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Brief letters connect nostalgia for fading trades with the Serbelloni group's little-known AI findings and The Terminator's 1984 vision of machines crushing humanity.
IBM is bringing Arm to its future IBM Z and LinuxONE systems, connecting mission-critical enterprise computing with modern cloud and AI infrastructure.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology grants Zhejiang Geespace Technology a two-year permit, opening China's satellite communications market to private capital.
Velatir lands fresh capital six months after its pre-Seed round and official launch.
One ad featured a pornographic deepfake closely resembling a U.S. politician, intensifying scrutiny of Meta’s ad enforcement.
After years of crowd-pleasing humanoid demos, China's robotics industry confronts the harder task of turning global attention and capital into commercially scalable businesses.
In a Guardian op-ed, the Vermont senator argues that progressive candidates are defeating better-funded establishment Democrats by naming the economic realities voters live daily—and offering solutions their rivals won't.
China's best-known humanoid robot maker sees its shares leap more than sixfold on opening before early profit-taking trims gains.
US states allege the tech giant designed Facebook and Instagram to hook children, as Meta argues in court that social media addiction does not exist.
The world's biggest humanoid robot maker sees its shares surge as trading begins on Shanghai's Star market.
The Chinese tech giant is prioritising long-term artificial intelligence investment even as second-quarter net profits fall under competitive and cost pressures.
The deal will see Wood manage lifecycle data for nearly 100 Equinor assets in Norway, underscoring the growing role of digital infrastructure in energy operations.
A Built In explainer recaps the world's top state-backed funds and tracks a growing push to channel capital into artificial intelligence.
The autonomous driving software company plans to develop an AI chip for self-driving applications and release the design as open source.
A $54 dining experience spotlights how discarded ingredients can be turned into a multi-course meal.
CoinMarketCap lists live price, market cap and chart data for the USD.AI token, which trades under the ticker CHIP.
An opinion piece argues that uncontrolled AI rollout is not a 'mixed blessing' but a miscalculated risk born of a failure of responsible leadership, especially in Western nations.
Secondhand sellers say mystery buyers are placing large orders, prompting speculation that AI companies are acquiring books to scan for data.
A pro se litigant reportedly seeded his filings with chatbot-style prompts, underscoring growing confusion over how AI is being used in legal proceedings.
A partnership between UGM, Indosat, NVIDIA and the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs establishes the country's first university-based AI technology center in Yogyakarta.
The sovereign wealth investor reports a passive 5.64% beneficial ownership position in the technology services firm via an amended Schedule 13G filing.
Prosecutors allege 17-year-old Arjun Aravind used the internet and AI to search for fantasy stories about killing his family; he is being held without bail after a not-guilty plea was entered on his behalf.
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The Chinese tech giant makes its flagship model free to download but requires large companies to pay for a separate commercial license.
The company acknowledges a slow response after US police officers misused its licence plate-reading cameras to track romantic partners.
Anthropic's 'Scarlet Letter' system tags anything Claude processed—including human writing it only edited—while staying invisible to users, for now.
The Wuhan-based chipmaker captured 14% of global NAND bit shipments in the second quarter, narrowly overtaking Japan's Kioxia in a milestone for China's semiconductor ambitions.
Beijing's coordinated push across insurers, banks, and local governments aims to fast-track brain-computer interfaces from lab to patient.
Risk aversion and conservatism are blamed for Japanese firms' slow embrace of artificial intelligence.
The Peabody-winning studio behind 1000XResist returns with a Captcha-filled horror game about digital clones, corporate labor and what it means to have a 'meat body.'
The investment bank maintains its optimistic outlook on equities while forecasting crude oil prices will slip below the $70 mark.
A newspaper editorial examines how artificial intelligence is challenging the credibility of examinations and what institutions may need to do about it.
The Shanghai-listed Nvidia challenger seeks fresh capital in Hong Kong amid booming demand for home-grown computing power.
Lower-cost Chinese open-weight models are unsettling US investors even as analysts argue plummeting costs could expand global demand for AI systems.
Rating agency cautions that financial institutions' AI adoption promises gains but leaves them exposed to outages and pricing pressure from dominant tech firms.
Meta is developing a cloud business focused on AI compute, adding competitive pressure to the biggest cloud providers.
Tech investors wanted a slice of the World Cup before the plan was scrapped — and the episode raises the question of whether such proposals are now inevitable.
The author and academic argues education is at a crossroads, warning AI could enable disinformation, surveillance and inequality even as it promises real benefits in medicine, disability access and science.
Respondents to a piece by China’s ambassador to the UK argue that openly released models bring real benefits, but China’s ecosystem — like others’ — falls short of robust openness standards.
The company said Jarnac will lead its global sales organization to strengthen customer relationships and go-to-market execution across key product areas.
Hyperscale projects draw bipartisan backlash in Arkansas over water and electricity use and the appropriation of rural, Black-owned land.
The WTA official score page lists Jessica Pegula against Alexandra Eala in the 2026 Washington, DC championship match.
Qatar-based telecom Ooredoo partners with Nvidia and Nokia on a multi-billion-dollar AI compute platform targeting Southeast Asia.
The chipmaker's new SEPP initiative aims to strengthen education pathways from K-12 through post-secondary schooling and into semiconductor careers.
The AI agent environment Cloudflare originally built in-house for its employees is now being released as open-source tooling for people who don't write code.
SD-ledaren försvarar att Tidöpartierna slopat det kommunala vetot om uranbrytning och varnar för ny lagstiftning som han beskriver som för trubbig.
Elected to lead the Moderate Youth League in 2020 and removed after two years, Matilda Ekeblad now stands as one of the Moderates' top parliamentary candidates in Östergötland.
The chipmaker and its partners are directing investment toward U.S. supply chains, energy grids and skilled labor to onshore the infrastructure behind AI and advanced computing.
Aggressive price cuts, technical breakthroughs and accelerating adoption from players like DeepSeek and MiniMax prompt the bank to lift its year-end projection from US$10 billion.
The Shenzhen-based robotics startup is seeking a Hong Kong listing, joining other domestic robot makers despite new US trade restrictions.
The Chinese AI unicorn is expected to close its latest financing round this month while dismantling its offshore structure for a potential year-end listing in Hong Kong, according to sources.
Journalist Gil Durán says Silicon Valley billionaires such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are abandoning democracy and using their power to push authoritarian, apocalyptic visions.
Her brother, Filip Hammar, announced the news on Instagram.
NVIDIA's frontier open model aims to help self-driving vehicles navigate rare, complex scenarios beyond standard object detection and motion prediction.
The company is participating in an NSF effort to expand access to AI research and education resources across the U.S.
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As AI services spread, buyers are struggling to control costs while sellers remain unsure how much to charge, leaving both sides of the market without a reliable pricing model.
As competition for scarce AI expertise intensifies, companies are reaching out to doctoral students long before they finish their degrees.
The city says cloudy water at Sundspromenaden and Scaniabadet may be caused by an algal bloom.
Beijing revises integrated-circuit layout regulations, clarifying licensing, transfer, co-ownership rights and infringement penalties as it pushes for tech self-sufficiency under US export controls.
The embodied AI division becomes the fourth Ant Group unit to step up capital-raising as it advances its general-purpose 'robot brain' ambitions.
A much-hyped AI-generated staging of Wagner's Ring at the festival's 150th anniversary lands as banal bric-a-brac rather than a probing meditation on power, knowledge and technology.
New Dynamic Insights feature turns system-wide runtime data into evidence-based recommendations for developers and AI coding agents optimizing software on Arm-based platforms.
JD.com joins Alibaba and Meituan in rolling out AI-enabled smart helmets for food couriers, blending voice assistance and computer vision to boost rider safety and delivery efficiency.
A rapid portfolio liquidation by a fast-rising Wall Street hedge fund has sparked urgent warnings from Shanghai market analysts against the use of leverage.
A visit to a Shanghai AI research institute suggests China is presenting its artificial intelligence ambitions through cultural symbolism as well as technology.
A visit to a Shanghai AI research institute highlights how China is presenting its AI ambitions as both a technical and cultural project.
A burst of progress in China's AI, chips and robotics is unsettling US markets, dividing tech leaders and forcing the Trump administration to react.
Secondhand dealers preparing for the Melbourne Rare Book Fair fear old and rare books are being scanned for AI training and then destroyed.
The strategic collaboration aims to accelerate the development of advanced semiconductor packaging using glass substrates to meet the performance and density demands of the AI era.
The Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes - Commercial effort supported domestic leading-edge CMOS technology and manufacturing in the United States.
As AI's computational demands outgrow single massive chips, Intel positions its U.S. advanced packaging to interconnect specialized chips into faster, unified systems.
As AI systems move from answering prompts to completing work, infrastructure must be optimized around the full workflow surrounding the model.
Through JVM tuning and workload-specific optimization, Atlassian improved throughput and latency while cutting costs across thousands of instances.
The initiative frames open source software as essential to global infrastructure and a key foundation for cybersecurity.
AI investor Sarah Guo champions NVIDIA's Jetson platform as a compact, powerful compute solution enabling AI development and deployment beyond centralized data centers.
The company is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers but will keep existing unpermitted turbines in place for months.
A critical Exchange Server vulnerability is under active exploitation, with exploits capable of giving attackers persistent access that can survive credential rotation and disk re-imaging.
A report says the incident helps explain how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face, with 10 days passing between exploitation of the JFrog flaw and a released fix.
A newly discovered fatal weakness took down a PQC algorithm that had survived years of testing.
As Meta spends heavily on AI infrastructure and agents, its CEO is trying to persuade investors the bet will pay off.
