artificial intelligence

Cloudflare says AI agents now generate 60% of its traffic

Traffic generated by artificial intelligence agents on Cloudflare's network has surged more than 1,700% over the past year, now accounting for roughly 60% of total traffic, the company's Asia-Pacific leadership disclosed Tuesday at a media briefing in Seoul.

Ex-DeepMind researchers launch nonprofit to keep humans in AI safety loop

A group of former Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind researchers has launched a nonprofit called Sampura Research, dedicated to ensuring that humans remain central to the oversight of increasingly powerful AI systems. The London-based organization, formally announced on August 24, aims…

OpenAI loses fourth senior executive ahead of 2027 IPO

Chris Malone, OpenAI's head of data centers, left the company last week, The Wall Street Journal News Corp reported in an exclusive on Tuesday, making him the fourth senior executive to depart ahead of the AI company's planned 2027 public…

Perplexity launches local AI agent that keeps data off the cloud

Perplexity on Tuesday launched Portable Computer, a fully local version of its agentic AI platform that runs entirely on users' own hardware, keeping sensitive data off the cloud. The product, developed in partnership with Nvidia, marks a shift in how…

Leaked Microsoft project reveals AI-only OS with no desktop apps

Fresh analysis of leaked Microsoft internal documents has brought renewed attention to Project Aion, an experimental operating system concept from 2024 that placed Copilot AI at the center of the computing experience, replacing the traditional Windows desktop entirely. The resurfaced…

IMF chief says economy weathering Iran energy shock better than feared

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned on Tuesday that the global economy remains caught between the destabilizing energy shock triggered by the Iran war and the growth impulse from artificial intelligence investment, comparing it to a "storm-tossed vessel"…

Anthropic unifies Claude’s memory across chat and Cowork

Anthropic announced today that Claude's memory system now works seamlessly between its chatbot and Claude Cowork, the company's desktop AI agent for automating multi-step tasks. The update means context built up over months of conversations carries into Cowork sessions and…

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Anthropic to pitch $30T market opportunity ahead of IPO

Anthropic is preparing to tell investors that it sees a total addressable market exceeding $30 trillion, according to The Wall Street Journal, a figure that would surpass the $28.5 trillion estimate SpaceX presented ahead of its own record-breaking listing earlier…

AI safety startup Alice raises $140M after rogue model incidents

Alice, an Israeli-American AI safety and security company formerly known as ActiveFence, announced on Tuesday a $140 million funding round led by Apax Digital, with participation from SentinelOne and Samsung Electronics, according to Bloomberg. CEO Noam Schwartz said the investment…

Perplexity launches local AI agent that keeps data off the cloud

Perplexity on Tuesday launched Portable Computer, a new version of its agentic AI platform designed to run entirely on a user's own hardware, sending data to the cloud only with explicit permission. The product represents a push toward privacy-conscious AI…

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip outperforms Nvidia in inference

OpenAI released benchmarks on Tuesday showing its custom Jalapeño inference chip outperforming Nvidia and others in both throughput and energy efficiency, marking the AI company's most detailed public challenge yet to the dominant chipmaker's hardware supremacy.

Google launches AI platforms for law firms and banks

Alphabet's Google Cloud on Tuesday unveiled two industry-specific AI platforms — Gemini Enterprise for Legal and Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services — marking the company's most targeted push yet into professional sectors where demand for artificial intelligence is accelerating.

Apple unveils new Mac mini and Mac Studio built for local AI

Apple on Tuesday unveiled updated Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops, introducing its first 2-nanometer processor — the M6 — alongside the M5 Ultra, now the most powerful chip in the company's silicon lineup. The surprise launch, coming days before…

Jack Ma buys $77M in Alibaba shares after $10B AI raise

Alibaba founder Jack Ma purchased more than HK$600 million ($76.5 million) worth of the company's Hong Kong-listed shares on consecutive days, joining chairman Joe Tsai and CEO Eddie Wu in a coordinated show of confidence following the tech giant's HK$80…

Xiaomi unveils custom 3nm autonomous driving chip for 2027

Xiaomi on Monday unveiled the Xring D100, a custom-designed 3-nanometer autonomous driving chip that the company says has completed development and is scheduled for commercial deployment in 2027. The chip is part of a broader trio of in-house processors the…

Alibaba CEO, chairman buy $15M in stock after record share sale

Alibaba Chairman Joseph Tsai and CEO Eddie Wu purchased approximately HK$120 million ($15.3 million) worth of company shares on Monday, according to SEC filings, in a show of insider confidence after the Chinese tech giant's record $10.2 billion equity offering…

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Pro delay stretches past 3 months

Three months after CEO Sundar Pichai told a packed Google I/O audience to "give us until next month" for Gemini 3.5 Pro, the model remains unavailable — leaving Alphabet without the top-tier AI system it promised developers and enterprise customers.

Goldman Sachs projects China to meet 66% of its own advanced chip demand by 2035

Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. projects that China will close much of its advanced semiconductor supply gap over the next decade, with domestic production of 7-nanometer-and-below wafers growing at a compound annual rate of 46% through 2035, according…

Apple set to unveil new Mac mini within days, per Bloomberg

Apple is preparing to release a new Mac mini within days, potentially making it the final product launched under Tim Cook's tenure as chief executive, according to a report from Bloomberg published on August 25.

Porsche signs $1.5B AI deal with TCS, sells consulting unit

Porsche announced on Monday a five-year partnership worth 1.25 billion euros ($1.5 billion) with Tata Consultancy Services to deploy artificial intelligence across its operations, while also agreeing to sell its IT consulting unit MHP to the Indian software services giant…

Waymo unveils its first custom chip for self-driving cars at Hot Chips 2026

Waymo Alphabet Inc. presented its first custom silicon for autonomous driving at Hot Chips 2026 on Monday, detailing a purpose-built 5-nanometer ASIC designed to process and fuse raw sensor data in real time aboard its robotaxis.

Funds sold $44B in chip stocks last month on AI doubts, BofA says

Active long-only funds sold $44.2 billion worth of shares in the global semiconductor sector last month, marking a sharp reversal in positioning as investors question the sustainability of the AI investment theme, according to Bank of America data published this…

Meta plans to launch Hatch AI agent platform in coming weeks

Meta is preparing to release a consumer AI agent platform codenamed "Hatch" within the next several weeks, as the company moves to turn its massive artificial intelligence investments into direct revenue, The Information reported Monday, citing internal documents.

SpaceX to launch Nvidia-powered AI satellite by late 2027, Musk says

Nvidia announced Monday that SpaceX's AI division will deploy the chipmaker's Vera CPUs and Vera Rubin platform to power next-generation agentic AI workloads, with plans to extend that computing architecture into orbit aboard a satellite called Starmind AI1. SpaceX CEO…

Chinese hackers double attack volume using DeepSeek AI, researchers say

Chinese state-affiliated hacking groups have more than doubled their attack volume after integrating DeepSeek and other open-source artificial intelligence models into their operations, according to research published Monday by Taiwanese cybersecurity firm TeamT5.

Critics call ChatGPT’s new iMessage plugin ‘spyware’

OpenAI launched an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on August 20 that allows the AI to read, search, summarize, draft, and send iMessages, SMS, and RCS conversations on Mac — and critics are already calling it "spyware."

Global fintech investment tops $100B in first half of 2026

Global fintech investment reached $103.1 billion in the first half of 2026, more than doubling from the same period a year earlier, according to KPMG 's latest Pulse of Fintech report released Monday. The surge was driven by a wave…

Mistral and Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN strike sovereign AI deal worth hundreds of millions

French AI company Mistral and Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN announced a strategic collaboration on Monday valued in the hundreds of millions of euros, spanning AI infrastructure, advanced model development, and the deployment of AI solutions in Saudi Arabia and across the…

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 models launch inside AWS’s Kiro coding tool

OpenAI announced on Monday that its GPT-5.6 model family is now available inside Kiro, AWS's Amazon.com, Inc. spec-driven development environment, deepening a partnership between the two companies that has escalated to more than $100 billion in committed spending over the…

Apple cuts over 200 Siri and Vision Pro jobs in AI pivot

Apple is eliminating more than 200 positions across its Siri, Vision Pro, and AI software teams as the company redirects resources toward a rebuilt AI-powered assistant and future hardware including smart glasses, according to Bloomberg reporting published Friday.