The enormous cost of building the infrastructure needed to power it may be adding to inflation before those promised productivity gains arrive.
Matias Civita
Aug 13, 2026
AI agents could accelerate the clinical development of cancer medicine by approximately 10 weeks while reducing direct operating costs by as much as $5.6 million in late-stage trials.
Matias Civita
Aug 13, 2026
A series of recent incidents has intensified concerns about what happens when autonomous AI systems escape controlled testing environments and gain access to real-world computer networks.
Matias Civita
Aug 13, 2026
In a new documentary, the current owners of MySpace say they are planning yet another comeback for the once-dominant social media website.
Brian Slupski
Aug 12, 2026
The unusual system can push an employee's problem ahead of other work, highlighting the challenges OpenAI faces as its workforce and operations grow.
Merin Rebecca Thomas
Aug 12, 2026
For text, Claude will embed what Anthropic calls "imperceptible" patterns to indicate that the content was generated or processed by the model.
Matias Civita
Aug 12, 2026
The Open Secure AI Alliance is developing the Shared AI Findings Exchange, a proposed incident-reporting framework designed to give the industry a common way to document rogue AI incidents.
Matias Civita
Aug 12, 2026
New York City announced that it is investigating prediction market betting websites, alleging that the companies use predatory marketing tactics to target young people.
Brian Slupski
Aug 12, 2026
Elon Musk's SpaceX and Tesla are initially investing $16.8 billion in Terafab, a planned 100-million-square-foot Texas chip factory that could become the world's largest building and supply advanced chips for AI, robots, autonomous vehicles and space-based computing.
Merin Rebecca Thomas
Aug 12, 2026
Intel expects to raise about $19.7 billion after expenses from an upsized stock offering as it increases investment in factories, advanced packaging and other capacity needed for AI chips.
Merin Rebecca Thomas
Aug 11, 2026
Nvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR to create financing platforms for Nvidia customers.
Matias Civita
Aug 11, 2026
Chip giant Nvidia introduced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a "lightweight" open-source AI model that companies can download, modify and use without paying Nvidia or seeking permission.
Matias Civita
Aug 11, 2026
OpenAI has completed a roughly $7 billion secondary share sale, giving current and former employees a chance to cash out some of their holdings ahead of a possible IPO.
Merin Rebecca Thomas
Aug 11, 2026
A federal appeals court ruled that thousands of lawsuits filed against Meta and other social media companies for being addictive can move forward.
Brian Slupski
Aug 11, 2026
Surging AI demand is driving up memory chip prices and squeezing supplies available to consumer electronics makers. Morgan Stanley expects the crunch to push PC and smartphone inflation significantly higher.
Merin Rebecca Thomas
Aug 11, 2026
At least a dozen states have been affected by the recent campaign, including Minnesota, where at least 30 water systems were targeted.
Matias Civita
Aug 11, 2026
The company, Irregular, is a three-year-old Tel Aviv startup that provides specialized testing environments designed to probe the capabilities and potential security risks of increasingly powerful AI systems.
Matias Civita
Aug 10, 2026
OpenAI said Friday that its unreleased model, Astra, has performed strongly enough in cybersecurity evaluations that the company cannot yet rule out the possibility that it has reached "Critical" capability.
Matias Civita
Aug 10, 2026