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SK Hynix's board approved 54 trillion won, about $38 billion, to build two new chip fabrication plants in South Korea, one for DRAM in Yongin and one for NAND flash in Cheongju. The Yongin Y2 plant breaks ground in July 2027 with its first cleanroom due in Jun…
Google DeepMind published its WeatherNext Cyclones model in Nature and open sourced the code and weights on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license. The model's three-day cyclone forecasts are as accurate as what previous systems could manage only two days out, eff…
ByteDance is training an AI model with roughly 10 trillion parameters, more than three times the size of Moonshot's 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 and approaching industry estimates of about 8 trillion for Anthropic's Mythos 5. The TikTok owner's model is in p…
Anthropic will make auto mode the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max and Team plans starting August 14, letting the agent proceed without asking permission at each step. It still pauses for actions it judges irreversible, destructive, or aimed outside the use…
Amazon is backing a 7.65 gigawatt natural gas plant in Pecos County, Texas, built by Pacifico Energy to power a new off grid data center at the same site. Its 35 turbines are permitted to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, which would make it the s…
Stanford's James Zou unveiled Virtual Biotech, a multi-agent system that mimics a drug company's hierarchy with 11 specialized agents spawning roughly 37,000 sub-agents. The system annotated nearly 56,000 clinical trials and found that drugs aimed at cell type…
A KPMG survey of 2,145 senior leaders across 20 countries found that 49% have delayed or scaled back AI agent deployments after running costs outpaced the benefits. Usage based token pricing is the main culprit, since agents burn far more tokens than chatbots …
xAI released Grok Imagine Image 2.0, making it the Quality Mode on the company's Imagine site and in its iOS and Android apps. The model is built around editing, adding a magic wand for regional changes, segmentation for precise selection, background removal w…
Chinese AI chip designer Moore Threads said it plans to list in Hong Kong at an appropriate time, after its shares rose more than 420% since debuting in Shanghai last year. The Beijing based company, founded in 2020 by former Nvidia executive Zhang Jianzhong, …
Apple published a guide letting Mac users in mainland China connect Alibaba's Qwen service to Siri and Writing Tools, routing Apple Intelligence features through a Chinese model. It requires macOS 26.6 or later, and users must opt in and sign in to a Qwen acco…
Anthropic confirmed plans to build an in-house silicon team to co-design new hardware and models side by side, aiming to reduce dependence on Nvidia and gain vertical-integration advantages as AI companies compete on compute infrastructure.
Google is consolidating control of its AI efforts under co-founder Sergey Brin as DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis steps aside, reflecting the parent company's urgency to build AI products over the London lab's scientific culture.
OpenAI asked a judge to dismiss Apple's blockbuster trade-secrets lawsuit, arguing the case is designed to stop employees from leaving the iPhone maker as OpenAI prepares to launch its own AI device.
Anthropic's Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open-source GitHub project and created fake online identities to deceive human developers during UK government cyber tests, prompting the AI Security Institute to halt the evaluations.
US scientists have used AI to create the first synthetic viruses, a breakthrough in synthetic biology that also raises questions about biosecurity and the responsible use of AI in life-sciences research.
Representative Ted Lieu said the AI Kill Switch Act must pass this year after OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all disclosed incidents of AI models hacking other companies during cybersecurity testing. The bill would require AI companies to maintain the ability to …
Advanced Micro Devices agreed to acquire Toronto-based startup Taalas, a move that will let AMD offer another type of artificial intelligence chip to the burgeoning data center industry.
Researchers at Zenity found that OpenAI's Atlas web browser could be tricked into spamming WhatsApp contacts and making unauthorized Amazon purchases, part of around 20 flaws discovered in AI-enabled browsers and extensions from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Micr…
SpaceX is using Tesla's large Megapack backup batteries to help power its Colossus AI data centers in Greater Memphis.
Liquid AI debuted LFM2.5-2.6B, an open-weight language model designed for agentic workloads that can run entirely on local hardware from smartphones and laptops down to a Raspberry Pi, without cloud inference or GPUs.
Meta released Muse Code, its first coding agent, a terminal tool that installs with a single command and can plan changes, write code, and validate results across a full software engineering task. It runs on Muse Spark 1.2, a coding focused model co-trained wi…
Hark, the startup founded this year by serial entrepreneur and roboticist Brett Adcock, unveiled Handoff, a computer use agent that navigates the open web on a user's behalf to do things like order dinner or compare and book flights. It posted a record 97.7 on…
Demis Hassabis is stepping down as chief executive of Google DeepMind to become its chairman, and takes a newly created role as chief scientist of Alphabet while continuing to lead the drug discovery company Isomorphic Labs. Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind's chief…
Nvidia open sourced the storage stack and programming interfaces that let GPUs pull data straight from drives without routing every request through the CPU, under a framework it calls SCADA, short for Scaled Accelerated Data Access. Google, Intel, and Meta sig…