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Lead Story · MIT Technology Review
With the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases as the technology continues to grow. That constant evolution also introduces risk, leaving IT leaders to wonder which investments will prove valuable even six months into the future. Returning to the foundational elements of AI architecture—the…
Jul 7, 2026
The Register
Committee says Anthropic's brief US export ban shows UK can't even trust its allies to keep the AI lights on
Jul 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Forterra has deployed more than 100
Jul 7, 2026
The Register
Overhaul of process could give NIMBYs one year less to complain
Jul 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied…
Jul 6, 2026
The Register
Model dev and AGI fearmonger Anthropic signs 20-year lease with TeraWulf
Jul 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.
Jul 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
Jul 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” t…
Jul 6, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge was in a Cape Town hotel room, preparing to demonstrate his startup’s AI answer to a serious problem in African health care: counterfeit medication, which kills tho…
Jul 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.
Jul 6, 2026
Ars Technica
FCA official makes case for greater powers for watchdog as millions use technology for personal finance decisions.
Jul 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping sto…
Jul 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.
Jul 4, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”
Jul 4, 2026
The Verge
At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, an…
Jul 3, 2026
The Register
Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?
Jul 3, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is typically framed as an energy problem. Data centers are projected to consume a growing share of global electricity demand: The Internat…
Jul 3, 2026
The Register
KPMG finds nearly a third of execs struggle to understand costs as companies rethink deployments
Jul 3, 2026
The Register
Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade
Jul 3, 2026
TechCrunch AI
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
MeetingTV wants to see the evidence
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs
Jul 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building
Jul 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI …
Jul 2, 2026
Ars Technica
Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.
Jul 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
Jul 2, 2026
MIT Technology Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying …
Jul 2, 2026
Ars Technica
Google tries balancing AI data center emissions with clean energy efforts.
Jul 2, 2026
The Verge
OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Fin…
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues
Jul 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office, Google Apps with AI.
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Risk factors galore
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough
Jul 1, 2026
Wired
Are you worried your AI chatbot is trying to build a bomb or leak personal information about you? There’s a website for that.
Jul 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust
Jul 1, 2026
Ars Technica
US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.
Jul 1, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll…
Jul 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
Jul 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.
Jul 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Clou…
Jul 1, 2026
MIT Technology Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an ev…
Jul 1, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January…
Jul 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The Trump administration's erratic approach to AI policymaking has left companies across the industry with little clarity about what will govern future model releases.
Jul 1, 2026
The Verge
After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access W…
Jul 1, 2026