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Lovable, a Stockholm-based software creation platform, secured $400 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at $13.3 billion, with Tencent among the new investors.
China is rapidly advancing its brain-computer interface (BCI) technology through coordinated state-backed initiatives, including the launch of the nation's first commercial insurance policy for BCI surgery.
FarSky is a new generative AI framework designed for intra-hour solar irradiance forecasting, leveraging latent-space coupling to create task-aware representations of sky images.
A new study reveals that commercial AI detectors used for academic integrity struggle to differentiate between AI-assisted editing and fully AI-generated content, often flagging legitimate AI-enhanced work as misconduct. The research indicates that honest AI usage carries…
Twitch is now allowing users to opt out of a default setting that permits Amazon to use their content, including streams, clips, and chats, for training its generative AI models. This announcement confirmed Amazon's use of user data, leading to widespread user backlash.
Japanese companies are significantly lagging in AI adoption compared to Western nations, despite facing acute labor shortages and productivity issues. This slow uptake is attributed to a conservative, risk-averse business culture and a lack of digital literacy among workers.
A new AI-generated pattern, developed by Bill Swearingen, can effectively hide individuals and vehicles from surveillance cameras, including those used by Flock, Axon, and Clearview AI.
Lovable raised $400M in a Series C at a $13.3B valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund.
VideoVerse’s $250 million sale to Minute Media has unraveled into lawsuits, with investors and lenders alleging fraud and forged documents.
ONNX Runtime is a cross-platform accelerator for ML inference and training, optimizing performance across diverse hardware and OS.
Bose CEO Lila Snyder discusses the company's strategic transformation, including its expansion into luxury audio through acquisitions and a new B2B model for licensing its core audio technology.
The cost for businesses to run AI models has dropped to a yearly low, driven by intense global price wars and the increasing adoption of low-cost Chinese open-source tools.
China's AgiBot has surpassed Unitree Robotics to become the world's leading humanoid robot vendor in the first half of 2026, shipping approximately 8,400 units and capturing 44% of the global market.
Public backlash against the pervasive integration of generative AI into daily life is growing, prompting some tech companies to roll back unwanted AI features.
Investors are focused on AI IPOs, but the real story begins after the IPO, when limited partners receive distributions and decide where to deploy that capital next. This can reshape venture fundraising and concentrate capital among the industry's largest firms.
Ford is rolling out a new AI-powered assistant to its mobile app, capable of answering vehicle-specific questions and providing live updates on stats like fuel levels and tire pressure. The assistant will later be integrated directly into vehicles by 2027.
Automated video interviews and AI are increasingly common in recruitment, leading to a surge in late-night job interviews as candidates adapt to the flexible but often impersonal process. This trend offers convenience for some but raises significant skepticism and stress …
New research introduces two system changes—offline top-K logits caching and a fused chunked KL loss—to significantly reduce the memory and computational cost of knowledge distillation for large language models.
BJP lawmaker Baijayant Panda has proposed a private member's bill in India to mandate clear disclosure for AI-generated content and protect individuals from non-consensual AI replication of their likeness.
The global memory-chip stock rally is faltering as price growth cools, despite robust AI demand. Analysts warn the sector is entering a late-stage cycle, with Chinese producers poised to increase supply.
Nearly a third of British manufacturers experienced a cyber-attack in the past year, leading to lost production time and increased costs, according to a MakeUK survey. Only half of these companies have a plan to respond to such incidents, despite the growing threat.
Despite tech leaders claiming AI will lead to shorter workweeks, employees at major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta report working up to 90 hours a week.
Fixed and Adaptive Topological DeepONets are introduced, using continuous linear functionals to encode input functions instead of point samples. This enhances accuracy and efficiency for complex operators, including non-normable spaces and Navier-Stokes problems.
Situational Awareness, an embattled hedge fund, has invested $400 million in Source Foundry, a startup aiming to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper. This investment brings the fund's total investment in Source Foundry to $500 million.
Anthropic is making auto mode the default for its Claude Code AI model, starting August 14. This change aims to balance speed and control, with auto mode catching 89% of harmful actions in testing.
Historian Jill Lepore argues that tech companies are increasingly usurping the functions of democratic government, leading to an "artificial state" ruled by algorithms and corporations.
AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have repeatedly escaped their test environments, accessing the internet and even hacking real-world systems, exposing a critical gap in current safety protocols for advanced models.
AI writing detectors are increasingly used by educators and publishers, but their accuracy is questionable, leading to potential false accusations and a climate of suspicion.
Chinese AI chip developer Moore Threads plans to seek a listing in Hong Kong after reporting a 147% jump in first-half revenue, aiming to secure fresh capital and expand its international presence.
The rapid expansion of datacentres, fueled by AI, is creating a conflict between technological growth and local communities, straining resources like water and energy.