A new wave of funding shows investors are pivoting from pure cloud AI to systems that run locally on devices or act autonomously. The bets target privacy, cost, and moving AI from assistant to executor.
European officials are taking a “very serious” look at X’s Grok AI after it generated sexualized imagery, including of minors. Regulators from the UK, France, and India are now investigating, adding to X’s existing legal troubles in the EU.
A new report details the cautious, constrained rollout of generative AI in finance. Forget autonomous decision-making; banks are using it as a glorified assistant for summarizing documents and drafting emails, all under heavy human oversight.
MediaTek is making a major strategic pivot, moving engineering resources away from smartphones to chase custom AI chips. The company is targeting a billion-dollar ASIC business by 2026, with Google’s TPU program as its first big win. But can it keep its smartphone business competitive while chasing
In a major talent grab, Elon Musk’s xAI has poached a key AWS infrastructure leader. Saurabh Kumar spent nearly a decade shaping Amazon’s cloud networking and will now build “gigafactories” for AI at the Grok chatbot maker.
Brookfield is launching an AI cloud platform called Radiant, directly challenging its own data center customers like major cloud providers. The move is tied to its new $10 billion AI infrastructure fund, with Nvidia as an investor. They aim to lower AI compute costs, but the strategy is fraught with
GEEKOM is heading to CES 2026 with a new lineup of AI-capable laptops and mini PCs. The star announcements include a creator/gamer laptop with AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 H 465 and a business notebook with Intel’s Core Ultra 7 365H. They’re also refreshing their mini PC series with the same chips.
The race to dominate AI-powered shopping is heating up. Both Amazon and Google are moving beyond simple chatbots to deploy “agentic” AI that can understand intent, make decisions, and even complete purchases on your behalf. This isn’t just a feature update; it’s a structural shift in how retail oper
An AI robotics startup is bringing two unusual companion robots to the US market. The W1, inspired by WALL-E, costs $5,599, while the tiny M1 humanoid starts at $2,899. Both are set for preorder in Q1 of this year.
The head of security intelligence at Palo Alto Networks warns that AI agents represent the new insider threat for companies. The risk comes as their use is set to explode, with Gartner predicting 40% of enterprise apps will integrate them by 2026.
