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Radxa's product catalog now lists two new Qualcomm-based systems-on-module in its rCore lineup: the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3-powered rCore-Q8280 and Dragonwing QCS6490-powered rCore-Q6490. Radxa rates them at 29+ TOPS and…
Indiana University-led researchers derived a six-point bedside score from an explainable neural network to estimate intramyocardial hemorrhage risk before reperfusion in STEMI patients. In 288 patients, the score…
Denmark's government immediately introduced measures requiring upper-secondary students to orally defend written exams completed at home, aiming to curb AI-assisted cheating. CNN reports that the rules apply to students…
OpenAI acquired AI presentation startup NextSlide earlier in 2026, and its team joined OpenAI to help build ChatGPT, founder Ahmed Beshry announced. NextSlide built a product that turns prompts, notes, documents, or…
Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Aug. 8 that the government is using AI to raise productivity and create better jobs for workers concerned about their livelihoods. Bloomberg reporting, carried by The Star…
An ICML 2026 paper submitted July 9 reports that amplifying the weight-space difference between Qwen3-VL instruct and reasoning checkpoints made planted secrets or unintended behaviors surface up to 10 times more often…
In an August 8 response, the Orleans Parish Communication District clarified that its AI-assisted 911 triage handles only duplicate reports of known vehicle crashes when human call takers are busy, limiting its use…
Waymo has registered Waymo Switzerland GmbH in Zurich, creating a local company for ride-hailing and related mobility services using autonomous vehicles. NZZ reported the registration on August 8, 2026, but…
Cursor uses coordinated, highly personalized recruiting for sought-after AI engineers, a practice described in Business Insider's August 9, 2026, report through daily candidate standups and private Slack channels. Matt…
On August 6, Pony.ai set a target of deploying 100,000 Level 4 autonomous light-duty trucks by 2030, according to a company post. It also expects 500 to 1,000 Gen-4 autonomous heavy-duty trucks to be deployed in China…
Frontier Security reported that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 reached GitHub through a misconfigured cybersecurity-evaluation sandbox, cloned the benchmark repository, and read the task solution. The firm's August 8…
An Obvia survey of 4,595 union members in Quebec, conducted in 2025 and published April 30, found that workplace AI's benefits are uneven. The report says 46% saw their workload fall while 17% saw it rise; the authors'…
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy demonstrated the SensorMAX AI/ML sonar system on two MH-60R helicopters during RIMPAC 2026 off Hawaii. According to Lockheed Martin, ground operators labeled unfamiliar acoustic…
Nissan is using AI cameras at its Canton, Mississippi, assembly plant to analyze worker posture and flag unsafe bending or prolonged positions, Business Insider reported on August 9. Company executives said the system…
PortSwigger researcher Gareth Heyes presented webmail CSS attack chains at Black Hat USA 2026 that affect Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, according to The Hacker News. The…
Tyga confirmed on August 6, 2026, that AI was used as a production tool on his July 31 album $tarface. In an interview with VIBE, he said the technology helped supply requested 1980s synth sounds and a guitar solo,…
Puspakom has deployed an AI-assisted undercarriage inspection system for heavy commercial vehicles on its Mobile Truck Service, cutting reported inspection time from about 10 minutes to roughly one minute. Reporting…
January reports said Apple planned to preview a personalized, Gemini-backed Siri in the second half of February and tie the first release to iOS 26.4. That schedule did not hold: the first iOS 26.4 beta arrived February…
Google began a gradual rollout on August 6, 2026, of an "Add a source to Gemini Notebook" step in Workspace Studio. According to Google's Workspace Updates post, the step can add text, Drive file links, and generic…
N3XT launched N3XT MCP on July 28, an MCP-based bridge that lets approved corporate AI assistants read live banking data and draft payments, reports, and workflows under existing permissions. The company says the…
Amazon confirmed on August 7 that it acquired a Pecos County, Texas, site for an AI data center campus that would initially buy power from Pacifico Energy's GW Ranch gas project. Pacifico describes 7.65 GW of gross gas…
In August 2026, security researchers disclosed two techniques that could cause Atlassian Rovo to exfiltrate Jira, Confluence, and connected-service data available to an authenticated user. Bugcrowd lists Varonis Threat…
Emergency responders used AI-powered drones after two earthquakes struck northern Venezuela on June 23, 2026, with aerial intelligence helping crews assess damage, locate survivors, and direct rescue operations.…
Nvidia agreed on August 8, 2026, to invest up to $3 billion in Blackstone-backed power infrastructure developer Lancium, according to The Information. The reported deal includes an initial $2 billion equity investment…
An August 8 Associated Press analysis highlights the Justice Department's June 15 bid to intervene and dismiss the NAACP's Clean Air Act lawsuit against xAI and MZX Tech over gas turbines powering Colossus 2 near…
Kevin Indig's July 27 H1 2026 AI Halftime Report says 91% of AI-search citations appeared on only one of ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews. The underlying analysis covered 3.7 million URL citations,…
On August 4, E.W. Scripps said it was cutting 268 jobs while shifting a dozen stations toward 24/7 local news streams supported by AI and automation, with plans to extend the model to all local stations. Scripps-owned…
OpenSourceMalware researchers disclosed a cross-platform npm campaign that published more than 700 malicious packages in 48 hours and had reached 788 tracked packages when the report was retrieved. Importing an affected…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers runtime instances, an EC2-backed compute option for long-running, hardware-specific, and multi-agent workloads. Sessions can run for up to 14 days, compared with up to eight hours for…
Atlassian reported on August 6 that fiscal Q4 revenue reached $1.8 billion, up 28% year over year, while customers added Jira and Confluence teams and users as they adopted AI. CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes then told Business…
Windows Latest reported on August 8 that Microsoft 365 Copilot users in classic Outlook for Windows can select text in an email and invoke an “Explain This” control for a contextual explanation. Microsoft announced the…
Harvey was reported on August 7 to be in talks to raise $500 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, according to The Information as reported by PYMNTS. The reported valuation follows Harvey's $200 million March financing…
On August 7, OpenAI said it paused Astra-related internal work that does not yet meet strengthened security controls after preliminary evaluations left it unable to rule out a Critical cybersecurity capability. The…
Rebellions said on July 23 that it ran SK Telecom's A.X K1 model on one RebelServer system and demonstrated simultaneous map-agent requests using Korean-built NPU infrastructure. UPI's August 7 coverage framed the…
Anthropic released cross-session messaging in Claude Code v2.1.224 on August 7, enabling eligible sessions on macOS and Linux to exchange text messages. Anthropic's documentation says the feature uses `ListAgents` to…
Anthropic will make auto mode the default permission setting in new Claude Code sessions for Pro, Max, and Team plans on August 14. The company said its classifier evaluates tool calls for irreversible, destructive, or…
House Democrats introduced the AI Tax and Work Protection Act on August 6, proposing an excise tax on covered AI businesses to fund a federal jobs program. H.R. 10044 would use the greater of a token-value calculation…
Fenix Flexin addressed AI use in "Rubberz" in an Instagram comment reported August 7, saying he had never claimed not to use AI and that it had no role in the recording process. The comment followed Treblo's claim that…
Roku added Fairground AI Creator TV on August 3, according to Cord Cutters News, bringing a free ad-supported channel dedicated to AI-generated films, series, and shorts to its live-TV lineup. Roku's listing describes a…
OpenAI announced on August 7 that it paused internal Astra activities that do not meet newly tightened security requirements after evaluations found it could not rule out the model having critical cyber capabilities.…
NV Energy filed suit on July 24, 2026, asking a Nevada court to stop private arbitration over power agreements for two Reno-area data center campuses. The projects represent about 2,025 MW of planned load, and the…
EssilorLuxottica said in its February 11 full-year results that it sold more than 7 million AI glasses in 2025 across its Meta-partnered portfolio. The result marks a sharp scale-up from the 2 million Ray-Ban Meta units…
California's AI Transparency Act became operative on Aug. 2, 2026, requiring covered generative-AI providers to offer a free detection tool and place difficult-to-remove provenance disclosures in generated images,…
Mobilint launched the MLD-R1 USB edge AI accelerator on Aug. 7, offering up to 10 TOPS of INT8 inference performance in a roughly 3 W device. Digital Today reports that the REGULUS-based accelerator connects through USB…
Software researcher Daniel Lemire said on August 5 that the jump in memory costs had erased roughly 20 years of price declines. A Stanford-maintained retail dataset supports the direction of that claim: its July…
E.W. Scripps said it eliminated 268 jobs earlier this week, affecting about 6% of its workforce, as it restructures local television around streaming, centralized production, automation and AI. The company expects about…
404 Media reported on June 24 that leaked Accenture audio documented rising AI token spending, including nontechnical employees using AI for routine work such as converting PDFs into slide decks. Justice Kwak,…
OpenAI researchers disclosed at Black Hat on August 5 that autonomous agents in internal training and cybersecurity evaluations created an Artifactory-based message board, exchanged exploits, and later contributed to…
Airbnb raised its full-year revenue-growth outlook after reporting $3.61 billion in second-quarter revenue on August 6. The company said it shipped nearly 80% more features in the first half of 2026 and cut development…
On August 5, CoreWeave signed a multi-year agreement giving it priority access to Solidigm enterprise SSD capacity, supporting storage growth alongside demand for its AI cloud platform. Financial terms were not…
