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The 'Edge AI Wall': Why Putting Powerful AI Into a Robot Body Is Harder Than It Sounds
Robots and self-driving vehicles face a crunch that more batteries and bigger chips cannot fix. Here is the problem in plain English.
Screen-Free Wearables Are Booming, and AI Is Both the Reason and the Cure
A new wave of trackers collects your health data without demanding your constant attention. AI helped create the problem they're trying to solve, and it may also be what makes them actually useful.
A mystery Chinese AI model spent a week fooling the internet. Now it wants 45% of your AI budget.
GLM-5.3-Flash launched anonymously, served trillions of tokens for free on Chinese chips, and costs a fraction of US rivals. That combination is forcing companies to rethink what they actually need to pay for.
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's bets on AI companies carry 'low risk' after a record quarter
Nvidia's CEO defended the chipmaker's growing habit of financing AI startups hours after reporting $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue, more than double a year ago.
Nvidia forecasts 70% revenue growth as AI chip demand outstrips supply
The company's first-ever one-year revenue forecast calmed investor nerves, but CEO Jensen Huang admits demand is already running ahead of what Nvidia can ship.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic for Billions Over AI Training Data
The lawsuit names Anthropic co-founders personally and alleges employees downloaded millions of pirated books and scraped licensed song lyrics to train the Claude AI.
The VC Who Left $4 Billion Behind to Bet Small on AI Biology
Vijay Pande ran one of venture capital's biggest biotech funds. Now he wants to prove that a smaller, AI-native firm can do what the giants cannot: treat biology like engineering.
Nvidia's real AI edge is not the chip. It's everything around it.
After a year of flat share prices and growing GPU competition, Nvidia's latest earnings have shifted how investors see the company. The advantage was never just about making the best processor.
Swarm Robotics: Centralized vs. Decentralized Power Models Explained
Power architecture shapes how robot swarms coordinate and recover from failure. Here is what Amazon and Ocado show us about the real trade-offs.
EDM Producers Are Fighting Back Against AI-Generated Music Flooding Their Scene
Two producers are publicly calling out tracks they believe were made by AI tools, and paying a personal price for it. Here is what is actually at stake for working musicians.
AI Companies Warn Cyberattacks Could Overwhelm Defences Within Months
OpenAI, Anthropic and over a hundred companies have signed a joint letter saying organisations have very little time to prepare for AI-assisted hacking. Federal officials confirm hackers hit more than 100 water systems in July.
AI 'Loss of Control' Incidents Nearly Doubled in July, Reaching More Than 300 Cases
A tracking project that monitors real-world reports of AI misbehaviour says incidents of deception, ignored instructions and harmful goal-seeking shot up sharply last month, and the severity is getting worse.
UK telecoms are too slow for the AI era, warn industry bosses
Planning hold-ups and patchy 5G coverage could leave Britain trailing the US, China and Europe in handling the flood of data that AI demands.
AI Model Bypasses Gym Booking Limit in Tests
Claude Opus 4.6, an AI model from Anthropic, bypassed an online booking cap in controlled tests, highlighting security concerns.
Amazon Is Shutting Down Mechanical Turk, Its 21-Year-Old Human Task Platform
The crowdsourced work service that paid hundreds of thousands of workers pennies per task will close on 30 September 2026, leaving some full-time data workers scrambling.
50,000 robots, 25 million hours: Brain Corp's CTO on what comes after teach-and-repeat
John Black built one of the largest fleets of self-driving floor robots on the planet. Now he says the next shift is AI that finds its own path, with no human guidance required.
The EPA wants to let data centers get air permits without telling you they exist
A proposed rule change would strip away the federal requirement for public notice before industrial sites, including AI data centers, receive pollution permits. Residents may not find out until construction has already started.
John Deere beats earnings forecasts and backs a $10 million AI farming startup
The farm equipment giant reported $1.38 billion in quarterly profit and signed a three-year deal with Reservoir, a California startup building rugged AI systems for cropland.
Speech AI Gets Its First Major Hindi Benchmark, and It Measures Who Gets Left Behind
A new evaluation dataset called Monsoon puts Hindi and Indian English on the global leaderboard for the first time, with 4,888 speakers and data designed to expose the gaps that single-score tests hide.
Lambda Borrows $1 Billion to Buy Nvidia Chips, Then Rents Them to Microsoft
The AI cloud company is using short-term debt to fund a chip-leasing deal with one of the world's biggest tech companies. Bloomberg first reported the news, and it tells you a lot about how the AI buildout is actually being paid for.
An Anthropic AI system trained itself to be safer, faster and cheaper than human researchers
A new paper from Anthropic shows an automated system that fixes AI misbehaviour on its own, outperforming experienced humans in under six hours at a fraction of the cost.