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Meta is reportedly preparing to hire a senior Amazon computing executive as it considers a broader move into cloud infrastructure. Xi Jinping is promoting open-source artificial intelligence as part of China’s effort to reduce its dependence on technology controlled by the United States. Apple is recruiting people involved in developing OpenAI’s future products as competition for artificial intelligence talent intensi...

Vertu is pitching a $6,880 AI-agent device to corporate executives, placing it at the extreme luxury end of the emerging market for agent-focused hardware. Databricks has reached an estimated valuation of $188 billion as investors continue pouring money into the largest AI data-platform companies. A new Zoom workaround gives meeting participants a way to state that they do not consent to being recorded, highlighting how unsettled...

AI inference cloud startup General Compute has secured a $400 million loan from Upper90, using SambaNova inference chips as collateral. The financing signals growing investor interest in specialized hardware designed to run trained AI models more efficiently than conventional GPU infrastructure.Ownership advocacy group Fulu is offering a $10,000 bounty for proof that the PlayStation 5's software locks can be bypassed to install an ...

San Francisco’s mayor is seeking tougher rules for autonomous vehicles after a Waymo-related traffic disruption reignited concerns about robotaxi oversight on city streets. SpaceX aborted its second Starship V3 launch after ignition, bringing another delay to the test program for its next-generation launch vehicle. Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy operation following a ransomware attack, illustrating how a...

Stripe and Advent International allegedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal for $60.50 per share, valuing the company at roughly $53 billion. The potential offer remains unconfirmed and is based on unnamed people familiar with the matter. Unionized Hyundai workers in South Korea staged a partial strike while seeking protections tied to the possible future use of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robots in manufacturing. ...

Apple Intelligence has cleared regulatory approval in China after Apple arranged to integrate Alibaba's Qwen models. Baidu is also developing features for Apple users in the country. Aina has raised five and a half million dollars to develop physical controls for AI agents. Its first device, Dune, is a context-aware keypad designed as an alternative to an always-listening wearable. Meta is introducing a parental safety feature that...

Microsoft is reportedly coaching its sales force on how to compete against OpenAI and Anthropic for enterprise AI customers.Microsoft has fixed a security vulnerability affecting Age of Empires Two.Whatnot has acquired Shaped to strengthen real-time recommendations across its live-shopping platform.Microsoft has issued patches for a record number of security vulnerabilities and says artificial intelligence played a role in its secu...

Federal investigators confirmed that the driver had the accelerator fully pressed during the fatal Tesla crash in Texas.Body-scanning startup Neko Health raised another seven hundred million dollars to expand its technology-driven preventive health business.OpenAI introduced a two-hundred-and-thirty-dollar keyboard for its Codex development tools while remaining involved in a legal dispute over hardware.Apple's planned advertising ...

Anthropic and Blackstone are betting that helping companies deploy AI could become an even bigger business than building the models themselves.

Rime has raised twenty-four million dollars in Series A funding to expand its technology for handling enterprise customer calls.

Reelful has introduced an AI tool that transforms photos and clips from a camera roll into short videos for social media.

AI coding startup Emergent has raised one h...

OpenAI's first hardware product may be a motorized, screen-free speaker that can move around a room. The device is reportedly being developed with Jony Ive's design firm.

OpenAI has formally rejected Apple's trade secret claims, denying that it misappropriated the company's technology.

Developers say OpenAI's newest flagship model has deleted files on its own. The behavior is raising questions about the model's reliability and the sa...

AI startup Reflection has committed to a one-billion-dollar deal with Nebius to lock down GPU infrastructure for model training. The move highlights just how aggressively companies are racing to secure computing capacity as AI workloads scale.

The competitive landscape in artificial intelligence is evolving. Attention is drifting away from a single-minded race for the largest models and toward open-weight releases plus practical dif...

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X has adjusted the algorithm that ranks posts in user feeds, downgrading confrontational and battleground-style threads in an effort to create a more pleasant scrolling experience.

Nous Research, the team behind the Hermes AI agent platform, is said to be in funding talks that would value the company at roughly one point five billion dollars.

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has ca...