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xAI brings Grok 4.6 to Microsoft Foundry and rolls Grok Bot into more SuperGrok and Cursor plans.
Mistral teams up with HUMAIN on a multi-hundred-million-euro sovereign AI push across Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.
Nvidia's Q2 revenue hits $96.2bn as Jensen Huang declares "compute is revenue," with Vera Rubin now in full production.
OpenAI adds 55 school districts and 100,000+ educators to ChatGPT for Teachers, alongside a new 16-state student data privacy agreement.
Record AI-driven growth pushes Salesforce revenue to $11.3bn, with Agentforce ARR past $1.5bn and full-year guidance raised to $46.4bn.
Salesforce and Anthropic launch Claudeforce, weaving Claude's reasoning into Salesforce's CRM via a 37-skill sales plugin. Wider public beta lands September 2026, with more skills to follow.
Why Live Learning is the only path to profit By Dr Yichuan Zhang, CEO & Co-founder, Boltzbit The model race has become a contest for scarce resources, and that competition is leading the AI industry down an unsustainable path. A handful of companies now control the chips, capital and
By Inna Weiner, VP of Product, Data & AI, AppsFlyer. Agentic AI is increasingly being thought of as the next major leap in enterprise productivity. Give an AI agent a goal, connect it to existing tools, and let it analyse, decide, and act. It can lead to faster execution, fewer
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Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai are in the corner playing pool.
Pope Leo's encyclical on AI is one of the most serious documents written on the subject. The launch optics undermined it before most people read a word.
As Elon Musk testifies in Oakland, the lawsuit over OpenAI’s for-profit conversion establishes a high-stakes benchmark for AI governance and fiduciary duty.
The new partnership gives Cursor unprecedented compute access and gives SpaceX a path to dominate agentic software development.
While it promises rapid vulnerability detection, the emergence of Anthropic’s latest AI raises questions about security risks, defensive preparations, and the future of knowledge work.
Cycode’s Top AI Security Vulnerabilities to Watch out for in 2026 report outlines rising risks across prompt injection, data exposure, and AI supply chains.
Security models are no longer enough as multi-modal attacks overwhelm traditional controls, forcing a rethink of enterprise trust systems.
MCP is rapidly transforming how AI agents interact with enterprise systems, opening up a new class of supply chain, identity, and governance risks that security teams can’t ignore.
Hefty cash burn threatens OpenAI’s longevity in the face of self-funded competitor.
Google DeepMind CEO warns that defensive systems must outpace AI-powered attack vectors as AGI approaches.
From the EU AI Act to cyber policy wording, panelists examined how emerging regulation and insurance structures intersect with enterprise AI deployment.
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Supreme Court allows appeal in Emotional Perception AI v. Comptroller General, mandating EPO-aligned test for computer-implemented inventions under UK law.
Experts discuss the practical steps organizations must take to secure AI, protect data, and operationalize responsible deployments.
Mistral AI enables model customisation via La Plateforme and introduces AI Agents, allowing developers to create complex, shareable workflows.
The guide suggests fine-tuning, particularly parameter-efficient fine-tuning, as a more viable approach for smaller teams with limited resources compared to pre-training methods.
The guide identifies five scenarios where fine-tuning excels: customising tone and format, improving accuracy, addressing niche domains, reducing costs via distillation, and developing new abilities.
Meta AI's guide emphasises dataset quality for fine-tuning LLMs, suggesting small high-quality datasets often outperform larger low-quality ones. It compares full fine-tuning and PEFT techniques.
Google launched its AI Academy for American Infrastructure, selecting 15 startups to transform critical infrastructure using AI. The 12-week programme offers mentorship, AI training, and resources. Startups address issues like water management, transportation safety, and sustainable manufacturing.
Ornek develops AI robot guide dog IC4U using NVIDIA Jetson. Features sound sensors, 3D camera, detects objects, and assists shopping. Aims to help visually impaired navigate.
