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River AI Raises $1.1B Seed Round Led by General Catalyst
River AI, a two-month-old startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC to build personally trainable AI agents on
Optiver Prioritizes AI Models Over Latency Cuts
Amsterdam-based proprietary trading firm Optiver says it now spends more on building AI models than on cutting latency, even as it continues manufacturing custom hardware to press sub-nanosecond tradi
Caterpillar sales surpass $20B as generators for data centers take off
Caterpillar posted record Q2 revenue of $20.5 billion, up 24% year-over-year, as surging demand for large generators and turbines used in data-center applications drove a 72% jump in power-generation
Rivian CEO Scaringe bets on EVs, robots, and autonomy
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe will take the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 stage to explain his strategy of simultaneously building EVs, humanoid robots, a proprietary charging network, and Level 4 autonomy.
Cua Metal Shim: macOS VM Llama.cpp Up to 16× Faster
Cua released a Metal capability shim that lets llama.cpp inside Lume macOS virtual machines pick newer Apple GPU paths, delivering up to 16× faster inference and within roughly 6% of bare-metal perfor
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, NeMo Switchyard
Nvidia released two open-source AI tools: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B-parameter mixture-of-experts model, and NeMo Switchyard, a routing library for AI agents.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a model with reduced safety refusals for offensive security tasks that completes 95% of exploit-development requests, and is distributing it through a new Daybreak Red t
IBM, Together AI Sign $240M Deal for Nvidia AI Cluster
IBM and AI startup Together AI signed a $240 million multi-year agreement to build a large-scale AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, powered by Nvidia's HGX B300 systems and dedicated to open-source mo
Anthropic to Watermark Claude Text and Images Under EU AI Act
Anthropic committed to embedding invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text and C2PA provenance metadata in Claude-generated images, complying with EU AI Act labeling rules that took effect August
Anthropic Watermarks Claude Text Under EU AI Act
Anthropic confirmed it will watermark all text generated by its AI models, including Claude, to comply with the EU AI Act's Transparency Code that took effect August 2, with the marks embedded to surv
AI Demand Drives Memory Chip Prices Higher With No End in Sight
Memory chip prices are surging on AI demand with no relief in sight, driving up costs for consumer electronics and cloud storage in what economists are calling "chipflation."
The AI takeover of mathematics has begun
OpenAI announced that its unreleased model "Astra" produced solutions to 10 long-standing open problems in mathematics, prompting excitement and apprehension across the field over AI's accelerating ro
Attack Extracts Hidden AI Reasoning From Major APIs
Computer scientists discovered a method to extract hidden 'thinking' from frontier AI models by exploiting smaller, less-aligned versions of the same model — revealing personal data and raising new qu
OpenAI Hires Power-Trading Lead for Data Centers
OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to manage commodity hedging across its data center power portfolio, reflecting tech firms' push to secure steady electricity supply.
Oblivion Remastered on Switch 2 Outshines Xbox Series S, as NVIDIA DLSS Becomes The System’s Secret Weapon Again - Wccftech
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered launches on Nintendo Switch 2, with Wccftech reporting the port outperforms Xbox Series S thanks to NVIDIA DLSS upscaling.
UK Survey: Automated Nuclear Threats More Credible
War on the Rocks researchers found that UK parliamentarians and the public viewed automated nuclear threats as significantly more credible than human-controlled ones, with MPs 9 percentage points more
Apple Still Planning 'Glass-Centric' iPhone Redesign for 2027 - MacRumors
Coverage of Apple's planned 2027 'glass-centric' iPhone redesign is split: MacRumors and Bloomberg report the 20th-anniversary device remains on track, while Jefferies downgraded Apple stock to sell,
Conflicting Reports on Apple's 2027 Glass iPhone
Conflicting reports emerge about Apple's 20th-anniversary iPhone, with one outlet confirming a glass-centric 2027 launch while Jefferies downgraded Apple stock citing a canceled glass design.
As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cyber defense service into Blue and Red tiers, adding a new GPT-5.6 Cyber model built for security testing and vulnerability research to the Red tier for select 'trusted p
What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event
Google is set to host its annual Made by Google hardware event on Wednesday evening, unveiling the Pixel 11 smartphone lineup, Pixel Watch 5, a new color for Pixel Buds Pro 2, and potentially a new Pi
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