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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...

In this article, you will learn how an agent's approach to managing state — stateless or stateful — shapes both its implementation and the deployment...

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 ...

It's tempting to treat loop engineering as something invented in a single week in June, but the mechanics behind it are closer to five years old, and knowing the lineage is what separates a real understanding of the idea from just repeating the trend piece.

Initial research projects advance national priorities across natural resources, manufacturing, nuclear physics, and more.

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.

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.

OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.

Known for his clear and elegant writing style, Bertsekas shaped fields from control and optimization to large-scale computation and artificial intelligence.

A critical examination of why AI ethics boards consistently fail in real-world organizations and what structural, operational, and incentive-based reforms are required to make AI governance effective.