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Data center developers are poised to face a more restrictive building environment after voters across the country voted in candidates who favor moratoriums and ballot measures that put more obstacles on their expansion…
AI agents won't be stealing Uber's lunch any time soon. Only four rides were arranged by third-party AI agents during the third quarter of 2026, Uber executives disclosed during an earnings call this morning. The volume…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spent election night defending his position on PC RAM purchases. He changed his name on X to "Ram Altman" in response to another user's comment, saying, "i actually do want the world to have tons…
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country’s slow rate of adoption
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Daybreak Red brings GPT-5.6 Cyber to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.
Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years, Google parent Alphabet said in its earnings report last week. However…
Tencent’s WeChat Vision team has released WeVisOne-VL, an open vision language model in 2B and 4B sizes. The WeVisOne-VL vision language model handles detection, referring, counting, pointing, OCR, segmentation and…
The PC gaming mods repository Nexus Mods is making disclosures about AI mandatory for uploads of new mods, meaning that mod authors will have to declare "whether AI has been used in their work," the site announced today…
Emmanuel Roman, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco), during the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images…
Called FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.
The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team has released FlashProve, an open-source research prototype for provable inference. FlashProve is a zkSNARK system from Anthropic that proves a reply came from a committed model. The proof…
Cybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.
Palantir's U.S. commercial revenue surpassed U.S. government revenue for the first time ever.
These edits of Jason Statham (left) and Jeff Bezos are a bit jarring, but that’s sort of the point. | Image: The Verge Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Jason Statham have a distinctive feature in common: They're both…
NVIDIA’s latest technical blog shows how to speed up mixture-of-experts (MoE) inference on one DGX Spark. The test model is Ant Group inclusionAI’s Ling-3.0-flash, a 124B-parameter MoE with 5.1B active parameters…
Soniox has released Soniox STT v6, the latest generation of its speech-to-text API. Soniox STT v6 is a speech-to-text model that reads what a voice agent says while hearing the caller. It uses that text to recognize…
Apple will now let Siri AI perform actions across third-party apps. As part of the iOS 27.3 update rolling out on Tuesday, Apple announced developers can now integrate Siri AI's new features in "all apps," allowing the…
The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.
Running a modern research laboratory requires more than maintaining sophisticated instruments. Researchers need to complete training, obtain access, schedule and operate equipment, navigate billing, and more. For large…
The first experimental feature under the tab will allow users to get recommendations based on what they're currently in the mood for.
Starting today, Siri can tune into the Apple Watch's mic with Audio Intelligence features that are available in the new watchOS 27.3 developer beta rolling out now. The two new additions are Siri Recap, which uses…
In many circles, "Ask Chat" has replaced "Google it," and that's reflected in a new announcement from OpenAI: the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent of the volume run through Google. Adam…
A screenshot from Food Devils, which is missing its planned launch today. Many indie game developers have recently posted on social media about unexpectedly long approval wait times for their game submissions on Steam…
Netflix's TV app is getting a new "AI Discover" tab where the company will show experimental, AI-powered features to help you find new shows and movies to watch. The first of these experiments surfaces content based…
At a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.
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