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China’s agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop

PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!

Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain

Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease its computing burden, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical

Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse

Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon

Furores are fermenting in the forums

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Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device

Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash

It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

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Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy

In a word, 'Huh?'

Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email

HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi

NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork

Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs

The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams

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C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply

Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations

Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate

Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware

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AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises

MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card

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EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash

Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat

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NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash

Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?

Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis

Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS

Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs

For AI agents, seeing is expensive

Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity

Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits

Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI

Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff

AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned

Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for

AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly

Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper

India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree

Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks

OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year

If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math

Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch

High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage

Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents

Always bet on backpropagation

IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf

With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2

ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower

ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows

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Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more

Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

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Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation

Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs

'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'

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If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows

How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot

Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again?" Agentic AI support systems now seek and destroy tech issues before they're a problem.

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Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky

Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge

Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark

In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents

Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM

Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt

Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it

CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos

If software writes software the risk is “systematic failure at scale”. Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester

Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’

Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler

Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue

Stop the sprawl!

Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser

Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open

Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled

KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet

Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs

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Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines

This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows

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Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool

Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor

SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy

Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations – including AI – that connect to SAP systems

Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes

AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them

Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs

AI is driving more searches and ads

Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises

Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand

EC2 Veep David Brown unveils Amazon's 5th-gen Graviton CPUs

Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz

The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'

Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages

Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info

Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models

There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was

AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard

Eleven up, ten down

AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story

No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers

ZTE ensures 2026 Jiangsu Football City League opening ceremony with 5G-A, powering robot traffic police debut

Pioneering the future of smart sports with the world’s first practical deployment of 5G-A "EasyOn·Robot" private networks for humanoid traffic police

30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm

Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw

Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’

Haneda airport will start testing humanoid robots, because everything that gets a plane flying was designed for our species

Anush Elangovan, corporate VP of software for AMD, at AI Dev x 26

The future of software development: Now with less software development

At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI

Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm

No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on

OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock

Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you

Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative

Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks

IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability

80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags

Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps

Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market

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Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon

RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis

Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids

DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating