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Artificial intelligence startup Keenable.ai Inc. said today it’s launching with 26 million in funding to try to revamp a web search infrastructure that was built for humans, not the billions of autono

The artificial intelligence infrastructure market is crossing an important threshold. The conversation is shifting from acquiring graphics processing units to building complete AI factories that can g

AI storage infrastructure is becoming a more consequential planning issue as organizations move from model training toward agentic AI. As agents reason, act and reassess, they build longer contexts an

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out — ZDNET's key takeaways — Claude chat

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC announced today it’s changing how Claude, its flagship AI product, uses memory by allowing users to see everything it remembers “topic by topic,” and edit

Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are 899+ and 1,699+, 100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is 5,499+, up $200 — Betw

The reinforcement learning (RL) ecosystem is rapidly adopting Ray as the unified compute runtime for complex post-training workflows. Across Google Cloud, we see customers using Ray for workloads rang

Physical artificial intelligence chip infrastructure startup Embedd Ltd. says it’s ready to fix one of the most critical bottlenecks in the multibillion-dollar robotics industry after raising 2.7 mill

AI factories are moving from ambitious plans toward production, but the path from graphics processing unit acquisition to usable systems remains a race against time. Neoclouds already have customers w

Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced an expansion to its current lineup of rack-scale artificial intelligence solutions for massive AI workloads in secure AI factories, addressing growing needs for mas

CUDA Python 1.0, released alongside CUDA 13.3, provides NVIDIA-maintained libraries and tools that expose the entire CUDA platform directly to Python through a single shared foundation. It adopts sema

Data center power startup Emerald AI Inc. today said that it has raised 150 million in new funding in an oversubscribed round at a valuation of 1.05 billion. Emerald will put the money into scaling up

For the past two years, the generative artificial intelligence boom has largely been defined by a single market. Hyperscalers have dominated the market with massive capital spending. According to Cred

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey — Alphabet's Goog

Build a governed weekly reporting workflow with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. An Amazon S3 access point exposes an approved folder to a Quick knowledge base, and a custom skill

IBM has released Granite 4.2, an open‑source agentic AI model that adds native reasoning, tool use, coding instruction following and speech capabilities to enterprise agents. The suite of pre‑built mo

Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embedding the technology into physical systems—a

NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to the Gamescom conference running this week in Cologne, Germany, with support for new games, anti-cheat technologies and increased visual quality. Elect

Protecting capital in today's markets requires immense speed and precision. A financial analyst preparing a deal memo works across licensed market data, internal models, and confidential client files.

Few professions are as exacting as the practice of law. A team reviewing a contract or building a case works inside strictly privileged information, firm-specific playbooks, and a body of law that cha

Exposure management company Nucleus Security Inc. today unveiled Nucleus Helix, an artificial intelligence engine that now sits at the center of its platform. Three new capabilities run on the engine.

The Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia has been extended into the rack-scale era, offering enterprises greater full-stack operational capabilities as a result. Designed to give customers a framework

Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of Jetson Orin Nano 2, a robotics computer “brain” for running artificial intelligence and frontier-level models at the edge. In the past months, foundational

Researchers at nonhuman identity security company Oasis Security Ltd. today disclosed a vulnerability in Nvidia Corp.’s NemoClaw that hands an attacker full control of the local model server powering

Eugene Demaitre / The Robot Report: Nvidia unveils the Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge AI computer that it says doubles inference performance, with 78 TOPS of AI compute and an eight-core Arm CPU — As AI mode

OpenAI’s Jalapeño is a self‑designed ASIC for large‑language‑model inference that was taped‑out in about 16 months, developed with Broadcom and featuring HBM4 memory. Benchmarks on the InferenceX suit

OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with report

Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency vs. Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T — Jalapeño outperf

Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked anoth

Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced Portable Computer, an artificial intelligence agent designed to run on desktops equipped with Nvidia Corp. silicon. The launch follows a report that Nvidia is weigh

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs — Perplexi

AI agents are helping developers, teams, and businesses do more: writing and executing code, conducting research, and running dynamic workflows across systems. But that ability is often bounded by whe

Shadow Engine Recovery in NVIDIA Dynamo keeps a fully-initialized standby LLM engine on the same GPU, using the GPU Memory Service (GMS) to persist model weights and share them across engines without

Generalist AI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence software for robots, has reportedly raised 200 million in funding. Axios today cited a source as saying that 8VC led the investment.

Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced the launch of HOMIE Gen2, the next generation of the company’s head-mounted wearable that records human movement dat

Skild AI: Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning — UNSEEN TASKS10-MINUTE HORIZONSON

Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above 30T, topping SpaceX's 28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019 —

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus — Chris Malone joins a string of

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv and NYC-based Alice, which works to protect AI models from misuse and rogue behavior, raised 140M led by Apax Digital at a valuation “close to 1B” — An Israeli sta

Tempo Software Inc. today introduced Workforce Intelligence, an Atlassian Marketplace app that connects artificial intelligence usage and its cost to the individual Jira issues the work was done on. T

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom Chatbots took

We've closed our Series B, bringing total funding to $232M under new leadership. This round welcomes entertainment titans Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group,

Vultr’s VX1™ Cloud Compute offers affordable, high‑density CPU servers tailored to the new era of agentic AI, which now demands a roughly 1:1 (or higher) CPU‑to‑GPU ratio and extensive memory manageme

In this installment of Rise of the AI Engineer, Stuart Sy from OpenAI, explains why the bottleneck has moved off the model and onto context, evals, and observability. The post Why better models don’t

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots — E

A skill is just another AI agent: a prompt plus a harness that runs it. That means you can trace it, eval it, and prove a change made it better instead of shipping on vibes. Here's how we quantify ski