artificial intelligence

Reddit citations in ChatGPT drop 86% after OpenAI search change

Reddit has seen its presence in ChatGPT Search responses collapse almost overnight after OpenAI modified how its AI expands and sources user queries, according to data tracked by PromptWatch.

Mandiant’s AI agents found 100+ critical flaws in two days

Google Alphabet Inc. Threat Intelligence Group on Wednesday disclosed how an internal Mandiant tool uses chains of AI agents to hunt for software vulnerabilities, reporting that it uncovered more than 100 verified, high-severity flaws in just two days during a…

Asian markets tumble as global AI stock selloff deepens

Wall Street slid further from its all-time high on Tuesday as artificial-intelligence stocks resumed their decline, dragging the major indexes lower for a third straight session. The S&P 500 fell 0.7%, closing at 7,691.76, after setting its record last Thursday.…

Europe’s AI data centers move far from cities as power drives site decisions

Dallas-Fort Worth has unseated Northern Virginia as the world's leading data center market, according to new reports from Cushman & Wakefield and JLL Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated, as insatiable demand for AI computing power reshapes the geography of digital infrastructure…

Marvell gives Google right to buy $12.2B stake in AI chip pact

Marvell Technology disclosed Wednesday that it has issued Alphabet's Google a warrant to purchase up to 58,970,907 shares of common stock at $206.58 per share — a stake worth approximately $12.18 billion — as part of a binding agreement to…

AWS launches autonomous payment service for AI agents

Amazon Web Services Amazon.com, Inc. has made Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments generally available, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for APIs, data feeds, and digital content using the USDC stablecoin — a move that brings autonomous machine-to-machine financial transactions into…

Unitree soars in Shanghai debut as Europe sounds alarm on robotics gap

Germany's VDMA engineering association called on Wednesday for humanoid robotics and physical AI to be placed at the top of the political agenda in Germany and Europe, warning that a global race for leadership in the sector has begun —…

TSMC’s packaging crunch pushes AI chip orders to Intel’s Malaysia plants

TSMC's Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited advanced packaging capacity remains fully booked through 2027, and the sustained crunch is now reshaping competitive dynamics in the semiconductor supply chain. According to a report from Taiwan's Economic Daily News, cited by TrendForce,…

OpenAI’s Brockman warns Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 will escalate cyber threats

Chinese AI laboratory Z.ai announced on August 14 that it would delay releasing the open weights of its GLM-5.3 model for two weeks after the system demonstrated unexpectedly strong abilities to find and exploit software vulnerabilities. The decision has drawn…

U.S. 30-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2007 amid global bond rout

Long-term borrowing costs across the world's largest economies surged to their highest levels in decades on Tuesday, August 18, as fading hopes for a U.S.-Iran peace deal pushed oil prices above $90 a barrel while a flood of AI-related corporate…

States and nations freeze data center builds amid AI power surge

A growing wave of governments and regulators across the globe are freezing, restricting, or banning new data center construction as concerns over electricity costs, water supplies, and community impacts intensify alongside surging AI demand. From state capitals across the United…

Anthropic says Claude AI designed protein binders for 14 of 15 targets in lab tests

Anthropic announced Monday that its Claude AI models autonomously designed protein binders that succeeded against 14 of 15 targets in wet-lab testing, marking one of the most comprehensive demonstrations yet of an AI system executing end-to-end drug design work without…

$1 trillion AI capex wave may keep bond markets volatile, Robeco says

A wave of capital spending tied to artificial intelligence could flood bond markets with new supply and keep fixed-income trading volatile for the foreseeable future, according to a senior executive at Robeco.

Samsung raises chipmaking prices up to 15% as AI demand tightens capacity

Samsung Electronics has raised prices for some advanced contract chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders, as surging demand for AI chips tightens foundry capacity across the industry, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

New research shows AI hitting entry-level workers hardest globally

A convergence of new research from central banks, investment firms and academic institutions published this week paints a stark picture: the economic disruption from artificial intelligence is landing first and hardest on young and entry-level workers, eroding traditional pathways into…

Qualcomm open-sources Modular AI platform and Mojo language after $3.9B acquisition

Qualcomm has open-sourced Modular's entire AI software platform and the Mojo programming language at ModCon 2026, the first conference held by Modular as a Qualcomm company. The announcement, made on August 18 in San Francisco, places the full Mojo compiler…

Alphabet raises A$5.5B in debut Australian bond sale

Alphabet raised A$5.5 billion ($3.89 billion) on Wednesday in its first-ever Australian dollar bond sale, a deal that attracted more than A$18 billion in investor demand and marks the largest corporate debt raising in the Australian market, as the Google…

Google and UK launch AI trial to cut aviation contrails over North Atlantic

Google Alphabet Inc. and the UK government on Tuesday announced Operation Blue Skies, the world's first state-backed trial to use artificial intelligence to reduce climate-warming contrails across an entire oceanic airspace. The £5 million, 30-month programme will test whether small…

Lagarde says Europe can’t afford to miss AI revolution

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned on Wednesday that Europe cannot afford to repeat its failure to capitalize on the first digital revolution, urging the continent to remove barriers that prevent artificial intelligence from spreading across its economy.

Nvidia H200 chips reach China despite Beijing push to limit imports, FT reports

Small batches of Nvidia's H200 chips, among the company's most powerful AI processors, have entered mainland China, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter.

Cerebras unveils CS-4, claims 30x speed edge over GPUs

Cerebras Systems unveiled the CS-4, its next-generation rack-scale AI accelerator, at the company's Supernova event in San Francisco on Tuesday, claiming the system delivers up to 30 times faster inference than GPU-based solutions. The announcement marks the chipmaker's most aggressive…

OpenAI’s Q2 revenue grew 18% as Anthropic’s surged 14-fold

OpenAI told its investors that second-quarter revenue rose 18% from the prior quarter to $6.7 billion, even as losses continued to widen — a disclosure that left some shareholders disappointed given the explosive growth posted by rival Anthropic, The Wall…

Fund managers rank AI spending as top credit risk

The largest technology companies are on track to spend between $725 billion and $760 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, a historic acceleration driven almost entirely by artificial intelligence infrastructure. But as the commitments grow, so do warnings from Wall…

Irregular faces backlash over AI sandbox escape postmortem

AI security firm Irregular is facing mounting criticism after publishing a postmortem last week detailing how frontier AI models escaped controlled testing environments and carried out real-world cyberattacks, including exploiting vulnerabilities, extracting credentials, and accessing production databases belonging to actual…

OpenAI rewrites safety framework, pauses largest AI training runs

OpenAI announced sweeping changes to its security and safety practices on Tuesday, implementing what it described as its most comprehensive protocol update since GPT-4's release. The measures follow a breach at Hugging Face disclosed in July, in which AI models…

Nobel laureate’s startup unveils first full virtual human cell model

GenBio AI on Tuesday unveiled AIDO Cell, a system it describes as the first virtual cell "world model" capable of simulating human cell behavior across its full biological hierarchy — from DNA and RNA through proteins to whole-cell dynamics —…

OpenAI adds real-time AI model monitoring after Hugging Face breach

OpenAI said Tuesday it is implementing more aggressive systems to monitor and safeguard artificial intelligence models under development, weeks after one of its AI agents autonomously broke out of a testing environment and breached Hugging Face infrastructure.

Anthropic’s pre-IPO credit facility set to top $10B

Anthropic's revolving credit facility is poised to surpass its roughly $10 billion target as the artificial intelligence company prepares for what could be one of the largest initial public offerings in history, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

Google Gemini can access all Workspace data by default

Google's Alphabet Inc. Gemini AI assistant has default access to business data across the entire Google Workspace ecosystem — including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and Chat — unless administrators actively navigate to the admin console and disable it. The configuration,…

Vitol locked in exclusive fuel deals across Africa amid Iran crisis

Vitol Group, the world's largest independent commodity trader, has secured exclusive fuel supply agreements with at least five countries in southern and East Africa, leveraging disruptions from the Iran conflict to become the dominant supplier to a region almost entirely…