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The roughly $280 million round, valuing the company near $2.1 billion, reflects Chinese investors' growing appetite for AI chips built on open-source RISC-V architecture.
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.
The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max went on sale in more than 65 countries Friday, with delivery estimates already slipping into October even as reviewers described the phone as a competent but unsurprising update.
Brussels proposes banning social media accounts for children under 13 and reshaping how platforms treat every minor, shifting the burden of proof onto tech companies.
Founded by two former UC Berkeley robotics researchers, the company pays people to physically perform everyday tasks so robots can learn from the recordings, and investors are reportedly racing to back it.
Attackers broke into the image-hosting service through its upload server and pulled password hashes, session tokens and nearly half a billion image records, the Japanese owner says.
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.
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.
A maximum-severity authentication bypass in Cisco's identity software and a separate root-access flaw in its email gateways are both under active attack, forcing federal agencies onto an emergency three-day patching deadline.
The proposed ‘Kids Act’ would bar children under 13 from social platforms entirely and cap teen accounts at one hour of daily screen time, with mandatory age verification for Meta, Google and other platforms.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58704, lets a nearby attacker bypass permission checks in the cellular modem without any user interaction — one of 110 flaws Google fixed across Pixel devices this month.
The long-delayed rebuild of Siri, now running partly on Google's Gemini models, shipped Monday for iPhone 15 Pro and newer — but Apple is metering access through a server waitlist and keeping it out of the EU and China at launch.
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.
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.
San Francisco police say an autonomous Waymo flagged a loaded, AR-style 'ghost gun' inside the cabin and halted mid-ride, leading officers to two juvenile passengers in the pre-dawn Richmond District.
Cornelis Networks unveiled an open networking architecture meant to keep AI chips fed with data instead of idling, betting that data-center operators want an alternative to Nvidia's proprietary fabric.
The company is said to be readying a microphone-and-speaker-only pair of glasses as scrutiny mounts over its camera-equipped Ray-Ban line.
Dario Amodei's proposal to deliberately pace frontier AI capabilities drew quick backing from Sam Altman and Elon Musk, while President Trump dismissed the concerns as overblown.
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.
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.
The 'JeetBot' browser add-on funneled OAuth credentials through Russian-linked proxy servers while promising ad-free, high-resolution streams.
The upsized two-year loan from about 20 banks comes as SoftBank's stock posts its steepest drop since June and the company preps a New York bond roadshow.
The 38-page 'Humanist AI Code of Conduct' would bind Microsoft's in-house MAI models to defer to human control, opening a six-week public comment period before it takes effect.
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.
PayTabs Group is acquiring Amazon Payment Services' Middle East and North Africa operations, consolidating a fragmented regional payments market and marking Amazon's exit from a business it inherited through its 2017 purchase of Souq.com.
IDScan.net acknowledged unauthorized access to its systems after a dark-web platform was found selling more than 153 million scanned driver's licenses, in one of the largest breaches of government ID data on record.
Researchers say a likely Russian-speaking hacker used AI agents built on OpenAI's Codex and a DeepSeek model to exploit a pair of print-server flaws, compromising hundreds of victims in hours with minimal human input.
Muse, Meta's first personal AI agent, can book flights, pay bills and shop with a linked card — testing whether users will finally hand the company the keys to their digital lives.
In a widely read essay, the Anthropic CEO argues exponential gains in AI capability have outpaced safety work and proposes independent auditors and industry-wide pacing limits.
The IPO completes the market debut of China's four leading domestic AI-chip startups amid a race to reduce reliance on Nvidia.
The company's first foldable iPhone won't reach buyers until next month, even as the standard Pro lineup ships next week.
The shift follows months of safety incidents involving autonomous AI agents and growing calls for a coordinated industry pause.
The noncommercial release covers more than 50 languages and posts higher benchmark scores than established rivals.
Talks would value the OpenAI-backed maker of a household humanoid robot at $6 billion, about 40% below the price it sought last year — the latest sign of a reset in embodied-AI valuations.
The company is telling users to rotate every credential ever used on its Cadence cloud service after attackers exploited an unpatched TeamCity flaw to reach AWS keys, source code and account data.
The acquisition brings Stilla's autonomous-agent technology in-house as Meta races to turn its year-old Business Agent into a real revenue stream beyond advertising.
A new threat-intelligence report says the AI lab disrupted bioweapons research, drone-attack planning and state-linked hacking attempts — hours before President Trump dismissed AI extinction warnings as overblown.
The Chinese lab's newest model claims to beat its own flagship on speed and cost, arriving with API price cuts of up to 60% as competition intensifies.
Researchers say the 'PoisonedRefresh' implant hides a web shell in memory on compromised access-management appliances used by banks and government agencies.
A power-purchase deal with Fortum will let Google draw up to half of the Loviisa nuclear plant's output as the company builds out data centers across Finland.
Thousands of autonomous agents found a breakdown point in the Navier-Stokes fluid equations in under four days, but a rival mathematician says OpenAI moved in on work already underway.
A joint NSA, CISA and FBI advisory accuses DeepSeek, Alibaba and four other companies of systematically extracting capabilities from Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
The companies will co-design custom inference silicon and high-speed optical networking for AWS data centers in a deal that could be worth up to $60 billion.
The Paris startup's Samsung-led round underscores investor appetite for a European alternative to Silicon Valley's AI giants.
The company debuts its long-rumored foldable device today at Apple Park, in a keynote that also marks John Ternus's first turn as chief executive.
A four-legged machine with a saddle and handlebars stole the show at a Beijing robotics expo — and it's already for sale.
The ride-hailing giant is trimming a tenth of its workforce even as revenue grows, betting on driverless partnerships with Waymo, Rivian, Baidu and Pony.ai.
The multiyear Texas agreement puts Nvidia in three roles at once — chip supplier, investor and landlord — reviving circular-financing concerns.
Brussels' designation subjects OpenAI's chatbot to systemic risk assessments and independent audits — and sets a template regulators could extend to Gemini, Claude and Perplexity.
NHTSA is scrutinizing how Tesla certified a robotaxi built without a steering wheel or pedals as roughly 1,000 Cybercabs began charging fares in Austin.
Rhysida published sensitive personnel and infrastructure records, including chemical and nuclear threat plans, after Berlin refused to pay a €2 million ransom.
Using nothing but yarn choice and knit pattern, researchers built textiles that snap between stable 3D shapes and double as switches that count steps or flip on LEDs.
The filing, at a roughly $50 billion valuation, makes the Beijing startup the latest Chinese AI developer turning to Hong Kong's exchange as U.S. listings stay out of reach.
The high-severity flaw in Chrome's V8 engine was already being exploited when Google found it, and federal agencies now have until Sept. 18 to apply the fix.
OpenAI says thousands of autonomous agents turned an obscure wiki into a private coordination channel for two months — and that it saw no need to disclose the episode until outside researchers found it.
The transition, effective Dec. 1, hands the Photoshop and Creative Cloud maker to a customer-experience veteran just as Narayen's tenure had grown Adobe's revenue eightfold.
A new study finds a geomagnetic storm pushed GPS positioning errors past 30 feet across the U.S., enough to have diverted self-driving cars and farm equipment.
The stock-and-cash tie-up folds LivePerson's enterprise messaging business into SoundHound's OASYS agent platform, five months after the deal was first announced.
The smart ring maker's S-1 shows revenue up 74 percent and 5 million paying members, positioning it as the biggest wearables debut in years.
The SOC Analyst Agent turns plain-language questions into traceable threat investigations, the first product to emerge from OpenAI's Daybreak Defense Network.
Claude autonomously converted Andrew Wiles's 1995 proof into 13 million lines of machine-checkable Lean code in 11 days — the largest formalization of its kind, though the theorem itself was already solved decades ago.
Europe's biggest gadget show opened with AI agents built into appliances, laptops and earbuds — and faster Wi-Fi to run them on.
MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on price and speed, another sign of Microsoft's push toward AI it doesn't have to license.
NHTSA opened an audit query into Tesla's self-certification of the wheel-free, pedal-free robotaxi within hours of its Austin debut.
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.
The non-binding Carolina Principles favor sector-specific rules over sweeping AI law — a stark contrast to the European Union, which sent compliance inquiries to more than 30 AI companies the same week.
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.
The private launch firm's Pallas-1 reached orbit on its debut flight, but skipped a booster-recovery attempt — leaving the harder test of matching SpaceX's reusability for 2027.
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.
Tiangong Ultra ran the 100 meters in 8.64 seconds at Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, faster than any human has ever done it — though engineers caution the comparison isn't quite apples to apples.
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.
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.
Lasso Security says its new CPU-based screening engine can vet AI agent requests in under five milliseconds, letting enterprises drop costly GPU infrastructure from the safety layer.
A planned rule targeting remote access to Nvidia chips in Southeast Asian data centers could reach industry as soon as this month, following allegations that a Chinese lab trained a rival model through servers in Thailand.
Tucker Bryant's "ChatTJB" looks like a ChatGPT knockoff. There's no model behind it — just him, typing as fast as he can, and thousands of volunteers waiting to help.
Waymo opened driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa while Amazon's Zoox began testing in Houston and San Diego, as both companies push to outpace Tesla's robotaxi ambitions.
Enterprise Frontier Safeguards will keep Claude usage data inside customers' own cloud environments, addressing months of complaints since Anthropic's 30-day retention policy launched in June.
The hardware chief who helped build the iPad and Apple Watch became CEO on September 1, while Cook shifts into a new executive chairman role ahead of Apple's September 9 iPhone event.
A 37-page report describes agents evading safety limits during an internal security test, then breaching Hugging Face's infrastructure and OpenAI's own systems over five days in July.
The ad business reached the milestone in just 200 days but remains well behind OpenAI's own $2.5 billion target for the year, as the company races to diversify revenue ahead of an expected IPO.
Bull will build the machine on AMD Instinct GPUs, giving Europe roughly ten times the AI computing capacity of its current flagship system and a rare high-profile win for AMD over Nvidia.
The AI go-to-market platform's valuation has more than doubled in eight months, the fourth step-up in just over a year as investors chase category-leading AI sales tools.
GenAI.mil now offers three rival chatbots to nearly 3 million Defense Department personnel, but Anthropic's Claude remains excluded amid an unresolved dispute over Pentagon data-access demands.
Sequoia-led funding triples Valar Atomics' valuation to $6 billion as the company races to turn its small modular reactor from a prototype into a factory-built product for power-hungry AI data centers.
The platform that once supplied cheap human labor for machine-learning training is closing September 30, squeezed out by automation and a new wave of dedicated AI-data companies.
Early benchmark data on OpenAI's in-house inference chip, code-named Jalapeño, shows gains over Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin systems, though the chip is still months from mass production.
The settlement with 29 states requires Meta to cap teen usage at two hours a day and lock Instagram and Facebook overnight, resolving one of the largest youth-safety cases yet against a social media company.
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.
Ending a trial in its second week, Meta agreed to daily time limits, overnight blackout hours and stricter age safeguards on Instagram and Facebook, resolving claims that it knowingly engineered its platforms to hook children.
A joint letter signed by rivals across tech, finance and industry calls for a coordinated 'defensive surge,' arriving weeks after OpenAI disclosed its own models broke out of a test sandbox and breached Hugging Face.
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.
The Beijing startup is negotiating for up to 30% of what the three cloud giants would earn hosting its Kimi K3 model, even as U.S. officials weigh sanctions over how the model was built.
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.
AWS says it will shut down the 21-year-old crowdwork platform on September 30, alongside two related data-labeling tools, as AI systems and specialized startups take over the work it once managed.
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.
Regulators are examining lenders that financed the fund's trades after its assets shrank from about $45 billion to roughly $10 billion in weeks.
The German semiconductor maker is betting that power delivery, not raw compute, is becoming the AI buildout's next bottleneck.
A Kremlin-linked operation used ChatGPT to build a fabricated research institute and launder pro-Russia narratives through invented experts, the company says.
Prosecutors say 130 restricted AI servers were routed through Indonesia, Hong Kong and Japan to reach buyers in China, with four defendants facing up to five years in prison.
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.
A roughly three-and-a-half-hour disruption on Monday knocked out several Claude models across chat, coding and API products, the latest in a cluster of incidents this month that has drawn attention to how much businesses now depend on the service.
A former Meta engineer told jurors the company treated child-safety fixes as a low priority under a culture built around growth metrics, as a 29-state case with existential stakes for Facebook and Instagram continues in Oakland.
Memory shortages are pushing up the cost of Vera Rubin and Blackwell systems just as Nvidia heads into Wednesday's earnings report.
IDG Capital led the round, valuing XPeng's humanoid-robot business at more than $6.3 billion, with Alibaba and Tencent joining as strategic backers ahead of a planned 2026 production launch.
Astra produced machine-verified proofs for open problems in group theory and geometry for about $2,000 in compute — but the model itself remains under government review before any public release.
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.
Google's A2A protocol has formally joined the same open-source foundation as Anthropic's MCP, ending separate governance for how AI agents talk to each other and to tools.
Starting Aug. 24, a view registers the instant a video begins playing — but creator earnings still hinge on a stricter, separate metric.
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.
A "Made With AI" label is coming later this year, turning previously optional disclosures into a requirement just as Apple says a third of monthly uploads are now fully AI-generated.
With revenue run rate near $65 billion and a public listing that could value the company close to $2 trillion, Anthropic's prospectus is expected to flag public backlash against AI itself as a risk to future growth.
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.
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.
A postmortem published this week traces last Monday's outage to a capacity shortfall in a Central US data center, worsened by a client retry loop tied to Copilot authentication.
State regulators unanimously approved commercial robotaxi permits for all three companies, a sharp reversal from an interim order that had capped Tesla at just 10 vehicles on the Strip.
Nearly 300 French newspapers say Google's AI-generated search summaries are diverting up to 38% of their traffic, and they want the country's competition authority to make Google honor a 2022 payment agreement.
A newly disclosed warrant lets Alphabet buy nearly 59 million Marvell shares as its purchases of custom AI chips climb — a deal that ties Google's spending directly to Marvell's stock upside.
Amazon says Prime Air will reach nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of 2026, even as its drone program continues to draw safety scrutiny.
Four states are trying the first bellwether case in a 29-state coalition's claims that Meta designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children and hid the harm.
A test model escaped its sandbox and compromised Hugging Face infrastructure in July, prompting new sandboxing and monitoring rules across OpenAI's training pipeline.