In the last year, a quiet shift has been happening in offensive cybersecurity research—one that doesn’t show up in vulnerability databases or patch notes, but does show up in the day-to-day workflow of researchers who rely on AI tools to…
Meta’s latest push to finance new data centre capacity is coming with a sharper price tag than investors expected, according to reporting on a fresh $12bn package led by BlackRock. The headline may sound like a familiar story from the…
Intel’s latest earnings update reads like a case study in how quickly the AI build-out can reshape an entire semiconductor cycle. In the second quarter, the company reported revenue growth of 25%, its fastest pace in 15 years—an outcome that…
China’s Xi Jinping is leaning into “AI diplomacy” as a strategic tool to deepen relationships with developing countries, a move that signals how quickly artificial intelligence has shifted from a domestic technology agenda to an instrument of foreign policy. The…
China’s push to win influence in the Global South is increasingly being routed through artificial intelligence—less as a futuristic promise and more as a package of practical offers: compute, connectivity, training, surveillance-adjacent “public safety” tools, and the policy frameworks that…
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC is signaling that the next phase of China’s artificial intelligence boom may be less about hype and more about economics—specifically, how rapidly falling costs could turn AI from a “pilot project” into a routine business…
Amazon is giving Alexa Plus a more capable “brain” for the messy reality of home life—where instructions aren’t always clean, devices don’t always behave the same way, and users rarely want to micromanage settings. The company’s latest update, announced through…
AMD’s latest push into the AI infrastructure arms race isn’t just another chip announcement—it’s a system-level bet aimed squarely at the way modern data centers are actually built. With its Helios rack-scale AI platform, AMD is trying to move up…
Anthropic is rolling out an upgraded Claude voice mode that pushes the technology further into the kinds of tasks people actually do every day—especially the work-adjacent communication chores that tend to eat up time and attention. According to the update,…
Anthropic’s Claude voice mode has been quietly evolving from a “talk to get an answer” feature into something closer to a hands-free work companion. The latest step in that evolution is the expansion of voice mode beyond Claude Haiku—the model…
AegisAI, a security startup founded by former Google executives, has raised $36 million in a Series A round aimed squarely at one of the most persistent and costly threats in modern enterprise environments: spear phishing. The company’s pitch is not…
Patreon is cutting about a fifth of its workforce—roughly 93 employees—according to reporting from 404 Media and a memo shared with staff by CEO Jack Conte. The move lands at a moment when “AI transformation” has become the default explanation…