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Anthropic Expands AI Data Center Push Into Australia and Japan
The AI lab is hiring for eight Asia-Pacific infrastructure roles as revenue surges and compute demand strains existing capacity.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of 29M-query AI model theft campaign
The Claude AI maker says fraudulent accounts extracted its most valuable capabilities through distillation attacks at industrial scale.
Publishers Push Back on Agentic AI Ad Buying at Cannes
Media executives are demanding transparency on whether automated trading agents will cut costs or simply add new layers of fees to programmatic advertising.
Hyphen Partners With Motoniq to Deploy Physical AI in Food Automation
Sample-efficient learning technology reduces deployment time for robotic meal assembly systems without months of manual tuning.
NYC Council Candidate Charged Over AI-Generated Fake Endorsements
Jonathan Rinaldi faces forgery charges for allegedly using artificial intelligence to fabricate political support and attack opponents during his 2023 campaign.
Video Rebirth Raises $80M to Build Real-Time World Model AI
The Singapore startup led by Tencent's former AI chief is competing with tech giants on video generation while pursuing interactive 3D simulation technology.
Qualcomm targets $40B non-phone revenue by 2029 with AI push
The chipmaker doubled its diversification goal and announced $15 billion in planned data center sales, challenging Nvidia's dominance.
Qualcomm Launches AI Data Center Chips, Wins Meta and Microsoft
The smartphone chipmaker unveils four product lines targeting Nvidia's dominance, backed by major cloud customer commitments.
India's Workforce Fuels Robot Training Data Boom for AI Companies
Low labor costs and a massive workforce position India as a critical supplier of human demonstration data for physical AI development.
Google Loses Four Senior AI Researchers to OpenAI and Anthropic
Jonas Adler, Alexander Pritzel, Noam Shazeer, and John Jumper have all departed in recent weeks as rivals prepare for public offerings.
Senate bill would mandate visible labels for AI-generated content
Bipartisan legislation targets deepfakes and chatbot interactions as AI deception concerns mount across government and industry.
Google Search Now Uses Your Uploads for AI Training by Default
A new Search Services History setting saves images, voice recordings, and other media to improve AI models unless users manually opt out.
Micron Posts Record Margins, $100B in AI Memory Contracts
Chipmaker's blowout Q3 results and multi-year customer agreements signal AI infrastructure players are treating memory as a strategic bottleneck.
Bot Traffic Now Exceeds Human Traffic, Cloudflare CEO Reports
Matthew Prince says automated agents will outnumber human users 1,000-to-1 within five years, requiring fundamental changes to internet infrastructure and business models.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of massive AI model theft campaign
The AI company reported 28.8 million unauthorized queries through fraudulent accounts to a U.S. Senate committee.
HUD Offers $3M Grants for AI Building Permit Systems
New federal funding aims to accelerate housing construction by automating code reviews and application processing in cities and states.
Half of US Farmers Use AI Tools, But Only 24% Trust Them
New survey reveals sharp divide between adoption and confidence in artificial intelligence recommendations for agricultural operations.
Micron Q3 Earnings Beat Signals AI Memory Shortage Through 2027
Memory chip maker's blockbuster results and tight supply forecast underscore persistent infrastructure demand fueling AI buildout.
California Lawsuit Alleges AI Pricing Software Fuels Gas Collusion
Federal class action targets Kalibrate and major retailers, claiming algorithmic coordination inflates pump prices by up to 30 cents per gallon.
House Democrat Backs National AI Data Center Moratorium
Rep. Frank Pallone cites electricity costs, water stress, and chemical risks as rationale for halting new construction.
Top House Democrat Calls for National AI Data Center Moratorium
Rep. Frank Pallone cites soaring electricity costs, grid reliability risks, and environmental harm as reasons to pause construction.
Accenture Rations AI Tokens After Employees Drain Budget on Trivial Tasks
The consulting giant is pulling back on AI access after pushing workers to use it for everything, highlighting growing cost concerns across the industry.
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Illicit Access to Claude AI Models
The AI startup says thousands of fraudulent accounts tied to Alibaba's Qwen lab targeted its most advanced capabilities in what it calls the largest such effort by a Chinese firm.
Why Infrastructure Teams Stall on Automation Maintenance, Not Builds
The hidden lifecycle costs of DIY bare metal provisioning are derailing VMware migrations and AI deployments at scale.