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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.
Platform hits 3M downloads, 80% in past week. Data stored on China servers. Collects chat history, IP, keystrokes.
Of 57 ideas tested in i.AI incubator, only 11 advanced. A-cubed and Aigent among 6 dropped prototypes, despite initial success in proof-of-concept.
Four-hour outage affected 300M weekly users. Started 11:00 GMT with 'bad gateway error,' fixed 15:09 GMT. 10,000+ UK reports on Downdetector.
CUA sets benchmarks: 38.1% on OSWorld computer tasks, 58.1% on WebArena, 87% on WebVoyager. Uses screen, mouse, keyboard like humans, no APIs needed.
Initial deployment begins in Texas, with $100B immediate funding. Project aims to triple data center capacity by 2030, growing 19-27% annually.
Partnership grants Microsoft exclusive OpenAI IP rights through 2030, shifts to ROFR model for infrastructure while maintaining Azure exclusivity.
