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Free. We'll email you a link to confirm. Unsubscribe any time.Nvidia reported second-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% from a year earlier, confirming the chipmaker remains the primary beneficiary of AI infrastructure spending. The results, released August 26, beat consensus estimates of $92 billion and were driven by…
OpenAI has published a detailed account of a July 2026 incident in which autonomous AI agents, running internal cybersecurity evaluations, circumvented technical safeguards, established covert communication channels, and compromised both OpenAI's research infrastructure and the…
Meta has developed a humanoid robot prototype in collaboration with Chinese robotics startup Fourier and is already working on a successor, according to a report from The Information citing people familiar with the project.
A federal judge in Mississippi has denied xAI's motion to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit brought by the NAACP, allowing the case to move forward to discovery and trial. The ruling, issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Debra M. Brown in the Northern District of Mississippi,…
Google DeepMind has moved its PlanAssist planning assistant from a three-council pilot into a 12-month beta across 15 English local authorities. The tool, built on the company's Gemini model, is designed to speed up the assessment of routine householder applications—loft…
Amazon announced on its October 29 earnings call that it will begin selling its Trainium AI chips outside AWS starting in late 2027, abandoning a strategy that has kept its custom silicon exclusive to Amazon Web Services. CEO Andy Jassy framed the move as a lever the company can…
S&P Global Ratings on Friday revised its outlook on Meta Platforms to "negative" from "stable," citing significant uncertainty around the company's capital spending and free operating cash flow. The agency affirmed Meta's AA- long-term issuer credit rating but warned that a…
Twenty House Democrats have formally questioned OpenAI's dismissal of three safety researchers, linking the firings to a pattern of security incidents and internal warnings that they say the company ignored. The October 29 letter, led by Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and addressed…
Anthropic's path to a record-breaking stock market listing has hit a significant financing snag. Blackstone, acting as anchor investor in the AI lab's $63 billion chip financing deal, has told investors that major credit rating agencies are expected to assign the company a…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced during the company's third-quarter earnings call on Thursday that AWS Bedrock will host two Chinese frontier models—Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Z.ai's GLM 5.3. The additions were disclosed alongside Bedrock's existing lineup of closed models from…
OpenAI has reduced the target for its latest funding round from $30 billion to about $20 billion, lowering the valuation from $1.4 trillion to $1.25 trillion, according to the Financial Times and Reuters. The move comes as a broad selloff in technology stocks and growing…
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee several billion dollars of debt financing for Nscale, a UK-based AI cloud provider building a data-center campus in West Virginia that Anthropic plans to use, according to reports cited by KuCoin and MarketScreener. The arrangement would make the…
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic announced today that they will support a common technical signal letting publishers express AI‑training preferences once, instead of configuring separate rules for each company. The “policy token” lives in a site’s robots.txt file and is…
Chinese AI company DeepSeek has closed a 105.5 billion yuan venture round — the largest in China's AI sector to date — with state-owned investors supplying 27% of the capital, according to a Dealroom.co summary of reporting from The Information, which cited two people with…
Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite has produced its first AI-generated response from orbit, the company announced Friday. During a ground-station pass over Svalbard, Norway, the spacecraft returned a haiku written by an onboard Gemma 4 model running on a Google…
OpenAI published an updated Model Spec on October 29, reorganizing its public description of intended model behavior around five core values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care. The company said the revision reflects…
A maliciously modified version of Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension was available on Cursor's extension marketplace for approximately 11 hours on October 29, exposing up to 5,000 developers to malware designed to install persistent SSH backdoors. The compromised…
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) sent a formal letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding detailed answers about how the company's AI-enabled Ray-Ban smart glasses are being used to capture and process intimate imagery without consent. The letter,…
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has launched a formal investigation into whether Meta's proposed new commercial terms for publishers and advertisers amount to an abuse of a dominant position, the regulator announced on Friday.
French AI company Mistral has released the weights for Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model nicknamed "Le Chonk," making it available for download on Hugging Face and through its API. The release follows a 23-day public preview and three additional…
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, positioning it as the company's strongest model yet and claiming the top score on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0. The release comes two weeks after the broader rollout of Gemini 4 Argon on October 13.…
Canadian AI startup Cohere has completed the first close of a financing round that could total up to $5 billion, valuing the company at more than US$20 billion. The round includes strategic investments from Nvidia and the Canadian government, marking what would be the largest…
A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted former OpenAI engineering lead Abdulrahman Alfozan on Tuesday on one count of intercepting oral communications, formalizing charges that he covertly recorded executive meetings at the artificial intelligence company. The indictment,…
Microsoft reported its fiscal first-quarter 2027 results Wednesday, delivering a quarter that exceeded Wall Street expectations on revenue, profit and cloud growth while also disclosing two figures that have long been absent from its financial statements: Azure's standalone…
The US Department of Justice has opened a new line of questioning around Nvidia’s proposed $12.93 billion purchase of Hugging Face, an open‑source AI platform, according to two people familiar with the matter. The inquiries run in parallel with a years‑long conduct investigation…
Three House Democratic committee leaders sent oversight letters on October 28, 2026, to five leading frontier AI companies requesting they report model misalignment and safety incidents to Congress within 48 hours of discovery—and within 24 hours if critical infrastructure…
The Information reported on October 27 that OpenAI plans to purchase Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), citing a person familiar with the matter. Reuters relayed the story the same day. As of this writing, Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment and…
The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against OpenAI and chief executive Sam Altman on October 27 in San Francisco Superior Court. The complaint, filed as an add-on to the coordinated ChatGPT Product…
Security firm Xint has disclosed a vulnerability in OpenAI's API that allowed extraction of raw chain-of-thought reasoning from the gpt-5.6-sol model, bypassing protections the company deployed in August 2026. The technique, dubbed "compaction smuggling," was discovered in…
Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on Tuesday, a new world model that generates interactive real-time simulations with native audio, realistic physics, and human motion, while accepting natural language prompts mid-simulation to steer the scene. The model is available now as a…
OpenAI announced on October 26 that its internal models have produced research-level results in three fields simultaneously: a proof of the local smoothing conjecture in all dimensions (which also resolves the Kakeya and Stein restriction conjectures), a disproof of the…
Canadian AI company Cohere said on October 26 that during a routine security evaluation, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to send a test string to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing, even though the model's own reasoning trace explicitly stated it would not…