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Saturday, September 19, 2026
Technology · Security
Signal Tests Sign-Up Without a Phone Number, for a $3 Fee

The encrypted messaging app's beta lets users register with an account ID and a one-time payment instead of a phone number, aiming to curb spam without sacrificing anonymity.

By Claire Fontaine · 07:25 ET · 2 min read
Friday, September 18, 2026
Technology · Deals
British IT Reseller Softcat to Buy US Rival GDT for $1.05 Billion

The London-listed reseller is funding part of its biggest-ever acquisition with a fresh equity raise, betting that AI-driven demand for networking and data-center gear justifies a bigger US footprint.

By Sofia Marino · 06:35 ET · 4 min read
Technology · AI Chips
Huawei Moves Up Timeline for AI Chip Aimed at Nvidia's Home Turf

The company says its next Ascend accelerator will ship roughly six months early as it races to give Chinese AI developers a domestic alternative to Nvidia, ahead of a planned Trump-Xi meeting next week.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:30 ET · 4 min read
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Artificial Intelligence · Funding
China's Z.ai Raises Second $5 Billion War Chest in Two Months for AI Race

The Hong Kong-listed GLM developer combined a $2 billion share placement with $3 billion in convertible bonds, its second major raise since July, as Chinese AI labs race to match the capital intensity of their U.S. rivals.

By Sofia Marino · 06:35 ET · 2 min read
Artificial Intelligence · Global Policy
King Charles Presses AI Chiefs to Sign a 'Flourishing' Charter at Scotland Summit

Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and OpenAI's Sarah Friar were among roughly 30 industry figures the king urged not to let humanity 'lose control of our destiny,' at a summit convened days after Anthropic's Dario Amodei publicly called for the industry to slow down.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:00 ET · 4 min read
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Cybersecurity
AI Agent Swarm Breached Nearly 400 Organizations in Days, Researchers Find

A single attacker turned hundreds of autonomous AI agents loose on unpatched PaperCut print servers, compromising 440 systems across 48 countries in what researchers call one of the first fully AI-orchestrated hacking campaigns at this scale.

By Claire Fontaine · 07:05 ET · 3 min read
Technology · AI & Misinformation
How an AI 'Cat in the Hat' Stalker Spooked Two Countries

Fabricated images of a menacing Dr. Seuss character prowling residential streets forced police in Ireland and Britain to publicly debunk a trend built on generative AI.

By Claire Fontaine · 04:45 ET · 2 min read
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Technology · Apple
Apple Ships AI-Rebuilt Siri to Hundreds of Millions of iPhones

iOS 27's overhauled assistant, built with technology co-developed with Google's Gemini, brings multi-turn conversations and cross-app actions — but launches without key features in the EU and China.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:00 ET · 6 min read
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Technology · Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Says Welcome to the 'AGI Era'

Greg Brockman calls the new model OpenAI's clearest sign yet that artificial general intelligence has arrived, but rivals and researchers say the benchmarks tell a messier story.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:15 ET · 4 min read
Friday, September 4, 2026
Cybersecurity
Google Gates Access to Its Most Powerful Cyber-Defense AI Model

Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber can find and patch software vulnerabilities largely on its own — so Google is releasing it only to vetted governments and security partners through a new program called Fairwind.

By Claire Fontaine · 07:15 ET · 2 min read
Venture
Moonshot AI Files for Hong Kong IPO at $50 Billion Valuation

The Beijing AI startup's valuation has jumped from $30 billion to $50 billion in weeks, fueled by its Kimi K3 open-weight model — and it is reportedly in talks to bring that model to Microsoft, Amazon and Google's clouds.

By Sofia Marino · 06:00 ET · 3 min read
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Technology · Enterprise Software
Survey: A Third of Companies Now Skip Buying Software to Build Their Own With AI

McKinsey's latest global AI survey finds nearly a third of organizations have passed on purchasing software because agentic coding tools let them build it in-house instead — though homegrown tools succeed less often than the vendor products they replace.

By Sofia Marino · 08:10 ET · 2 min read
Technology · AI Governance
Startup's New Tool Vets AI Agent Actions Before They Execute

JetStream Security's Clearance engine checks each step an AI agent takes against its approved permissions in real time, aiming to stop rogue actions before they happen rather than flagging them afterward.

By Claire Fontaine · 07:55 ET · 2 min read
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Technology · AI Deals
Nvidia Reportedly Nearing $12.9 Billion Deal to Buy Hugging Face

The Information reports Nvidia has agreed to acquire the open-source AI hub, a deal that would hand the chipmaker outsized influence over how developers share and deploy AI models — though neither company has confirmed it.

By Sofia Marino · 07:50 ET · 3 min read
Technology · AI Infrastructure
Nvidia Tells Microsoft, Google and Oracle to Expect Steeper AI Server Bills

Contract manufacturers say Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems will cost more than 15% extra on shipments starting in early 2027, as a global memory shortage hands DRAM makers new leverage over the AI industry's biggest spenders.

By Claire Fontaine · 07:20 ET · 4 min read
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Technology · Chips
Samsung Puts AI Computation Directly Inside a Memory Chip

The company's LPDDR5X-PIM, shown at the Hot Chips conference, tripled inference throughput in Samsung's own testing and is aimed at AI workloads too cost-sensitive for high-bandwidth memory.

By Claire Fontaine · 07:36 ET · 4 min read
Technology · AI Chips
OpenAI's First Chip Claims an Edge Over Nvidia's Newest Silicon

Benchmarks published for the Broadcom-built Jalapeño chip show it outpacing Nvidia's Blackwell-generation systems on inference efficiency, a day after Nvidia posted record revenue and still watched its shares slide.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:48 ET · 5 min read
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Technology · Robotics
Robots Outrun Bolt's Record Time at Beijing's Humanoid Games

A humanoid sprinter clocked 9.39 seconds over 100 meters as the five-day World Humanoid Robot Games wrapped in Beijing — though engineers say the feat has more to do with gearing than athleticism.

By Claire Fontaine · 04:05 ET · 2 min read
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
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REGULATION
Anthropic Adds Invisible Watermarks to Claude's Writing

Under new European transparency rules, every block of text Claude generates now carries a hidden, machine-readable marker — applied worldwide, not just to EU users.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:52 ET · 2 min read
PLATFORMS
YouTube Redraws the View Count, Effective Today

Starting Aug. 24, a view registers the instant a video begins playing — but creator earnings still hinge on a stricter, separate metric.

By Sofia Marino · 06:34 ET · 4 min read
Technology · Robotics
Humanoid Robot Runs Faster Than Usain Bolt at Beijing Games

Tiangong Ultra clocked 9.39 seconds over 100 meters as the second World Humanoid Robot Games opened in Beijing, dipping under the sprint mark Usain Bolt has held since 2009.

By Claire Fontaine · 04:05 ET · 2 min read
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Business · M&A
Stripe Buys AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion

The payments giant is absorbing a startup that routes billions of queries across 400 AI models, betting that owning the layer that picks which model runs a request is worth a price five times what investors valued the company at three months ago.

By Sofia Marino · 06:50 ET · 2 min read
Technology · Logistics
Amazon Prepares to Sextuple Its Drone Delivery Map by Year's End

Prime Air is expanding from 11 metro areas to nearly 500 cities and towns by the end of 2026, betting that FAA sign-off and a quieter, longer-range drone can outrun the noise complaints and safety incidents that slowed its early rollout.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:10 ET · 4 min read
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