The Final Shift

Lead Story · The Register

AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows

Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia’s GPUs in the datacenter

Aug 24, 2026

Rest of World

The UAE is fighting AI hackers with AI of its own

Attacks on the country’s banks, aviation, and energy systems have climbed since the war with Iran began. Its answer is a homegrown AI security industry.

Aug 24, 2026

Wired

They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started

The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.

Aug 24, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fl…

Aug 24, 2026

Politico Technology

Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment

Some industry leaders fear voter backlash is turning into a lasting political crisis.

Aug 24, 2026

Semafor Technology

New York Times tests out AI-generated search summaries

In recent weeks, the paper has quietly rolled out a new AI-powered search page for a small subset of visitors.

Aug 23, 2026

Semafor Technology

Nvidia says it’s raising some prices more than 15%

Nvidia warned of higher prices for servers containing its AI chips as soaring memory costs strain the AI buildout.

Aug 23, 2026

Simon Willison

Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

Aug 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.

Aug 23, 2026

The Guardian Technology

‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attacks

Chris Lehane tells Guardian of need to implement new safety standards as critics say AI firms acting ‘recklessly’ A senior leader at OpenAI has said people should prepare to defend against “ongoing, p…

Aug 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.

Aug 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.

Aug 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially…

Aug 22, 2026

The Register

If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will

Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst

Aug 22, 2026

The Guardian Technology

‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as screenwriting and production Hollywood creatives are taking gig wor…

Aug 22, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not | Timothy Garton Ash

It’s clear here in Silicon Valley that AI is advancing faster than humans’ ability to control it. That means even sober prophecies seem optimistic Here in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within…

Aug 22, 2026

Wired

The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom

Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.

Aug 21, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

Aug 21, 2026

The Register

Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble

Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power

Aug 21, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

Aug 21, 2026

The Register

AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC

Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature

Aug 21, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.

Aug 21, 2026

Semafor Technology

Waymo builds custom chip for robotaxi fleet

In a blog post Thursday, the Alphabet-owned company revealed that it designed a custom computer chip that quickly crunches raw data coming from a car’s cameras, lidar, and radar.

Aug 21, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

Aug 21, 2026

The Guardian Technology

I worked at OpenAI. Here’s how tech companies can prepare for a slowdown | Miles Brundage

I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US gov…

Aug 21, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York

Exclusive: Planning documents show datacentre in North Ockendon would be incompatible with UK net zero targets A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon di…

Aug 21, 2026

The Register

Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins

Cloudy AI is Chinese giant’s ‘most certain’ path to growth as e-commerce slows

Aug 21, 2026

The Register

Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation

Policies and code of conduct breached

Aug 21, 2026

TechCrunch AI

AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom

Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.

Aug 21, 2026

Simon Willison

ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale

Aug 20, 2026

The Register

Google tethers Antigravity to enterprise controls amid AI shakeup

Corporate customers can look forward to easier management of agents in Google Cloud

Aug 20, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates

Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.

Aug 20, 2026

Semafor Technology

China closes the gap in AI race with US

A new Bloomberg analysis quantified the US’ narrowing lead over China in the AI race.

Aug 20, 2026

Ars Technica

US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots pivots after US ban

FCC ban on foreign-made robots accelerated RoboStore’s US manufacturing plans.

Aug 20, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to …

Aug 20, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users

Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.

Aug 20, 2026

TechCrunch AI

A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

Aug 20, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.

Aug 20, 2026

The Register

US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations

Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland

Aug 20, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such …

Aug 20, 2026

404 Media

Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X

Nonconsensual AI images are getting much harder to spot.

Aug 20, 2026

404 Media

Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure

The six month moratorium on major electrical infrastructure projects is the latest tactic meant to delay the massive data center meant to support America’s nuclear weapons.

Aug 20, 2026