Continue to Tech & Business
OpenAI said Thursday it concluded last night that it cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities in its upcoming model Astra under its Preparedness Framework. The company said internal evaluations over the past few days showed sig...
Two Los Angeles startups raised a combined $2.37 billion in equity this week to address manufacturing and energy constraints for the AI era, according to a report published Friday. Hadrian, based in Torrance, announced it raised ...
Micron Technology shares rose about 1.6% in Friday premarket trading to $895.50 after South Korean rival SK Hynix authorized a $38.15 billion investment in new semiconductor fabrication plants. The SK Hynix board approved spending...
The enforcement arm of the Bureau of Industry and Security is reviewing how Chinese AI firms access Nvidia hardware overseas, Bloomberg reported. The Commerce Department division that polices chip export controls is focusing on Ch...
HSP GRUPPE has embedded ChatGPT Enterprise across its network of tax advisory, auditing, and law firms to transform professional work processes, OpenAI said Thursday. The firm network achieved 84% weekly active usage with 755 week...
SK Hynix said its board approved a combined investment of 54 trillion won ($38 billion) on Friday to build two new factories for DRAM and NAND Flash chips. The spending is part of a mid- to long-term investment plan of 1.1 quadril...
Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions. Oracle said developers can use LLMs privately for debugging and reviewing code but cannot submit AI-generated material to repositories, pull requests, or other projec...
Optical networking startup Lumilens Inc. launched today with $900 million in funding. The company announced it raised $700 million in a Series C round that valued it at $5.51 billion. Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Me...
Lumilens, a US-based AI infrastructure startup, has emerged from stealth and announced a $700 million funding round backed by Peak XV, EDBI, and several other investors. The financing, which values Lumilens at $5.51 billion, was c...
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from its platforms. The Thursday ruling comes as part of the second phase of a landmark trial the social media ...
Cisco Security Updates: Attackers can disrupt WAN environments. Cisco said several critical vulnerabilities endanger Cisco network products and admins should promptly install the patched versions. Catalyst SD-WAN, Integrated Manag...
Live commerce platform Whatnot announced it raised a $545 million Series G funding round valuing the company at $20 billion, nearly doubling its valuation from $11.5 billion in October 2025, according to Fortune. The round was led...
Levi Strauss & Co. disclosed on Friday that suspected hackers gained unauthorized access to company files after compromising employees' computers. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the denim company sai...
Anthropic appointed Robert Mahari as head of Claude for Legal, the company said Thursday. Mahari, founder of custom-build legal software developer Akiva AI, announced the appointment in a LinkedIn post. Anthropic has not yet respo...
Metabase disclosed on Thursday that a critical SQL injection vulnerability was exploited in zero-day attacks to breach customer instances and steal data, impacting companies including Framework and Tally, the company said. Metabas...
President Donald Trump warned on Friday that Congress wants to regulate the artificial intelligence industry "out of business" as debate intensifies in Washington over federal oversight. Trump's remarks highlighted a growing contr...
OpenAI said Thursday it is pausing internal activities around an in-development model called Astra because it does not yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The company said recent internal evaluations ...
LG AI Research announced Friday that its EXAONE Tabular and EXAONE Forecast models have claimed top positions on two industrial AI benchmarks. EXAONE Tabular reached an ELO score of 1,760 on TabArena, the leading benchmark for str...
Anthropic on August 7, 2026 released an update to the biology safeguards on its Fable 5 model that the company says cut biology-related fallbacks by about 85% in testing across its product surfaces. The company announced the chang...
xAI shipped Grok Build 1.0 on August 7, 2026: the coding CLI leaves beta, but the model is unchanged. Elon Musk announced on X the release of Grok Build V1.0, the first stable version of xAI's terminal coding agent. The public cha...
Google DeepMind has confirmed development of its next-generation AI model Gemini 4 alongside a major leadership restructuring, according to a report from Universe of AI published Thursday. The shift follows delays and mixed result...
Google's Gemini assistant began arriving on Pixel Watch and Galaxy Watch hardware this week as a floating overlay above the active watch face or running app instead of seizing the entire display. The update is arriving via versio...
Anthropic said Friday that auto mode will become the default permission setting for Claude Code users starting August 14. The change applies to Pro, Max, and Team users unless a user or administrator has pinned another setting. A...
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms Inc. to pay $567 million and imposed a 90-hour monthly limit on minors' social media use, ruling the company's platforms are a significant contributing factor to a youth mental health cris...
SK hynix approves $38B+ investment in two new memory fabs The board of SK hynix Inc., a major data center memory supplier, today approved the construction of two new fabs. The initiative will cost 54 trillion South Korean won, or...
Waymo has officially begun offering its autonomous ride hailing services in Dallas, the company announced. The company said anybody will now be able to hail a fully driverless taxi. Following trials first initiated in February, t...
Artificial intelligence has designed 16 novel viruses never seen in nature that can replicate in a laboratory and target drug-resistant E. coli, U.S. researchers announced. Dr. Brian Hie and colleagues at Stanford University used ...
D-Wave Quantum Inc. announced this week that a peer-reviewed paper published in Nature demonstrates its dual-rail qubit design can entangle cleanly, a step the company says could reduce logical error rates by a factor of 10 at eac...
Framework disclosed a data breach caused by a zero-day vulnerability in its Metabase business intelligence platform, the company said. The laptop maker notified customers that an attacker exploited the flaw to access a database co...
AMD announced it has acquired AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon. The company said early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a secon...
Tesla and SpaceX said Thursday they will invest $16.8 billion to start building a joint advanced chip factory called Terafab in Grimes County, Texas, the companies announced. The facility is planned to cover more than 100 million ...
Anthropic confirmed Wednesday it is building an in-house custom silicon team to design chips for its Claude models, a spokesperson said. The company posted a job listing paying $320,000 to $485,000 for engineers who have shipped f...
Anthropic said Thursday it is hiring a custom silicon team to design its own chips for running its models. A company spokesperson confirmed the plans to Business Insider and TechCrunch after the publication noticed a job listing f...
SpaceX and Tesla plan to build a semiconductor fabrication plant in Texas, with the goal of producing 1 terawatt of compute per year. SpaceX and Tesla, which are both led by Elon Musk, are in need of semiconductor chips for their...
Tesla and SpaceX confirmed the Terafab chip fab site will be in Grimes County, Texas. Tesla said both companies will need far more chips than current and future global production can supply. The initial phase is estimated at $16....
Gravity, a startup that places ads for brands like Best Buy and Target in AI platforms, raised $30.5 million in a Series A funding round. Zach Oldham, cofounder of Gravity, said the company secured the funds to pursue opportunitie...
AI startup Acrab announced it raised $130 million in a Series B funding round backed by existing investors Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India and Vertex Growth along with new investors. The Singapore-headquartered company said...
Shanghai-based photonic quantum computing company TuringQ entered initial public offering tutoring with the Shanghai branch of the China Securities Regulatory Commission on Wednesday, intensifying competition to become China's fir...
Microsoft announced its Defender security solution detected and stopped a ransomware attack on endpoint devices in 128 seconds. The company said the rapid response was demonstrated during a real-world incident involving QNET, an i...
A ransomware group named Orova listed five Hong Kong organizations on its dark web extortion portal on Aug. 4, the same week the Securities and Futures Commission fined a licensed broker for cybersecurity failures tied to a 2022 r...
Edmonton-based information technology consulting and managed services provider Framewerx Inc. today announced that it has acquired managed IT services firm AD Micro Technology Inc. Framewerx said the acquisition also brings additi...
Google researchers announced a breakthrough in cyclone forecasting using an artificial intelligence model called WeatherNext that delivers more than a full day of additional lead time. The advance is detailed in a Nature paper pub...
Nielsen is paying $2.15 billion to acquire DoubleVerify, a provider of software that measures advertising performance. Nielsen said in a statement that the transaction is in line with the fundamental transformation the company has...
Pally, a Y-Combinator startup that launched in 2025, raised $5.2 million in funding. Pally cofounder Haz Hubble told Business Insider the startup wants to use technology to be better at managing relationships. The funding was led ...
OpenAI is removing limits on text-based chats for all users on ChatGPT, the company announced today. The update brings unlimited text chats to free users this week. The new GPT-5.6 Luna model will power the experience for Free an...
OpenAI published country-by-country data on August 6 showing how more than 1 billion people use ChatGPT, revealing a shift from asking questions to completing tasks. The company said the data reflects messages sent within ChatGPT ...
OpenAI announced a partnership with the American Psychological Association on Thursday to bring psychological science into responsible AI development and use among young people. The collaboration aims to develop evidence-based res...
OpenAI announced updates to ChatGPT on August 6, 2026, improving GPT-5.6 Sol for Plus and Pro users and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users. The company said the updates improve everyday conversations while expanding a...
OpenAI introduced Agent Plugins on Thursday, an open standard for packaging reusable AI-agent extensions that work across compatible products, as GPT-5 approaches its first anniversary on August 7. The company announced the versio...
Vietnam's FPT said on Aug. 6, 2026, that it has joined the OpenAI Partner Network as a Select Partner to expand enterprise AI services in the Asia-Pacific region. The technology services company plans to integrate OpenAI technolog...
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has proposed reducing the deadline for removing unlawful AI-generated content from 36 hours to three hours under draft amendments to the IT Rules. MeitY said the amendment...
Google is reorganizing its AI command structure with Demis Hassabis stepping away from day-to-day leadership of Google DeepMind to become Alphabet's chief scientist and DeepMind chair while Koray Kavukcuoglu takes operational cont...
Liquid AI debuted LFM2.5-2.6B, a new open-weight language model designed for agentic workloads, earlier this week. The company said the model can run entirely on local hardware, from smartphones and laptops down to a Raspberry Pi,...
Google announced Thursday that its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in Google Maps is receiving a global launch and new capabilities including personal intelligence integration, real-time transit data, and agentic task completion. ...
OpenAI announced an update to ChatGPT that introduces a revised GPT-5.6 Sol model for paying subscribers and unlimited text chats for free users. The company said the updated model produces more focused answers, adapts detail leve...
Travel insurance app Faye announced Wednesday it secured a $50 million capital raise, the company said. The round was led by Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona with participation from BRM and existing investors Portage, F2...
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to eliminate a cap on the share of U.S. television households a single company can reach. The agency said the 2-1 vote repealed a 22-year-old rule holding that a company cannot ...
Meta announced earlier this week the release of Muse Code, an autonomous AI agent designed to navigate and modify complex software repositories with millions of lines of code. The company said the tool moves beyond reactive autoc...
Microsoft quantum chief Zulfi Alam said he does not care that scientists remain skeptical of the company's claims about Majorana quasiparticles. Alam, corporate vice president of quantum, made the comments in an interview with WIR...
USC researchers said depression in cognitively healthy older adults is linked to smaller volume in a specific hippocampal subfield, according to a study published in Translational Psychiatry. The team analyzed high-resolution MRI ...