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OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

Proven growth leader with a track record of scaling global revenue organizations, joining Cognyte amid growing worldwide demand for AI-driven investigative analytics Cognyte Software Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGNT), a global leader in AI-powered investigative analytics software, today announced the appointment ...

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistant...

Explore 'The Navigator at the Edge of the Known' in this week's AI Quantum Intelligence AI Pic of the Week. A masterful AI fusion of Ukiyo-e and Art Nouveau.

The report finds enterprises running mission-critical workloads on distributed PostgreSQL achieve a $15.6M net benefit and 181% ROI over three years Yugabyte, the distributed AI experts, today announced the release of a new report, From Database Infrastructure to Business Advantage: Quantifying the ...

A monthly security-only, stability-first cadence delivers speed without the regression risk Azul, the trusted leader in enterprise Java for today’s AI and cloud-first world, today announced that it will deliver monthly Critical Security Patch Updates (CSPUs) for Java Long-Term Support (LTS) versions...

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breac...

Appointment strengthens leadership team as company accelerates growth and scales customer success Silent Push, the leading preemptive cyber defense company, today announced the appointment of Kirk Appelman as Senior Vice President, Global Sales. Appelman brings over 20 years of technology sales and ...

In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs. From configuring the GPU environment to comparing high-detail tiled Gundam inference and faster Base modes, you'll learn how to process dense layouts, tables, and cross-page...

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

43% of Enterprise Decision Makers Surveyed Reported $2 million or More in Costs from AI-Related Security Incidents in the Past Year WitnessAI, the AI-native security platform trusted by leading enterprises, today released a new report, “The Hidden Cost of Enterprise AI,” revealing that organizations...

End-to-end blueprint enables cost-efficient high-performance AI infrastructure based on AMD Instinct™ MI350 series GPUs and DriveNets AI Fabric DriveNets, a leader in large-scale networking solutions, today announced the publication of an end-to-end reference architecture, that defines a validated d...

The collaboration advances GMI Cloud’s selective partnership strategy and supports its next phase of AI infrastructure growth GMI Cloud, a leading AI-native cloud provider delivering high-performance GPU infrastructure and inference services, today announced a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA as ...

Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture in 2026. Cohere Transcribe, IBM Granite Speech 4.1, ARK-ASR and MOSS-Transcribe are now separated by less than one WER point on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard — which means rank no longer decides anything. This roundup compares 16 op...

Gigatoken is an MIT-licensed Rust BPE tokenizer that encodes text at gigabytes per second. On a 144-core AMD EPYC 9565, it runs GPT-2 tokenization at 24.53 GB/s. That is 989x HuggingFace tokenizers and 681x tiktoken, against baselines already written in multithreaded Rust. The gains come from a hand...

ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.

After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of a poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.