Tencent-owned Lightspeed LA is laying off staff
The Last Sentinel developer attributes the job cuts to a shift in creative and development direction for the project.
FTSE 100 hits record high despite AI sell-off
Strong corporate results buoy market as investors move money away from tech and semiconductor stocks London’s FTSE 100 stock index has touched a fresh high, driven by strong corporate results as investors moved money away from tech and semiconductor stocks amid the global tech stock sell-off . The UK’s blue chip index rose as high as 10,951 points on Wednesday morning before falling back slightly, its best level since 27 February, the day before the US and Israel began attacks on Iran and sparke
Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential
It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.
Atlassian tightens tracking of staff AI use as other technology firms encourage ‘tokenmaxxing’
Some companies reportedly using leaderboards for employees who used the most AI in their work Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Software firm Atlassian has sought to tighten tracking of its staff’s AI spending by introducing “wallets” with monthly caps of up $2,000 for each employee, amid an explosion in costs at other tech companies. The move by Atlassian, which recently cited AI as part of the reason behind cutti
Compliance is becoming infrastructure, not overhead
For years, financial institutions have treated compliance as a cost of doing business. A regulation ...
FCC Bans Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots, Targeting China Over National Security
China has criticized the move, accusing the U.S. of protectionism.
Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
Patch-Resistant 'RufRoot' Flaw Can Unleash Malicious AI Agent Swarms
The vulnerability in the AI hosting platform Ruflo allows an unauthenticated attacker to take over the system and corrupt memory, so bad behavior can persist after patching.
Opinion: Threat of Deportation, Program Cuts Disrupt Student Learning
Once upon a time, a knight in shining armor rode his gallant steed into a village where he was met with cheers and celebration. I like to believe that these heroes still exist — I know one named Fluviano. He’s a student in my English language development class. He does not ride atop a gallant […]
Trump administration bans foreign-made humanoid robots in move targeting China
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has banned imports of foreign-produced humanoid robotic devices and power inverters, citing “national security” as its primary concern. The devices were added to the FCC’s covered list, meaning the products posed an “unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States...
The latest Orange Rag Product Table – link here
If 2024 was about GenAI experimentation and 2025 was about finding use cases, 2026 is the year of operationalisation, governance and control. Take a look at our product launch table […] The post The latest Orange Rag Product Table – link here appeared first on Legal IT Insider .
Minister apologizes as Korean leveraged ETF investors nurse heavy losses amid chip stock rout
Korean retail investors have racked up heavy losses from leveraged bets on stocks, following rule changes earlier this year.
Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for today’s workforce. But building a cutting-edge AI curriculum demands funding and access to industry networks, resources that remain unevenly distributed across higher education. At North Carolina Central University, Siobahn Day Grady is trying to change that equation. In January 2
How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing
The visionary PhysioNet platform launched 25 years ago, based on a system developed at MIT in the 1970s. It has become one of the most comprehensive biomedical and clinical data repositories in existence.
Exclusive: Rent the Runway cofounder Jenn Hyman is taking over IPO-bound Babylist as it nears $1 billion in revenue
Babylist founder Natalie Gordon will become executive chair, in a rare founder-to-founder CEO transition.
Turning 10x developers into 10x value
When I sit down with leaders and ask why they’re investing in AI, the answer almost always comes back to The post Turning 10x developers into 10x value appeared first on The New Stack .
Brookfield to turn former nuclear weapons site into AI campus
Canadian investment group to partner utility NextEra on data centre in Kentucky
Künstliche Intelligenz: Hackerangriff von OpenAI umfangreicher als bislang bekannt
Der Angriff einer KI von OpenAI hat größere Ausmaße als bislang vermutet. Der KI-Agent attackierte vier weitere Onlinedienste und griff gezielt fremde Zugangsdaten ab.
SpaceXAI veut faire annuler la loi du Minnesota contre la « nudification »
SpaceXAI part en croisade contre une loi du Minnesota interdisant les technologies de « nudification », qui permettent de générer des deepfakes dénudés de personnes réelles. L’entreprise est la première concernée, puisque son chatbot Grok est massivement utilisé pour créer ces images. En début d’année, Grok était sous le feu des critiques : le chatbot de xAI […]
‘Explosive demand’ for cooling continues as Europe swelters, China’s Midea says
Chinese home appliance maker Midea reported that European demand for its air conditioners continues to soar amid recurrent heatwaves, with two of its factories receiving hundreds of thousands of new orders in a month. The factories, in the eastern city of Wuhu and the southern port city Guangzhou, received new European orders for 200,000 units within a month amid “explosive demand”, the company said in a statement on Wednesday on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s investor Q&A platform. The company..
STAT+: Why benchmarking clinical LLMs from OpenEvidence, Doximity is complicated
In this edition of AI Prognosis: A conversation about benchmarking leading clinical chatbots, investor view on AI in biopharma, and more.
Consent, Not Nudity, Should Define Image-Based Abuse Laws
I tested a premium Linux laptop that's as light as it is powerful - here's why I love it
The Ar Gen 1 is an impressive device, suitable for anyone from students to developers to business owners.
Smarter tech investment starts with trusted data
Executives from BCX, Telkom Business and Openserve hosted a channel event to champion trusted data as the foundation of an intelligent company.
Serena Williams wants to find the next trillion-dollar company
Serena Williams doesn’t just defy convention on the tennis court. She’s also applying her competitive mindset to entrepreneurship and venture investing, recently rebranding her firm from Serena Ventures to Starfire Ventures. Williams discusses the investment strategy that has led to 16 unicorns now in her portfolio, what she looks for in founders, and how partnerships with companies from Nike to Ro fit into her broader vision. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Respo
Modus’s operandi: To give AI agents just the right amount of context
As more companies plug AI agents into the deepest depths of their internal data banks, how can they be sure The post Modus’s operandi: To give AI agents just the right amount of context appeared first on The New Stack .
Shipping code without human verification
Agents are writing code faster than humans can review it. The answer is not “review faster”; that would be like The post Shipping code without human verification appeared first on The New Stack .
heise+ | Flash-Talk: Entspannung bei Flash-Versorgung, Fälschungen, Rechenzentren im Meer
Samsung und SK Hynix investieren zusammen über eine Billion US-Dollar in neue Fabs. Silicon Motion startet die Entwicklung von SSD-Controllern für PCIe 7.0.
KI-Update kompakt: KI-Allianz, Claude Cowork, MAI-Cyber, Expenditure Horizons
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
Pay-TV Operators Accuse FCC of Flip-Flopping on Ways to Resolve Retransmission Consent Policy Disputes
American Television Alliance says FCC is issuing conflicting guidance on raising retransmission consent cost issues in connection with TV station mergers and TV station ownership rulemakings
Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms
ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim. The ChatGPT developer said the agent – an autonomous tool able to carry out sequences of commands without human help – had located and used logins to access four other unnamed “publicly-available services” in addition to the US startup Hugging Face. Continue reading...
US foreign robot ban to benefit Tesla, other American developers, analysts say
China’s robotics firms have run into a fresh obstacle in their global expansion, after the United States banned imports of new foreign-made models, which analysts say could benefit Tesla and other American developers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced “advanced robotic devices” to its Covered List on Tuesday, blocking new models from obtaining the authorisation required to be imported and sold in the US. The ban will cover all new humanoids, quadrupeds and a...
AI in healthcare is an evolving landscape of new technologies, productivity benefits and legal uncertainties
A standardized framework for regulating the safety and efficacy of AI in healthcare has yet to be established.
EEUU inicia otro conflicto con China: ha decidido prohibir sus robots humanoides de última generación
EEUU sabe qué se siente cuando China controla un recurso crítico y decide usarlo como palanca en la mesa de negociación. Le ha pasado con las tierras raras y otros minerales estratégicos, y no quiere que se repita ni con la robótica ni con la electrónica de potencia que sostiene sus centros de datos de inteligencia artificial (IA). Este es el escenario en el que el Gobierno liderado por Donald Trump ha decidido actuar antes de que esta dependencia se convierta en una vulnerabilidad. La Comisión
Mientras debatimos cuánta electricidad necesita la IA, China ya tiene un centro de datos que funciona con energía limpia
Ya está en marcha el primer data center de Inteligencia Artificial impulsado por energía eólica de China . Se trata de una innovadora instalación en la Región Autónoma Hui de Ningxia, en la parte noroccidental del país, y cuenta con un suministro de energía renovable que le permite operar usando electricidad 100% limpia. Esto supone todo un hito para el país asiático y también para la industria global si tenemos en cuenta el debate que suscita el enorme impacto medioambiental de estas infraestru
Big Tech Turmoil Clouds the A.I. Earnings Picture
The Nasdaq 100 is flirting with correction territory as investors brace for earnings reports from Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.
OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face
The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI systems. In an update to a blog […]
OpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI to help developers find and fix vulnerabilities from the command line
OpenAI has released Codex Security CLI, an open-source tool that automatically detects and fixes vulnerabilities in code repositories. Previously known internally as "Aardvark," the system has already helped fix more than 3,000 critical security flaws, according to OpenAI. It competes directly with Anthropic's Claude Security, as both AI companies race to match the growing automation of cyberattacks with AI-powered defense. The article OpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI to help developers fi
Data centres could pay hundreds of millions in deposits for power demands
The regulator said a fee of between £237,500 to £712,500 per megawatt should be charged for upcoming projects.
Google makes Gemini Spark AI agent available to Hongkongers as it lowers geofences
Google on Wednesday launched its artificial intelligence agent Gemini Spark in the Hong Kong market, giving local users direct access to a smart assistant to manage complex digital workflows. The launch came months after the American tech giant’s decision in March to lift regional geofences for generative AI services, starting with the Gemini chatbot. Hong Kong users can now access Gemini without using a virtual private network or third-party platform. The roll-out of the Spark agent echoes an..