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Elon Musk's AI Startup xAI Unveils First Product, But Keeps Its Purpose Under Wraps
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has announced its first product, but the billionaire entrepreneur has refused to reveal its p...
US Infrastructure Boom to Dwarf 19th-Century Railroad Boom by 2028
The US is experiencing an infrastructure boom, driven by the growth of data centers, which could cost over $10 billion a...
Samsung Expects Record $79.8 Billion Q3 2026 Operating Profit
Samsung Electronics predicts a record-breaking $79.8 billion operating profit in the third quarter of 2026, driven by st...
Georgia's Central Bank Wins Two International Data Awards
Georgia's Central Bank has won two international data awards for its data analytics team and innovative use of artificia...
Fleet AI Tools Target Repair Backlogs, Invoice Waste and Idle Technician Time
At TMC's AI Summit, Samsara and Fleetrock made the case for maintenance AI anchored to repair prioritization, invoice ac...
China's high-tech sales rise 15.7%, AI chips up 67.7% in tax data
Official tax data show China's high-tech industries gained momentum in January-August, with AI-related integrated circui...
58% of Peruvians Are Hunting a Second Income — 20% Already Earn Through AI
A new Activa survey finds 58% of Peruvians are actively seeking extra income, and 20% have already earned through an AI-...
Tech Billionaires Worth $2.2 Trillion Set to Join Trump-Xi Dinner Amid AI Safety Warnings
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang and other tech leaders are expected at Thursday's White House state dinner as T...
Anthropic Weighs New AI Model Launch Ahead of IPO as OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gains Ground
The AI startup is debating a model release to counter OpenAI's enterprise momentum, with the timing tied to its expected...
Why Amodei, Musk and Altman Are Suddenly Calling for an AI Slowdown
Three rival AI chiefs have reportedly aligned on slowing the development of large language models, triggering market jit...
Anthropic Blocks Accounts in Suspected Attempt to Use Claude for Bioweapon Research
Anthropic banned accounts tied to a grant application that sought to make chikungunya virus more harmful and shared find...
OpenAI and Anthropic Escalate AI Model Battle Ahead of Mega IPOs
GPT-6 Astra, Fable and Mythos 5.1 land weeks before expected IPOs, with reported revenue and valuation figures setting u...
Publisher Execs Head to Key Biscayne to Confront AI Search, Google Zero and Shrinking Open Web
At the Digiday Publishing Summit, leaders from The New York Times, WSJ, Reuters and Politico will debate AI licensing, A...
AI Gave Professionals an Executor Before They Learned to Manage One
A business-school teacher argues the real AI adoption barrier appears after the first answer: staff recognise a wrong re...
Samsung Plans Record $65–80 Billion Shareholder Payout After AI Memory Boom
The Korean chipmaker's largest-ever return programme, including buybacks and dividends, is about five times its previous...
Hugging Face explores $13 billion sale as AI tooling valuations climb
The AI developer platform is reportedly working with a bank to gauge buyer interest at $13 billion or more, nearly tripl...
Academics Role-Play an Artificial Superintelligence Future in a Zoom Forum
Bryan Alexander's Future Trends Forum asked about 70 higher-ed professionals what a 2027 ASI announcement would mean for...
Anthropic's Public Debut Arrives as AI Backlash Becomes a Formal Risk
The Claude maker is heading for a record listing while investors, voters and politicians push back on AI data centres. I...
Alliant to Acquire AI-Native Benefits Brokerage Nava, Betting on a New Operating Model
The deal pairs Alliant's national scale and advisory expertise with Nava's HQ platform, which reports resolving 81% of m...
Stripe Strikes Reported $7 Billion Deal for AI Startup OpenRouter
Stripe is said to have agreed to buy AI model-routing startup OpenRouter for about $7 billion, a sharp premium to its la...
IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL passes $7 billion in startup value as it pivots to AI and sector hubs
The incubator claims 3,000 startups and 35,000 jobs; its next phase targets one million entrepreneurs through AI learnin...
EY Creates AI Value Realization Office to Make Its $1.4bn AI Investment Pay
The Big Four firm is centralizing AI spending, usage and return measurement as token costs climb and clients ask for a b...
AI Buildout Repeats Three Enron Financial Tactics, but Is Not Doomed to Crash
Santa Clara professor Ram Bala says private credit, mark-to-model demand and circular vendor financing echo Enron legall...
AI Cyberattacks Shift Into Live Attack Chains as White House Prepares Classified Review
New Check Point and CrowdStrike research shows attackers using AI inside live operations, while universities face identi...
Microsoft Says Southern Europe's AI Lead Will Be Decided by Skills, Not Models
Microsoft’s Southern Europe VP sees Greece shifting from AI adoption to a regional hub, but the decisive bottleneck is r...
NYU Abu Dhabi's 84 Open Research Jobs Span AI, Climate and Engineering
A Times Higher Education job board shows 84 Middle East academic positions, with NYU Abu Dhabi dominating the visible op...
AI's New Gold Mine Is Trusted Data — and Yelp Is Sitting on a Rich Seam
AI adoption is surging, yet trust in AI-generated answers remains strikingly low. The Yelp–OpenAI licensing deal shows w...
Meta Opens Its Strongest AI Model to the Public and Challenges OpenAI and Anthropic
The social giant will release Muse Spark 1.2 weights and a laptop-focused Muse Glimmer family, positioning open-source A...
Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner Warns AI Euphoria Is Eroding Venture Discipline
Thrive Capital's first investor letter discloses $60bn in assets and a 41% gross IRR while its founder argues Silicon Va...
Retail TouchPoints Sets Aug. 25 Webinar on Retailers’ AI Stack Ahead of Holiday 2026
Lowe's, Academy Sports + Outdoors, Bain and PwC executives are billed for a live discussion on where retail AI investmen...