Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online.
The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn’t a straightforward way to put a price on compute — or for firms to hedge their exposure when the price changes.  Silicon Data […]
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI.The enterprise AI stack is being rewritten in real time, and the decision-
Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., automatically upgrading users whether or not they subscribe to Prime.
TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.
One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician.
Anthropic published experimental data showing Claude Mythos Preview and Opus 4.8 successfully designed 14 protein binders across 15 drug targets, with 354 of 1,320 candidate molecules confirmed effective by two independent laboratories, achieving a single-round hit rate of 22%-35%—above the industry norm of 10%-15%.
Wiz's Red Agent discovered a script injection vulnerability in Snowflake's repository that entered production through a PR linked to Copilot Autofix. GitHub denied AI involvement in the change, exposing a verification gap in AI-assisted development toolchains.
Calendly is also releasing a meeting scheduling assistant called Callie
It's the data, stupid.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight.…
Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-mile dirt road. She moved in with her older sister and taught herself to type on AOL Instant Messenger. Online, she…
Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
OpenAI announced a two-week suspension of reinforcement learning training for its latest deployed models following an internal determination that the Astra model reached a "critical" cybersecurity capability threshold. The pause introduces expanded safety monitoring measures that consume approximately 20% of supervised inference compute.
Cerebras unveiled the CS-4 inference system on August 18, 2026, using three parallel WSE-3 Turbo wafers to deliver over 1000 tokens per second on trillion-parameter models — up to 30x faster than GPU solutions, with 10x per-watt throughput gains over the CS-3.
AI benchmark scores can mislead when used for critical decisions. This guide outlines seven essential checks—from data contamination to reproducibility and model cheating—for determining whether a benchmark result is trustworthy.
MLCommons has announced the release of MLPerf Client v2.0, the latest version of its industry-standard benchmark for PC AI performance, introducing new image generation and agentic AI test categories alongside upgraded LLM inference workloads.
SGLang Adds Day-0 Support for Muse Glimmer, a Multimodal Model Built for Local Agentic WorkflowsMeta Superintelligence Labs and the SGLang TeamAugust 10, 2026We're excited to partner with Meta Superin
Unified Radix Cache: One Tree for Hybrid Model Prefix CachingZhangheng Huang, Ke Bao, Yi Zhang, Jialin Ouyang, Sicheng PanAugust 11, 2026Introduction Prefix caching reuses KV when requests share the s
