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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Advancing AI 2026 keynote this week was Chief Executive Lisa Su's bid to redefine the company from a "graphics processing unit alternative" to a full-stack artificial intelligence infrastructure vendor and to make this the year the central processing unit officially.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final approval to a $1.5 billion settlement resolving Bartz v. Anthropic, awarding authors ~$3,000 per title across 482,000 works and $42.3M gross recovery to Bloomsbury.

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures.

This post covers Opus 5's improvements and practical guidance for AI engineers integrating the model into agentic systems and production inference workloads.

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China's Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.

AI is rapidly moving from the edges of biotech into its core, reshaping how companies discover, design and de-risk new medicines.

This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body.

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without.

AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI model as Washington debates responses to Chinese.

Learn the architecture and design decisions behind an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking, built with Amazon SageMaker AI and.

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock.

Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.

The rapid evolution of intelligent software-defined systems is pushing chip design into a new era of physical AI, one where chip design complexity is outpacing traditional engineering methods.

The AI "startups" worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.

Relativity Space announced plans to build a second rocket factory near Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The transition from chatbot to autonomous agent is changing the shape of demand itself, and tokenomics - the economics of AI token consumption - is emerging as the defining constraint on enterprise budgets as round-the-clock inference replaces intermittent usage.

Chinese AI lab Moonshot's open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S.

Rule would allow states to decide how much-if any-public input there can be.

Maybe Nvidia ultimately won't win the entire AI enchilada, even as it reminded everyone this week that it offers everything you need to build AI factories.

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

The transition from AI experimentation to full-scale deployment has exposed a stark reality for enterprise customers: AI token routing is emerging as the critical strategy to manage skyrocketing costs as the infrastructure decisions made in phase one come due.

Lambda recently teamed with Hudson River Trading (HRT) , one of the most respected quantitative trading firms in the world, to power their trading research and development on Lambda Cloud.

As AI moves beyond chatbot toward autonomous agent, attention is shifting enterprise AI PCs as a new layer of AI infrastructure. That transition is driving demand for hardware and software designed to run AI workloads locally.

Enterprise AI is entering a new phase as organizations shift their focus from experimentation to production deployments that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Engineering leaders should build highly adaptable, vendor-agnostic infrastructure instead of relying on expensive, unpredictable proprietary hyperscalers.

Open source has been a defining part of my career for many years.

"I think it should stand for artificial idiot," one 9-year-old says.

If you're tired of sponsored and AI-summarized search results, Kagi gives you a curated-and human-centric-way to find what you're looking for.

At this week's AI Summit in San Francisco, South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and some of the country's top business leaders and researchers are meeting.

A HUGE win for BFL!

U.S. lawmakers are preparing to introduce a bill that will give the government the ability to trigger an emergency shutdown of artificial intelligence models that may cause harm to the public.

Etched Inc., a startup with a chip optimized for artificial intelligence inference, today announced that it has raised $300 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Sequoia.

Enterprise AI ambition is far outpacing the readiness of the enterprise AI stack, and the growing rift between proof-of-concept deployments and production-scale agent operations is where most organizations are grounded.

Enterprise software giant SAP SE's stock inched up in late trading today after it shook off concerns that its business might become a victim of the artificial intelligence boom by posting solid results in its latest earnings report.

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI's and Anthropic's.

Silicon diversity is emerging as the strategic hedge hyperscalers are building around as AI workloads outstrip the capacity of any single chip architecture.

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia - and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most exciting early-stage startups.

Japanese article follows English one. As we all know, AI is advancing from generative AI to agents, driving growing demand for scalable, efficient infrastructure.