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Google LLC is reportedly developing a new chip optimized to run its Gemini series of artificial intelligence models.

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI model.

The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.

CuspAI Ltd., a startup using artificial intelligence to discover new materials, today announced that it has raised $450 million in funding. The U.K.-based company also formed a chemical research consortium that includes Nvidia Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co.

The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.

California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.

Enterprise AI is facing an ROI paradox.

Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, "stateless" approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already.

Microsoft Corp. will use Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s upcoming Helios rack design to power some Azure services. The cloud and operating system giant announced the partnership today alongside three new instance families.

Early-stage AI infrastructure research company Infinity Inc. said it raised $15 million in seed funding to develop software that automatically prepares new artificial intelligence chips to run inference workloads. The round values the company at $100 million on a post-money basis.

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLM reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

Hyve Group's acquisition of Chain of Events is set to accelerate the international expansion of RAISE Summit, Paris Blockchain Week and MACHINA while adding technology designed to improve attendee networking and deal-making.

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

A single AI agent conversation can look flawless scored on its own and still point to a broken product.

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With the stock firmware and software, developers couldn't modify their AWS DeepRacer devices to use the latest operating systems.

In this post, we show how Amazon Quick can serve as the business-user front door for specialized agent workflows.

This post describes how Couchbase adopted Amazon Bedrock to power Capella iQ with Anthropic's Claude family of models, the architectural decisions behind.

In this post, we describe how Tradeshift deployed Amazon Quick with agentic AI capabilities to replace our legacy BI tool, resulting in query response times.

Zillow, the real estate technology company, doesn't get one conversation with its customers.

Artificial intelligence companies are racing to control the infrastructure, data and software layers that will power enterprise intelligence. Nvidia Corp. remains far ahead in accelerated computing, but Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Broadcom Inc.

Agentic software control startup Neo Security Inc. said today it's exiting a years-long spell in "stealth" mode after raising $100 million in funding.

Hugging Face Inc., an open-source artificial intelligence platform often described as the "GitHub of machine learning," found itself forced to use an open-weights model to respond to an agentic AI attack after the safety guardrails on commercial AI model blocked requests.

Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.

Many will say Spa is the best racetrack on earth, but not for these F1 cars.

Hugging Face's incident response team first turned to frontier AI model to analyze a breach of the company's production infrastructure, and the models.

Adobe's Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app.

YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos that can't earn ad revenue.

AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC.

From open models to real-time simulation, AI and graphics breakthroughs are transforming media, content creation and robotics.

When most people think about the New York Stock Exchange, they think about listing day. The opening bell. CNBC. The trading floor. The moment a private company becomes public. What they don't see are the years leading up to that moment.

Flock Safety sits right at the center of the debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public safety.

Mithra Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of blockchain and document-security company ShelterZoom Corp., today launched Mithra AI, a product built to vet the data behind an enterprise artificial intelligence answer before the model ever produces it. The setup is straightforward.

Learn how an AI coding agent caused a 13-hour outage and how Docker Sandboxes help reduce risk with scoped identities and isolated execution.

A special half-day ArgoCon Japan (1:30pm - 6:30pm) will be held July 28, 2026 in Yokohama, Japan as a colocated event with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.

The singularity will be seen in hindsight as an interregnum.

For the first time since 2024, StrictlyVC is coming back to New York City - and we're bringing the kind of access you'd expect from an under-wraps event to.

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