Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.

Apple may be developing a new fitness tracker as part of its new generation of hardware devices.

Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.

The theft of agents' personal information could present a major counterintelligence threat, where agents and their families are extorted into cooperating with a foreign government.

This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade school, Y Combinator, and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

Waymo is opening its robotaxi service to teenagers aged 13 to 17 in Nashville, its second city to offer rides to minors.

Researchers say another looming threat hangs over some of America's most important critical infrastructure.

Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.

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Eight months after establishing a U.S.-based joint venture, TikTok is getting on board fellow platforms to support industrywide child safety work.

Singapore-based Nexstrom has raised new funding to develop equipment that could help chipmakers manufacture 2D semiconductor materials at scale.

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

To the investors at Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy, the coming wave of electrification will make data center energy demands look quaint by comparison. Here's how they're preparing.

The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.