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GitHub investigating unauthorized access to internal repositories
GitHub disclosed it is investigating unauthorized access to internal repositories but says no evidence yet shows customer data outside internal systems was compromised.
Thinking Machines debuts open-weight Inkling AI model with 975B parameters
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model available for full customization and deployment.
Valarian Raises $50 Million for Sovereign AI Infrastructure Control Layer
London-based Valarian secured $50 million Series A funding to build software that gives governments and enterprises control over AI deployments on US cloud infrastructure.
OpenAI launches $230 Codex keyboard amid Apple hardware legal battle
OpenAI enters the hardware market with a limited-run $230 keyboard for managing AI coding agents, while facing legal challenges from Apple over hardware trade theft allegations.
Thinking Machines releases Inkling, its first open-weight AI model
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's startup launched a 975 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model designed to challenge one-size-fits-all AI approaches.
Google DeepMind Researcher Quits Over Pentagon AI Deal and DHS Contracts
TurnTrout left Google DeepMind after the company signed military AI contracts without restrictions on autonomous weapons, despite internal campaigns and ethics pledges from senior leadership.
Anthropic schedules investor meetings for potential $965 billion IPO
Anthropic is lining up investor meetings ahead of a potential IPO as soon as October, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan leading the offering.
Suno hack reveals YouTube scraping for AI music training
A security breach at AI music generator Suno exposed source code showing the company scraped decades of audio from YouTube Music, Deezer, and other platforms for training data.
Enterprise AI Shifts From Pilots to Production Workflows in 2026
Deloitte research shows companies are moving beyond AI experimentation to redesigning entire business workflows, with success now measured by cycle times and ROI rather than employee access.
Aramco in talks to back Humanoid at $1bn valuation
London-based robotics startup Humanoid is seeking $200m in funding that would value the company at around $1bn, with Saudi Aramco among potential investors.
Rime raises $24M Series A for enterprise voice AI customer calls
San Francisco-based Rime secured $24 million in Series A funding led by M13 Ventures to develop voice AI models trained on proprietary conversational data for enterprise customer support.
Reelful's AI turns camera roll photos into TikTok-style videos automatically
Former Snapchat ML engineer Kate Deyneka launched Reelful, an iOS app that uses AI to transform camera roll content into polished social media videos with automated editing, voiceovers, and effects.
Data centers drive $23 billion electricity price hike across US grid
Power demand from AI data centers has caused $23 billion in customer electricity price increases across 14 mid-Atlantic and Midwest states, lasting through 2028.
Researchers Release CANDI-QA Dataset to Test AI Models on Specialized Domain Questions
Academic researchers introduced CANDI-QA, a new benchmark dataset designed to evaluate how well large language models handle context-sensitive questions in specialized fields like medical diagnostics and financial advisory.
Google Research unveils new framework for auditing AI machine unlearning
Google Research introduces Regularized f-Divergence Kernel Tests, a statistical framework that makes auditing whether AI models have successfully 'forgotten' specific training data more accurate and computationally efficient.
MIT Spinout Ferveret Raises Funding for Nuclear-Inspired Data Center Cooling
Ferveret, founded by MIT researchers, has developed a nuclear reactor-inspired cooling system that reduces data center energy consumption by 35% while eliminating water usage entirely.