IBM cuts full-year sales outlook after mainframe demand drops 42 percent in Q2
IBM cuts full-year sales outlook after mainframe demand drops 42 percent in Q2

IBM cut its full-year sales outlook on Wednesday after reporting a sharp drop in demand for its mainframe business, lowering its revenue growth target to four to five percent from a prior forecast of more than five percent. The company also trimmed its…

OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation
OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation

OpenAI president Greg Brockman called Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 “pretty good” in a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday, a rare public acknowledgement from a US frontier lab that a Chinese rival has produced a competitive model. Brockman said it is “too early” t…

White House steers $5 billion toward AI research in biggest federal science overhaul in 80 years
White House steers $5 billion toward AI research in biggest federal science overhaul in 80 years

Federal agencies have committed more than $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an Energy Department-led effort to use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific research, White House science adviser Michael Kratsios announced on Wednesday. The init…

Meta hires Assaf Keren from Qualtrics and PayPal as its new chief information security officer
Meta hires Assaf Keren from Qualtrics and PayPal as its new chief information security officer

Meta has hired Assaf Keren as its next chief information security officer, filling a vacancy created when Guy Rosen announced his departure in June after 13 years at the company. Keren joins this week from software platform Qualtrics, where he spent tw…

Monday.com is cutting 20 percent of its workforce as it pivots to an AI work platform
Monday.com is cutting 20 percent of its workforce as it pivots to an AI work platform

Monday.com is cutting roughly 20 percent of its global workforce, about 620 people, as the Israeli project management company restructures around what it calls its AI Work Platform. The company disclosed the plan in a Form 6-K filed with the US Securit…

Jensen Huang argues American companies should be allowed to use Chinese AI models — Nvidia CEO says backdoors connected to China are misconceptions
Jensen Huang argues American companies should be allowed to use Chinese AI models — Nvidia CEO says backdoors connected to China are misconceptions

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang raised several points against the rising sentiment in Washington that U.S. firms should be prevented from accessing Chinese AI models. He also advocates for open models, which he says makes AI more secure.

Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, and it says it beats Gemini and GPT
Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, and it says it beats Gemini and GPT

Cisco’s new Antares models are small enough to run on your own machines. And, it claims, they beat Google’s Gemini and rival GPT-class systems at finding bugs. It is releasing them open-weight, though it is vetting who gets access. The pitch from Cisco…

Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes
Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes

Americans want the AI boom. They just do not want it on their street. A new poll finds most US residents would rather not live near an AI data centre. Yet the same buildings quietly bankroll schools where they cluster. More than half of US residents, 5…

The ex-Meta VP behind a notorious spy tool just raised $180M for AI security
The ex-Meta VP behind a notorious spy tool just raised $180M for AI security

The founder now asking enterprises to trust AI with their laptops once built one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious surveillance tools. Roi Tiger co-created Onavo, the app Meta turned into a scheme to spy on its rivals. His new company, Glow, wants to …