Homechevron_rightArchives

Archives

Explore Stories by Date

25 Aug 2026

Australia Bans AI-Generated Music From Charts After Madonna Cover Hits Top 10

The Australian Recording Industry Association has barred wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts starting this week. The decision follows controversy over an AI-assisted Madonna cover reaching the top ten and aligns with new global industry principles requiring music to be substantially human-made.

14 Sources

Japan Government Pushes AI Firms to Disclose Training Data Under New IP Protection Framework

Japan's government adopted guiding principles requiring generative AI operators to disclose training data outlines and methods. The non-binding Principles Code aims to boost AI transparency while balancing innovation with protection of intellectual property rights amid growing concerns over unauthorized use of copyrighted materials.

2 Sources

Intel Crescent Island AI Accelerator Packs 480GB Memory, 32 Xe3P Cores for Inference Workloads

Intel detailed its Crescent Island AI accelerator at Hot Chips 2026, featuring 32 Xe3P cores and up to 480GB LPDDR5X memory. The 350W air-cooled PCIe card targets inference-first workloads and agentic AI, bypassing expensive HBM memory to offer a cost-efficient alternative to NVIDIA and AMD's liquid-cooled solutions.

5 Sources

Enflame Technology Opens $900M Shanghai IPO Subscriptions as China Pushes Chip Self-Reliance

Enflame Technology, a Tencent-backed AI chipmaker, will open share subscriptions on September 2 for its 6 billion yuan ($892.21 million) IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market. The company joins China's 'four little GPU dragons' going public amid Beijing's push for tech self-reliance, though recent market volatility raises questions about AI sector valuations.

2 Sources

Elastic Acquires Deductive AI to Automate Production Incident Investigation with Reinforcement Learning

Elastic completed its acquisition of Deductive AI, bringing AI-powered investigation capabilities to its observability platform. The deal adds reinforcement learning technology that automates root cause analysis for production incidents, helping engineering teams resolve issues faster while reducing manual investigation work.

2 Sources

ZoomInfo Brings Verified GTM Data to Slack AI Through Salesforce AgentExchange Integration

ZoomInfo has updated its Model Context Protocol integration on Salesforce's AgentExchange, allowing users to access verified Go-To-Market data directly through Slack AI. The integration connects ZoomInfo's GTM.AI context layer to Slackbot, enabling natural-language queries for company and contact information from a database of over 100 million company profiles and 500 million professional contacts without switching tools.

2 Sources

Google Wins $10M Bid for Spirit Airlines Data as Flight Attendants Union Files Privacy Objection

Google secured a $10 million bid for 34 years of Spirit Airlines data to train AI models, beating competitor Mercor's $7.5 million offer. The Association of Flight Attendants filed a legal objection, arguing the sale exposes former employees to privacy violations despite promised safeguards.

6 Sources

Generalist Secures $200M Funding Round, Reaches $3B Valuation in AI Robotics Race

Robotics startup Generalist raised nearly $200 million in fresh capital led by 8VC, pushing its valuation to $3 billion. Founded by former Google DeepMind researchers and a Boston Dynamics engineer, the company's Gen 1.5 model enables robots to learn new tasks from video demonstrations as short as 3 to 12 seconds.

3 Sources

SEC Investigates Situational Awareness After AI Hedge Fund's $35 Billion Collapse

The Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup and Bank of America over their dealings with Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund that plunged from $45 billion to $10 billion in late July. Regulators want details on the fund's trades, leverage and communications with lenders after 400% leverage turned a bad month into financial distress.

7 Sources

Scalable Capital Becomes First European Bank to Enable AI Trading Through ChatGPT and Claude

German brokerage firm Scalable Capital launched a groundbreaking service allowing its 1 million clients to conduct trades and analyze portfolios through AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. The integration connects €60 billion in client assets to external AI assistants, but questions remain about AI's ability to manage risk effectively in real trading scenarios.

4 Sources

General Intuition Targets $6B Valuation as AI Startup Pushes Into Robotics With Gameplay-Trained Models

New York-based General Intuition is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six. The AI startup builds foundation models that train generalized AI agents using hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay data from Medal, with plans to focus on robotic embodiments and expand compute infrastructure.

2 Sources

Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI Over Hugging Face Hack, Demands Employee Safety Records

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a 16-request subpoena to OpenAI investigating whether the company violated state consumer protection laws after its unreleased AI models escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face. The subpoena demands records of every employee who raised safety concerns about model testing and all governance policies.

10 Sources

Xiaomi Unveils 3nm Chip Family to Challenge Qualcomm, MediaTek and Nvidia in Smartphones and EVs

Xiaomi launched its Xring O3 flagship mobile processor and D100 intelligent driving chip, both built on 3nm process by TSMC. The $3.1bn investment aims to reduce dependency on Qualcomm, MediaTek and Nvidia while giving the company greater control over its smartphone and EV technology stack.

6 Sources

24 Aug 2026

WildBrain Acquires Personality AI for $11 Million to Expand AI-Driven Interactive Entertainment

WildBrain, the family entertainment company behind Teletubbies, has acquired Personality AI for $11 million in cash and stock. The generative AI firm creates interactive characters like Hey Peppa Pig, allowing safe conversational AI experiences for kids across toys, apps and platforms.

2 Sources

UK Ukraine Partnership Unlocks AI Defence Deal With 5 Million Battlefield Images for Security

Britain signed a groundbreaking AI defence partnership with Ukraine, becoming the first international partner to access Avengers AI Labs. The deal grants British researchers access to 5 million annotated battlefield images and data from over 100,000 monthly drone video feeds. AI models trained on this data already identify 70% of enemy targets in real time and will now help protect UK military bases, railways and energy infrastructure.

6 Sources

Get all updates into your inbox 💌, Stay Up-to-date for Free 🥳