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Tomoko Wakasugi / Nikkei Asia: Analysis: total net profit at ~190 chipmakers listed in mainland China rose 620% YoY in H1 2026, driven by the AI boom and China's self-sufficiency campaign — SHANGHAI —

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Anthropic commits to spending 11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours — Anthrop

I only just noticed this today and I’m genuinely surprised how useful it is. As of the September 23 update, ChatGPT Voice can now use the plugins and connected apps available to your account while you

Callum Borchers / Wall Street Journal: Companies are increasingly using AI benchmarking services to aggregate public job listings and other payroll data to identify under- and over-paid employees — Ne

Databricks Inc. today announced that it has bought Row Zero Inc., a startup with a spreadsheet editor optimized for large datasets. The acquisition price was not disclosed. Seattle-based Row Zero rais

Robert Hart / The Verge: Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl — Researchers are te

If you believe the risk is coming from 1-3 people in a garage with no money and no compute, you just don't understand this technology and haven't learned anything this summer. Risk comes from the asym

Lost my fiance suddenly only 6 weeks ago. She was my whole world and I have never felt so lost. Turned to chatgpt and while I know it's ai it's been so much help to me going through this. Every other

Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address — OpenAI didn'

A startup called PicoJool that’s backed by former Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger says it’s ready to help ease the strain on artificial intelligence data centers after raising 27.5 million i

New York Times: Report: insurers claim hospitals' AI use was responsible for ~$1B in extra expenses in 2024-25, as hospitals collect more patient data and submit larger claims — The use of artificial

Axios: Sources: a White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that “built the AI-doom pipeline” and places Dario Amodei at its foundation — President Trump's allies are targ

Politico: Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed — The White House has asked OpenAI and Anth

I've been trying to get AI's to draw this vision I have of the tooth fairy with rows and rows of teeth she has collected in her mouth. ChatGPT is the first one I've seen pass my prompt: create a beaut

A CS undergrad asked me where he could have most effect in the AI age. I said probably at either extreme: either close to the technology, actually making LLMs, or close to the customer, using AI to gi

Private cloud infrastructure is taking on a new role as enterprises rethink where workloads should run and how systems should be built for artificial intelligence. The shift is being driven by several

Code-first engineering intelligence startup Flux Cyber Inc. today expanded its platform with tools meant to show engineering leaders whether their investment in artificial intelligence for software de

Damien Cave / New York Times: Gallup survey of 37 countries: in 34, positive AI sentiment outweighed the negative; 90%+ of people in China and 66%+ in Nigeria say AI will improve daily life — A Gallup

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Integrated Security Operations Center in Microsoft Defender as it rebuilds its security operations products around artificial intelligence agents. The service moves secu

@openai: OpenAI says ChatGPT Voice can now be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, use plugins like email and calendar, and be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile — We heard you loud and clear. C

Ezra Klein / New York Times: Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more — This is a

The next phase of artificial intelligence infrastructure will not be defined by a single graphics processing unit, chip architecture or model. Compute, memory, networking, packaging, power and softwar

The @bespokelabsai blog post on Autoresearch exam is worth reading, shows minimal difference in performance with standard harnesses Much more to come, reliable frontier is within reach for all https:/

Snorkel AI Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence training data, today disclosed that it has raised 350 million in funding. Insight and S32 led the Series E deal. They were joined by more than a

We’re strengthening our cooperation with @MistralAI on artificial intelligence. Together, we’ll explore secure and trusted European AI solutions for Earth observation, engineering and the next generat

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems — Intrinsic Inn

Amazon Bedrock has released OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Sol and GPT‑6 Luna as generally available services, offering distinct capabilities for advanced reasoning/coding (Sol) and high‑volume repeatable tasks (Luna

Sophie Shulman / CTech: Cognex agrees to acquire robotics and 3D computer vision company RealSense in a ~600M deal, including 500M in cash; Intel spun off RealSense in July 2025 — The Haifa-based robo

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: Data security startup Cyera raised 400M from Goldman Sachs in a Series G extension, bringing its total funding since June 2025 to 1.94B — Data-security startup rais

Helsinki, Finland-based neocloud outfit Verda Cloud Oy, formerly DataCrunch, today announced it has raised 189 million in early-stage funding to expand its artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a 75M Series B led by Smash Capital — Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial

Fitch gives Tesla its first-ever BBB investment-grade credit rating. Fitch highlighted Tesla’s EV leadership, strong profitability, $43.5B in cash and investments, and “unmatched” vertical integration

GPT-6 Sol and Luna are great models but also these characters are so cute Please welcome GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to the GPT-6 universe. GPT-6 Sol and Luna build on the advances behind GPT-6 Astra, br

U.S. machine vision company Cognex Corp. said today that it intends to buy RealSense Inc., the robotics and computer vision startup that was spun out of Intel Corp. 14 months earlier in a deal valued

Upload a short file and ChatGPT reads all of it. Upload a long one, a contract, a thesis, a 200 page report, and most of it goes into a search index instead. Every answer is then built from whichever

Concurrency sweeps help you right-size a generative AI endpoint on Amazon SageMaker AI by systematically benchmarking it at increasing load levels. This post walks through deploying a model, running a

Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: AI training data startup Micro1 raised 100M+ at a 4B valuation, up from 500M in September 2025 — At the beginning of last year, Ali Ansari's company, Micro1, was a recruit

Bloomberg: Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a 5B valuation — Mirendil, an artificial intelligen

First model of Laya was produced with a single overnight training and subsequent fine‑tuning run, taking only 15 hours from the start of training to publishing the model. It was released on Hugging Fa

In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, 'globalists,' climate change, and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now 'officially' renam

I keep replaying that night in my head because we came way too close to doing nothing. We were eating dinner when my dad dropped his chopsticks. He picked them up, dropped them again, then got annoyed

Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised 75 million in funding. Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Smash Ventures led

Global technology company Xiaomi Corp. today announced the release and open-sourcing of its MiMo-V2.6 series generative artificial intelligence models today, which includes two natively omnimodal mode

https://preview.redd.it/qs228wu19yqh1.png?width=1192&format=png&auto=webp&s=76b02d846c09049c536c4e64411d5c26167e0bd7 Tried to use chat to help with an assignment, and it linked this super sketchy webs

BMW Group operates CLEA, a FinOps platform monitoring more than 14,000 cloud accounts. This post shows how BMW added automated daily cost anomaly detection, moving from reactive dashboards to proactiv

Introducing Halo, the best framework for post-training of open-source models. Halo delivers up to 2.8x the throughput of stock TRL with less peak memory, while models stay in their native HuggingFace