Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. At the same time, AMD's gaming revenue fell 31 […]

SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to provide compute to other AI companies, according to SpaceX's quarterly earnings. The AI division, which the company said in its documents to go public was the source of most of its […]

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.

OpenAI disputes the Justice Department's view, but said it wanted to move forward with a program to support employees "requiring immigration support."

Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.

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.

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.

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

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.

OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI and OpenAI publicly released a series of text messages as part of its defense.

Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions.

In a blog post, OpenAI wrote that Apple's recent lawsuit was "careless, aggressive and oddly personal." Here's what smart people are saying about it.

The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It's a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities. Trips can also spur hard feelings from uninvited influencers, trigger criticism from the public, and project a certain frivolousness. Usually it is fast […]

Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as "not healthy," but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts. Much of the ensuing firestorm in this corner of […]

NVIDIA is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, an effort launching today to expand access to the advanced computing, data, software and expertise needed for AI-enabled research and education.

Apple is requesting expedited discovery in an ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI.

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.

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

Apparel brands like Target, H&M, and Gap use AI to enhance supply chain transparency and meet new sustainability regulations effectively.

Surging AI demands are driving the need for massive datasets and context windows that burst past the confines of system memory. But rising needs aren’t met by simply adding more storage capacity. What’s needed is useful, grounded insights from AI factories and efficient, secure storage architectures that enable those insights. At this week’s Future of […]

“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.

A credential-stealing npm worm that first appeared in keyv@6.0.0 spread beyond the Keyv and Cacheable namespaces into hundreds of packages across multiple organizations on August 4, 2026. SafeDep verified 353 poisoned versions across 79 package names in the npm registry. Its monitoring put the wider footprint at 442 versions across 353 names, while Aikido later reported at least 868 packages

Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance — now more than 120 organizations strong — are developing new guidelines to strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity as the annual Black Hat conference begins in Las Vegas today. The Linux Foundation today shared a Request for Comments on Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE), a proposed set of guidelines […]

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026

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

Arena's cofounder and CEO says fake job candidates passed interviews with the company's engineers and then disappeared.

The cybersecurity industry has spent decades assuming that offensive capability scales with technical expertise. That assumption is starting to break. Security teams have long estimated risk by ranking attacker sophistication. Nation-state actors sat at one end. Organized criminal groups followed. Inexperienced attackers, dismissed as "script kiddies," sat at the other end, running public

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 /adk-issue-fix as adk-bot. They identified the bot as a collaborator, so that comment satisfied

ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat computer-powered party trick, or a real threat to poker’s future?

Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said he bet against the iShares Semiconductor ETF, which tumbled 21% in July.

While the party fractures over Middle East policy, it is ignoring the threat posed by AI and social media

Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.

Talking to your kids is one of the fun parts of parenting. I'd rather AI take over mundane tasks like laundry or organizing school communications.

Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that could have happened.

If you've seen a BTS or Seventeen music video, you've probably seen Choi Youngjun's work. He's trying to find a new way for dancers to make money: AI.

Dmitri Dolgov says Mark Zuckerberg's original mantra to "move fast and break things" has far-reaching consequences for physical AI.

They wrote in a letter that OpenAI is either unable or unwilling to ensure the safety of its products, posing a risk of substantial harm to Americans.

Letting frontier models do the complex thinking and planning, and none of the execution, is the key to saving on your AI budgets.

Private credit, chip leases and data centre guarantees underpin a vast new model for AI spending