How organizations view AI-native transformation through better workflows, decisions, and organizational intelligence
How organizations view AI-native transformation through better workflows, decisions, and organizational intelligence

Organizations seem eager to bring AI into the workplace. Many begin the journey by focusing on the tool or the model. VarOps, a systems-level AI advisory specializing in capability building in organizations, believes that’s the wrong place to start. Ac…

A four-year-old has seen more of the world than ChatGPT. Yann LeCun is betting $1bn on that
A four-year-old has seen more of the world than ChatGPT. Yann LeCun is betting $1bn on that

Yann LeCun is not a natural contrarian, but he is playing one right now. The man often called a godfather of AI built the convolutional neural network in the late 1980s. That design still powers phone cameras, medical scans, and driver-assistance syste…

Robots swept RoboCup 2026, and they’re coming for the human World Cup by 2050
Robots swept RoboCup 2026, and they’re coming for the human World Cup by 2050

While the world watched the World Cup, robots played their own version in Incheon. RoboCup 2026 ran from 30 June to 6 July in Songdo, drawing teams from dozens of countries. When the whistle blew, one name was behind every winner. Teams using robots fr…

AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs
AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs

On stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris, the interviewer put it bluntly to Mark Papermaster. He should have bought AMD shares six months ago, he joked, back when they traded near $200. They now sit above $500. AMD is no longer the plucky underdog chasing…

Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model
Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model

The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle‘s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an A…

Ollama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers
Ollama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers

Ollama has raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator and others joined. The round takes the company’s total funding to $88M, three years after it launched, and Ollama set out the plan in a blog post on Thursday. Founde…

Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation
Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation

Oxylabs has raised $130M from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. It is the company’s first outside investment since it launched in 2015. The deal values the Vilnius-based data infrastructure firm at around $3.6bn. Oxylabs announced the raise on Thursd…

France plans to triple penalties for AI-driven election disinformation
France plans to triple penalties for AI-driven election disinformation

French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced a bill to sharply increase penalties for spreading false content during elections. He set out the plan in the Senate on 8 July, according to Public Sénat, in response to a question about AI in the c…

Professor suspected AI-powered cheating on take-home midterms, makes finals in-person — only two students scored within 10% of their midterm score

A Brown University professor suspected that almost his entire class cheated on take-home mid-term exams using AI tools after they scored unusually high. In-person final exams showed that only two students scored within 10% of their midterm score, with just one getting a higher grade compared to their midterms.

Researchers broke GitHub Copilot’s safety by hiding harm in a workflow
Researchers broke GitHub Copilot’s safety by hiding harm in a workflow

Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute have shown that GitHub Copilot will produce harmful content it would normally refuse. The trick is to spread the request across an ordinary coding workflow. They call it a workflow-level jailbreak, and The Regis…