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For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing produc

Anthropic has pledged to start marking Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data, in an effort to comply with European rules for AI transparency. 'Generated text will carry embedded

Claude apps gateway is a self-hosted governance layer between Claude Code and Claude Desktop and Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS. This post presents a production reference deployment covering

Electric has partnered with Databricks to extend Databricks’ PostgreSQL capabilities from the lakehouse into edge environments. This collaboration allows a wide range of lightweight open‑source databa

“This investment is guaranteed to return 12% annually.” A claim like that in an email from an investment adviser is a regulatory disaster. Regulations prohibit financial firms from promising returns a

Learn how First Orion, a branded communications company, shifted from brittle script-based UI testing to AI-driven QA automation with Amazon Nova Act. By describing tests in plain English instead of m

Runtime intelligence startup FriskAI Inc. launched today with 3.6 million in pre-seed funding to give enterprises a record of what their artificial intelligence agents actually do once they go into pr

GENCO is an AI‑driven neural solver released by IBM Research and partners that unifies three core electrical‑grid analysis tasks within the GridFM Development Framework. It runs on Linux Foundation En

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. It is giving defenders new ways to sift through vast amounts of telemetry, identify anomalous behavior and automate rout

Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark. The company announced the milestone t

ONESTRUCTION, with technical advisory from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, built Ishigaki-IDS, a foundation model specialized for construction and BIM workflows. This architectural case study

Photographers are among the most skeptical audiences for generative AI. Learn how Pixieset used Amazon Bedrock to launch an AI-generated alt text feature to millions of users in four months, reaching

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: IBM and Together AI sign a 240M, multi-year deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models — IBM (IBM.N) a

For organizations deploying AI agents at scale, there’s often a critical divide between structured and unstructured data. While large language models (LLMs) excel at parsing text documents, emails, an

Google has revealed a bunch of new Pixel devices ahead of its Made by Google event. The colorful Pixel 11 lineup comes with upgraded cameras and performance, with the Pro models offering a built-in LE

As inference becomes the dominant workload in AI infrastructure, multi-tier storage architectures are emerging as a key method for cost control and enhanced performance. These architectures combine fl

The open source ecosystem is making it easier for AI enthusiasts and developers to build, customize and run increasingly capable agents locally. Throughout August, NVIDIA is celebrating the partners a

NVIDIA JetPack 7.2.1 adds agentic video skills with the unified jetson‑videosdk, allowing programmable, device-aware video workflows that link developer intent to live device discovery and performance

As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, open models are serving market demands for full control over where AI runs and how it’s deployed and evolves. Today, NVIDIA is expanding its Nemotron 3

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open‑source mixture‑of‑experts language model totaling 30 B parameters with only 3 B active during inference, designed to serve high‑volume, low‑latency execution f

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B-parameter MoE model that it says delivers up to 4x faster output speeds, and an agentic AI model router — Artificial inte

Artificial intelligence silicon and software giant Nvidia Corp. today announced two new services: a highly customizable Nemotron model and an agentic AI model router named NeMo Switchyard. As enterpri

Some of Wall Street’s biggest financial firms are partnering with Nvidia Corp. to pour a half-trillion dollars of funding into the artificial intelligence industry’s massive infrastructure buildout. N

Julian Hast / Bloomberg: OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to manage commodity hedging across its expanding data center power portfolio, as tech companies seek reliable electricity — OpenAI is hir

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: OpenAI launches a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview, supporting ChatGPT Work, Codex, and more; Computer Use outside the in-app browser is not available — On

OpenWALDO, a new open-source artificial intelligence project sponsored by Ctrl IQ Inc., launched today, led by Gregory Kutzer, the founder of Rocky Linux, CentOS and Apptainer. The project aims to bui

River AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises customize open-source artificial intelligence models, has raised 1.1 billion in early-stage funding. The company stated in today’s announcement that it

Securing infrastructure and services against a future cryptographically-relevant quantum computer has been a goal for Google for a decade, and we’ve dedicated ourselves to help developers by advancing

AI-powered tax compliance has to meet a standard that many artificial intelligence applications don’t: The answers must be exactly right. While large language models can generate unpredictable results

Will Knight / Wired: Researchers find that feeding a frontier model's encrypted reasoning traces to a weaker model from the same provider can make it output the traces in plaintext — Researchers devis

NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard is a routing platform that directs AI agent workloads to the most suitable specialized or frontier model for each step of a task, balancing performance, cost, and latency. It of

After a former lead writer claimed Saber 'replaced me with ChatGPT,' CEO Matthew Karch now claims, 'Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI,' for the Rideshare 'Stimulator' game an

Bloomberg: Singapore raises its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%-5.5% from 2%-4%, citing stronger-than-expected global AI investment and improved external demand — Singapore upgraded its 2026 economic

Data interoperability is quickly becoming a practical requirement for companies trying to move artificial intelligence into production. Picking the right model or adding computing capacity is only par

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised 40M led by Sequoia at a 300M valuation —

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI — Company is racing

Business Insider: Sources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise 150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least 750M — Kevin Weil, the former chief prod

The Information: Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T+ parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models — Nvidia is doubling down

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users — SpaceXAI and Cursor

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name (stolen-thoughts.com) for a neat paper: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that

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. These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs Nine yea

There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Sophie Alpert shares her 'internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers'. It's a short read (supporting its own recommenda

Every new generation of accelerated computing demands more from the infrastructure underneath it — more compute performance, higher rack density and more efficient, scalable power distribution. The bo

Cloud-based website builder Wix Ltd. today announced the launch of Symphony, a new standalone agentic artificial intelligence platform that proactively learns business values, interests, needs, practi

Cade Metz / New York Times: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $1B led by General Catalyst to build home or small business computer servers capable of running AI locally — Igor Babuschki

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more — Wha