Google Unveils Eighth-Generation TPU Chips Designed for the Agentic Era
Google on Tuesday took its most ambitious swing yet at the economics of artificial intelligence, unveiling two purpose-built eighth-generation Tensor
Merck and Google Cloud Forge Up to $1 Billion Agentic AI Partnership
Merck has committed up to $1 billion in a sweeping, multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to deploy agentic AI across the pharmaceutical
SpaceX Secures Right to Acquire AI Coding Startup Cursor for Up to $60 Billion
In a move that stunned the tech industry, SpaceX announced on Monday that it has secured the right to acquire Cursor, the AI-powered coding start
Google Cloud Launches $750 Million Fund to Accelerate Consulting AI Adoption
Google Cloud is betting three-quarters of a billion dollars that the fastest path to enterprise AI adoption runs through the biggest consulting
Blue Energy Raises $380 Million to Build Nuclear Power Plants for AI Data Centers
The artificial intelligence boom has a dirty secret: it is breathtakingly power-hungry.
EVAS Intelligence Raises $211 Million Series B to Scale RISC-V Chips for AI Training
Beijing-based EVAS Intelligence has closed a 1.5 billion yuan ($211 million) Series B round to mass-produce its Epoch series RISC-V AI chips
Mistral AI Releases Large 3 With Improved Function Calling and EU Data Residency
Paris-based Mistral AI has shipped its most ambitious model yet -- a 675-billion-parameter open-weight behemoth
OpenAI Makes o3-mini the Default Reasoning Model and Introduces Flex Compute Pricing
OpenAI has officially retired o1-mini from its ChatGPT model picker, installing o3-mini as the default reasoning model
OpenAI Launches GPT-Rosalind as Research Preview for Scientific Reasoning
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-Rosalind, its first domain-specific AI model purpose-built for life sciences research
Cloudflare Wraps Agents Week With New Compute, Security, and Agent Toolbox
Cloudflare used its week-long Agents Week event to ship more than a dozen new services
Google Brings Gemini-Powered Auto Browse to Chrome for Enterprise Task Automation
Google is betting that the next great workplace productivity tool is not a new app but the browser window already open on every employees screen.
Nature Study Finds Human Scientists Still Outperform Best AI Agents on Complex Research Tasks
For all the breathless talk of artificial intelligence replacing researchers, a sobering new assessment published by Nature delivers a
Apple ParaRNN Achieves 665x Speedup for Nonlinear RNN Training, Accepted as ICLR Oral
As the International Conference on Learning Representations kicks off this week in Rio de Janeiro, Apple is making a bold statement
HuggingFace Revamps Open LLM Leaderboard With Contamination-Resistant Benchmarks
The platform that two million researchers rely on to rank open-source AI models has overhauled its evaluation suite
Texas CS Programs See 20 Percent Enrollment Drop as AI Reshapes Tech Careers
Computer science was supposed to be the safe bet. For more than a decade following the 2008 recession, the message to American students was