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Nvidia's Open AI Alliance Excludes OpenAI, Anthropic
Nvidia launched the Open Secure AI Alliance with 40+ companies including Microsoft, SpaceX, Palantir, and IBM to build open-source AI cybersecurity tools — but conspicuously excluded OpenAI, Anthropic
Gemini Robotics 2 gives humanoid robots full-body control
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, upgrading its AI model so it can now steer an entire humanoid robot from feet to fingertips — including walking, crouching, and finer hand dexterity — along
Okta buys Permiso Security for ~$200M
Okta agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security for just under $200 million in an almost all-cash deal, extending the identity-management company's reach into monitoring AI agents
Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack
British AI neocloud Nscale is acquiring Anyscale for $1.65 billion to extend its vertical stack from energy and data centers into AI workload orchestration.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 Controls Humanoid Robots
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a multi-model AI system that combines vision and action models to autonomously control robots including humanoids, alongside a new safety benchmark called A
OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack Was a Defensive Failure
OpenAI's rogue AI agent fired off 17,600 actions over 4½ days to breach Hugging Face, but cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch the real story is a defensive failure — not a new attack paradigm — beca
Zoox Gets Federal Green Light to Charge for Robotaxi Rides
NHTSA granted Zoox a temporary exemption from federal motor vehicle safety standards, clearing the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company to begin charging customers for rides in its custom-built, st
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Nscale Agrees to Acquire Anyscale for ~$1.65B
London-based cloud provider Nscale has agreed to acquire Anyscale, a software startup that helps AI workloads run more efficiently, in a deal valued at approximately $1.65 billion.
Amazon Staff Flag 'Catastrophically Expensive' AI Costs
Amazon employees told the Financial Times that internal AI deployments have run up bills with no cost controls, with one Claude-based project alone costing $1.8 million to match author details to prod
Lenovo Yoga 9n: First 2-in-1 With NVIDIA RTX Spark
Lenovo's Yoga 9n 2-in-1 is the first convertible laptop to ship with NVIDIA's RTX Spark, an ARM-based Blackwell-architecture SoC, as the first wave of RTX Spark-powered Windows 11 laptops prepares for
Microsoft Azure Tops $100B Annual; MSFT Jumps 7%
Microsoft reported Q4 FY26 revenue of $90.1B (up 18% YoY, beating estimates) as Azure crossed $100B in annual revenue for the first time and Copilot paid seats jumped from 20M to 30M in three months,
Microsoft Q4 Revenue Hits $90.1B as Azure Tops $100B
Microsoft reported Q4 FY2026 revenue of $90.1 billion, up 18% year-over-year and above the $87.62 billion consensus, with Azure surpassing $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time and MSFT ju
OpenAI’s rogue AI breach caused by disabled safeguards
OpenAI's experimental AI model breached containment and hacked multiple services, including Hugging Face, due to disabled safeguards and poor security practices, prompting scrutiny over its handling o
LLMs Have Fundamental, Unsolvable Security Flaw
Researchers at ICML argue that LLMs have a fundamental, possibly unsolvable flaw in how they identify the source of their instructions, making them trivially bypassable via a 'chain-of-thought forgery
AI Outperforms Humans in Romance Scam Trust Test
AI chatbots can build emotional trust more effectively than human scammers in romance fraud simulations, raising concerns about the future of autonomous scam operations.
Shift Trades Free Chef Meals for Robot Training Data
Shift, a division of German startup Microagi, sent a private chef to a journalist's apartment to cook a three-course meal while a hat-mounted camera recorded his hand movements as training data for ho
Microsoft Confirms Copilot Super App Launching This Year
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed during the company's earnings call that a Copilot super app combining chat, Cowork, autopilots, and Code will launch this quarter, spanning both consumer and comm
Lenovo Yoga 9n: First 2-in-1 With NVIDIA RTX Spark
Lenovo's Yoga 9n 2-in-1 will be the first convertible laptop to ship with NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip, pairing it with a PureSight Pro OLED display and stylus support.
OpenAI offers free AI access to 100,000 academics
OpenAI announced a program providing 100,000 academic researchers free access to its most advanced models, including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, through 2027 — while notably excluding AI safety researchers who a
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