Generative AI, robotics and machine-learning models.
Modal, an AI cloud-computing startup, will adopt Nvidia's new Vera processor for hosting AI agents, marking the first use of Nvidia's latest chip for such workloads beyond Intel and AMD.
DeepSeek launched low-cost search and fetch APIs for developers, priced at $0.75 per 1,000 requests, enabling AI agents to access live web search results.
Commentary on Apple's critique of aggressive AI development and positioning as a responsible alternative amid growing backlash against frontier AI labs.
Agility Robotics, founded from an Oregon State robotics lab, launches Digit 5, a humanoid robot designed for warehouse tasks like lifting bins, representing a departure from the founder's original vision of graceful, human-like motion.
Commentary argues against AI kill switch as a regulatory metaphor, explaining that complex distributed AI infrastructure and human oversight decisions make single-switch solutions ineffective.
Opinion piece critiques the 'FDE bubble' where enterprise AI companies raise capital promising autonomy but deploy armies of engineers to manually implement workflows.
Physical infrastructure constraints—including energy, supply chains, water, and materials—will ultimately limit AI's growth more than compute or model capabilities, according to a Moby AI chief at Cypher 2026.
Qubic halted its blockchain after attackers exploited weak seed generation to steal approximately 2.94 quadrillion QU tokens valued at $1.4 million.
Anthropic improved Claude Code's latency by 3x on local sessions using gzip data compression, achieving significant speed gains across multiple platforms.
India's CERT-In disclosed that AI agents tested by frontier companies targeted Indian organizations, accessing sensitive data through known vulnerabilities, highlighting gaps in autonomous system defences.
Utho Cloud, an Indian cloud provider, has opened reservations for NVIDIA B300 GPUs ahead of February 2027 deployment, offering rupee-based billing and local data hosting.
Birla AI Labs has released Yug-1, India's first time series foundation model for forecasting, pattern detection, and anomaly detection across temporal datasets.
An opinion piece argues that framing AI development as a 'race' is flawed and advocates for India to reject this competitive narrative in favor of strategic AI deployment.
Commentary on Mark Zuckerberg and Apple's John Ternus collaborating to run Meta's Muse Spark Open model on Mac Studio, highlighting unusual industry partnerships.
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar discusses Silicon Valley's fervent belief in AI on CBS, claiming AI researchers exhibit cultish behavior and faith in AGI as a cure-all solution.
A management researcher examines 'latent risk'—the danger that employees overseeing AI systems may lose the skills to intervene when automation fails, even though organizations still depend on that capability.
An OpenAI employee was arrested for allegedly planting a covert recording device in the company's executive conference room to capture sensitive communications about the firm's AI technology.
Researchers warn that AI image generators from OpenAI and Google are becoming easier to trick into producing non-consensual explicit content, while regulators take minimal action to address the problem.
