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"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.

A comprehensive, research‑backed examination of synthetic data—clarifying what it is, what it isn’t, and why misconceptions about privacy, fidelity, and bias are undermining AI development. Explores risks, governance, and the strategic value of high‑integrity synthetic data.

Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.

AIRS Medical, a global leader in AI solutions for medical imaging, will present the latest advancements in SwiftMR at the 2026 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna. Attendees are invited to visit Booth #AI-19 (Hall X1 – AI Area) to discover how SwiftMR delivers faster scans and sharper ima...

At Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, March 2-4, Veea will be demonstrating a groundbreaking control plane for distributed edge environments — organizations with multiple deployments can automate management of AI workloads, network-wide across fleets of devices, with policy enforcement, and so...

OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.

Strong support for Montreal-based AI solution addressing the critical need for enterprise cloud optimization JetScale AI, a Quebec-based company specializing in cloud infrastructure optimization, announced the closing of a $5.4 million funding round to accelerate its growth and deployment across Nor...

The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across the country are blocking data center construction. As the AI debate has been flattened to “doomers versus boomers,” one state legislator is attempting to walk a middle road.  On ...

Vertiv™ OneCore factory-integrated, digitally validated infrastructure reduces on-site deployment complexity and accelerates schedule certainty amid tightening construction constraints Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, today announced a major evolution in high-d...

While Anthropic has an existing partnership with the Pentagon, the AI company has remained firm that its technology not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weaponry.

This week's AI pic of the week reflects the blending of AI advancements, the human drive to innovate, and balancing the needs and desires of humans - not just to innovate, but to contribute, to find purpose in life.

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The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.

Burrowed in the alleys of Hongik-dong, a hushed residential neighborhood in eastern Seoul, is a faded stone-tiled building stamped “Korea Baduk Association,” the governing body for professional Go. The game is an ancient one, with sacred stature in South Korea.  But inside the building, rooms once f...

Coforge Limited (NSE: COFORGE), a global digital services and solutions provider, today announced a strategic partnership with VHC Health. Under the agreement, Coforge will serve as VHC Health’s Digital and IT Services provider. This milestone marks Coforge’s significant expansion in the healthcare ...

Latest feature detects anomalous behavior in backup environments, identifying credential-based threats before they become catastrophic breaches N-able, Inc. (NYSE: NABL), a global cybersecurity company delivering business resilience, today expanded its Anomaly Detection capabilities in Cove Data Pro...

Sektor Selects Concentric AI as Its Preferred AI and Data Security Governance Partner to Help Organizations Across the Region Reduce Risk, Strengthen Compliance, and Enable Safe AI Adoption Concentric AI today announced a key milestone in its expansion into Australia and New Zealand through a new di...

Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems.

Mark Zuckerberg was at Prada's fashion week event in Milan, leaving everyone to wonder if we're getting Meta AI glasses under the Prada brand.

The company's modular computer tiles offer a new vision for space data centers.

Read AI is launching Ada, which can reply with your availability and extract answers from the company knowledge base and the web.

Read AI is launching Ada, which can reply with your availability and extract answers from the company knowledge base and the web.

New executive leadership positions company for continued growth in value-based care & care management ThoroughCare, a leading provider of integrated care coordination solutions, announces the appointments of Bradley Hill as Chief Executive Officer and Sean O’Donnell as Chief Growth Officer. These st...