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Today so far 2026-09-08 · 18:00 UTC

The tech industry is experiencing a major shift toward AI deployment and energy infrastructure, with Google Cloud partnering with Accenture to accelerate AI adoption while Mistral raises €3B to build sovereign AI capabilities. Meanwhile, security and privacy concerns are mounting as LG TVs were caught spying even when offline, Meta's glasses face scrutiny from US police, and Chrome accelerates updates to every two weeks amid AI-driven security threats. On the infrastructure side, Google secured a $1.9B government loan for a nuclear power plant revival, while nuclear startups like Bluecore Energy are rapidly raising capital to support the energy demands of AI systems.

Report: Goldman Sachs Strategist Says AI Disruption Fears Will Linger for Years in Software Stocks

Goldman Sachs strategist Ben Snider told investors on Monday that uncertainty tied to artificial intelligence (AI)-driven disruption will suppress growth stock valuations for quarters, possibly years,…

2026-04-13 · 21:10 UTC
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Japan's Tech Titans Just Teamed Up to Build a Trillion-Parameter AI—And It's Not Here to Chat

2026-04-13 · 21:01

SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and NEC have formed a new company to build physical AI for robots and machines, backed by $6.7…

MiniMax Drops State-of-the-Art AI Agent Model—Then Quietly Changes the License

2026-04-13 · 20:24

MiniMax M2.7 rivals Claude Opus on key coding benchmarks, but the Chinese AI lab updated commercial terms shortly after…

Robinhood Restricts High-Risk Prediction Contracts Amid Israel Insider Trading Charges, Iran Bet Scrutiny

2026-04-13 · 19:07

Robinhood has pulled certain prediction market contracts from its platform over concerns about market manipulation and…

Anthropic Claude Mythos: Serious Threat or Overhyped? AI Security Institute Weighs In

2026-04-13 · 17:45

Claude Mythos could be a potentially massive cybersecurity threat, according to early testing from the UK’s AI Safety…

Forget the Dead-Eyed Cartoon—Meta Is Building a Photorealistic AI Clone of Zuckerberg

2026-04-13 · 17:41

Three years after his Horizon Worlds avatar became a global meme, Zuckerberg is back at the avatar game, this time with…

Cango’s HPC and AI Inference Subsidiary, EcoHash, Begins Commercial Operations

2026-04-13 · 10:29

DALLAS, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cango Inc.

‘Unfavorable Market Conditions’ — Ether Machine Terminates SPAC Merger With Dynamix Corporation

2026-04-13 · 04:30

The Ether Machine and Dynamix Corporation mutually terminated their planned SPAC merger this week, citing “unfavorable…

Want Claude Opus AI on Your Potato PC? This Is Your Next-Best Bet

2026-04-12 · 17:13

A developer distilled Claude Opus 4.6's reasoning into a local Qwen model anyone can run.

AI Cloud Provider Coreweave Secures Anthropic Agreement for Claude Workloads

2026-04-11 · 21:30

Coreweave, Inc.

Matterhorn and ASI Alliance Add Safety Layer to AI Smart Contract Coding

2026-04-11 · 19:03

Matterhorn and the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance are rolling out new tools aimed at making AI-generated smart…

Messaging push notifications are a privacy attack surface, says Durov

2026-04-11 · 17:57

The comments followed recent reports that law enforcement officials retrieved deleted Signal messages through device…

In Less Than Four Months, Ozak AI Sells Over 1 Billion Tokens as Presale Momentum Continues to Accelerate

2026-04-11 · 14:50

Ozak AI is quickly falling in market attention as its presale reaches a critical turning point with over 1 billion…

Economists Said AI Wouldn’t Take Jobs—Some Now Admit They Got It Wrong

2026-04-11 · 13:01

A new multi-university study surveyed 69 economists, 52 AI experts, and 38 superforecasters.

Reality of AI’s impact on employment clashes with C-suite optimism

2026-04-11 · 13:00

While some proponents believe AI will bring about an employment boom, so far its effect has been to dampen entry-level…

CoreWeave lands multi-year agreement with Anthropic to run AI workloads

2026-04-10 · 19:45

CoreWeave said the agreement means it now serves nine of the 10 major developers of large language models for artificial…

Suspect Arrested After Molotov Cocktail Thrown at Sam Altman’s San Francisco Home

2026-04-10 · 18:44

Police say a 20-year-old man also threatened to burn down OpenAI’s headquarters shortly after the incident.

Gen Z Thinks AI Is Rotting Their Brains, But Can't Stop Using It: Survey

2026-04-10 · 17:57

AI usage among Gen Z is up, but excitement over the technology is way down—so are feelings of “hopefulness.”

The CIA Let AI Write Its First Intelligence Report—And AI 'Coworkers' Are Up Next

2026-04-10 · 17:14

CIA leadership confirmed the agency used AI to generate its first-ever autonomous intelligence report—and expect to use…

Anthropic’s AI Triggers a Secret Meeting Between the FED and the U.S. Treasury

2026-04-10 · 17:05

A secret meeting between the Fed and the Treasury, an AI model capable of hacking banking systems, and risks that could…

Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Colorado Over AI Law as Fight Over State Regulation Intensifies

2026-04-10 · 16:57

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is challenging Colorado’s new high-risk AI law, adding to mounting legal scrutiny around its…

Powell, Bessent Warn Banks About Security Risks From Anthropic's Mythos AI: Bloomberg

2026-04-10 · 15:45

Treasury and Federal Reserve officials reportedly alerted banks to cybersecurity risks tied to Anthropic’s advanced new…

Meta Expands Collaboration With CoreWeave In AI Race

2026-04-10 · 10:15

Meta commits 21 billion dollars in a strategic partnership with CoreWeave, marking a new milestone in the race for…

AlphaTON Capital Scales Confidential Compute With $43M Vertical Data Infrastructure Deal

2026-04-10 · 05:30

AlphaTON Capital Corp.

Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado arguing its AI rules restrict speech

2026-04-10 · 04:50

The AI company argued that such rules would force it to feed its AI chatbot Grok with data aligned with Colorado’s…

x402 protocol adds usage-based pricing for AI compute requests

2026-04-10 · 04:41

The upgrade from flat fees to variable pricing is designed to support the use of AI agents for LLM inference, compute…

Americans Get Wary as AI Layoffs Surpass 100K

2026-04-10 · 04:30

According to reports, over 100,000 jobs have already been replaced, at least in part, by AI in the U.S.

CIA to integrate AI ‘co-workers’ to process intelligence, catch spies

2026-04-10 · 01:31

The CIA has already tested AI across 300 projects to process large data sets, assist with language translation and…

'AI Should Advance Mankind, Not Destroy It': Why Florida Is Taking Aim at OpenAI

2026-04-09 · 21:57

The Florida attorney general's probe into AI giant OpenAI cites national security and child safety risks tied to ChatGPT.

OpenAI Plans Advanced Cybersecurity Product—With 'Trusted Access' Only

2026-04-09 · 20:27

Both OpenAI and Anthropic are restricting access to their most powerful cybersecurity capabilities, releasing them only…

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