
Wired
Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that could have happened.
Aug 4, 2026

The Register
Beijing's new rules also protect against copying local chip designs
Aug 4, 2026

The Register
For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition
Aug 3, 2026

Ars Technica
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
Aug 3, 2026

The Register
Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another
Aug 3, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
Aug 3, 2026

Ars Technica
Top scores increased by 5x.
Aug 3, 2026

The Verge
The EU made some AI labels that companies can use instead of designing their own. | Image: The European Commission / The Verge The European Union has ushered in some additional rules that aim to make …
Aug 3, 2026

The Register
With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue
Aug 3, 2026

The Register
Taiwanese silicon biz believes it can take up to 20% of $80B market with upcoming ASIC chips, but analysts are sceptical
Aug 3, 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. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals When t…
Aug 3, 2026

The Verge
The Alibaba logo is displayed outside its headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. | Image: NurPhoto via Getty Images Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "mo…
Aug 3, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
Aug 3, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI model…
Aug 3, 2026

The Register
CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours
Aug 3, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."
Aug 2, 2026

Wired
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure fatigue.”
Aug 2, 2026

Politico Technology
As opposition to the AI projects gains momentum, industry supporters say they have ceded the narrative to their critics.
Aug 1, 2026

The Register
88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip
Aug 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.
Jul 31, 2026

Ars Technica
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.
Jul 31, 2026

Ars Technica
Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
Jul 31, 2026

Ars Technica
“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.
Jul 31, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
Jul 31, 2026

The Verge
Pompeii reimagined with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth. | Image: Google Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts usin…
Jul 31, 2026

Wired
As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.
Jul 31, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
Jul 31, 2026

The Register
Whoever wins, we lose
Jul 31, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
Jul 31, 2026

Ars Technica
The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.
Jul 31, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out o…
Jul 31, 2026

The Register
European firms feel the greatest pressure as US giants dominate cloud and AI infrastructure
Jul 31, 2026

The Register
Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized
Jul 31, 2026

The Register
Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem
Jul 31, 2026

Wired
In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.
Jul 31, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents
Jul 31, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk, casting doubt on the government's ban on its AI technology.
Jul 30, 2026

Wired
Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest Labs’ push into robotics.
Jul 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and …
Jul 30, 2026

The Register
Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party
Jul 30, 2026

The Register
High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows
Jul 30, 2026

Wired
This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results.
Jul 30, 2026

The Register
ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting
Jul 30, 2026

The Verge
Apptronik’s Apollo 2 robot takes a baseball glove off of a shelf. | Image: Google Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While th…
Jul 30, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.
Jul 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers.
Jul 30, 2026

Wired
The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.
Jul 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineers to implement AI at scale.
Jul 30, 2026

Ars Technica
Plus, a new policy for the AI protocol ensures features aren't removed suddenly.
Jul 30, 2026