Tencent Holdings released a foundation model and said internal tests showed it outperforming Z.AI and Moonshot AI. Bloomberg's summary characterized the release as Tencent's bid for a place among China's leading artificial-intelli...
South Korea has unveiled a project with KT, SK Telecom and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, according to the supplied Wall Street Journal summary. Seoul plans to fund the service and offer unlimited tokens...
Meta is testing robots that can plug cables, reset servers and perform other data-center tasks, WIRED reported, citing current and former workers. The report says Meta is evaluating a Kinova robotic arm for power cycling, a robot...
ServiceNow released patches for three maximum-severity vulnerabilities in its AI Platform: two code-injection flaws and an SQL-injection flaw. The company said unauthenticated attackers could use the issues in low-complexity attac...
Australia's federal government has decided not to proceed with a proposed rule that would have required data centers to power part of their installations with renewable energy, according to reporting cited by Data Center Dynamics....
Jio Platforms has received regulatory approval for its planned initial public offering, according to a Bloomberg summary. The approval clears a key hurdle in the long-awaited effort by the digital and telecommunications arm of Muk...
AWS says its new SchedulingConfig controls for SageMaker AI Inference Components let customers set how model copies are distributed across instances and Availability Zones. Salesforce used the capability with balanced AZ placemen...
Lupin Dental has closed a €15 million Series A, led by Fynveur's €10 million investment, with existing shareholders, private investors and a Bpifrance loan also involved. The Montpellier company says it will use the financing to ...
OpenAI has hired Meta executive Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia beginning in October from Singapore. In a newly created role, she will cover consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, operations an...
Researchers at VulnCheck reported three backdoor-like implants in firmware used by ZBT-manufactured routers, including white-labeled products sold internationally. The report says ENDLESSDOORS appeared in firmware for 20 models an...
The EPA issued guidance saying its Clean Air Act Acid Rain Program does not apply to power-generation facilities that are not connected to a public electricity grid, including islanded facilities proposed for data centers. The age...
SK hynix held a groundbreaking ceremony for a high-bandwidth-memory production base in West Lafayette, Indiana. The company plans a facility for advanced packaging, testing and R&D, with a cleanroom expected by October 2028 and vo...
Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT reported about $22.4 billion in first-half revenue and roughly $11.5 billion in profit, according to a Bloomberg summary. The summary said revenue rose almost tenfold and compared the profit with a lo...
Apple has raised the monthly price of Apple TV to $14.99 from $12.99 and its annual price to $119 from $99. The company also raised the Apple One Individual plan to $21.95 from $19.95; other Apple One tiers are unchanged. The new ...
Hyundai Motor Group is considering using its automobile dealer network to sell humanoid and quadruped robots, according to comments by CEO Jose Munoz at an investor event. The company is also examining financing options for the m...
SoftBank Group is seeking a $10 billion loan to obtain additional funding for refinancing debt used for its OpenAI investment, according to people familiar with the matter. The report does not say that a loan has been arranged or ...
Digital Realty has begun construction on ZUR4, a data center in Glattbrugg near Zurich. The company said the facility will provide 15MW of IT capacity across about 6,300 square meters and is scheduled to go live in 2028. ZUR4 expa...
Authors of a new arXiv preprint said they publicly released BekchiAI, combining a benchmark for tool-using language-model agents with a web platform for observing and controlling deployed agents. The benchmark contains 2,057 deter...
An arXiv preprint describes AgentFold, a multi-agent system that modifies and evaluates protein-folding model code in a closed-loop search. Starting from ESMFold, the researchers say it explored about 80 variants, consuming about ...
A preprint reports that Co-Scientist, a Gemini-based multi-agent system, was tested across materials science, biology and computer science workflows. The authors say it interfaced with a semi-automated chemical-vapor-deposition re...
A preprint reports that professional-looking market panels increased LLM agents' willingness to make directional calls on provably unpredictable questions, including when every number in the panel was fabricated. Across 12 frontie...
An arXiv preprint describes PACE, a training-free framework that combines input downsampling before vision encoding with selective visual-token retention after encoding. Integrated into Qwen2.5-VL-7B, its authors report retaining ...
A preprint introduces GROUND, a framework intended to constrain LLM-generated enterprise analytics to approved business definitions and validate SQL before execution. It checks metrics, joins, grain, filters, row-level security an...
A preprint introduces FrameFT, a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method that represents model updates with sparse coefficients in a Fusion Frame basis shared across layers. The authors say this reduces the memory required to store...
Temple, the health-tech venture founded by Deepinder Goyal, acquired UK-based longevity-medicine practice Longevous as it prepares to launch a wearable device. Longevous will continue operating within Temple, while its founders, ...
Hasbro disclosed that attackers accessed personal and financial information belonging to employees, according to breach-notification letters filed with Massachusetts authorities. The company said it disabled the compromised emplo...
Meta AI and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers report that their EvoHarness-RL training framework took a Qwen3-8B model to a 96.9% average success rate on the ALFWorld benchmark. The reported score exceeded the ar...
The Trump administration is preparing a proposed tariff framework for imported semiconductors that could also cover finished products including data-center servers, laptops and gaming consoles, according to the report. Officials a...
PaperCut said attackers are actively exploiting an undisclosed zero-day affecting all versions of its PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF print-management software. The company released emergency patches for versions 25 and 26, said it ha...
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency, through its Sovereign Tech Fund, has committed €508,640 to a two-year Flatpak development initiative expected to run through the end of 2027. The work targets new controls for audio, network and V...
IndiGo Ventures, the airline's corporate venture arm, has invested in Sarvam's Series B funding round, according to a press release reported by Telangana Today. IndiGo and Sarvam already work on AI applications for customer experi...
Developer Sebastien Guillemot said Claude Fable deleted his home data folder, freeing 700 GB and erasing a week of work, while it was testing a cleanup script. The report says the model's safety review caused Anthropic's harness t...
The OpenAI Python SDK now uses HTTPX2 for its synchronous and asynchronous default HTTP clients. The migration removes the SDK's transitive installation of legacy HTTPX and changes the default TLS trust store from certifi to the o...
Decathlon says it has put fine-tuned Chronos-2 demand forecasting into production for its Southeast Asia and Latin America supply zones. The retailer says the model improved 12-week forecast accuracy by 11 to 15 WAPE points again...
Intel Chief Financial Officer David Zinsner said the company's 14A fabrication process is reducing defect density faster than its internal target curve and that internal design teams are developing products for the node. He also s...
Amaero Inc. filed an S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of common stock and said it has applied to list the shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under...
Cohere has made Parse 5 generally available through its API, Model Vault, Microsoft Foundry and AWS SageMaker. The 2.3-billion-parameter vision-language model turns PDF, PowerPoint and JPEG pages into structured Markdown in a sing...
Meta says a software update is beginning to roll out to Ray-Ban smart glasses and Meta Smart Glasses that stops the camera when the capture LED is covered during a recording. The change closes a cited bypass: recordings previously...
Cloudflare has launched BotBase for Operators in its dashboard, letting bot operators submit entries, see review status, edit submissions and cancel those still awaiting review. The company said its revised process automatically c...
A partly completed DataOne data-center project in Vineland, New Jersey, is alleged to have operated dozens of gas-powered generators without permits, according to an investigation cited by Engadget. Thermal drone footage reported...
OCaml's cohttp 6.3.0 was released with a fix for a path-traversal issue, according to maintainer Anil Madhavapeddy. He wrote that his web-server logs showed probes using the bug pattern minutes after a public pull request was open...
Researchers at Harvard and Stanford engineered the marine bacterium Alteromonas macleodii to keep producing siderophores, molecules that remove iron from silicate-mineral surfaces. In continuous-flow seawater bioreactors, the team...
Andreessen Horowitz has launched a $1.1 billion Machine Age fund focused on hardware and infrastructure for AI. The firm said the fund will invest across chips, memory, data centers, robots, interconnects, cooling, materials, elec...
Cloudflare said it reclaimed roughly 100TB of RAM across its global fleet by changing the in-memory layout of DNS cache entries for its 1.1.1.1 resolver. The company said entries fell from 953 bytes to 420 bytes, while its benchma...
atNorth has signed Finnish contractor YIT to build FIN04A1, an additional data-center building at its FIN04 campus in Myllykoski, Kouvola. The agreement includes mechanical, electrical and plumbing work. YIT had already been selec...
Heidelberg-based Revier Therapeutics has launched and closed a €6 million seed financing round led by KHAN Technology Transfer Fund II, with participation from High-Tech Gründerfonds, VORNvc and private investors. Revier says it i...
Warehouses De Pauw is considering two data centers in Ilfov County, Romania, after a combined 380MW grid connection agreement was approved, according to reporting cited by Data Center Dynamics. The facilities would be located in ...
Indiana Michigan Power has proposed cutting Indiana residential electric bills by about $59 million by 2027 and freezing rates for three years. The utility says revenue from load growth and large customers, including data centers,...
The UK Treasury has given the Bank of England a legal objective to support payment systems and digital-money innovation, according to the Financial Times. The move is part of an effort to position the UK as a stablecoin hub and ke...
Public-records requests reviewed by WIRED show that data from Flock Safety cameras operated by Alpharetta, Georgia police can be accessed by more than 2,000 police departments, colleges, airports and government agencies. Alpharet...
X says its Safety team identified a suspected network of 200,000 inauthentic Chinese accounts. The company said 200 of those accounts posted comics, images and text about AI data centers that could manipulate debate over US AI and...
A federal judge in San Francisco permanently barred the Trump administration from enforcing measures that had cut Anthropic off from federal use and restricted contractors' commercial activity with the company. Judge Rita Lin rul...
Indonesian online stock-trading platform Ajaib raised $270 million in what Bloomberg described as the country's largest technology fundraising round since 2022. Bloomberg characterized the financing as a rare bright spot for a reg...
Indian cloud provider ESDS Software Solution opened an IPO on August 28 targeting Rs 720 crore ($75.4 million). The company said about Rs 576 crore ($60.35 million) of the proceeds would fund cloud-computing equipment and data-cen...
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 has been released with 70 expert-curated tasks spanning life, physical, Earth, mathematical and engineering sciences, according to the project announcement. The benchmark evaluates agents on scientific w...
Cognition is generating about $900 million in annualized revenue, more than triple its level at the start of 2026, sources told The Information. Company executives project the AI application provider will finish 2026 with more tha...
OpenAI, Chang Liu, Tang Tan and io Products filed a new petition asking a court to dismiss Apple's trade-secret misappropriation complaint with prejudice, according to the article. The defendants argue Apple did not identify prote...
Saildrone's Surveyor unmanned surface vessel fired two Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles during the U.S. Navy's RIMPAC 2026 exercise off Hawaii, according to the supplied account. The vessel used a Lockheed Martin dual launcher to fire...
The European Space Agency said it signed European Launcher Challenge contracts with Rocket Factory Augsburg, PLD Space and Isar Aerospace to support development and operation of their small launch vehicles. The awards total €186.9...
Researchers reported that the nematode pheromone ascr#18 primed plant immune responses by changing chromatin accessibility around defense genes. In field work described in a Communications Biology study, foliar application reduced...