
OpenAI hacking incident is ‘warning shot’ on cyber security, Microsoft’s AI chief warns
Software giant says ‘no choice’ but to develop AI defences against onslaught of automated attacks

Software giant says ‘no choice’ but to develop AI defences against onslaught of automated attacks

Investors are increasingly concerned over rush of borrowing to fund huge investments in data centres

CEO Jensen Huang deploys balance sheet to backstop growth of AI computing market

South Korea’s tech-heavy Kospi leads declines in Asia

Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, clocks out when his shift ends. He used to work longer hours, going the extra mile to excel at his projects. But lately, he’s been coming straight home to work on his job application for the chipmaker’s South Korean rival SK Hynix, sharing tips with his coworkers on…

Armenia is not a big country. It’s not a wealthy country. It’s not a famous country. And yet, it has become not only a consumer of different AI products akin to Clideo subtitles generator for video editing, or giants like OpenAI, but also entered the headlines of global news for several reasons, not the least […]
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In this tutorial, we deploy the 1-bit Bonsai-27B language model using the PrismML fork of llama.cpp, which provides the specialized CUDA kernels required to decode the model’s Q1_0_g128 GGUF quantization format
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Microsoft AI has released MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first model built specifically for cyber defense. It is a 137B total, 5B active sparse MoE fine-tune of MAI-Code-1-Flash with a 256k context window. The model does not ship as a standalone endpoint — it runs inside MDASH, Microsoft’s multi-model agentic scanning harness, where it handles up to 90% of tasks and pushes the system to 95.95% on CyberGym.
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Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of the cost. Its performance alone would have been enough to intensify the rivalry between […]

After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.

This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion breakthroughs to the grid strain AI is putting on the entire economy.

Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.

Meta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads’ DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI assistant.

OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.

Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.

The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.

Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.

Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China’s growing AI capabilities.

Safe Superintelligence will use Vera Rubin chips to rapidly expand computing capacity for its secretive research

The Chinese group and its peers could continue to benefit if cheaper computing power results in more demand for AI

Crunchbase News recently spoke with SE Ventures managing partner Amit Chaturvedy about how the company is backing startups building the technologies that underpin the AI economy — everything from data center infrastructure and grid resilience to robotics and industrial AI.

“Organizations are running into the trap of empathy being a buzzword instead of woven into the fabric of who they are as an organization,” says Marci Klipfel, chief engagement officer at Businessolver.
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Accenture’s Marta Lajmi argues the Western playbook for AI adoption – access, training, incentives – does not translate to a region where employees wait for leaders to make change feel safe.
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AI adoption can make a huge difference, but it’s critical the CHRO hold it all together. Here are the biggest areas to make this claim.
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“The growing frustration is leading more clinicians to question their long-term future in the profession, which will create meaningful workforce challenges if left unaddressed,” said Karen Leitner, M.D., an Inlightened network expert.
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Federal jury finds Nike willfully violated equal pay law, awarding a former engineer back pay and over $7.5 million in punitive damages.
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For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across people, business workflows, data, and systems. The platform best-suited to run agents is built with proper CPU capacity, resilient data access, policy-aware tool use, observability, memory management, and the…

Drug discovery is a high-cost, high-risk endeavor that is under growing pressure from a market increasingly defined by first-mover advantage. Since the 1950s, the cost of developing new pharmaceuticals has roughly doubled every nine years—a phenomenon known as Eroom’s Law. Today, bringing a new drug to market takes an average of 10-15 years and costs…

Imagine a healthcare system made up of multiple AI agents: one that manages symptom assessment, another scheduling, a third insurance, and a fourth pharmacy. Each is an expert in its domain. But they all have their own distinct knowledge and objectives. Today they can exchange data, but they are not yet able to actually coordinate…

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got…

America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining investment stories in the United States, and the numbers continue to grow. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet are collectively committing hundreds of billions of dollars to AI infrastructure, while demand for advanced chips has turned NVIDIA into one of […]
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Insilico Medicine has reduced the time needed to produce some drug development candidates to about one year by combining artificial intelligence with laboratory research in China, according to CEO Alex Zhavoronkov. The Hong Kong-listed company’s fastest programme reached candidate nomination in nine months, while its typical timeline is about 13 months, Zhavoronkov said. He said […]
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