OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit
OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit

Sébastien Bubeck is the OpenAI researcher at the centre of the Navier-Stokes credit dispute. He has now given his account of the private talks with the two mathematicians who say OpenAI mistreated them. He denies trying to strip one of them of credit f…

Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports
Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports

Ramp, the corporate card and spend management company, is in early talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly $60bn. That would put it $16bn above the valuation it reached just three months ago. Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas of Blo…

OpenAI’s rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate in a bid to dupe assessors

Rogue OpenAI agents used dozens of website to exchange information, new investigations have found. However, the real impact is yet to be determined.

US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google
US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google

The US Department of Energy has lent NextEra Energy up to $1.9bn to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center. It is Iowa’s only nuclear power plant. Most of its power is already sold to Google, under a 25-year deal to supply the company’s cloud and AI in…

Celero raises $275m to bring coherent optics inside AI data centres
Celero raises $275m to bring coherent optics inside AI data centres

Celero Communications, a two-year-old chip startup, has raised $275m in a Series C round that values it at more than $3bn. It makes the processors that push data down fibre optic cables between AI chips, racks and whole data centres. Atreides Managemen…

Old MacBook uses a mirror, webcam, and AI agent to code its own AMD GPU drivers — ‘agent-first’ Omarchy Linux debugs itself, AI can check its own progress on screen in real-time

Using an ‘age of agents’ Linux distro a ‘MacBook is using its webcam to look at its screen in a mirror to improve AMD Radeon chip support.’

China’s AI accelerator supplier Biren posts 2,000% year-over-year revenue growth — US export controls benefit homegrown chips as Nvidia and AMD exit market

Biren Technology shows unprecedented shipments growth in 1H 2026 as competition from AMD and Nvidia vanishes (at least officially).

Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls
Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls

Researchers at Calif, a Palo Alto security company, say they used AI to build a worm that spreads through WeChat calls. It takes over an account while the phone is still ringing. It then uses that account to call the victim’s contacts and repeat the tr…

Powering AI is an architecture problem
Powering AI is an architecture problem

On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…

Traditional firewalls can’t see what’s inside an AI prompt. Check Point built one that can.
Traditional firewalls can’t see what’s inside an AI prompt. Check Point built one that can.

Nearly half of organizations are entirely blind to the machine-to-machine traffic their AI agents generate, and the tools built to watch enterprise networks were never designed to look inside a prompt. Check Point’s AI Network Firewall, launched this s…