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NVIDIA Will Back a $600 Billion AI Computing Deal with OpenAI Anchored by a 20-Year Ohio Campus
The chipmaker is guaranteeing portions of lease and power costs at a giant data centre site in Portsmouth, Ohio, where OpenAI will run what NVIDIA says could eventually hold 1.5 million of its processors per generation.
Factory Robots Don't All Need to Be Supercars: Kollmorgen's Case for Right-Sizing Motion Systems
Industrial automation company Kollmorgen has expanded its Essentials motion platform to support the high-voltage power supplies standard in large factories, arguing that matching the motor to the job cuts cost and speeds installation.
Cursor launches its own code-hosting platform as GitHub racks up outages
The AI coding startup rolled out 'Origin' this week, giving developers a place to store and collaborate on code without relying solely on GitHub, which suffered a six-hour worldwide outage on the very same day.
Robin Williams' children take back his Instagram to fight AI fakes of their father
Zelda, Zak, and Cody Williams have reactivated their father's dormant account, calling it their best tool against the wave of AI-generated videos and audio that put words and actions in his mouth.
More Memory Does Not Always Mean a Smarter AI Agent
A study across eight AI models found that feeding an agent more of its own past experience can hurt as much as help. The right amount of memory depends entirely on how capable the model already is.
Brain scanning just got smarter: what a new AI technique means for neuroscience
Researchers have built a method that finds hidden patterns in brain signals across multiple people at once, even when each person's brain data looks slightly different.
An AI chip startup just tripled its valuation in six months. Here's who's paying and why.
Etched has raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by a Wall Street trading giant that actually tested the hardware first. The numbers are striking. The speed of the rise is even more so.
Autonomous Drones Are Already Killing Without Accountability. That Is the Real AI Weapons Problem
A military surgeon argues the danger from AI in weapons isn't some far-off sci-fi threat. It's happening now, and the law of war isn't keeping up.
FORT Robotics Is Going Public to Build a Safety Net for the Robot Age
The Philadelphia startup wants every autonomous machine, from warehouse bots to self-driving vans, to share one safety system. A merger deal values it at over $500 million.
Perplexity gave away a year of free AI to 360 million Indians. Here is what happened next.
A deal with telecom giant Airtel flooded India with free premium subscriptions. Now that free year is ending, the revenue data offers the first real clue about whether giveaways can build paying AI customers.
AI That Thinks in Your Language: Big Study Shows Non-English Reasoning Nearly Matches English
Researchers trained AI reasoning models in French, Arabic, Chinese and more, and the results were surprisingly close to English. Here's what that means for the billions of people who don't use AI in their first language.
Warp launches a ready-made AI software factory so smaller companies can automate coding without building everything from scratch
Warp Factories gives engineering teams a pre-built system of AI agents that can handle the full cycle of software development, from planning a task to shipping and reviewing the code.
Sentence Transformers Gets a Smarter Search Engine Under the Hood
A new update to one of the most popular AI search libraries adds a technique called late interaction, which matches text word by word instead of squeezing everything into a single number. Here is what that means and why it matters.
Firefox Gives Its AI Assistant Live Web Access and a Memory for Your Browsing History
Mozilla's opt-in Smart Window feature can now search the web in real time and help you retrace pages you visited before, with zero data kept by default.
Meta's Legal Troubles, AI Cybersecurity Risks, and the Jobs Question: This Week's Big Stories
Meta faces mounting legal pressure in the US, AI is rewriting the rules of cyberattack and defence, and the mass job losses that forecasters promised still aren't showing up in the data.
Microsoft Copilot told researchers exactly how to hack it
Security researchers asked Microsoft's AI assistant how its own safety guardrails worked, then used those answers to steal user data with a single link click.
A Korean leather maker just bought the startup building skin for robots
Uni-Chem Co. has acquired Loomia Technologies, the Brooklyn company turning flexible circuits into touch-sensitive 'skin' for humanoid robots. The deal is worth around $6 million and closes in October.
Google's Pet Memory AI Can't Tell One Cat From Another
A two-week real-world test found Google's new feature for identifying individual pets on Nest cameras keeps calling every cat by the same name, with consequences that go beyond the comical.
America's Air Traffic System Is Broken. A $12.5 Billion Fix May Mostly Enrich One Company.
Flight delays hit a decade-long high in 2025. Radar went dark over nine states. Now billions in repair funding look set to flow to Palantir, a data company with deep government ties and no experience running air traffic control.
OpenAI Launches a Teen-Only Mode for ChatGPT, With Tighter Content Rules and Homework Guardrails
ChatGPT for Teens bundles existing safety features and a few new ones into a single experience aimed at 13-to-17-year-olds. What changes, and what stays the same.
AI can run the experiments, but it cannot do the science
A Princeton-led study gave an AI agent six days, a $3,000 budget, and two unsolved research questions. The papers it produced were rejected. MIT Technology Review reports on what that tells us about self-improving AI.