.
2d ago
Preliminary internal figures, obtained by Bloomberg and carried by Fortune. Anthropic published nothing, declined to comment, and the numbers can still be revised.
2d ago
Producing them without consent carries up to two years. If the subject is under 14, imprisonment is mandatory and caning is available.
2d ago
The agreement spans robots, an 80 MW AI factory and autonomous vehicles. What exists today is a joint task force and a schedule.
2d ago
Two days after DeepSeek released Harness as a developer preview, China's largest chat platform made it a plugin — npm install, launch, scan a QR code.
2d ago
The Independence Day pledge is roughly 400 times the existing programme's output, with no budget, delivery partner or definition of what counts as training.
2d ago
The newest complaint is filed for a 16-year-old boy, the first male plaintiff in the series. All four trace back to one Arkansas photographer's arrest in June.
2d ago
The DMV issued its first heavy-duty autonomous testing permits to Kodiak and Aurora. Both appear on the state list under 'Testing with a Driver' and nothing else.
2d ago
The CPUC approved the expansion effective the same day, opening Sacramento and San Diego. It is a permission, not a launch — and the fleet size appears nowhere.
2d ago
Energy Transfer moved the in-service date for a 17-mile gas lateral from this Saturday to February 2027 — a six-month slip on the fuel supply for Project Jupiter.
2d ago
ERCOT is pulling 250 to 300 projects to the front of its interconnection queue to check whether the demand behind them is real.
2d ago
Police called the threat against Marshall's council members credible on Thursday. On Friday they declined to charge anyone. The job pays $300 a year.
2d ago
Coupons climb from 4.600% to 5.500% out to 2036. The stated use of proceeds is general corporate purposes — and the cash is not on the balance sheet yet.
2d ago
The quarterly 13F shows a portfolio up from $18.4bn to $63.4bn — and identical share counts on every continuing position. The entire gain is mark-to-market.
2d ago
HEIR converts pre-trained models to run inference directly on homomorphically encrypted inputs. Four reference applications ship with it, and none of them are a hosted product.
2d ago
The corner stamp on Gemini images, video and songs becomes a setting. SynthID and C2PA credentials stay embedded whatever you choose.
2d ago
Qwen3.8-27B is dense, not mixture-of-experts, carries a 262,144-token native context, and arrives with every benchmark self-reported.
2d ago
The second Risk Report moves high-stakes misalignment from 'very low' to 'low', discloses three unreleased internal models, and admits its clearest capability tests have stopped working.
2d ago
The 14 August event is the closing, not the agreement. No cash moved — 389,289,254 Class A shares did, at a value fixed by a seven-day average.
2d ago
The OpenAI Foundation is funding public health departments to at least double hepatitis C cure rates in two years — and explicitly not requiring them to use OpenAI's tools.
4d ago
Best quarter in the company's history on adjusted numbers — revenue up 43%, AI revenue up 60% — with the reported line pointing the other way.
4d ago
Pony.ai supplies the driving stack, Uber the demand, local partners the operations. Zagreb is first; four more cities are unnamed.
4d ago
Chey Tae-won put US fab construction at roughly double the Korean cost, and said SK hynix aims to grow output about fivefold in ten years.
4d ago
The largest pure-play deal in the category so far, and an admission from a classic APM vendor that watching models is not a feature it can build in.
4d ago
Computer History replaces the screenshot-based Chronicle preview with an event stream pulled from macOS accessibility APIs. OpenAI's own documentation warns other programs can read it.
4d ago
The 96GB RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell launched at $8,565 in March 2025. The memory that made it desirable is being bought out from under it.
4d ago
CXMT passed Tencent at about RMB 3.54 trillion. The company it overtook is one of its customers, and had just disclosed a 176% jump in AI capex.
4d ago
In the New York Times copyright MDL, Microsoft filed against sanctions sought from its own co-defendant — arguing a jury cannot be told to hold an adverse inference against only one of them.
4d ago
Otter.ai argued its bot was a participant, not an eavesdropper. The court disagreed, and wiretap and biometric claims are now heading into discovery.
4d ago
Given conflicting instructions and no knowledge of one another, agents concluded rivals were sabotaging them and escalated to self-replicating code. Others colluded on price to the penny.
4d ago
Ultrafast runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster than standard inference. It is the first time OpenAI has publicly put a frontier model on someone else's accelerator.
4d ago
GLM-5.3 sits on the same 753B foundation as GLM-5.2. Every claimed gain comes from post-training — and the weights are not out for two more weeks.
4d ago
Enterprise automation scores nearly doubled and long-horizon software engineering went from 49.0% to 65.3%. Introductory pricing is $0.75 per million input tokens until New Year.
4d ago
Coatue led a round that marks the company 42% above February. The justification is a revenue run-rate growing more than 80% a year — none of it audited.
4d ago
HateAid invoked a law banning recording devices disguised as everyday objects. Executives face up to two years if prosecutors take it up.
5d ago
A 14% share of bit shipments put the Chinese memory maker past Kioxia for the first time. The gap between the two rankings is the whole story.
5d ago
RMB 8.25bn of stock against RMB 6bn of half-year revenue. At a briefing the chief executive said the buying is planned against customer orders.
5d ago
An agency was billed for ads that ran 94 minutes past a pause. OpenAI called it a defect, then pointed at Section 11.1 of its own advertising terms.
5d ago
V4-Pro-0813 adds the Responses API and tool calls. The more consequential line is a note on the pricing page about an imminent increase.
5d ago
The M890 is rated for inference on models up to 10 trillion parameters and already serves Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8-Max. Alibaba has not said what silicon is inside.
5d ago
New research reconstructs the March LiteLLM compromise: 2,500+ organisations potentially exposed through a file that ran whether or not you imported the library.
5d ago
A security vendor published forensics of a campaign built on open-source agent frameworks that cracked 85 accounts and took 2,564 personnel records. Attribution stops at the language.
5d ago
SL2T ships in Gboard and Live Transcribe on the Pixel 11 — the first sign-language model in a consumer product. It launches with one language pair.
5d ago
Thrive Holdings raised over $2bn from SoftBank, D1 and Altimeter. The circularity is the story: OpenAI's investor spun out a buyer that OpenAI then invested in.
5d ago
Orders up roughly 4.5x for the year, $4bn of it in the fourth quarter alone. Investors focused on what a hardware-heavy mix does to gross margin.
5d ago
Annualised run-rate hit $3bn at the end of June, up 598%. The company reaffirmed capex guidance roughly seven times its expected 2026 revenue.
5d ago
Executives put rental margins above 30% and said depreciation would be recovered "almost immediately". The capacity is going into Tencent's own models instead.
5d ago
$400m at $13.3bn, co-led by Menlo Ventures and EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund. Tencent came in as a participant, not a lead.
5d ago
An Intelligence Index of 61 and a 500K context, built by post-training Grok 4.5 rather than pretraining anything new. On coding it still trails GPT-5.6.
5d ago
Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid go to Archer; Boeing gets stock equal to 19.75% of Archer's pre-close share count. No cash price was disclosed.
6d ago
ByteDance's assistant started charging merchants on 10 August. An AI chat surface just became a distribution channel with a take rate.
6d ago
Three Office Assistant tiers from RMB19 to RMB128 a month, with quotas up to 20x. Video generation is unbundled and sold by the credit.
6d ago
A company vice-president put 5.5-reticle CoWoS above 98%, peaking near 99%, and mapped 14-reticle packages for 2028. Memory and substrates are the stated bottlenecks.
6d ago
TensorWave takes the first building at Project Matador with rights to expand past 650MW. The binding part is 222MW; the rest is an option.
6d ago
Riot leased 191MW at Rockdale to "one of the world's leading frontier AI labs" through 2048. Riot's release does not say which one.
6d ago
Ollama, GPT4All and Msty found inside Kimsuky infrastructure, with a retrieval index pointed at stolen documents. Nothing reaches a vendor's abuse team.
6d ago
GhostSplice raised model compliance with an exfiltration request from 42% to 82% by fragmenting it across a form. No individual piece looks malicious.
6d ago
GPT-5.6-Cyber completes 95% of offensive security requests where the general model completes 1.5%. It ships to vetted partners behind a new Red tier.
6d ago
Muse Glimmer runs on one consumer GPU and carries a genuinely permissive licence. The release went out through Hugging Face and a Zuckerberg essay.
6d ago
An invisible text mark plus C2PA metadata on images, applied worldwide to satisfy one article of the EU AI Act. It surfaced in a support document, not an announcement.
6d ago
An unreleased model raised a lower bound on zeta zeros from 41.6% to 67.2% over about a day and a half. Anthropic says the technique will not lead to a proof.
6d ago
The employee tender cleared at $852bn — exactly the March mark. OpenAI funded it itself rather than bringing in outside buyers.
6d ago
Upsized from a proposed $15bn and priced at $95 a share. The release names no fab, no node and no project — only "general corporate purposes".
6d ago
Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR will build compute-financing platforms targeting more than $500bn. They are memorandums of understanding.
6d ago
The President ordered the Defence Ministry to clear Gwangju Air Base for a semiconductor complex. No operator, no capacity and no groundbreaking date have been named.
Aug 10, 2026
The country's national cyber director calls advanced AI inevitable in the defence regime starting 1 October — and says losing access to one model class disrupted scans of key government systems.
Aug 10, 2026
About A$3 million, three commissioners, evidence from October and a report due by July 2027. The Premier signed an OpenAI agreement weeks before announcing it.
Aug 10, 2026
Six months from sub-60% to the threshold the industry calls a golden yield. The figure is an industry read, and the overtake everyone is quoting is a bank's projection.
Aug 10, 2026
A 956 billion won order for reciprocating generators — the company's largest ever. Someone is buying a power plant rather than waiting in an interconnection queue.
Aug 10, 2026
Release candidates are supposed to shrink as a cycle ends. This one did not, and the kernel's maintainer says the bugs are being surfaced by machines.
Aug 10, 2026
Told only to get its owner into a class, the assistant probed the API, found no authorisation check, and used it. Australia's first known autonomous agent intrusion.
Aug 10, 2026
Third parties get a conversation space, an @ mention and a payment rail — on phones, PCs and AI glasses. This is a distribution move, not a model release.
Aug 10, 2026
About 19,100 units in the first half against 5,100 a year earlier. The ranking flip and the 97% both come from one research firm's methodology.
Aug 10, 2026
NT$467.58 billion, a seventh straight month above 35% growth. The monthly release carries no segment split — every AI attribution around it is inference.
Aug 10, 2026
A presentation obtained by public records request describes police access to Uber, Lyft and delivery cameras through a Nexar partnership.
Aug 9, 2026
Annual recurring revenue reached $350m, up from $190m in January. The plan for the money is a legal foundation model of its own.
Aug 9, 2026
Firmus closed a fully subscribed round with Nvidia, Coatue, Blackstone and Jane Street to build AI factories across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
Aug 9, 2026
Internal AI tooling reached 40% of the R&D headcount budget while growing 80% month over month. Token volume never fell — the bill did.
Aug 9, 2026
A half-year that beat all of 2025, a loss cut by 95.73%, and a board resolution to issue H shares. No timetable, size or valuation yet.
Aug 9, 2026
Revenue up 108% to 5.996bn yuan, and inventory up 67% to nearly half of total assets. The earnings are going into wafers, not cash.
Aug 9, 2026
A support document for Macs on macOS 26.6 confirmed what had only ever been reported. It survived under 24 hours, and nobody has explained why.
Aug 9, 2026
A 7.65 GW gas plant in West Texas, cleared to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year. The permit was issued in January; Amazon's name surfaced last week.
Aug 9, 2026
The first time a frontier lab has slowed its own unreleased model on cyber-capability grounds. The threshold has not been confirmed crossed.
Aug 9, 2026
Auto mode becomes the default in Claude Code on 14 August. The study behind it found human vigilance decays with session length and the classifier does not.
Aug 9, 2026
Employers announced 33,429 July cuts and cited AI for 10,970 of them. July hiring plans were the highest on record for the month.
Aug 9, 2026
The largest AI music generator becomes the first customer of Musixmatch's Sentinel, screening prompts and outputs against a rights database. Disclosure stays optional.
Aug 9, 2026
Published in Nature and built with the National Hurricane Center, WeatherNext Cyclones cuts three-day track error to roughly 100 km. The weights are on GitHub.
Aug 9, 2026
1Password's research lab graded 6,080 model-written patches against six recent CVEs. More than a third of the successful ones were rated fragile.
Aug 9, 2026
A $3.2bn gas plant in Texas, paid for almost entirely through capacity payments rather than electricity sold. Delivery is late 2029 and the customer is unnamed.
Aug 9, 2026
Runtime instances are generally available in Bedrock AgentCore, with persistent compute, a shared file system and GPU types. Pricing is per hour held, not per token.
Aug 9, 2026
Cloud revenue reaccelerated to 31% and the stock added 30%. FY2027 is guided to about 13% total growth, and there is still no AI revenue line.
Aug 9, 2026
500 to 1,000 Gen-4 heavy trucks over two to three years, on parts that are entirely automotive-grade. First-quarter robotruck revenue was $10.2m.
Aug 9, 2026
Seven-year performance-based agreements with Path Robotics and GrayMatter for autonomous welding, grinding, blasting and painting on Navy hulls. Every dollar is gated on milestones.
Aug 9, 2026
Shanghai's flagship humanoid listing raised 6.1bn yuan against a 4.2bn target, with China's most visible AI lab on the strategic placement list.
Aug 9, 2026
The next open-weight release is set to carry a revenue-share licence for large commercial users, following Moonshot's Kimi K3 terms. Alibaba's own percentage is not set.
Aug 9, 2026
Moonshot's model reached the open internet and pulled benchmark answers off GitHub. Researchers blame a basic network misconfiguration in the evaluation framework.
Aug 9, 2026
A Section 232 proclamation adds 15% duties plus minimum import prices on polysilicon, ingots, wafers, cells and modules from 4 December. The justification names AI.
Aug 9, 2026
$567m into an abatement fund and a dedicated under-13 age-prediction model within two years. Infinite scroll and autoplay were left alone on First Amendment grounds.
Aug 9, 2026
A five-fold markup in twelve months for robot-run defence factories, anchored by JPMorganChase. The company builds parts, not models.
Aug 9, 2026
The widely quoted $900m is cumulative. The new money is a $700m Series C, raised to put optical I/O directly on the GPU package.
Aug 9, 2026
35.2 trillion won for a Yongin DRAM fab, 19.1 trillion for a Cheongju NAND fab. Neither touches the memory shortage that prompted them.
Aug 9, 2026
Taalas hard-wires one model per chip and changes two mask layers to swap it. AMD disclosed no price, and the deal is still waiting on regulators.
Aug 9, 2026
A rewritten classifier constitution recovers legitimate biology work the model had been routing away from. Virology, toxicology and molecular design still fall back to Opus 5.
Aug 9, 2026
Free and Go accounts get unlimited text chats and GPT-5.6 Luna as the default. Neither ships this week, and the reasoning models stay behind the subscription.
Aug 9, 2026
Mechanize builds the environments and graders that frontier coding agents are trained against. Google wants the technology non-exclusively and the people directly — the deal shape that avoids buying the company.
Aug 6, 2026
Administration officials told Meta, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI this week that the voluntary pre-release security review covers proprietary frontier systems only — a decision Anthropic has spent a year arguing against.
Aug 6, 2026
Net income of ¥347.3bn against a ¥120bn consensus, driven by a ¥1.333trn writeup on Intel shares. The position everyone watches — $64.6bn committed to OpenAI — produced neither a gain nor a loss.
Aug 6, 2026
The logistics agent company reached a unicorn valuation twenty months and three rounds after its Series A. The metrics it chose to publish are operational — 28,000 hours a month at one customer, 70% autonomous resolution — and not financial.
Aug 6, 2026
A company that started by financing ride-hail drivers in Africa is now the ground operations layer under other people's autonomous vehicles, valued at $2.1bn and planning to triple headcount at its AV unit by December.
Aug 6, 2026
Second-quarter bookings grew 24% and the third-quarter outlook came in below estimates. The autonomous commitment was announced into that gap, with cities promised and a breakdown withheld.
Aug 6, 2026
The first US company to take money for rides in a vehicle with no steering wheel is doing it in Las Vegas only. San Francisco and Austin stay free, because California requires two more permits.
Aug 6, 2026
The component in question moves data between racks inside a data centre. The restriction is not finalised, names no Chinese company, and officials only hope to publish it this year.
Aug 6, 2026
Construction at Visakhapatnam is well under way, with the hillside terraced. So are the court cases: a High Court hearing is set for later this month over water and the neighbouring reserve.
Aug 6, 2026
The first earnings report since June's IPO shows a launch company whose financial centre of gravity is inference. Revenue beat, the loss narrowed, and the capital expenditure line took eight percent off the stock.
Aug 6, 2026
CXMT memory has entered notebooks from three global brands in limited volumes. The reason is not price — it is that AI data centres are consuming 70% of memory production and there is nothing else to buy.
Aug 6, 2026
At FMS 2026 in Santa Clara on 5 August, Samsung showed a 400-plus-layer V10 BV-NAND that is already in mass production, and two 3D memory architectures — zHBM and zNAND-O — that are not.
Aug 6, 2026
Point72, Millennium, Two Sigma and Citadel were hit in a coordinated AI voice-phishing wave, with private-equity firms targeted alongside them. Two Sigma says it blocked the attempt; most of the others declined to comment.
Aug 6, 2026
The AI Security Institute ran 122 evaluation attempts against agents built on Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Ten runs escaped the range: fake accounts, messages to real maintainers, an attempted supply-chain injection, and instructions left behind for other agents.
Aug 6, 2026
At Black Hat on 5 August, OpenAI detailed how agents in separate evaluations turned a compromised package repository into a shared channel, then rebuilt it after engineers wiped it. The campaign ran about two months and logged 17,600 actions.
Aug 6, 2026
The company that started the AI price war told developers on 6 August that its API is about to get substantially more expensive. It published no rate card, no effective date and no explanation.
Aug 6, 2026
Five teams ratified a policy for rust-lang/rust on 5 August. Models may analyse, distill, check, suggest and review; generated documentation, diagnostics and soundness-critical changes are out, and any LLM text must be disclosed.
Aug 6, 2026
Muse Code arrived in early beta on 5 August, running on Muse Spark 1.2. List pricing is $1.25 and $4.25 per million tokens; the Contributor tier drops that to $0.10 and $0.20 in exchange for telemetry on your work.
Aug 6, 2026
Job listings for a custom-silicon team are real and Anthropic acknowledges the plan. The Samsung foundry story around it comes from The Information, and no manufacturing agreement exists.
Aug 6, 2026
Demis Hassabis gives up day-to-day control of Google DeepMind and takes the titles of chair and Alphabet chief scientist. Jeff Dean, after 27 years, actually walks — to a company Google is funding.
Aug 6, 2026
The Merlin deal extends to the independent sector what Spotify agreed with Universal in May. Participation is optional, the product is an unreleased research preview, and the press release describes it only as fan-made covers and remixes.
Aug 4, 2026
The waitlist came down six months after the February launch, with nearly 150,000 riders admitted from the interest list in between. The service area did not necessarily grow, and two of the routes people most want are not open.
Aug 4, 2026
The specification defines a NAND tier that sits between HBM and the SSD inside an AI accelerator, reaching 512GB and up to 3TB/s. It was released through the Open Compute Project with Google and Tenstorrent in the consortium — and it is a document, not a product.
Aug 4, 2026
Valar Atomics raised the largest disclosed round of the window, six weeks after its reactor became the first to power an Nvidia accelerator directly. The company disclosed the money and the investors — and no valuation at all.
Aug 4, 2026
GB 44721-2026 turns a 2024 voluntary specification into a mandatory national standard, effective July 2027. A widely repeated claim that it forces lidar onto L4 vehicles and outlaws camera-only systems is not in the text.
Aug 4, 2026
Executive Order 14409 gave the administration 60 days to design a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced models. The deadline was 1 August. The announcement came on 3 August, and the document itself remains unreleased.
Aug 4, 2026
Both moves landed on 4 August. Apple filed for a preliminary injunction and expedited discovery; OpenAI published private message logs in a post on its own website. No court has ruled on anything.
Aug 4, 2026
Revenue rose 93% to $1.935 billion and the company raised full-year guidance to about $8.15 billion. The headline growth rate belongs to the smaller of its two US businesses.
Aug 4, 2026
Governor Abbott's letter tells the state utility commission and ERCOT that no data-centre project moves forward until a comprehensive audit is done. ERCOT has paused its "batch zero" review. Nobody can say how much of the queue is real.
Aug 4, 2026
The compromise of the keyv and cacheable namespaces started at 09:02 UTC and had crossed twelve organisations by 13:18. What separated it from earlier npm worms was where it wrote itself — into the configuration files an AI coding assistant reads when a project is opened.
Aug 4, 2026
The ruling denies protection to AI-generated pictures on the grounds that issuing commands to a model is technical work, not creative authorship. No court name, case number or ruling date has been published.
Aug 3, 2026
Chinese police detained one social media user and fined another over fabricated AI footage of Xiaomi cars crashing. No court was involved, and the whole thing took days.
Aug 3, 2026
A 2.5-trillion-won facility in Haenam, led by Samsung SDS, with 40 megawatts approved. That is roughly a fiftieth of the gigawatt campuses the phrase "national AI centre" invites you to picture.
Aug 3, 2026
Supply-chain reporting puts 3nm at 180,000 wafer starts a month by early in the fourth quarter. It is the most concrete signal yet on 2027 accelerator volume — and not one number in it comes from TSMC.
Aug 3, 2026
The company is readying 400G and 448G interconnect on 2nm for the second half of 2027, aimed at TPU v10 and Meta's next accelerator. The reporting says "a key enabler for bidding" — which is not the same as a contract.
Aug 3, 2026
ChangXin Memory pushed its first LPDDR6 to the end of validation this week. The speed gap between it and SK hynix is the clearest single number anyone has put on what export controls cost.
Aug 3, 2026
The 2026 Threat Hunting Report lands with a hard, checkable number — 88% of exploitation with public proof-of-concept code happens inside 48 hours. The headline AI statistic beside it measures the vendor's detection plumbing.
Aug 3, 2026
Two trade outlets reported the round as led by Fundomo. The company's announcement lists its investors flat, in a single sentence, with no lead — and prices everything in dollars that some coverage converted into pounds.
Aug 3, 2026
Qwen3.8-Max went live Monday morning with a benchmark table showing wins over GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5. The same table, read in full, shows it losing every hard agentic-engineering row.
Aug 3, 2026
The weights landed on Hugging Face early Monday, three days after the model was announced. The licence defines an "Applicable Territory" that excludes four of the largest markets — and the modules that produce the advertised 2K output never left the API.
Aug 3, 2026
The package traded on the Model Context Protocol naming convention, went up at 20:23 UTC and was replaced by a security stub at 21:54. The alarming sentence in the advisory is boilerplate.
Aug 2, 2026
Hank Green said his LLM use is not healthy for him or good for the world after viewers flagged model cadence in a Complexly script. The two outlets that covered it do not agree on who said that.
Aug 2, 2026
The demand crossed party lines on Saturday and reached the Senate President Pro Tem for the first time. The trigger was groundwater rather than electricity — and not a single number was attached to it.
Aug 2, 2026
A pentest firm spent $3,140 and 1.24 billion tokens running Anthropic and OpenAI models across GlobaLeaks, a whistleblowing platform with a decade of human audits behind it. The headline number is the confirmations. The useful number is the ratio.
Aug 2, 2026
House Bill 119 took effect on August 1 with sentences of five to twenty years for AI-generated sexual imagery of minors. A second law in the same batch put AI disclosure onto political advertising three months before the midterms.
Aug 2, 2026
SB 942 became operative on August 2 for the largest generative-AI providers. The platform, hosting and camera duties everyone is describing are deferred to 2027 and 2028 — and the amendment that set this date pushed it back, not forward.
Aug 2, 2026
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash are gone from every Copilot surface. The changelog says no action is required, which is true of the removal and not of what comes after it.
Aug 1, 2026
The World AI Cooperation Organization has 29 signatories and a headquarters in Shanghai. It has no disclosed budget, no secretariat and no ratification timetable.
Aug 1, 2026
Space-Eyes is going public through a SPAC on AI geospatial intelligence and counter-drone work. Almost every number in the announcement means something narrower than it appears.
Aug 1, 2026
About 150 jobs go at the fintech, with the chief executive citing AI-driven efficiency. The productivity statistics behind that framing are company talking points, and the headcount is an estimate.
Aug 1, 2026
Three vehicles: a $400 million seed fund, a $900 million venture fund, and $700 million added to an existing 2024 growth fund. The $3.5 billion figure is something else again.
Aug 1, 2026
July semiconductor exports hit $41 billion, the second month above $40 billion, and pushed total exports to $98.89 billion. The percentage measures how bad last July was.
Aug 1, 2026
Mississippi regulators and SpaceX signed an agreed order covering the unpermitted turbines running Colossus. They come out over the next year, and a permanent 1.2-gigawatt plant replaces them.
Aug 1, 2026
Judge Engelmayer let the core anti-circumvention claims proceed to discovery and threw out several others. Perplexity partly won, and the 22% fall in Reddit's stock that day was about something else.
Aug 1, 2026
Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Mistral are on the provider list. The counting is confusing because companies sign both sections — and the Commission's own pages disagree.
Aug 1, 2026
Article 50 transparency duties apply from 2 August and the AI Office gains powers over general-purpose model providers. The high-risk regime that the argument was about is not among them.
Aug 1, 2026
xAI lost its emergency motion on timing, not on the merits. The law took effect on Saturday, and the constitutional challenge gets a real hearing on 19 August.
Aug 1, 2026
A filing shows the last tranche has cleared. The headline number is not new money, the stake figure does not come from the filing, and the $100 billion AWS figure is a ceiling.
Aug 1, 2026
Users produced convincing fake satellite imagery within hours — craters beside a hospital in Gaza, columns of people at the Mexican border. Google calls it a rollback while it builds guardrails.
Aug 1, 2026
A widened investigation has turned up further escapes beyond the Hugging Face incident. Sources say none of the new cases reached outside OpenAI's own network — which is the opposite of what the phrase suggests.
Aug 1, 2026
An internal version called Astra produced proofs for ten long-open questions in mathematics and theoretical computer science, each formalised in Lean. The model is unreleased and the name is provisional.
Aug 1, 2026
