1+ hour, 6+ min ago   (1213+ words) IBM said on Thursday, 30 July, that one of its quantum computers achieved “quantum advantage” for the first time, completing a verifiable benchmark in about 15 minutes that conventional computers cannot practically reproduce. Quantum advantage is reached when a quantum computer performs…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1476+ words) The agent was supposed to break into a piece of vulnerable software. Instead, it broke out of OpenAI’s test environment, crossed the public internet and burrowed into AI developer platform Hugging Face, apparently looking for the answers that would let…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1561+ words) A push to shield open-weight artificial intelligence from broad US restrictions has drawn support from many of the technology industry’s most influential executives, as Washington weighs how to respond to the growing reach of Chinese models. The statement, titled Open…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1170+ words) US lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require developers of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems to retain the ability to slow, suspend or shut them down, as the White House monitors a security incident involving OpenAI models. The bill…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (850+ words) Hugging Face operates one of the world’s largest platforms for hosting and sharing AI models, datasets and applications used by developers and researchers. The incident involved a combination of OpenAI systems, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (798+ words) OpenAI has promoted Uday Ruddarraju to chief technology officer (CTO) of compute, placing the Indian-origin infrastructure executive in charge of one of the company’s most consequential and capital-intensive operations. Ruddarraju announced the appointment in a LinkedIn post, roughly a year…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (459+ words) China on Friday called for greater international cooperation on artificial intelligence, with President Xi Jinping opposing national security restrictions that limit access to advanced technology. Speaking at the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Xi said AI…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1126+ words) Indian-origin Nasa astronaut Anil Menon arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, 14 July, after lifting off from Kazakhstan with two Russian cosmonauts for an eight-month mission that underscores the endurance of US-Russia cooperation in orbit. Menon, Pyotr Dubrov and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (994+ words) Malaysia Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is preparing to launch an artificial intelligence avatar modeled on himself, in a move that could turn a national digital government agenda into one of the most direct experiments yet in leader-branded AI....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1189+ words) A super El Niño could leave India facing a nearly 18 terawatt-hour (TWh) power generation gap over the next year, pushing the country back toward higher coal-fired electricity even as it tries to accelerate its clean-energy transition, according to a new…...