OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal
AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.
Brain-inspired computing: Using noise to regulate information flow in neural networks
Researchers have developed a learning mechanism that uses the natural variability of neural activity—often dismissed as random “noise”—to understand how synapses buried deep inside brain networks—or brain-inspired devices—can adapt to improve the learning capabilities of the networks as a whole.
Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM
On August 12, 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B. This is the first time a Qwen-Max-class model has been made available as open weights. With 2.4 trillion total parameters (95 billion activated per token), a hybrid linear-plus-full-attention architecture, and native context up to 262K tokens (extensible to 1M), Qwen3.8 targets the most demanding agentic and …
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Google is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Assistants
We are excited to share that Gartner has named Google a Leader in its inaugural 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Assistants. In this comprehensive evaluation of top enterprise AI assistant vendors, Gartner placed Google in the Leaders quadrant for its evaluation across both Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Gemini Enterprise helps organizations …
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The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
Bridging the information gap: AI-driven quality control for 5G multicast broadcasting
Cable television (CATV) remains a cornerstone of how national broadcasts and emergency information reach thousands of households. Unfortunately, many older apartment buildings were not built with fiber-optic wiring in mind, making retrofitting with the necessary CATV infrastructure too costly or impractical and leaving residents unable to access broadcast services.
Take on your most ambitious work with GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI brings greater depth and judgment to your most demanding tasks and runs on the Amazon Bedrock inference engine built for high performance, security, and scale. Organizations are already running AI agents that write code, analyze data, and automate complex workflows at production scale on Amazon Bedrock. GPT-6 Astra raises the potential …
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How KDDI built Buffmee, a faster, reliable consumer RAG app
When building consumer-facing generative AI applications, balancing high generation quality with fast response times across diverse media types, can be challenging. KDDI, a major telecommunications carrier in Japan, tackled this challenge head-on when they developed Buffmee, their consumer Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) app. Buffmee is an interactive AI service built on the concept of ‘AI that …
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Cockroach Milk, How to Blow Your Nose, and Mosquito Printers: The Ig Nobels of 2026
Every year, the prizes recognize the weirdest research that often raises some very serious scientific questions.
Memristor chip breaks the capacity limit of brain-inspired associative memory
Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering and the Centre for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits (CASIC) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in brain-inspired computing. In collaboration with Hewlett Packard Labs, the team has developed a memristor chip that overcomes a long-standing …
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