Uber and Waymo Clash Over D.C. Robotaxi Rules
The battle over how autonomous vehicles should operate in Washington, D.C. is heating up, with Uber and Waymo taking opposing positions on a proposed city bill. Uber argues the legislation would push...
// News Feed
AI & Data Engineering News
4605 articles
AllAI & LLMsData EngineeringMachine LearningMLOpsCloud & InfrastructureOpen SourceIndustryInfluencer
White House Weighs New Watchdog to Vet AI Models for Safety Risks
The Trump administration is exploring the creation of an independent regulatory body to assess the safety of artificial intelligence models, according to sources cited by Bloomberg. The proposed...
Netflix Spent $587 Million on Ben Affleck's AI Startup. Here's What It Bought.
Netflix has revealed the price tag for its mysterious acquisition of Ben Affleck's AI company, InterPositive: $587 million in cash. The figure surfaced in a recent SEC filing, confirming the...
Meta eyes multibillion-dollar deal to rent data center space to AI rival Anthropic
Meta is quietly exploring a deal to lease some of its massive data centers to Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, according to a report from The New York Times. The talks are still...
Robot Fight Club: Shenzhen Hosts First-Ever Humanoid Brawling Tournament
The world's first professional robot fighting league kicked off in Shenzhen on July 16, pitting 32 international teams against each other in a five-round slugfest. Organized by Chinese startup...
As Military Autonomy Accelerates, Data Infrastructure Faces Its Biggest Test
The push to field autonomous military systems is moving faster than ever. From the U.S. and UK to NATO, new funding, revamped defense strategies, and faster procurement paths are reshaping how...
Chinese AI Lab Moonshot Claims Its New Model Rivals US Leaders on Key Tests
Beijing-based Moonshot AI released a new model on Friday that it says narrows the gap with top American systems, outperforming some of the most advanced offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic on...
Russia’s Upper House Greenlights Landmark AI Regulation Law
Russia’s Federation Council has approved a comprehensive law governing the development, deployment, and oversight of artificial intelligence systems, setting the stage for a new legal framework...
AI Skills Pay Off: Data Scientists Top Russia's Salary Rankings
A new analysis of Russian job listings reveals that data scientists, programmers, and developers command the highest salaries among professionals whose roles require artificial intelligence...
Memphis Data Center Boom Sparks a National Backlash Against AI Infrastructure
Two years ago, Elon Musk turned Memphis into a hub for his AI ventures, racing to build data centers and energy plants at a blistering pace. Now, residents are dealing with the fallout—constant noise...
Chinese Startup Moonshot AI Claims Record with Open-Source Model K3
Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup, has released what it describes as the world’s largest open-source AI model, Kimi K3. The company announced Thursday that the model contains 2.8 trillion...
AI Agents Can Be Tricked by Fake Data Hidden in Reviews and Comments
Ask an AI agent to summarize product reviews, and a single planted review might make it click "Buy Now." Ask a coding assistant to apply a fix from a GitHub thread, and a fake comment could make it...
Russia, China, and 25+ Nations Launch Global AI Cooperation Body
SHANGHAI — A new international organization focused on artificial intelligence cooperation was formally established in Shanghai on Wednesday, with Russia, China, and more than 25 other countries...
India's AI sector scores second billion-dollar startup in a month
A year-old startup called Emergent has become the second Indian AI company in a month to cross the billion-dollar valuation mark, raising $300 million in a Series C round that values the firm at $1.5...
London AI Startup Raises $20M to Build a Brain for Oil Refineries
A London-based startup called Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators something they’ve never had: a single AI model that can see the entire plant at once. The company just closed a $20...
AI and Cloud Growth Push Power Prices Higher After PJM Auction
Electricity costs are set to climb across a broad swath of the eastern United States, driven largely by the surging energy demands of data centers. The price signal came this week from PJM...
Trump blasts New York’s first-in-nation pause on hyperscale data centers
Donald Trump took aim at New York Governor Kathy Hochul this week after she signed an executive order halting construction of large-scale data centers for one year—the first statewide moratorium of...
Thinking Machines Lab releases open-weight AI model Inkling, betting on customization over one-size-fits-all
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first proprietary AI model Wednesday. Called Inkling, it's an open-weight model with 975 billion total...
Apple Clears China Regulators for AI Launch with Alibaba's Qwen Model
Apple has secured regulatory approval to bring its generative AI suite, Apple Intelligence, to China. The Cyberspace Administration of China gave the green light on Wednesday, following Apple’s...
The Next AI Gold Rush? Implementation, Not Just Models
As AI models grow more powerful, the real question for businesses is how to actually use them. Now, a wave of new ventures is betting that helping companies deploy AI is where the real money lies....