Laurie Chen / Reuters: Z.AI open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent — Chinese startup Z.ai said on…
Toby Sterling / Reuters: IFR: ~7,000 autonomous humanoids were sold globally in 2025 for industrial and professional use, with many bought for research instead of doing productive work — Around 7,000 humanoid…
Reuters: Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT says its new fifth-gen technology platform enters mass production and unveils two 24Gb LPDDR5X phone memory products built on it — Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT (688825.SS) said…
Reuters: Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown — Anthropic is considering rolling out a…
Reuters: Mistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic's calls to pace the frontier — Europe's leading AI company Mistral and…
Linda Pasquini / Reuters: A German court rules that Meta is liable for fake ads posted by third parties on Instagram and Facebook and orders it to remove such content and pay damages — A German court has ruled…
Reuters: Sources: SK Hynix subsidiary Solidigm weighs building a NAND flash memory factory in the US; SK Hynix is also in talks with Intel for a separate project in Ohio — Chipmaker SK Hynix's (000660.KS)…
Reuters: Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research — Anthropic has quietly set up a…
Reuters: Paris prosecutors open at least one criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving the use of smart glasses to film women in public without consent — Paris prosecutors have opened a criminal…
Reuters: Sources: Chinese DRAM leader CXMT is preparing to expand into NAND flash memory, competing with Samsung, SK Hynix, and domestic rival YMTC amid memory shortages — Chinese chipmaker CXMT (688825.SS) is…
Reuters: Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's credit cards; Axis Bank is the fourth-largest credit card issuer in India — Apple (AAPL.O) is poised to launch Apple Pay in…
Toby Sterling / Reuters: Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announces a deal with Tata to manufacture and package chips in India, further sealing its split from Chinese parent Wingtech — Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announced…
Hannah Lang / Reuters: The US SEC unveils a five-year “Innovation Exemption” to free platforms that facilitate blockchain and tokenized stock trading from many stock exchange rules — The U.S…
Reuters: US and Chinese experts propose nuclear-style AI safeguards, including a dedicated AI military hotline, as part of a dialogue ahead of planned bilateral talks — An AI system that interferes with a nuclear…
Reuters: Huawei plans to launch the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and says its UnifiedBus tech is key to its next-generation large AI systems — Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) will launch…
Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Delos Data, which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center, raised $100M from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, and others — Delos Data, a startup…
Leo Marchandon / Reuters: Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere, with Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer becoming Cohere COO — Canada's Cohere and…
Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers — OpenAI said on Wednesday…
Reuters: Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is raising the…