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Last updated: 20/8/2026, 6:04:04 am (IST)
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason....
An Apple Inc. effort to sell camera-equipped AirPods remains on track for 2027, despite a leak from the company indicating that the product might arrive sooner....
Hyve Solutions, the server design and manufacturing arm of TD SYNNEX, announced on August 19, 2026 that it will build two advanced manufacturing campuses in Nevada (a 624,000-square-foot flagship site in Reno and a second facility in North Las Vegas)...
A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data....
SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI....
SoftBank has made a $200 million investment in Gravis Robotics, a construction technology startup specializing in retrofitting existing excavators and heavy machinery with autonomous and semi-autonomous capabilities. Ryan Luke Johns, CEO and Co-Found...
Stripe said it's acquiring OpenRouter, as the payments company expands into the artificial intelligence model market....
In an all hands meeting, Friar told employees not worry about rival Anthropic's IPO timeline....
In a letter to investors, Stripe declares January 1 the "beginning of the singularity" and uses that as a reason to stay private. Not that it needs one: revenue grew 41 percent in the first half of the year, and the company confirmed its $8 billion-p...
Google and its competitors have been pursuing custom chips to improve efficiency and reduce reliance on Nvidia....
During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool....
Ramp, the corporate-spend platform that powers more than $200 billion in purchases annually, launched Router.com on August 19, 2026: a single API endpoint that sends each AI request to the lowest-cost model that meets the developer's quality bar. Cus...
As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance....
The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI....
OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy....
The NSA, CISA, and FBI say attackers are using AI to build exploit scripts targeting Siemens S7 controllers, drastically cutting the time and skill needed to attack industrial control systems. Critical U.S. sectors like energy, water, and manufacturi...
Gautam Korlam, Principal Engineer at Sonar, is a veteran software engineer and technology leader whose career has focused on developer infrastructure, code quality, automation, and AI-assisted software development. Before joining Sonar, he co-founded...
Fractile, a startup developing chips tailored for artificial intelligence use that has a deal to supply Anthropic PBC, is in advanced talks to notch a valuation more than six times higher than the price it landed in May....
Meta launched a standalone Mac app for Meta AI on August 19, 2026, giving its chatbot a dedicated desktop home for the first time and turning it toward the businesses and creators who run their marketing on Facebook and Instagram. The assistant can n...
Prevalent AI has raised $22 million in growth capital from Integrity Growth Partners (IGP), marking the first primary outside investment in the London-based company’s nine-year history. The funding comes as enterprises face a growing problem alongsid...
OpenAI patched Codex after GPT-5.6 Sol started deleting real user files on its own. A cleanup command meant for temporary folders was wiping home directories instead. Codex now verifies deletion targets first, and full-access mode can no longer be tr...
A production account of scaling an enterprise integration pipeline from 500 to 8,000 events per second, and the two correctness guarantees the throughput work was never allowed to trade away. The post How to Scale an Integration Pipeline Without Brea...
If you’re juggling multiple Copilot sessions, use the My work pane to track what's in flight, what's done, and what's next. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work appeared first on The GitHub Blog....
Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online....
A controlled comparison of a top-5 RAG pipeline and a full 127,000 token prompt on the same 12 questions, same system prompt and same model. Graded blind on correctness, completeness and grounding. The post Kimi K3’s 1M Token Context Window vs. RAG: ...
People can accept tradeoffs when they see value — but if they don’t, what happens? The post Understanding Anti-AI Public Opinion appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Nvidia is trying to connect GPU customers with Nordic data-center operators as cheap power and available land fuel the region’s AI infrastructure boom....
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBea...
WhatsApp is testing Scam Alert in limited beta, using on device machine learning to detect potential scam messages from non contacts. Meta's architecture keeps message content on the device while using confidential computing, Oblivious HTTP, differen...
The interview moved from Design YouTube to Design ChatGPT. Here's the framework....
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