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In the last two years, the world has discovered a new bureaucratic reflex. A country announces an AI Ministry. A company appoints a Chief AI Officer. Press releases follow, conferences are booked, and somewhere a national AI strategy document gets printed with a cover photo of a glowing brain made of circuits. The assumption behind all of this is simple and largely wrong: that AI capability can be organised into existence by creating a title for it. More than two dozen governments now have a minister, envoy, or dedicated ministry for artificial intelligence. The UAE was early, appointing the world’s first Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence back in 2017. Since then, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Indonesia, and several European states have followed, along with a growing list of compa

Given a rising number of publishing misconduct allegations , IEEE in 2022 created the Publishing Ethics Team as a centralized department to assist in handling claims. The group also works to increase the organization’s visibility in the broader publishing ethics area and helps IEEE volunteers write new policies. Here are some highlights of the team’s activities last year. New detection tools IEEE conducted a pilot program in 2024 to integrate tools from the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) Integrity Hub into the peer-review workflow of IEEE Access . The multidisciplinary, fully gold-open-access journal publishes research results across all IEEE fields of interest. STM created the hub so scholarly publishers could access a suite of integrated,

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing — ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage — has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve. Now, a free alternative is gaining traction. Goose , an open-source AI agent developed by Block (the financial technology company formerly known as Square), offers nearly identical functionality to Claude Code but runs entirely on a user's local machine. No subscription fees. No cloud dependency. No rate limits that reset every five hours. "Your data stays with you, period," said Parth Sareen, a so

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees. The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emerging "agentic AI" movement — where software agents work alongside humans to complete complex tasks. The launch comes as Salesforce attempts to convince investors that artificial intelligence will bolster its products rather than render them obsolete. "Slackbot isn't just another copilot or AI assistant," said Parker Ha

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but with Microsoft's Copilot in the burgeoning market for AI-powered productivity tools. "Cowork lets you complete non-technical tasks much like how developers use Claude Code," the company announced via its official Claude account on X. The feature arrives as a research preview available exclusively to Claude Max

Much of modern AI runs on multiplication. Neural networks behind everything from generated answers to photo organization and song recommendations perform millions or billions of operations that multiply inputs by learned weights. Lizy K. John thinks that’s more work than the job requires. John, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, has spent the past five years working on a class of models called weightless neural networks . Instead of repeatedly multiplying inputs by weights, these networks pass binary inputs through interconnected lookup tables—closer to consulting a collection of stored answers than solving the same arithmetic problem repeatedly. Depending on the task, she says, the networks can be less than a thousandth the size or 1,0

The viability of orbital data centers hosting the largest and most capable large language models (LLMs) remains hotly contested. But enormous deployments that require thousands of GPUs aren’t the only way LLMs might prove useful in space. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently sent Google’s Gemma 3 to space, achieving the first in-orbit demonstration of a vision-language model analyzing imagery from a satellite’s own sensor. The system, known as NAVI-Orbital, used Gemma 3 to analyze images captured by a YAM-9 satellite built by Loft Orbital . Juan M. Delfa , technical group lead at NASA, said that though the goal in this case was image analysis, the project’s success implies a fundamentally new way researchers on the ground can interact with spacecraft. “This is a major shift,” said Del

Jul 30, 2026 | Gemini Robotics ER 2 represents a step change in powering robots with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration — making it possible for robots to be more helpful in the physical world. * * * Steven Hansen Senior Staff Software Engineer Peng Xu Staff Software Engineer * * *  For robots to assist humans in everyday environments, accurate spatial reasoning is not enough. Robots must also think fast, timing their decisions and reasoning with the real-time speed of the physical world. That’s why today we’re launching [Gemini Robotics ER 2](https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-rob

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June 18, 2026 Responsibility & Safety Rohin Shah and Four Flynn How we’re securing internal systems against increasingly capable and imperfectly aligned AI AI agents are transforming our relationship with technology. By autonomously executing complex tasks — from cyber defence to scientific discovery and product development — these systems are unlocking a new era of productivity. In the U.S alone, AI agents could create $2.9 [trillion in economic value](https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/agents-robots-and-us-skill-partnerships-in-the-age-of-ai#/) by 2030. As these agents become more capable, they also require more sophisticated safeguards. That’s why we developed our [AI Control Roadmap](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/securing-the-future-of-ai-agents

If you’re wondering what dark matter is, you’re not alone. Astronomers don’t know. But they’ve determined that this invisible material must be far more abundant than the stars and nebulas that they can see. They’ve surmised as much from observing the gravitational effects of all this perplexing dark stuff, launching a decades-long campaign to understand its nature. I recently learned that it is possible to sense the presence of dark matter using a small radio telescope such as the Discovery Dish covered in these pages last year. The trick is to know what observations to collect and how to analyze them. I’ll sketch that out below, but first let me describe the homemade radio telescope I put together for this project. It’s a pyramidal-horn antenna, not unlike the horn antenna first used in 1

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August 6, 2026 Science WeatherNext team WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model. Predicting how dangerous cyclones develop is a longstanding challenge where every hour counts. Tropical cyclones — also known as hurricanes or typhoons — are among the most destructive weather phenomena on Earth, responsible for more than 700,000 deaths and $1.4 trillion in economic losses globally over the past 50 years. For forecasters, issuing timely, accurate warnings is a constant race against time. Today, in a paper published in [_Nature_](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10953-2), we show that our WeatherNext AI model achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in predicting a cyclone's track, intensity, and wind structure

July 30, 2026 Models Carolina Parada From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body control, fine dexterity, and teamwork to complete a broad range of complex tasks For decades, we’ve dreamed of robots that can seamlessly step into our world and lend a hand. Now, that vision takes a significant stride forward. Most robots are pre-programmed or teleoperated for narrow, repetitive task sequences. They lack the ability to truly learn for themselves or adapt to unpredictable environments. Moreover, transferring learned skills from one robot body to another remains incredibly difficult. To take on the hardest problems at scale, robots of every shape and size need AI models giving them the ability to think, act, and interact intelligently to safely complete tasks. We dem

OUT OF BAND; OUT OF MIND Baseboard management controllers from the world’s biggest manufacturers are a security mess. A data center corridor lined with rows of locked glass server racks filled with blinking electronic network equipment. Credit: Getty Images Thousands of Internet-connected servers sold by the world’s biggest manufacturers can be remotely backdoored by exploiting critical vulnerabilities—some more than a decade old—that lurk deep inside system motherboards, according to research presented Wednesday. Baseboard management controllers are miniature computers that are embedded into the motherboards of virtually every enterprise server. The microcontrollers, typically abbreviated as BMCs, run with their own operating system firmware, network stack, and IP address. Administrators

In February 2024, a young man lay somewhere on the frozen shore of James Bay, Canada, surrounded by snow and darkness, succumbing to hypothermia. When he failed to get home on time, his frantic mother sent a Facebook message to Elizabeth Kataquapit, then chief of the indigenous community Fort Albany First Nation in northeastern Ontario. Kataquapit used Facebook to alert the community’s search-and-rescue squad , who jumped onto their snowmobiles and drove into the night. Before dawn, they returned with the dazed man, who told rescuers he’d given up until wolves nudged his hypothermic body. “The wolves told him to wake up,” Kataquapit says. “I really believe they saved his life.” A fiber-optic network also played a key role. Not long before the young man’s mishap, the indigenous-owned Wester

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We’re introducing updates to ChatGPT that improve everyday conversations while expanding access for Free users. For Plus and Pro users, we’re updating GPT‑5.6 Sol in Chat to be more reliable with facts and provide more focused answers. A new slider lets you choose how much thought ChatGPT puts into each response. For Free users, we're updating the default model to GPT‑5.6 Luna and expanding access with unlimited text chats. For questions that need more thought, a new Think button lets you access higher reasoning for harder questions. ## GPT‑5.6 Sol, tuned for how you use ChatGPT Every week, 1 billion people turn to ChatGPT for everything from quick questions and web searches to planning, research, advic

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Klaviyo has opened its Asia headquarters in Singapore with EDB backing, as new research finds 76% of Singapore shoppers have used AI to help with a purchase in the past three months and over half are open to AI agents making repurchases for them. The post Klaviyo Opens Singapore HQ as AI Reshapes Shopping appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

* Billionaire entrepreneur Josh Kushner is married to supermodel and coding advocate Karlie Kloss. * Kushner's brother is Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and a former White House advisor. * Kushner and Kloss have each revealed they didn't vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Model [Karlie Kloss](https://www.businessinsider.com/ranked-outfits-karlie-kloss-modeled-for-victoria-secret-2023-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) and venture capitalist [Josh Kushner](https://www.businessinsider.com/thrive-capital-joshua-kushner-venture-fund-2023-2?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) may seem like an odd pairing on the surface, but they've been together since 2012 and have become partners in

* In the AI gold rush, Nvidia is selling picks, investing in mines, and bankrolling prospectors. * That's according to Rob Lalka, a business professor and Big Tech expert. * Mark Cuban and Michael Burry have warned the AI industry's reliance on Nvidia makes it vulnerable. [Nvidia](https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) is playing many positions on the AI pitch, a leading business professor says. "If AI is a modern-day gold rush, then Nvidia is not only selling the picks; they're also shareholders in the mines themselves, and now they're becoming the bank that's lending to all the prospectors," [Rob Lalka](https://www.businessinsider.com/sneaky-truth-ai-layoffs-switcheroo-meta-microsoft-2026-3?utm_medium=referr

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You tell an artificial intelligence agent, an AI capable of autonomous reasoning and multistep actions, "Find me a shirt for less than $30, but do not buy it." The agent finds one – and places the order anyway. You challenge the charge. The retailer shows the order came through your account. The AI agent provider shows your instruction not to buy. The payment service shows the charge. Each record may be accurate. But nothing in those records links the charge to the task you gave the agent to find – but not buy – a shirt. A conventional chatbot suggests a shirt and waits. An agent can use your account, contact other services and complete the transaction. One sentence sets off a string of actions across systems run by different companies. Each company can verify only the part it sees. Settli

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Twitch users: heads-up. Amazon, which owns Twitch, is now using content on Twitch to train [artificial intelligence](https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/twitch-faces-backlash-over-amazon-training-ai-on-users-livestreams/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX09XQ1ZNQzQ0NDE0NS1WSURFTw) (AI) models — a move that has garnered fierce backlash from both streamers and users on the interactive livestreaming platform. Users' accounts are opted in by default but you can choose to opt out and disable the default setting, the company announced on Wednesday. Many users have decided to do that after accusing Amazon of using their creative content without their permission. "The only thing that surprises me is that there is an opt-out toggle at all," one user wrote in a post on Reddit. "I don't even stream

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Parents have been able to see their children walk for the first time through the help of a robot. Brooke Hacker, 15, from Sketty in Swansea, has [cerebral palsy](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cerebral-palsy/) and used the exoskeleton to walk 812 steps, with her four-year-old sister able to run alongside her. Her father Andrew Hacker said "you can't put into words what it feels like to see your daughter do something you were told would never happen". The trial in Carmarthenshire is the first time Canadian company Trexo Robotics has brought the £50,000 technology to the UK. Brooke's family are calling for it to be made available "nationwide". ![Image 1: Brook in the exoskeleton, she wears a pink and white striped neckerchief and purple top. She is laughing, and walks on a piece of tarmac. A

For the past three years, school leaders have kept asking me some version of the same question: how can we know if a student used AI? It sounds reasonable. But it's the wrong place to begin. Schools want a clean technical answer to what is really a messy question about human behavior, assessment design and trust. Now Anthropic has given them something that may look very much like that answer. On August 11, Anthropic quietly updated a [Claude Help Center article](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content) to confirm that text produced by supported Claude models will carry an invisible, machine readable watermark. It will survive copying and pasting. It may survive editing. It will appear whether someone uses Claude itself, Claude Code, Claude Cowo

US President [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) has signed a national security memo that will allow US companies to conduct cyber attacks against criminal groups and foreign adversaries. The National Security Presidential Memorandum directs President Trump's administration to "leverage the capability and innovation of the private sector to help conduct these cyber operations under the direction, control, and authority of the US government", the [White House](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/white-house) said. "The American private sector is the most innovative and technologically advanced in the world, and its scale, speed, and capacity secure a critical offensive cyber advantage for the United States," the [directive](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidentia

By Leo Marchandon and Gianluca Lo Nostro Thu, 13 August 2026 at 2:05 am GMT-7 2 min read By Leo Marchandon and Gianluca Lo Nostro Aug 13 (Reuters) - The increasing prevalence of AI chatbots handling consumer shopping is pushing merchants to uphold more ‌direct customer relationships over fears of losing their loyalty and repeated ‌purchases, payments firm Adyen said on Thursday. Traditionally, consumers have browsed, logged in and paid directly through online ​channels. AI-driven shopping assistants could take over that sequence — recommending products, choosing merchants and initiating payments on their own — eroding the direct relationships retailers rely on. Adyen co-CEO Pieter van der Does told Reuters that a merchant he spoke with this week generated 70% of ‌its volume through direct

* Apple has been promising a new, improved Siri for two years. It's finally coming out next month. * Meanwhile, Apple veteran Jony Ive is working on a "family" of new gadgets for OpenAI. We should see the first one next year. * These are both meaningful developments for consumers, says veteran gadget-watcher Joanna Stern. Gadgets have gotten pretty boring over the past few years. We've gotten a few unsuccessful attempts at [AI devices](https://www.businessinsider.com/humane-shutting-down-some-buyers-not-get-refund-ai-pins-2025-2?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo). And every 12 months, we get a new iPhone that's basically indistinguishable from the last iPhone. Which makes the next few months pretty interesting. In September, Apple is expected t

Nvidia’s rise from video game industry stalwart to the world’s most valuable public company has had some unintended consequences. For one, the semiconductor industry now seems to generate almost as much FOMO as it does revenue. “There is a lot of buzz, and everyone wants a share of it,” says Ankush Wadhera, managing director, partner, and India leader of the semiconductor practice at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Image credit: Ulla This transformation has led to thousands of AI chip startups across Asia, many founded by veterans of older, pre-AI companies such as Intel and AMD. Like Nvidia, all of these startups are fabless, meaning they design chips but leave the manufacturing to specialist [foundries](https://testbook.com/mechanical-engineering/foundry-definition-and-process). But while

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U Mobile will use OpenAI across operations, cybersecurity, and enterprise services. OpenAI will join U Mobile’s 5G-focused enterprise innovation platform. U Mobile has entered into a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to introduce artificial intelligence across its internal operations, customer-facing services, enterprise activities, network management, and cybersecurity. The Malaysian telecommunications company said the agreement will […] The post U Mobile partners with OpenAI on 5G and enterprise AI appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Even the biggest cloud providers may be feeling the effects of the artificial intelligence boom. Amazon Web Services is reportedly putting stricter limits on how easily its engineers can spin up EC2 computing instances. The development highlights a less visible pressure point in AI infrastructure. While much of the public conversation has focused on high-demand Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Central Processing Units (CPUs) remain essential to keeping modern data centers and AI systems running smoothly. ### What happened? [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amazon-cracks-down-on-cpu-waste-among-engineers-as-agentic-ai-crunch-intensifies-cpu-demand-makes-low-utilization-ec2-instances-a-hot-commodity), citing The Information, reported that AWS used a May meetin

Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has uncovered a campaign by SilverFox, one of the most active Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups in Asia Pacific, distributing fake Claude applications to infiltrate target organisations. The threat actor is exploiting the rising enterprise adoption of AI tools, with Mainland China and Singapore among its key targets. SilverFox, first detected by Kaspersky GReAT in December 2025, employs a multi-stage payload delivery approach using segmented infrastructure to minimise detection risk. Its latest campaign distributes fake versions of [Claude](https://claude.com/), the AI assistant developed by Anthropic, for Windows, macOS and Linux. > “SilverFox is one of the most active threat groups in the whole APAC region. They get into targets

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Cisco announced the upcoming release of its Silicon One G300 switch chip, designed to improve data transfer speeds in large data centers, with sales expected in the second half of 2026. The chip, manufactured using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s 3-nanometer process, aims to facilitate communication between AI training and inference systems across hundreds of thousands of links. Cisco said the chip incorporates features to manage data traffic spikes and reroute data automatically, potentially increasing AI-related processing speeds by up to 28%. Cisco’s new offering emphasizes network efficiency and resilience in supporting AI workloads. _🔗 Source: [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/cisco-unveils-new-ai-networking-chip-taking-broadcom-and-nvidia-2026-02-10/)_

[Ramp](https://ramp.com/) has reached a US$32 billion valuation after securing US$300 million in new funding and completing an employee tender offer. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, with participation from Founders Fund, D1 Capital Partners, Coatue, GIC, and new investors like Alpha Wave Global and Bessemer Venture Partners. This latest funding brings Ramp’s total equity raised to US$2.3 billion. Ramp now reports more than US$1 billion in annualized revenue and says it serves over 50,000 customers, including Shopify, Figma, and Notion. The company says its customer base and revenue have both doubled in the past year, and it now enables over US$100 billion in annual purchase volume. Founded in 2019, Ramp offers software and corporate cards for expense management, bill payments, p

CoreWeave shares fell 6% in after-hours trading after issuing full-year revenue guidance below analyst expectations, despite strong Q3 results. The AI infrastructure provider, which rents out Nvidia GPUs, reported Q3 revenue of US$1.4 billion, beating the US$1.3 billion estimate and up 134% year-on-year. Net loss narrowed to US$110 million from US$360 million a year ago. The company now expects 2025 revenue between US$5.1 billion and US$5.2 billion, below the US$5.3 billion consensus. CEO Mike Intrator said a third-party data center delay will not impact its US$55.6 billion backlog. Recent deals include a US$6.5 billion expansion with OpenAI, a six-year agreement with Meta worth up to US$14.2 billion, and a new contract with a large cloud provider. Shares, up 164% since its March IPO, slip

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If you've been using Claude to draft any kind of writing, that text will now carry a watermark you can't see — at least just yet. Earlier this week, Anthropic published a [support page](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content)explaining that Claude models launched from August 2 onwards embed an invisible watermark onto every patch of text they create. "As AI-generated content becomes commonplace, greater transparency and signals about where content comes from can give people useful context about the information they consume," the firm stated in the post. Images, SVGs and other files will be treated somewhat differently. "When Claude generates a supported file type, such as a .svg, .png, or .jpg, it will attach signed provenance metadata," Anthr

* Brian Chesky said Silicon Valley needs to create AI products for regular people. * He said many AI startups are focusing on enterprise over consumer products. * Making AI products that improve Americans' lives, he said, would change perceptions of the tech. Airbnb CEO [Brian Chesky](https://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-30-billion-startup-2016-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) thinks Silicon Valley holds the answer to AI's growing public perception problem: build things for regular people. Chesky, a major proponent of AI, acknowledged [AI backlash](https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-graduates-ai-backlash-commencement-speeches-anxiety-job-market-2026-5?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_s

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Twitch is now allowing users to stop Amazon from training their generative artificial intelligence (AI) models using users' content,the popular streaming platform said. The US company said users can opt out of a default setting that allows Amazon to use streams, clips, images, chats and other channel content. The announcement on Wednesday confirmed that the technology giant, which took over Twitch in 2014, was using the platform's content for AI training, prompting widespread backlash from users. Amazon runs a host of AI services and has heavily invested in the its development as it seeks to compete with Google, Meta and other technology giants. The BBC has contacted Amazon for comment and Twitch for more information. Twitch is a major livestreaming platform that is especially popular amon

By Ben Blanchard and Raphael Satter TAIPEI/WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Taiwan detected AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies last month coming from overseas but the affected bodies successfully "handled" the incident, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said on Thursday. Taiwan has in ‌recent years complained about what it sees as China's "hybrid warfare" — from daily military drills near the island to disinformation campaigns and ‌cyberattacks — as Beijing ramps up military and political pressure on the democratically governed island to force Taipei to accept its claims of sovereignty. Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan's key infrastructure ​from hospitals to banks rose 6% in 2025 from the previous year to an average of 2.63 million attacks a day, the island's National Security Burea

IAPS fellow Severin Field interviewed 25 researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Deepmind, Meta, and US universities about recursive self-improvement. In a new blog post, he takes stock. Several of the milestones those researchers named have already been hit. The article Top AI lab researchers warned about automated AI research, and several of their predicted milestones have already fallen appeared first on The Decoder .

Anthropic's Fable 5 is considered the most powerful AI model on the market, but U.S. companies are barely buying it. According to Ramp data, Fable 5 accounts for only six percent of Anthropic tokens sold. The model's steep price tag suggests corporate AI spending may have hit a ceiling, at least as long as performance gains don't translate into measurable everyday value. The article Fable 5's slow adoption suggests corporate willingness to pay for frontier AI has hit a ceiling appeared first on The Decoder .

Two years ago, [Microsoft described AI](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/FY-2024/earnings-fy-2024-q3) as a “generational shift” in technology that it wanted to lead. Today, the company is merging its Copilot-branded consumer and business apps, and ditching a number of unsuccessful AI features. As initially reported by [GeekWire](https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-starts-merging-its-copilot-consumer-and-business-apps-in-advance-of-super-app-rollout/) and detailed in [Microsoft’s support documentation](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/learning/changes-microsoft-copilot-app), the tech giant will combine the functionality of its consumer-facing Copilot app and the more business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app. The move is both an acknowledgement

Nvidia [announced](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ai-factory-compute/) this week that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR were willing to commit up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. That eye-popping figure got a lot of the attention, but the bigger story is Nvidia’s effort to create a secondary market for aging GPUs. To convince those big-name financial companies, Nvidia has agreed to guarantee, with its own money, that its chips used as collateral in these deals will retain their value. Many have now commented on how [unusual](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/nvidia-to-team-with-wall-street-on-500-billion-package-ft-says), [smart](https://x.com/8teAPi/status/2086983723913023836), and [dangerous](https://stratechery.com/2026/nvi

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Today on _Decoder_, I’m talking with Hayden Field, _The Verge_’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI division, Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the company’s chief scientist, is leaving to form his own startup and DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside to focus on longer-term research. You can read these moves, and Google’s reaction, in a lot of different ways. So I really wanted to sit down with Hayden to dig into some of the smartest analysis we’ve seen this past week, and what we think is really going on here. Also: At its core, this is an org chart story — and what is _Decoder_ about if not org ch

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting with the Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps. Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the "Microsoft Copilot" name but features an updated app icon. The single […]

The U.S. government will for the first time allow vetted private companies to launch offensive cyber operations against international criminal gangs and hackers, the White House said on Wednesday. In [a newly published presidential memorandum](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/expanding-capabilities-to-combat-transnational-cyber-enabled-crime/), the Trump administration said the move will allow the federal government to use “innovative capabilities of the private sector” to combat cybercrime and threats targeting Americans, such as ransomware attacks, financial scams, and [sextortion](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/fbi-says-cybercriminals-are-hacking-into-victims-online-accounts-to-steal-their-intimate-pictures/). The memorandum allows private companies participati

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In a few short years, artificial intelligence startups have grown into some of the most powerful and influential businesses in the world, reaching near-trillion-dollar valuations. As two of them, Anthropic and OpenAI, prepare for initial public offerings, there’s a notable absence: The companies haven’t disclosed their greenhouse gas emissions, made net-zero pledges or published sustainability reports. Not too long ago, investors would have cried foul. Even fossil-fuel stalwarts like ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. have been voluntarily producing sustainability reports for years. The Big Tech companies scaling up AI infrastructure — Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. — have net-zero goals and report their emissions, which are now spiking due to the d

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Facing acute labour shortages, ageing demographics and chronic productivity problems, Japanese companies should be fertile ground for the take-up of artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, compared with the US and UK, adoption in many workplaces remains sluggish and cautious. Japan's response to AI is beginning to resemble one of the country's slow-moving, traditional Noh plays. All the masked characters up on stage agree that action is urgent, and the call is repeated with solemn agreement. Yet the actors remain frozen in place. Great for heightening drama, terrible for addressing the country's immediate difficulties. Data showing the use of AI in the workplace suggests that Japan has fallen behind. Just 8.4% of Japanese workers use AI as part of their job, according to [a report](https://www.

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U Mobile will use OpenAI across operations, cybersecurity, and enterprise services. OpenAI will join U Mobile’s 5G-focused enterprise innovation platform. U Mobile has entered into a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to introduce artificial intelligence across its internal operations, customer-facing services, enterprise activities, network management, and cybersecurity. The Malaysian telecommunications company said the agreement will […] The post U Mobile partners with OpenAI on 5G and enterprise AI appeared first on TechWire Asia .

[Sophos](https://www.sophos.com/) has announced a partnership with OpenAI to bring frontier AI models to managed service providers (MSPs) through Sophos Fusion, which the company describes as the industry’s most complete AI-native cybersecurity defence system. The tie-up gives partners a way to deliver frontier AI security as one connected defence system and build recurring services on top of it. Sophos Fusion runs on a single, open architecture where every control point, whether native to Sophos or a third-party integration, operates as one. The partnership extends that model by bringing OpenAI’s frontier models into a defence system that already connects endpoint, network, email, cloud, identity and security operations, compounding intelligence from every threat it encounters. > “Frontie

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Even the biggest cloud providers may be feeling the effects of the artificial intelligence boom. Amazon Web Services is reportedly putting stricter limits on how easily its engineers can spin up EC2 computing instances. The development highlights a less visible pressure point in AI infrastructure. While much of the public conversation has focused on high-demand Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Central Processing Units (CPUs) remain essential to keeping modern data centers and AI systems running smoothly. ### What happened? [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amazon-cracks-down-on-cpu-waste-among-engineers-as-agentic-ai-crunch-intensifies-cpu-demand-makes-low-utilization-ec2-instances-a-hot-commodity), citing The Information, reported that AWS used a May meetin

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Cisco announced the upcoming release of its Silicon One G300 switch chip, designed to improve data transfer speeds in large data centers, with sales expected in the second half of 2026. The chip, manufactured using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s 3-nanometer process, aims to facilitate communication between AI training and inference systems across hundreds of thousands of links. Cisco said the chip incorporates features to manage data traffic spikes and reroute data automatically, potentially increasing AI-related processing speeds by up to 28%. Cisco’s new offering emphasizes network efficiency and resilience in supporting AI workloads. _🔗 Source: [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/cisco-unveils-new-ai-networking-chip-taking-broadcom-and-nvidia-2026-02-10/)_

[Ramp](https://ramp.com/) has reached a US$32 billion valuation after securing US$300 million in new funding and completing an employee tender offer. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, with participation from Founders Fund, D1 Capital Partners, Coatue, GIC, and new investors like Alpha Wave Global and Bessemer Venture Partners. This latest funding brings Ramp’s total equity raised to US$2.3 billion. Ramp now reports more than US$1 billion in annualized revenue and says it serves over 50,000 customers, including Shopify, Figma, and Notion. The company says its customer base and revenue have both doubled in the past year, and it now enables over US$100 billion in annual purchase volume. Founded in 2019, Ramp offers software and corporate cards for expense management, bill payments, p

CoreWeave shares fell 6% in after-hours trading after issuing full-year revenue guidance below analyst expectations, despite strong Q3 results. The AI infrastructure provider, which rents out Nvidia GPUs, reported Q3 revenue of US$1.4 billion, beating the US$1.3 billion estimate and up 134% year-on-year. Net loss narrowed to US$110 million from US$360 million a year ago. The company now expects 2025 revenue between US$5.1 billion and US$5.2 billion, below the US$5.3 billion consensus. CEO Mike Intrator said a third-party data center delay will not impact its US$55.6 billion backlog. Recent deals include a US$6.5 billion expansion with OpenAI, a six-year agreement with Meta worth up to US$14.2 billion, and a new contract with a large cloud provider. Shares, up 164% since its March IPO, slip

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Decisions about how digital investigations get done are increasingly made by people who have never worked one. When those decisions go wrong, the cost lands on defendants, victims and anyone whose future turns on what an examiner finds. Few people in the field have pushed back on that arrangement longer than Brett Shavers. A Marine at 17, he spent [about a decade in law enforcement, much of it undercover](https://www.forensicfocus.com/podcast/the-dfir-investigative-mindset-brett-shavers-on-thinking-like-a-detective/), before moving into digital forensics and incident response, the field insiders call DFIR. He wrote [Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard: DFIR Investigative Mindset](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZPJF23Q?&linkId=bec89d83bc4fbec10cad1f0d228309f5&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_

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By Ben Blanchard and Raphael Satter TAIPEI/WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Taiwan detected AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies last month coming from overseas but the affected bodies successfully "handled" the incident, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said on Thursday. Taiwan has in ‌recent years complained about what it sees as China's "hybrid warfare" — from daily military drills near the island to disinformation campaigns and ‌cyberattacks — as Beijing ramps up military and political pressure on the democratically governed island to force Taipei to accept its claims of sovereignty. Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan's key infrastructure ​from hospitals to banks rose 6% in 2025 from the previous year to an average of 2.63 million attacks a day, the island's National Security Burea

Nvidia’s rise from video game industry stalwart to the world’s most valuable public company has had some unintended consequences. For one, the semiconductor industry now seems to generate almost as much FOMO as it does revenue. “There is a lot of buzz, and everyone wants a share of it,” says Ankush Wadhera, managing director, partner, and India leader of the semiconductor practice at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Image credit: Ulla This transformation has led to thousands of AI chip startups across Asia, many founded by veterans of older, pre-AI companies such as Intel and AMD. Like Nvidia, all of these startups are fabless, meaning they design chips but leave the manufacturing to specialist [foundries](https://testbook.com/mechanical-engineering/foundry-definition-and-process). But while

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Twitch is now allowing users to stop Amazon from training their generative artificial intelligence (AI) models using users' content,the popular streaming platform said. The US company said users can opt out of a default setting that allows Amazon to use streams, clips, images, chats and other channel content. The announcement on Wednesday confirmed that the technology giant, which took over Twitch in 2014, was using the platform's content for AI training, prompting widespread backlash from users. Amazon runs a host of AI services and has heavily invested in the its development as it seeks to compete with Google, Meta and other technology giants. The BBC has contacted Amazon for comment and Twitch for more information. Twitch is a major livestreaming platform that is especially popular amon

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Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has uncovered a campaign by SilverFox, one of the most active Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups in Asia Pacific, distributing fake Claude applications to infiltrate target organisations. The threat actor is exploiting the rising enterprise adoption of AI tools, with Mainland China and Singapore among its key targets. SilverFox, first detected by Kaspersky GReAT in December 2025, employs a multi-stage payload delivery approach using segmented infrastructure to minimise detection risk. Its latest campaign distributes fake versions of [Claude](https://claude.com/), the AI assistant developed by Anthropic, for Windows, macOS and Linux. > “SilverFox is one of the most active threat groups in the whole APAC region. They get into targets

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The Trump administration is enlisting private companies to conduct cyberattacks on foreign cybercriminals in a major policy shift that experts say could come with legal risk for the companies. The move gives vetted companies a prominent role in hacking operations that have historically been the dominion of US law enforcement, spy and military agencies. Companies can use cyber tools to surveil foreign criminals and disrupt their networks under the "control and oversight" of the new federal program, according to a memo issued Wednesday by President Donald Trump. The program's goal is to punish foreign criminal groups that cause Americans billions of dollars in annual losses. The program's remit is foreign criminal groups, not governments. "American businesses' innovative capabilities have hi

Check Point Research's July 2026 threat intelligence shows global cyber attacks up 16% year on year to 2,336 per organisation weekly, ransomware surging 87%, and APAC among the most attacked regions as GenAI exposure becomes a daily business risk. The post Ransomware Attacks Surge 87% as APAC Threats Climb appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

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[SAS](https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/viya.html) has announced expansions to SAS Viya that advance the platform’s agentic AI features, introducing new AI assistants, agent infrastructure and acceleration tools designed to help organisations move from isolated generative AI use cases to governed, production-ready intelligence at scale. The announcement was made at SAS Innovate, the company’s global data and AI conference, as SAS marks 50 years of operation. New features include SAS Viya Copilot, a family of embedded AI assistants; a SAS Viya Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server exposing SAS analytics as tools for AI agents; and the SAS Agentic AI Accelerator, a framework for building and governing AI agents within Viya. ## Copilots embedded, not bolted on SAS Viya Copilot is designed to w

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Thales' Luna HSMs now secure HKVAX's digital asset custody, giving the SFC-licensed Hong Kong exchange FIPS 140-3 Level 3-validated protection for private keys as it prepares for AI-driven threats and post-quantum cryptography. The post Thales HSMs Secure HKVAX’s Hong Kong Digital Asset Custody appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

[Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) signed a memo on Wednesday that aims to give private companies the power to carry out offensive cyber-attacks against foreign criminal entities. The president ⁠signed a ​national security presidential memorandum directing his administration to "leverage the capability and innovation of the private sector to help conduct these ⁠cyber operations under the direction, control and authority of the US government", the White House said. The policy shift gives the private sector a role that has traditionally been reserved for government agencies, essentially deputizing companies in the fight against crime online. Trump's memo does not give private firms unlimited ability to conduct hacking operations, but instead would authorize "limi

It's mid-August, and those who have been waiting a good chunk of the summer for the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro are getting restless. Some are calling this the "longest-awaited model of 2026," since a release deadline had previously been announced much closer to the beginning of the season. Apparently, other related models have been released, but Gemini 3.5 Pro is still locked away. Additionally, there are rumors of cancellation, with outlets like[Geeky Gadget](https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/google-gemini-3-5-pro-canceled-rumors/) and others like[Andrew.ooo](https://andrew.ooo/answers/is-gemini-3-5-pro-out-yet-august-10-2026-status/) contradicting each other about whether the Google Gemini page says 3.5 Pro is "coming soon." (Take a look for yourself[here](https://gemini.google/gemini-drops/)

Honor has been [teasing](https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakharkhanna/2025/10/16/honor-robot-phone-concept-features-a-self-aware-camera-on-a-robo-arm/) the [Robot Phone](https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakharkhanna/2026/05/16/honors-robot-phone-with-a-built-in-roboarm-is-coming-this-year/) for almost a year now. When I first saw its prototype at CES 2026 in January, I thought it was just that… a prototype. It seemed like a far-fetched idea; too ambitious to be true. I assumed it'd be a concept device at best. Then I saw a working model at [MWC in March](https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakharkhanna/2026/03/03/honor-robot-phone-steals-the-spotlight-at-mwc-2026/) and fast-forward to August 2026: the Honor Robot Phone is real and now available for purchase in China. It was announced on August 12 at

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What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy fast. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published [new research](https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems) examining how groups of AI agents behave when they encounter each other in the wild. The findings provide a glimpse into potential risks that could develop as companies and governments move to implement agents working autonomously across shared codebases, markets, and computer systems. In one experiment, Anthropic gave three Claude agents access to the same software project, each with its own incompatible instructions for what to do with it. The agents weren’t told there’d be other agents working on the same project, so researchers could watch what happened

Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash. The new model is supposed to be Google's most capable workhorse yet for coding and AI agents, and according to the company's own benchmarks, it beats Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra at half the price. The article Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50% appeared first on The Decoder .

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IBM on Thursday announced its partnership with OpenAI to bring the AI company’s models and tools to more enterprise customers, opening another avenue for OpenAI to connect with some of the world’s largest companies through IBM’s global consulting business as competition for corporate AI spending intensifies. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, [comes](https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-13-ibm-partners-with-openai-to-accelerate-secure-ai-deployment-for-enterprises-across-core-operations) less than a year after IBM announced a similar alliance with Anthropic. OpenAI and IBM will jointly market AI offerings and develop industry-specific solutions for sectors including financial services, government, telecommunications, and retail, IBM said. Under the agreement, IBM will establish a ded

Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico launched in Copilot's voice mode last […]

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Across the AI industry, users are becoming more conscious of just how expensive their deployments can be —and feeling a new urgency to cut costs. But while open source models offer significantly lower per-token costs, it can be difficult to find the right model for a given job. On Thursday, [Writer](https://writer.com/), which offers AI tools and agents for marketers, launched a new flagship model called Palmyra X6, aimed at solving that problem for its users. Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai’s open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price. The company estimates the new model, combined with changes to the companies harness infrastructure, will cut costs for its customers by as much as 50% for basic tasks.

[](https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Copilot-key-on-Windows-11-PC.jpg) On January 4, 2024, Microsoft kicked off the “year of AI-powered Windows PCs” by adding a Copilot key to keyboards, and it actually went ahead with the plan. Nearly two years later, all newer PCs, including mini PCs, come with a Copilot key, but I am afraid Microsoft has created a new problem for itself, as the Copilot key is already starting to look outdated. Today, Microsoft formally [confirmed](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/learning/changes-microsoft-copilot-app?branch=pr-en-us-308) it’s merging Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot,

Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will be leaving in the "coming weeks" to "pursue other opportunities," she said in a team note posted to LinkedIn. Dali Rajic, president and COO of Wiz, will be taking over the […]

OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the job, tapping Wiz president and chief operating officer Dali Rajic to take on frontier lab’s top sales job. The move comes as part of a broader shake-up in the organization in the last month, which has seen the departures of [COO Brad Lightcap](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/brad-lightcap-openais-longtime-coo-is-leaving-to-start-something-new/), and the company’s number two executive, CEO of [AGI deployment Fidji Simo](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/fidji-simo-steps-down-from-openais-no-2-role/). OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has taken a larger role in management following Simo’s departure, and announced Rajic’s arrival today in a [blog post](https://openai.com/index/dali-rajic-chief

There are [over 120,000](https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/the-price-of-free-lpr#:~:text=Flock%27s%20network%20includes%20more%20than%20120%2C000%20cameras%20across%2049%20states%2C%20giving%20agencies%20a%20broader%20view%20of%20vehicle%20movement%20and%20a%20deeper%20pool%20of%20investigative%20leads.%20The%20usefulness%20of%20LPR%20grows%20with%20the%20size%20and%20reach%20of%20the%20network%20behind%20it) of Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras installed all over the US. Flock’s cameras, and others like them, use AI to identify and track vehicles based on their license plate number, make, model, color, and other info, networked together to track vehicles and people’s movements throughout the day and across the country. Dozens of communities have canceled contracts for t

With memory prices still high and showing no signs of dropping, we’re always happy to find a good deal on a budget-friendly system with an adequate amount of RAM. Best Buy has the HP OmniBook X Flip discounted by $300, bringing the cost down to $699.99. This model is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra […]

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* Apple has been promising a new, improved Siri for two years. It's finally coming out next month. * Meanwhile, Apple veteran Jony Ive is working on a "family" of new gadgets for OpenAI. We should see the first one next year. * These are both meaningful developments for consumers, says veteran gadget-watcher Joanna Stern. Gadgets have gotten pretty boring over the past few years. We've gotten a few unsuccessful attempts at [AI devices](https://www.businessinsider.com/humane-shutting-down-some-buyers-not-get-refund-ai-pins-2025-2?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo). And every 12 months, we get a new iPhone that's basically indistinguishable from the last iPhone. Which makes the next few months pretty interesting. In September, Apple is expected t

US President [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) has signed a national security memo that will allow US companies to conduct cyber attacks against criminal groups and foreign adversaries. The National Security Presidential Memorandum directs President Trump's administration to "leverage the capability and innovation of the private sector to help conduct these cyber operations under the direction, control, and authority of the US government", the [White House](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/white-house) said. "The American private sector is the most innovative and technologically advanced in the world, and its scale, speed, and capacity secure a critical offensive cyber advantage for the United States," the [directive](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidentia

By Leo Marchandon and Gianluca Lo Nostro Thu, 13 August 2026 at 2:05 am GMT-7 2 min read By Leo Marchandon and Gianluca Lo Nostro Aug 13 (Reuters) - The increasing prevalence of AI chatbots handling consumer shopping is pushing merchants to uphold more ‌direct customer relationships over fears of losing their loyalty and repeated ‌purchases, payments firm Adyen said on Thursday. Traditionally, consumers have browsed, logged in and paid directly through online ​channels. AI-driven shopping assistants could take over that sequence — recommending products, choosing merchants and initiating payments on their own — eroding the direct relationships retailers rely on. Adyen co-CEO Pieter van der Does told Reuters that a merchant he spoke with this week generated 70% of ‌its volume through direct

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IAPS fellow Severin Field interviewed 25 researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Deepmind, Meta, and US universities about recursive self-improvement. In a new blog post, he takes stock. Several of the milestones those researchers named have already been hit. The article Top AI lab researchers warned about automated AI research, and several of their predicted milestones have already fallen appeared first on The Decoder .

Klaviyo has opened its Asia headquarters in Singapore with EDB backing, as new research finds 76% of Singapore shoppers have used AI to help with a purchase in the past three months and over half are open to AI agents making repurchases for them. The post Klaviyo Opens Singapore HQ as AI Reshapes Shopping appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

* Billionaire entrepreneur Josh Kushner is married to supermodel and coding advocate Karlie Kloss. * Kushner's brother is Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and a former White House advisor. * Kushner and Kloss have each revealed they didn't vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Model [Karlie Kloss](https://www.businessinsider.com/ranked-outfits-karlie-kloss-modeled-for-victoria-secret-2023-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) and venture capitalist [Josh Kushner](https://www.businessinsider.com/thrive-capital-joshua-kushner-venture-fund-2023-2?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) may seem like an odd pairing on the surface, but they've been together since 2012 and have become partners in

You tell an artificial intelligence agent, an AI capable of autonomous reasoning and multistep actions, "Find me a shirt for less than $30, but do not buy it." The agent finds one – and places the order anyway. You challenge the charge. The retailer shows the order came through your account. The AI agent provider shows your instruction not to buy. The payment service shows the charge. Each record may be accurate. But nothing in those records links the charge to the task you gave the agent to find – but not buy – a shirt. A conventional chatbot suggests a shirt and waits. An agent can use your account, contact other services and complete the transaction. One sentence sets off a string of actions across systems run by different companies. Each company can verify only the part it sees. Settli

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting with the Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps. Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the "Microsoft Copilot" name but features an updated app icon. The single […]

Parents have been able to see their children walk for the first time through the help of a robot. Brooke Hacker, 15, from Sketty in Swansea, has [cerebral palsy](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cerebral-palsy/) and used the exoskeleton to walk 812 steps, with her four-year-old sister able to run alongside her. Her father Andrew Hacker said "you can't put into words what it feels like to see your daughter do something you were told would never happen". The trial in Carmarthenshire is the first time Canadian company Trexo Robotics has brought the £50,000 technology to the UK. Brooke's family are calling for it to be made available "nationwide". ![Image 1: Brook in the exoskeleton, she wears a pink and white striped neckerchief and purple top. She is laughing, and walks on a piece of tarmac. A

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Today on _Decoder_, I’m talking with Hayden Field, _The Verge_’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI division, Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the company’s chief scientist, is leaving to form his own startup and DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside to focus on longer-term research. You can read these moves, and Google’s reaction, in a lot of different ways. So I really wanted to sit down with Hayden to dig into some of the smartest analysis we’ve seen this past week, and what we think is really going on here. Also: At its core, this is an org chart story — and what is _Decoder_ about if not org ch

* In the AI gold rush, Nvidia is selling picks, investing in mines, and bankrolling prospectors. * That's according to Rob Lalka, a business professor and Big Tech expert. * Mark Cuban and Michael Burry have warned the AI industry's reliance on Nvidia makes it vulnerable. [Nvidia](https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) is playing many positions on the AI pitch, a leading business professor says. "If AI is a modern-day gold rush, then Nvidia is not only selling the picks; they're also shareholders in the mines themselves, and now they're becoming the bank that's lending to all the prospectors," [Rob Lalka](https://www.businessinsider.com/sneaky-truth-ai-layoffs-switcheroo-meta-microsoft-2026-3?utm_medium=referr

Twitch users: heads-up. Amazon, which owns Twitch, is now using content on Twitch to train [artificial intelligence](https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/twitch-faces-backlash-over-amazon-training-ai-on-users-livestreams/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX09XQ1ZNQzQ0NDE0NS1WSURFTw) (AI) models — a move that has garnered fierce backlash from both streamers and users on the interactive livestreaming platform. Users' accounts are opted in by default but you can choose to opt out and disable the default setting, the company announced on Wednesday. Many users have decided to do that after accusing Amazon of using their creative content without their permission. "The only thing that surprises me is that there is an opt-out toggle at all," one user wrote in a post on Reddit. "I don't even stream

Two years ago, [Microsoft described AI](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/FY-2024/earnings-fy-2024-q3) as a “generational shift” in technology that it wanted to lead. Today, the company is merging its Copilot-branded consumer and business apps, and ditching a number of unsuccessful AI features. As initially reported by [GeekWire](https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-starts-merging-its-copilot-consumer-and-business-apps-in-advance-of-super-app-rollout/) and detailed in [Microsoft’s support documentation](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/learning/changes-microsoft-copilot-app), the tech giant will combine the functionality of its consumer-facing Copilot app and the more business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app. The move is both an acknowledgement

Nvidia [announced](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ai-factory-compute/) this week that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR were willing to commit up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. That eye-popping figure got a lot of the attention, but the bigger story is Nvidia’s effort to create a secondary market for aging GPUs. To convince those big-name financial companies, Nvidia has agreed to guarantee, with its own money, that its chips used as collateral in these deals will retain their value. Many have now commented on how [unusual](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/nvidia-to-team-with-wall-street-on-500-billion-package-ft-says), [smart](https://x.com/8teAPi/status/2086983723913023836), and [dangerous](https://stratechery.com/2026/nvi

[SAS](https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/viya.html) has announced expansions to SAS Viya that advance the platform’s agentic AI features, introducing new AI assistants, agent infrastructure and acceleration tools designed to help organisations move from isolated generative AI use cases to governed, production-ready intelligence at scale. The announcement was made at SAS Innovate, the company’s global data and AI conference, as SAS marks 50 years of operation. New features include SAS Viya Copilot, a family of embedded AI assistants; a SAS Viya Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server exposing SAS analytics as tools for AI agents; and the SAS Agentic AI Accelerator, a framework for building and governing AI agents within Viya. ## Copilots embedded, not bolted on SAS Viya Copilot is designed to w

Honor has been [teasing](https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakharkhanna/2025/10/16/honor-robot-phone-concept-features-a-self-aware-camera-on-a-robo-arm/) the [Robot Phone](https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakharkhanna/2026/05/16/honors-robot-phone-with-a-built-in-roboarm-is-coming-this-year/) for almost a year now. When I first saw its prototype at CES 2026 in January, I thought it was just that… a prototype. It seemed like a far-fetched idea; too ambitious to be true. I assumed it'd be a concept device at best. Then I saw a working model at [MWC in March](https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakharkhanna/2026/03/03/honor-robot-phone-steals-the-spotlight-at-mwc-2026/) and fast-forward to August 2026: the Honor Robot Phone is real and now available for purchase in China. It was announced on August 12 at

Meta is launching an optional Scam Alert feature on WhatsApp that uses on-device machine learning to flag suspicious messages. Earlier this year, Meta also launched scam detection for device linking requests on WhatsApp. The new Scam Alert feature, which is rolling out in a limited beta, shows users a warning if a chat seems like […]

* Former Netflix CEO[Reed Hastings](https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-cofounder-reed-hastings-is-leaving-the-company-sarandos-peters-2026-4?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) is bullish on the future of AI for companies. * The Anthropic board member said, "You're going to see a lot of companies attacking each other." * Having left Netflix completely in June, Hastings said he's using AI to level up his Utah ski resort. [Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings](https://www.businessinsider.com/reed-hastings-ai-entertainment-industry-least-affected-2026-4?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) says CEOs could soon face critical decisions if generative AI continues to rapidly improve. "You could either cut you

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OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the job, tapping Wiz president and chief operating officer Dali Rajic to take on frontier lab’s top sales job. The move comes as part of a broader shake-up in the organization in the last month, which has seen the departures of [COO Brad Lightcap](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/brad-lightcap-openais-longtime-coo-is-leaving-to-start-something-new/), and the company’s number two executive, CEO of [AGI deployment Fidji Simo](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/fidji-simo-steps-down-from-openais-no-2-role/). OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has taken a larger role in management following Simo’s departure, and announced Rajic’s arrival today in a [blog post](https://openai.com/index/dali-rajic-chief

Thales' Luna HSMs now secure HKVAX's digital asset custody, giving the SFC-licensed Hong Kong exchange FIPS 140-3 Level 3-validated protection for private keys as it prepares for AI-driven threats and post-quantum cryptography. The post Thales HSMs Secure HKVAX’s Hong Kong Digital Asset Custody appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

It's mid-August, and those who have been waiting a good chunk of the summer for the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro are getting restless. Some are calling this the "longest-awaited model of 2026," since a release deadline had previously been announced much closer to the beginning of the season. Apparently, other related models have been released, but Gemini 3.5 Pro is still locked away. Additionally, there are rumors of cancellation, with outlets like[Geeky Gadget](https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/google-gemini-3-5-pro-canceled-rumors/) and others like[Andrew.ooo](https://andrew.ooo/answers/is-gemini-3-5-pro-out-yet-august-10-2026-status/) contradicting each other about whether the Google Gemini page says 3.5 Pro is "coming soon." (Take a look for yourself[here](https://gemini.google/gemini-drops/)

What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy fast. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published [new research](https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems) examining how groups of AI agents behave when they encounter each other in the wild. The findings provide a glimpse into potential risks that could develop as companies and governments move to implement agents working autonomously across shared codebases, markets, and computer systems. In one experiment, Anthropic gave three Claude agents access to the same software project, each with its own incompatible instructions for what to do with it. The agents weren’t told there’d be other agents working on the same project, so researchers could watch what happened

Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash. The new model is supposed to be Google's most capable workhorse yet for coding and AI agents, and according to the company's own benchmarks, it beats Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra at half the price. The article Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50% appeared first on The Decoder .

[](https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Copilot-key-on-Windows-11-PC.jpg) On January 4, 2024, Microsoft kicked off the “year of AI-powered Windows PCs” by adding a Copilot key to keyboards, and it actually went ahead with the plan. Nearly two years later, all newer PCs, including mini PCs, come with a Copilot key, but I am afraid Microsoft has created a new problem for itself, as the Copilot key is already starting to look outdated. Today, Microsoft formally [confirmed](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/learning/changes-microsoft-copilot-app?branch=pr-en-us-308) it’s merging Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot,

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[Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) signed a memo on Wednesday that aims to give private companies the power to carry out offensive cyber-attacks against foreign criminal entities. The president ⁠signed a ​national security presidential memorandum directing his administration to "leverage the capability and innovation of the private sector to help conduct these ⁠cyber operations under the direction, control and authority of the US government", the White House said. The policy shift gives the private sector a role that has traditionally been reserved for government agencies, essentially deputizing companies in the fight against crime online. Trump's memo does not give private firms unlimited ability to conduct hacking operations, but instead would authorize "limi

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Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will be leaving in the "coming weeks" to "pursue other opportunities," she said in a team note posted to LinkedIn. Dali Rajic, president and COO of Wiz, will be taking over the […]

Check Point Research's July 2026 threat intelligence shows global cyber attacks up 16% year on year to 2,336 per organisation weekly, ransomware surging 87%, and APAC among the most attacked regions as GenAI exposure becomes a daily business risk. The post Ransomware Attacks Surge 87% as APAC Threats Climb appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

With memory prices still high and showing no signs of dropping, we’re always happy to find a good deal on a budget-friendly system with an adequate amount of RAM. Best Buy has the HP OmniBook X Flip discounted by $300, bringing the cost down to $699.99. This model is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra […]

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The Trump administration is enlisting private companies to conduct cyberattacks on foreign cybercriminals in a major policy shift that experts say could come with legal risk for the companies. The move gives vetted companies a prominent role in hacking operations that have historically been the dominion of US law enforcement, spy and military agencies. Companies can use cyber tools to surveil foreign criminals and disrupt their networks under the "control and oversight" of the new federal program, according to a memo issued Wednesday by President Donald Trump. The program's goal is to punish foreign criminal groups that cause Americans billions of dollars in annual losses. The program's remit is foreign criminal groups, not governments. "American businesses' innovative capabilities have hi

Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico launched in Copilot's voice mode last […]

Across the AI industry, users are becoming more conscious of just how expensive their deployments can be —and feeling a new urgency to cut costs. But while open source models offer significantly lower per-token costs, it can be difficult to find the right model for a given job. On Thursday, [Writer](https://writer.com/), which offers AI tools and agents for marketers, launched a new flagship model called Palmyra X6, aimed at solving that problem for its users. Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai’s open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price. The company estimates the new model, combined with changes to the companies harness infrastructure, will cut costs for its customers by as much as 50% for basic tasks.

There are [over 120,000](https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/the-price-of-free-lpr#:~:text=Flock%27s%20network%20includes%20more%20than%20120%2C000%20cameras%20across%2049%20states%2C%20giving%20agencies%20a%20broader%20view%20of%20vehicle%20movement%20and%20a%20deeper%20pool%20of%20investigative%20leads.%20The%20usefulness%20of%20LPR%20grows%20with%20the%20size%20and%20reach%20of%20the%20network%20behind%20it) of Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras installed all over the US. Flock’s cameras, and others like them, use AI to identify and track vehicles based on their license plate number, make, model, color, and other info, networked together to track vehicles and people’s movements throughout the day and across the country. Dozens of communities have canceled contracts for t