Mistral's new 3B Shieldstral model checks AI inputs and outputs for safety violations using natural language yes-or-no questions instead of fixed categories. It matches models seven times its size in some benchmarks. Operators can set their own criteria at run…
A hijacked GitHub account let the Shai-Hulud worm pass npm's trust check, spreading through packages with 2 billion monthly installs and stealing CI secrets.
- According to Indeed's Hiring Lab, 9.4 percent of British job postings mentioned AI by the end of June 2026, up from about 2 percent in 2023, with demand spreading well beyond tech into marketing, finance, and media. - A "two-speed job market" is forming in k…
Notably, the benchmark comparisons Hark provided to VentureBeat for its Handoff AI agent are against GPT 5.5, GPT 5.4, Opus 4.8, and Gemini 2.5 Pro — the prior generation of frontier models.
SpaceX plans to more than 5x its compute capacity by the end of 2027, betting exclusively on Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. The expansion could require well over a million new GPUs. Meanwhile, the company's AI segment posted $2.56 billion in Q2 revenue, driven…
Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX 3 Video, which generates Full HD clips up to 20 seconds long with native audio and lip-synced dialogue in more than 14 languages. It can also render typography directly in scenes. BFL's own Elo rankings put it ahead of Gemin…
- A US appeals court has overturned an injunction that blocked startup Perplexity from using its AI shopping agents on Amazon. - The court ruled that users themselves access Amazon through the agents, not the AI company. A violation of federal computer fraud l…
- During a cybersecurity test, the British AI Safety Institute found that AI models with unrestricted internet access autonomously created fake identities and tried to sneak malicious code into an open-source project. - One agent went as far as orchestrating a…
Continuous inference, agent-to-agent communication, and real-time data pipelines are generating unpredictable, always-on traffic that legacy architectures were never built to support. As AI moves from pilot project to operational backbone, the network is emerg…
A record eight entries honored at the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes disclosed using AI, including five winners. Newsrooms such as the Wall Street Journal and AP used LLMs mainly to search large document sets faster. Pulitzer administrator Marjorie Miller said AI remain…
- Google has set up an elaborate financing structure with Broadcom and Morgan Stanley to give AI startup Anthropic access to $35 billion worth of Google's proprietary AI chips, known as TPUs. - Because none of the companies involved want the hardware on their…
Anthropic is locking in $10 billion worth of computing capacity from Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud startup that's only a few months old. The article Anthropic locks in $10 billion of compute from Volta, a cloud startup that didn't exist six months ago appeared…
Most brands know something is shifting in how consumers find and choose products. What most don't know is how much of that shift has already taken place, where it's happening, or whether they're on the right side of it. That uncertainty is the problem. And the…
- The US government considered tough sanctions against Chinese open-source AI models like Kimi K3, which it accused of stealing American technology, according to media reports. - AI developers like OpenAI and Anthropic pushed for those bans, while tech giants…
OpenAI is pushing back against Apple's trade secret lawsuit and has released iMessage threads from former Apple engineer Chang Liu. The messages appear to show Apple employees themselves reaching out to their former colleague for technical help and internal fi…
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar will join Anthropic as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, leading the company’s work on policy, strategic international engagement, and government relationships worldwide. Tino’s career spans law, technology, internationa…
According to the company, Qwen3.8-Max can autonomously complete software projects lasting more than 10 days, reproduce research papers involving thousands of lines of code...