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AI Infrastructure

Linux Kernel Maintainers Establish Guidelines for AI-Assisted Code Contributions

The Linux kernel project has published formal guidelines governing the use of AI coding assistants in contributions to the world's most widely deployed open-sou...

AI Startups

Cohere and Aleph Alpha in Merger Talks to Create European-Canadian AI Challenger

Canadian AI company Cohere and German startup Aleph Alpha are in advanced discussions to merge, potentially creating a transatlantic competitor to U.S.-based AI...

AI Policy

Treasury Secretary and Fed Chair Warn Wall Street of Anthropic AI Cyber Risk

Senior U.S. officials have summoned Wall Street leaders to deliver an urgent warning about cybersecurity risks posed by a new artificial intelligence system fro...

Google Expands Agentic Booking Globally as AI Mode Gets Redesign
AI

Google Expands Agentic Booking Globally as AI Mode Gets Redesign

Google is expanding its AI-powered restaurant booking capability to international markets while rolling out a redesigned interface for AI Mode. The booking fea...

AI Infrastructure Tech & Business

CoreWeave Stock Rises 11 Percent on Anthropic Partnership for Claude AI Infrastructure

CoreWeave shares climbed 11 percent on Thursday after the cloud infrastructure provider announced a deal to power Anthropic's Claude AI models. The agreement m...

AI Infrastructure

Anthropic Signs Multiyear Deal to Rent CoreWeave AI Computing Capacity

Anthropic PBC has agreed to a multiyear deal to rent data center capacity from CoreWeave Inc. to handle increasing demand for its artificial intelligence servic...

AI Tech & Business

Alibaba reorganizes AI leadership amid strategic pivot to monetization

Alibaba has appointed Zhou Jingren, the company's cloud computing chief technology officer, to lead its artificial intelligence unit as the Chinese technology g...

AI Infrastructure Tech & Business

Lumentum AI Demand Backfills Orders Through 2028

Lumentum Holdings Inc., a Nasdaq-listed optical component supplier, reported that demand from artificial intelligence infrastructure buyers has accelerated to f...

AI

Alibaba's Stealth Video AI Model Tops Global Benchmarks

An Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. video generation model has unexpectedly claimed the top spot on industry benchmarks shortly after public release. The model emerg...

Estonia Opposes EU Child Social Media Bans
Policy

Estonia Opposes EU Child Social Media Bans

Estonia is opposing the wave of child social media bans spreading across Europe. The country's education minister Kristina Kallas said such bans will not actual...

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Policy Cybersecurity

Federal Prosecutors Subpoena Reddit to Unmask Anonymous ICE Critic

The Trump administration has escalated its effort to identify an anonymous Reddit user who posted criticism of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, issuing a fe...

France to Migrate Government Computers From Windows to Linux
Policy

France to Migrate Government Computers From Windows to Linux

France announced plans to move its government computers running Microsoft Windows to Linux as part of a broader strategy to reduce reliance on U.S. technology. ...

France Plans Migration from Windows to Linux to Reduce U.S. Tech Dependence
Policy Infrastructure

France Plans Migration from Windows to Linux to Reduce U.S. Tech Dependence

France has announced plans to begin transitioning government computers from Microsoft Windows to the Linux operating system as part of a broader strategy to red...

French politician on a laptop
Policy Infrastructure

French Government Accelerates Migration from Windows to Linux

The French government announced this week it is accelerating plans to move away from Windows to Linux workstations as part of a broader digital sovereignty init...

Policy AI Tech & Business

Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell Warn Bank CEOs About Anthropic Model Risks

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell convened an urgent meeting with Wall Street leaders this week to discuss concerns ...

Policy Infrastructure

China AI Firm Discloses $92 Million in Banned Nvidia Chip Servers to Beijing

A Chinese artificial intelligence company has disclosed to Beijing authorities that it possesses $92 million worth of Nvidia chip servers that are subject to U....

OpenAI Backs Illinois Bill to Shield AI Labs from Liability for Critical Harms
Policy AI

OpenAI Backs Illinois Bill to Shield AI Labs from Liability for Critical Harms

OpenAI has testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit liability for artificial intelligence companies. even in cases where their products cause "cr...

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Startups

GitButler Raises $17 Million Series A to Build Next-Generation Version Control

GitButler has raised $17 million in Series A funding to develop what the company describes as the successor to Git. The startup aims to modernize version contro...

Cybersecurity AI Policy

White House Races to Identify Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities Before Next AI Model Releases

The White House has launched an urgent effort to map security vulnerabilities in U.S. critical infrastructure before advanced AI models from Anthropic and OpenA...

OneDigital Warns Clients of Alleged Salesforce Data Breach
Cybersecurity

OneDigital Warns Clients of Alleged Salesforce Data Breach

OneDigital has warned clients about an alleged data breach involving Salesforce. The insurance and financial services firm is notifying affected customers about...

FBI Surveillance System Breach Declared Major Cyber Incident
Cybersecurity

FBI Surveillance System Breach Declared Major Cyber Incident

A security breach affecting an FBI surveillance system has been declared a major cyber incident, according to CPO Magazine. The breach impacts a system used f...

CPUID Suffers Supply Chain Attack, Malicious Code Distributed via CPU-Z Downloads
Cybersecurity

CPUID Suffers Supply Chain Attack, Malicious Code Distributed via CPU-Z Downloads

Hackers breached CPUID, the maker of popular system monitoring tools CPU-Z and HWMonitor, and used the access to distribute malware through the company's offici...

Google rolls out Gmail end-to-end encryption for mobile enterprise users
Cybersecurity

Google rolls out Gmail end-to-end encryption for mobile enterprise users

Google announced Thursday that end-to-end encryption for Gmail is now available on all Android and iOS devices, extending a security feature previously limited ...

Cyber attacks
Cybersecurity

CISA issues urgent alert on Iranian hackers targeting critical infrastructure

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an urgent alert Thursday warning that Iranian-affiliated hackers are actively attacking critica...

Cybersecurity

Hong Kong police arrest suspect in 56,000-patient data breach case

Hong Kong police have arrested a suspect in connection with a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 56,000 patients from a medical ...

Trivy Security Scanner Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Targeting Secrets
Cybersecurity

Trivy Security Scanner Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Targeting Secrets

Security researchers have detailed a supply chain attack against Trivy, a popular open-source security scanner used by DevOps teams to detect vulnerabilities in...

Infrastructure Tech & Business

Blackstone Files for $2 Billion IPO of Digital Infrastructure Trust

Blackstone Inc. is preparing an initial public offering that could raise approximately $2 billion for a new acquisition company focused on data center assets, a...

Samsung to Invest $4 Billion in Vietnam Chip Packaging Facility
Infrastructure

Samsung to Invest $4 Billion in Vietnam Chip Packaging Facility

Samsung Electronics is planning to invest $4 billion in a chip packaging factory in Vietnam, according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg. The facility will...

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Infrastructure

ETH Zurich researchers demonstrate 17,000-qubit array with 99.91% fidelity

Researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated a quantum computing system containing 17,000 qubits that achieved operational fidelity of 99.91%, marking a signific...