artificial intelligence

Nvidia denies report of China-tailored AI chip plans

Nvidia on Thursday denied a report that it plans to begin shipping a language processing unit tailored for Chinese customers by the end of the year, calling the claims "incorrect" even as U.S. export controls continue to reshape its approach…

DeepReinforce releases Ornith-1.5, claims parity with Claude Opus 4.8

DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.5 on August 19, 2026, an open-weight family of language models spanning three sizes — 397B, 35B, and 9B parameters — that the company says matches or exceeds Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on several coding and reasoning benchmarks.…

Anthropic plans to let customers store data on own servers

Anthropic plans to allow enterprise customers to retain data on their own cloud infrastructure rather than the company's servers, according to Bloomberg, a shift from a policy that has drawn pushback from businesses wary of sharing sensitive information with the…

Wall Street eyes spending shift as Apple’s new CEO starts in two weeks

Apple is less than two weeks away from one of the most consequential leadership transitions in corporate history. On September 1, hardware engineering chief John Ternus will officially become the company's next chief executive officer, succeeding Tim Cook, who will…

Pew study: A third of post-ChatGPT webpages show AI authorship

Over one-third of English-language webpages published since ChatGPT's November 2022 release show signs of AI authorship, according to a study released Thursday by Pew Research Center.

Anthropic aims to match or top SpaceX’s record IPO

Anthropic PBC is preparing to publicly file for an initial public offering as soon as the end of August, targeting a fundraising size that would match or exceed SpaceX's record-setting debut, according to Bloomberg. The AI company, which develops the…

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Nvidia plans to ship new AI chip to China by year-end

Nvidia is preparing to ship small volumes of a newly designed AI chip to Chinese customers by the end of 2026, according to a report published Thursday by The Information, citing two company employees.

Slack launches coding channels for teams to build software with AI agents

Slack Salesforce, Inc. on Thursday debuted Slack Code, a feature that turns its workplace messaging platform into a collaborative coding environment where teams can build software alongside AI agents in dedicated project channels.

Google broadens custom chip strategy with Marvell deal, reported AMD talks

Alphabet is working with Advanced Micro Devices on a 10th-generation Tensor Processing Unit, according to a client note from semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis first reported by Tom's Hardware on August 15. The note cited "market chatter" rather than confirmed details,…

Alibaba unveils major restructuring around AI and cloud

Alibaba released its fiscal first-quarter 2027 results on Thursday before U.S. markets opened, pairing the earnings report with a sweeping organizational overhaul that consolidates its sprawling empire around two priorities: artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

ECB and Fed both warn AI stock valuations risk dot-com-style correction

Central banks on both sides of the Atlantic are raising alarms about the sustainability of the AI-fueled stock market rally, with the European Central Bank warning that a correction is "likely" and the Federal Reserve flagging valuations approaching dot-com bubble…

Ant International signs Citi, HSBC, Barclays for new forex AI tool

Ant International on Thursday rolled out an upgraded artificial intelligence model designed to forecast foreign exchange risk, partnering with six major global banks as financial institutions race to embed specialized AI into their core operations.

Unitree founder says robots’ ‘ChatGPT moment’ could be a decade away

Unitree Robotics founder Wang Xingxing declared Thursday that humanoid robots are "marching towards a 'ChatGPT moment' in embodied intelligence," even as he tempered expectations by warning the breakthrough could still be a decade away.

Musk calls China ‘by far’ strongest AI rival as LandSpace lands orbital booster

Elon Musk declared on X that China is "by far" the strongest competitor in artificial intelligence, extending a warning he first made 15 years ago about Beijing's trajectory in rocket technology. His comments came the same day Chinese private rocket…

TSMC completes 1.6nm chip development, eyes Q4 production

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has completed development and validation of its 1.6-nanometer A16 process node, with mass production targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026, according to Taiwanese supply chain reports published on August 20.

Alibaba shares dip as AI spending drives earnings miss

Alibaba Group on Thursday reported a 9% year-over-year increase in quarterly revenue to RMB268.95 billion (US$39.6 billion) for the quarter ended June 30, beating Wall Street estimates, as surging demand for artificial intelligence services powered accelerating growth in its cloud…

AI memory chip shortage set to push car prices toward $60,000

The insatiable appetite of artificial intelligence has created what the tech world now calls "RAMageddon" — a global memory chip shortage that is pushing up prices on everything from laptops and gaming consoles to automobiles and television panels, with no…

DDR5 memory prices surge nearly fivefold as AI demand strains global supply

Standard DDR5 memory kits in Germany now cost 4.9 times what they did a year ago, a 486% increase since July 2025, according to research from German price comparison platform Geizhals. Between July and August 2026 alone, memory prices rose…

Bloomberg: China rapidly closing AI gap with US

The AI pricing landscape shifted in opposite directions this month as DeepSeek announced steep price increases for its V4 model line and OpenAI made its GPT-5.6 Luna model the free default for ChatGPT users — moves that underscore the intensifying…

MIT study finds AI-generated images often can’t be traced to training data

A new study from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has identified a phenomenon researchers call "attribution decay," finding that as AI image generators are trained on larger datasets, the influence of any individual training image becomes increasingly difficult…

Apple’s camera AirPods won’t ship until 2027, Gurman says

Apple's camera-equipped AirPods will not arrive this year despite a leaked demo video that suggested the product might be imminent, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The earbuds, which integrate low-resolution cameras with Apple's Visual Intelligence feature, remain on track for…

Ransomware operator used Claude Code to breach VPNs, steal credentials across 8 firms

A threat intelligence report from Gambit Security has documented one of the most detailed real-world cases of artificial intelligence being weaponized inside an active ransomware campaign. A suspected affiliate of The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service operation used Anthropic's Claude Code to drive…

OpenAI CFO tells staff company will go public by 2027

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees during an all-hands meeting on Wednesday that the artificial intelligence company "will be a public company in 2027," but could make its public market debut sooner if "our business continues to inflect."

Stripe acquires AI routing startup OpenRouter for $7.5B

Stripe announced Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, a fast-growing AI model gateway platform, in a deal that values the startup at approximately $7.5 billion — more than five times its $1.3 billion valuation from a funding round…

Developers build tools to strip Anthropic’s new AI watermark from Claude text

Anthropic's effort to label text generated by its Claude AI model has run into an immediate obstacle: developers are building tools to strip the labels out, and users are flocking to them.

Fractile seeks $6.5B valuation after Anthropic chip deal

British AI chip startup Fractile is in advanced talks to raise approximately $600 million at a pre-money valuation of $6.5 billion, according to Bloomberg, representing a more than sixfold increase from the roughly $1 billion valuation it secured just three…

Microsoft’s $678B backlog fuels AI optimism amid capex scrutiny

Microsoft closed its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter with Azure and other cloud services growing 43% year-over-year, pushing the unit past $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time. The milestone, reported on July 29, has reshaped the competitive landscape…

North Korean operatives applied to 1,100 firms using AI-crafted fake identities

A North Korean state-directed operation used at least 22 fabricated personas to apply for remote positions at more than 1,100 companies, submitting as many as 60 job applications per day, according to a report published by Recorded Future Mastercard Incorporated…

Apple shares jump after EU App Store fee overhaul

Apple shares rose nearly 3% on Wednesday, outperforming the broader technology sector, after the company announced a sweeping restructuring of its App Store terms for European developers that investors view as a meaningful step toward resolving its regulatory standoff with…

Goldman Sachs says AI is already slowing hiring across developed economies

Artificial intelligence is already leaving a measurable mark on hiring across the world's largest economies, with call centers, software publishing, and management consulting among the hardest-hit industries, according to a Goldman Sachs research report published Wednesday.