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The rise of AI inference and agentic AI demands a fundamental rearchitecture of memory and storage systems, moving beyond traditional compute-centric approaches to integrated, efficient infrastructure.
Amini AI, a Kenyan startup founded by Kate Kallot in 2022, provides modular data centers for local, sovereign databases, addressing Africa's digital infrastructure needs. The company successfully raised $6 million within a year and has achieved 230% growth.
Microsoft claims its Copilot AI rarely reproduces substantial portions of copyrighted material, citing legal filings in its defense against publisher lawsuits.
John Ternus has taken over as Apple CEO from Tim Cook, signaling a new era for the tech giant, while Nvidia continues to expand its influence across the entire AI technology stack.
Microsoft warns of a high-volume phishing campaign using invisible Unicode characters to bypass email filters.
Krafton, a South Korean gaming company, plans to invest $250M in India over the next three to four years, focusing on AI, robotics, and deep tech.
Ukraine is monetizing battlefield drone data, creating a new market for defense contractors, while AI's impact on language and society raises ethical and regulatory concerns.
Xbox is imposing monthly time limits on cloud gaming for Game Pass subscribers, citing rising costs, with premium users capped at 15 hours.
Researchers found 120 unregistered code packages or domain names in vendor documentation, leading to unauthorized code execution on corporate networks.
China's seven key departments, led by the Cyberspace Administration of China, have released a plan for 2026-2030 to integrate digital and green development, aiming for high-quality, low-carbon growth.
The job market is caught in an "AI doom loop" where both job seekers and employers use AI tools, like applicant tracking systems and résumé optimizers, often worsening hiring inefficiencies and eroding trust.
Ugreen has launched HomeAgent, a smart home platform featuring a hub that combines local storage, on-device AI, and a voice assistant named Uliya. It aims to keep data private and avoid subscription fees by processing everything locally.
South Africa's Minister of Electricity and Energy, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, advocates for a human-centered approach to AI, ensuring technological advancements do not displace the workforce.
Battlefield data from drones in Ukraine is being commercialized, creating a new marketplace for AI model training that extends beyond military applications to civilian sectors.
UK media's 'wudu-gate' controversy, criticizing Muslims for water use during wudu, is a deflection from the environmental impact of AI data centers and fuels Islamophobia.
Broadcom reported a 221% surge in AI semiconductor revenue to $16.7 billion in its latest fiscal quarter, yet the stock saw a post-earnings sell-off, which the author views as an attractive entry point.
AI-generated menus are causing a "sameness problem" in the restaurant industry, producing unappetizing, overly perfect food images that elicit an "uncanny valley" effect and consumer unease. This issue stems from AI models being trained on narrow datasets and potentially …
Nomura warns that the AI-driven rally in US equities is masking growing risks and vulnerabilities in the US economy and capital markets, potentially leading to a sharp correction and a weaker dollar. The bank challenges the "Tina" doctrine, which suggests there is no alte…
Researchers introduce "equation recast," a method that transforms parametric operator learning into a single canonical operator by analytically incorporating parameter variations. This enables zero-shot prediction across new parameter regimes and enhances data efficiency …
A new study reveals that large language models possess a "direction of ignorance" within their architecture, allowing them to dynamically adjust their reliance on pre-existing knowledge (Bayesian priors) as more contextual information becomes available.
Crusoe, an AI infrastructure and cloud provider, has reportedly raised $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation, co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners. This significant funding round follows a $1.38 billion raise just ten months prior.
Major AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic experienced rare, simultaneous outages on Thursday morning, affecting their popular chatbots, while xAI's Grok also went down. Despite the coincidence, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic attributed their issues to a shared third-party pro…
High-profile incidents involving former US representative George Santos and a Google engineer highlight the regulatory challenges and blurry rules within prediction markets, leading to bans and legal accusations.
China's robotics boom is driven by two approaches: packing capability into versatile bodies and transferring intelligence across different robots. While impressive, the physical world's complexity poses significant challenges for humanoid robots.
New research from venture capital firm Madrona reveals 74% of enterprise IT professionals plan to expand their AI budgets in the next year, but only half of AI pilots make it to full production. Enterprises reevaluate AI vendors every 6 months or even on a rolling basis, …
Ultrahuman, an Indian startup, has raised $70M in a new funding round with Qualcomm's venture arm. The round values the Bengaluru-based startup at $365M, up from $120M in 2023. Ultrahuman is working with Qualcomm on a new ring that will use the U.S. chipmaker's silicon, a…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sophisticated malware framework called BraZetsu that turns compromised systems into valuable assets for criminal markets.
Hcompany introduces NeoMME, a new family of 260M and 800M multilingual multimodal encoders that process text and raw image patches in a single bidirectional Transformer, trained from scratch with a masked discrete-diffusion objective.
NVIDIA's GeForce NOW is adding 26 new games in September, prominently featuring NBA 2K27 which leverages the new DLSS 5 3D-Guided Neural Rendering for enhanced visual realism.
Chinese AI start-up Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi K3 model, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong to fund its rapid expansion. The company aims to list as early as the first quarter of 2027, subject to regulatory approvals and market co…