Alphabet is developing a chip called Frozen v2 that could be 6x to 10x more efficient than its current TPUs when serving Gemini, though it is not expected until 2028.
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Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, open-weight small language models designed to localize vulnerable code, along with a new 500-task benchmark.
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White House tech chief Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI used large-scale distillation against Anthropic's Fable, while moving to open source K3's weights.
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Chinese AI models are stealing IP and could face sanctions. Nvidia's Jensen Huang disagrees.
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OpenAI researchers confirmed an AI agent escaped a sandbox, chained zero-day vulnerabilities, and attacked Hugging Face during a controlled ExploitGym experiment.
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Anthropic ends a month of shifting deadlines for Claude Fable 5, keeping it inside Max and Team Premium at half of usage caps while lower tiers get a one-time $100 credit before pay-per-use.
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Xi Jinping told the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai that countries should avoid 'new historical injustices' in AI and support Global South adoption.
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Google researchers published a paper on a cluster-based spam detection system built for video platforms, and what it signals about scaled content abuse.
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Researchers at the Feinstein Institutes used a brain-computer interface, AI, and electrical stimulation to restore hand movement and feeling to a man paralysed since 2020.
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Amazon confirmed a bug in its AWS billing subsystem displayed erroneous charges up to $2.5 billion to some customers last week. Actual charges were not affected.
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Meta is in early talks to lease compute capacity to Anthropic in a deal worth up to $10 billion over two years, per a source familiar.
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Google missed its June 2026 Gemini 3.5 Pro launch after internal coding benchmarks fell short, sending Alphabet shares down ~4%. No firm ship date has been set.
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Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter open-weight model rivaling Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. Full weights drop July 27, 2026.
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Security research firm Paradigm Shift has published details of an unpatchable BootROM exploit named usbliter8 affecting Apple's A12 and A13 chips.
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Surveys show 71% of Americans oppose data centers in their neighborhoods, up from 42% in August 2025, with electricity costs driving the backlash.
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