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At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.

This week's AI pic of the week - we celebrate the concept of Valentine's Day and reflect on loving relationships around the world.

Cohere surpassed $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, highlighting strong enterprise AI demand as the Canadian startup positions itself for a potential IPO amid intensifying competition from OpenAI and Anthropic.

The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them via Meta's AI assistant.

Wind River, an Aptiv company and global leader in software for the intelligent edge, will showcase its latest technologies at MWC Barcelona from March 2-5, highlighting solutions that enable edge AI for telco RAN, core, IT, and enterprise environments. The Wind River booth will be located at Hall 2,...

Zilliz, the company behind the most popular open-source vector database Milvus, recently announced the availability of a new Zilliz Cloud region in AWS eu-west-1 (Ireland), further expanding its global infrastructure. This new region enables customers—from fast-moving startups to global enterprises—...

Co-Founder Christopher Ahlberg Shares New Findings from Key Annual Report Recorded Future, the world’s largest threat intelligence company, today released its 2026 State of Security Report, showing that cyber operations are now inseparable from physical conflict, coercion, and espionage. The report ...

ZeroFox, the global leader protecting the people, brands, and technology driving modern enterprise, today announced that Chief Financial Officer Andrew McKenna has been elevated to the expanded role of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. In this role, McKenna will oversee finance, o...

Strategic technology partnership combines enterprise architecture, business process management, and process mining expertise to deliver capabilities for process intelligence and digital twin of an organization. Bizzdesign, a leading enterprise transformation SaaS company, announced a strategic partn...

New CTO role accelerates OPSWAT’s strategy for adaptive sandboxing and threat intelligence at scale OPSWAT, a global leader in critical infrastructure protection (CIP) cybersecurity solutions, today announced the appointment of Jan Miller as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this expanded role, Mil...

Research of U.S. software developers exposes the gap between cost visibility and resource efficiency Kubex, a pioneer in automated resource optimization for Kubernetes, AI and Cloud, announces new research, Why AI infrastructure may be needlessly draining your budget, revealing a disconnect between ...

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) can now accelerate SAP detection and response, while managing unified cybersecurity workflows within their SIEM Pathlock, a leader in Identity and Access Governance, today announced the release of the integration of its Cybersecurity Application Controls (CAC) solu...

Enters into Cooperation Agreement with Anson Funds SPS Commerce, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPSC), the leading intelligent supply chain network, announced today that its Board of Directors appointed Michael McConnell and Fumbi Chima as independent directors, effective immediately. Mr. McConnell previously served...

Raja Patel named President among a set of leadership updates aligning AI across product, security, and go-to-market execution for measurable outcomes Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced a set of leadership and organizational design upd...

BlackFog, the leader in ransomware prevention and anti data exfiltration (ADX), today unveiled its 2025 State of Ransomware Report, a detailed analysis of ransomware activity from publicly disclosed and non-disclosed attacks globally. The report shows that ransomware activity continues to intensify,...

CrowdStrike Threat Intelligence powers NordVPN’s Threat Protection Pro™, bringing enterprise-grade adversary intelligence to consumer security NordVPN has selected CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) to power its Threat Protection Pro™ feature, bringing industry-leading threat intelligence trusted by enterpr...

Vitalacy, Inc., a health technology company dedicated to advancing patient safety through intelligent, AI-powered solutions, today announced the appointment of Haley Dukelow as Chief Executive Officer, effective February 10, 2026. Dukelow previously served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer. D...

Acumatica development and service provider Sprinterra has recognized Cavallo, the leader in AI-powered Profit Maximization, for its strong integration with Acumatica – reinforcing Cavallo’s role as a trusted solution within the Acumatica ecosystem. The recognition reflects Cavallo’s investment in so...

In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end Direct Preference Optimization workflow to align a large language model with human preferences without using a reward model. We combine TRL’s DPOTrainer with QLoRA and PEFT to make preference-based alignment feasible on a single Colab GPU. We train direct...

Pinterest's stock tumbles after an earnings miss, with higher-than-expected usage its only bright spot.

OpenAI just launched a new research preview called GPT-5.3 Codex-Spark. This model is built for 1 thing: extreme speed. While the standard GPT-5.3 Codex focuses on deep reasoning, Spark is designed for near-instant response times. It is the result of a deep hardware-software integration between Open...

IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026 but these jobs will have different tasks than in previous years.

"I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space."

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.