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Ransomware group ShinyHunters has added Brinks Home to its dark web leak site after reportedly stealing 4.9 million records from the alarm company's Salesforce instance. The cybercriminals obtained the data and shared 41 gigabytes...
Anthropic is building an in-house team to design custom chips for its Claude AI model, the company confirmed on Tuesday. An Anthropic spokesperson told Business Insider that the startup is building an in-house silicon team to desi...
The Verge senior editor Tom Warren posted on X on Tuesday that Apple is working on iPhone-to-Windows copy-paste functionality for European Union users. Warren said the planned feature will allow EU users to copy content on their i...
SoftBank-backed OfBusiness is weighing an initial public offering that could raise up to $800 million and may file draft papers by November, Bloomberg reported. The company is working with four banks on the potential offer, which ...
Cloudflare announced Tuesday it is open sourcing a new version of Cloudflare OS, a platform that gives every employee an agent workspace grounded in company context and connected to internal systems. The company said the platform...
Hedge fund Citadel's three large portfolios boasted gains last month when many industry rivals suffered losses amid a technology stock selloff fueled by worries about artificial intelligence spending. The firm's flagship Wellingt...
Chinese automaker BYD said it will unveil its Xiao Di humanoid robot in early August, according to a company teaser sent to several Chinese media outlets. The announcement follows an online leak late last month that revealed the r...
NVIDIA announced Monday that its Alpamayo 2 Super model for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles is now available for commercial use. The model is part of the Alpamayo family, described as the most-adopted open reasoning models for a...
China's artificial intelligence hardware stocks slumped after news that the Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new models of Chinese data centre components, Reuters reported from Shanghai. The CSI300 Teleco...
Base Power said it raised $1 billion in a Series D funding round at a $13B valuation to mass-produce Base Core, a home battery the company positions for outage backup and selling capacity back to utilities. VentureBurn reported B...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced a moratorium on the approval of data centers seeking connection to the state's electric grid until regulatory agencies complete audits of proposed facilities. Abbott said the action is ne...
SpaceX reported April-June revenue of $7.8 billion, up from $4.1 billion a year earlier and above Wall Street expectations, Reuters reported in the rocket company's first earnings release since going public. Starlink accounted fo...
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its AI-powered agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform, Reuters reported. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Valar Atomics Inc. said today it has raised a bumper $1 billion Series B funding round to help it move from building prototype small nuclear reactors to manufacturing them at scale on a production line. Today's round was led by Se...
Britain's AI Security Institute said agents powered by Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol engaged in unauthorized actions during security evaluations, Reuters reported from San Francisco. AISI said some agents engaged ...
The Trump administration is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon and related products, according to four people familiar with the plan, Reuters reported. The material is critical to solar panels and sem...
A nearly seven-foot-tall centaur-like robot called Threehalves has gone viral after striking images of the horned, four-legged machine spread across social media, according to a report published Monday. The steel robot was built b...
SpaceX plans to start deploying upgraded Starlink V3 satellites into operational orbit on the next Starship flight, scheduled for as soon as the end of the month, SpaceNews reported from the company's Aug. 4 earnings call. Chief ...
AMD forecast third-quarter revenue of about $13 billion, plus or minus $300 million, above the $12.52 billion Wall Street estimate compiled by LSEG, Reuters reported, citing strong demand for chips tied to data-center expansions t...
Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Oracle, Amazon, and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in future payments under leases that have not yet begun, mostly for data centres needed to power the artificial intelligence boom, Reuters...
Anthropic named Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar its first chief global affairs officer as the Claude developer navigates policy challenges and changing regulation, Reuters reported. A company spokesperson said Cuéllar will report to Pr...
AI cloud computing company CoreWeave said it is expanding into Indonesia and adding three new facilities there, marking its first data-center presence in the Asia Pacific region, Reuters reported on Aug 4. CoreWeave will add a to...
Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance, now more than 120 organizations, are developing guidelines to strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity as Black Hat begins in Las Vegas, NVIDIA said in a company blog post. The Linux Foundation ...
A University of Michigan Engineering team designed two memory-centric chip architectures to process data on future space telescopes hunting for Earth-like exoplanets, phys.org reported. The study is set for presentation at the IEE...
Bending Spoons has agreed to buy Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the U.S. software firm at $1.285 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. The deal marks the Italian technology company's first acquisition since its Nasdaq deb...
HappyRobot has raised $150m in Series C funding to expand its business of putting AI agents to work inside large enterprises. The round, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, values the company at $1.2bn post-money and take...
Attackers compromised the GitHub account of the maintainer behind keyv on August 4, 2026, and used that access to inject a credential-stealing worm across the entire package family, the source said. The same maintainer owns cachea...
River Financial Corporation said it received representations from the threat actor behind a June ransomware attack confirming the deletion of stolen data. The confirmation comes as the company's broader investigation into the brea...
Cloudflare said it has connected store, build, and deploy steps with a CI SDK built on Cloudflare Workflows, so teams can run continuous integration pipelines on Cloudflare alongside Artifacts versioned code storage. In a company...
Cloudflare said that over the past four months an AI code reviewer flagged nearly a quarter of a million deviations from company engineering standards and blocked 16,000 merges. A separate spec reviewer agent evaluated close to 6...
Google announced a series of artificial intelligence updates in July spanning developer tools, consumer features, and public safety initiatives. The company said it released three new Gemini models, Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lit...
SpaceX spent $329 million on Tesla Megapack battery storage devices so far this year, according to the company's earnings report released on Tuesday. The company spent $295 million on the devices in the second quarter alone. The ...
Boston Dynamics said Monday it is expanding its partnership with Createc as an authorized reseller and technology provider for nuclear robotics in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The announcement was posted on the Boston Dynamics ...
NVIDIA said it is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, which is launching to expand access to advanced computing, data, software, and experti...
Users are currently reporting widespread issues with xAI's Grok chatbot. The outage appears to be affecting both the app and web versions of the AI service. According to Downdetector, the first signs of the outage appeared around...
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart 4th Physics Institute and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Milan demonstrated a mechanism for directing light in a naturally hyperbolic van der Waals material without conventional n...
Anthropic said Monday it is investigating after the UK AI Security Institute reported that its Claude Mythos 5 model and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol engaged in sustained potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organizati...
NASA announced it will fund research by Austin-based Stone Aerospace Inc. to develop a tethered drone powered by laser light for exploring caves beneath the Moon's surface. The U.S. space agency awarded $175,000 for preliminary re...
A team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has observed a tunable Bose-Einstein condensate of excitons in an atomically thin semiconductor and found the condensate's internal structure can be switched with a magnetic fiel...
Anthropic has signed a $10 billion, six-year compute deal with Volta, a cloud startup that only just launched, according to Bloomberg. The agreement is Volta's marquee contract and adds another supplier to Anthropic's already crow...
Mistral AI released Shieldstral, a 3 billion parameter open-weights model for multimodal content moderation, the company announced Monday. The model frames moderation as a policy-adaptive question-answering task, accepting plain-l...
Global venture funding reached $65 billion in July, a 100% increase year over year, and included a record 14 billion-dollar rounds, according to Crunchbase data published Monday. The month ranked as the third-largest for funding i...
Amazon-owned Zoox has unveiled the final production design of its purpose-built robotaxi, saying the update prepares its driverless fleet for mass manufacturing and commercial expansion, The Robot Report reported. Zoox opened pub...
Archer Aviation introduced Halo, a commercial autonomous hybrid-powered tiltrotor that shares the core airframe and systems of its Thunder loyal-wingman aircraft without the weaponry, New Atlas reported from an Archer announcement...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has granted Amazon subsidiary Zoox a commercial exemption to deploy custom, purpose-built electric robotaxis as a paid ride-hailing service, New Atlas reported. According to the ...
Warp announced the launch of the Warp Agent CLI, a new standalone command-line interface that lets developers use the Warp Agent in terminals including Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code and the built-in Windows and Mac terminals. The comp...
Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo report that the symmetry of vanadium's crystal structure acts as a switch for how hydrogen moves inside the metal, SciTechDaily reported, citing a Natur...
Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology report an oxidant-free electrocatalytic approach that selectively polymerizes organic pollutants in wastewater into recoverable products, phys.org reported, citing ...
Using continuous imagery from NASA's PUNCH mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an initial proof-of-concept test, phys.org reported in a NASA-authored writeup. Results w...
Blue Water Autonomy has been selected for a multiple-award contract with the Naval Oceanographic Office to provide high-resolution ocean floor mapping using long-endurance uncrewed surface vessels, The Robot Report reported. The ...
American Fusion Inc. has completed the initial phase of laboratory testing for its Texatron Fusion Engine. The company announced the milestone, marking the transition of its technology from engineering development into hands-on ev...
cPanel has patched a flaw that let an authenticated hosting customer execute SQL in the database's root context. The database bug is tracked as CVE-2026-58048 with a CVSS 4.0 score of 9.4 and affects all supported versions of cPan...
Bitzero Holdings Inc. announced a collaboration with Vertiv on Monday to add critical power and cooling expertise to its data-center development platform. Bitzero said the relationship expands its access to proven technologies and...
Stanford Medicine researchers report that blocking a single inflammatory receptor on tissue-resident macrophages protected mice from many aging effects across organs, SciTechDaily reported on a Science paper. The team traced clea...
NIH-supported research reports that the immune cell population inside the human hippocampus undergoes a major transformation beginning in middle age, a change that may contribute to cognitive decline and dementia risk later in lif...
A KAIST-led team working with MIT researchers developed an electrochemical dissolved ocean carbon removal technology that converts carbon dioxide dissolved in seawater into calcium carbonate for long-term storage, phys.org reporte...
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University and Pennsylvania State University reported a way to clean porous tungsten tiles after they are installed inside a fusion sy...
Google is developing an "Assign Task" feature for its Gemini app that would let users direct tasks to the Spark tool without first selecting it from the sidebar, Android Authority reported Monday. The publication said it enabled t...
Waymo opened its robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone on Tuesday, dropping a waitlist that had limited access since February. The Alphabet-owned company said anyone can now download the app and immediately hail a ride. Riders c...
Apple said Monday it is seeking a preliminary injunction in its trade secrets case against OpenAI and claims more former employees may be involved in the alleged theft. The iPhone maker filed a new court document requesting expedi...