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Taiwan’s Wistron posts strong H1, approves new spending

The Tainan facility will support Wistron’s internal AI computing needs and provide computing resources for AI research and education through donated computing power.

What the panic over Gen Z's reading habits gets wrong

A trove of recent articles bemoan the collapse in recreational reading among younger Americans, with COVID-related reading declines, artificial intelligence and social media often described as causes.

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Moonshot AI reportedly opens $50 billion pre-IPO round as Kimi K3 drives demand · TechNode

Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of the Kimi chatbot, has reportedly opened a G-round pre-IPO financing at a valuation of $50 billion. A person familiar

Singapore dominates SEA’s $9.3b AI funding

Singapore accounted for nearly all disclosed funding, with US$9.3 billion across 227 rounds.

Could tech replace firefighters in the battle against wildfires?

Could tech replace firefighters in the battle against wildfires?

Tech is being used to watch for wildfires but firefighters are still needed to put them out.

SoftBank surges 10% as Asian AI stocks climb

In Japan, SoftBank Group, a Tokyo-based investment conglomerate that owns a majority stake in chip designer Arm Holdings, jumped more than 10%.

AMD shares fall despite 50% Q2 revenue growth

AMD will ship its Helios AI system to Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle this year.

‘Not healthy’ LLM use is more common than you think

‘Not healthy’ LLM use is more common than you think

It’s not just Hank Green.

Spotify adds Merlin to its AI music remix and covers effort

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ music while ensuring artists opt in, receive credit, and are compensated.

Commerce AI has a measurement problem no one is talking about

Commerce AI has a measurement problem no one is talking about

Most brands know something is shifting in how consumers find and choose products. What most don't know is how much of that shift has already taken place, where it's happening, or whether they're on the right side of it. That uncertainty is the problem. And the analytics stack most brands rely on isn

Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.

Singapore firms lag on AI audit readiness: report

It found that 70% of Singapore businesses assign responsibility for AI outcomes to a specific person or team.

Palantir lifts annual revenue forecast on steady demand for AI-powered data analytics

Palantir lifts annual revenue forecast on steady demand for AI-powered data analytics

Aug 3 (Reuters) - Palantir Technologies on Monday raised its annual revenue forecast again, signaling strong government and commercial demand for its data analytics software, sending its shares up 14% in extended trading.

CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages

CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages

Customers told traffic may be limited at certain times following more than ten days offline

Four labs find experimental differences can undermine AI catalyst predictions

To turn abundant carbon dioxide into valuable fuel, we need a fast and efficient way to determine which catalysts work best over the longest time. AI models have the potential to help guide catalyst selection, but as with internet chatbots, AI models are only as good as the data you put into them.

A potentially dangerous macOS security flaw went unreported due to Apple being deluged by AI slop bug reports

A potentially dangerous macOS security flaw went unreported due to Apple being deluged by AI slop bug reports

Security researchers found high-severity RCE flaw in macOS

SpaceX has more neocloud revenue

SpaceX has more neocloud revenue

But it’s still losing money overall.

Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits

Tech companies and developers have been scouring the U.S. for places to build data centers, and they’ve been drawn to Texas’ loose regulations and seemingly abundant power supply. But even Texas can be pushed to the brink.

OpenAI Finally Fixed the Worst Thing About AI Voice Chats: Here's How

OpenAI Finally Fixed the Worst Thing About AI Voice Chats: Here's How

OpenAI rebuild ChatGPT's voice architecture with GPT-Live, using a full-duplex WebRTC setup that lets the AI talk and listen simultaneously.

Michael Dell's son and a SpaceX alum want to put battery storage in every backyard

Michael Dell's son and a SpaceX alum want to put battery storage in every backyard

Home battery storage, which can lower electric bills by feeding power back to the grid, is gaining popularity across the US, particularly in warmer regions. A startup...

Onsemi forecasts upbeat revenue on surging AI data center chip demand

Onsemi forecasts upbeat revenue on surging AI data center chip demand

Aug 3 (Reuters) - Chipmaker Onsemi on Monday forecast third-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations, betting on surging demand for power management chips used in AI data centers.

Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent

Google deleted three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit ADK Python repository. Pillar Security showed that a public GitHub issue could manipulate a triage agent into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent. The researchers said the public agent could be prompt-injected into posting

AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday

AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday

Broader bounty rules added to a swelling volume of machine-assisted vulnerability reports

Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.

Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.

Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls

An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.

Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home

Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home

Automates bug bounty triage with Sonnet for $58 a month, CSO says Mythos would cost $200k

AI's payback math: how long can servers last?

Amazon's second-quarter 2026 results beat market expectations by a wide margin, but rapidly expanding investment in artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure pushed the company's trailing 12-month free cash flow into negative territory for the first time since 2023.

Deepfake bosses are crashing video calls, and researchers are trying to expose them

Deepfake bosses are crashing video calls, and researchers are trying to expose them

Fraunhofer researchers are developing a real-time warning system for deepfake video meetings, targeting scams where AI-generated bosses and coworkers pressure employees into costly decisions.

Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.

Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI Music. Stock Price Plunges

Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI Music. Stock Price Plunges

The company is going all in on AI features, including AI-generated songs, to turn free users to paid.

NAB tests AI agents in plan to deploy tech to banking customers

NAB Tests AI Agents in Plan to Deploy Tech to Banking Customers

National Australia Bank Ltd's technology chief said the firm will soon begin testing the security and operational guardrails of an agentic artificial intelligence platform as the country's largest lenders seek to deploy the technology more widely.

SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.

Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.

EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

When AI inherits your technical debt

When AI inherits your technical debt

The real challenge facing organizations isn't whether to adopt AI

DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

Google Health Finally Gets Apple Health Sync

Google Health Finally Gets Apple Health Sync

Google Health v5.05 update finally adds Apple Health sync and lets users share their health data with providers via Smart Health Links.

Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. Yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.

FOMO in the SOC: Where AI Platforms like Claude Actually Fit

AI is moving incredibly fast, and every security leader is feeling the pressure to keep up. AI platforms like Claude, Codex and Cursor are already helping security teams write detections, investigate alerts, summarize incidents, and automate repetitive work. The conversation has evolved from whether

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.

Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS now allows vibe-coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step toward decoupling apps from models.

Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence

Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence

Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another

Intro to Machine Learning Bootcamp(4/22)

Hello all, this is the free Introduction to ML bootcamp series(4/22) In the most well-known form of Machine Learning, i.e Supervised Learning, we intend to come up with some model that can predict labels for our inputs, and we need some performance measure P, hence we invent “Misclassification rate”

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

HAL Development questions

Howdy, I'm building a HAL for a GNSS chip on AIDL. Just gotta get the critter talking to Android via UART or USB and exchange some data. Problem is, I need Android to pass some web data (think HTTP or similar) to the chip. There seem to be several ways to do it, but I am unsure which one makes the m

Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect

Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect

The EU made AI icons that anyone can use.

AI is both a cyber weapon and a massive target, CrowdStrike warns

AI is both a cyber weapon and a massive target, CrowdStrike warns

The same AI tools triggering suspicious alerts are being attacked by cybercriminals in droves.