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Google DeepMind is investing approximately US$75 million (around £60 million) in independent film studio A24 as part of an AI research partnership announced Monday, marking the search giant’s first direct investment of this kind in a Hollywood studio. The multiyear, non-exclusive deal will give A24 filmmakers access to DeepMind’s AI tools to explore new creative […]

OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity platform with two major releases: an improved GPT-5.5-Cyber model and Patch the Planet, a program co-founded with Trail of Bits and HackerOne that funds security engineers to fix vulnerabilities in critical open-source software. The company argues that AI has shifted the bottleneck in cybersecurity from finding bugs to fixing […]

MoonMath AI has released an open-source bf16 forward attention kernel for AMD’s MI300X GPU that outperforms AMD’s own AITER v3 library on every tested shape and rounding mode. The kernel, written in HIP and released under the MIT licence, achieves geometric mean speedups of 1.18 times with RTNE rounding, 1.15 times with RTNA, and 1.08 […]

As the semiconductor industry prepares for the transition to High-NA EUV lithography, a less discussed factor is quietly reshaping design decisions: the cost and complexity of photomasks. While mask costs are not blocking leading-edge scaling, they are increasingly influencing which designs, nodes, and processes chipmakers choose. A panel of lithography experts convened by Semiconductor Engineering […]

Researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology have published a paper exposing how Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), a feature increasingly adopted in embedded MIPS processors to boost performance, creates powerful cross-core timing channels that can leak sensitive information. The paper, titled MIPSBLEED: Uncovering Microarchitectural Timing Leaks in Pervasive Embedded Processors and authored by Ahmed Najeeb and […]

Every AI agent starts a conversation from zero. The model may be state-of-the-art, but it has no recollection of what happened in previous sessions, no awareness of the user’s preferences, and no way to learn from past mistakes. This problem, known as the memory gap in production AI systems, has driven the development of layered […]

Apertus, a fully open large language model developed by the Swiss National AI Initiative, represents one of the most ambitious attempts yet to build a foundation model that is transparent by design, compliant with regulation from the ground up, and deliberately independent of the commercial incentives that drive models from US-based labs. The project is […]

Xona Space Systems’ experimental satellite Pulsar-0 has produced the first space-based map of GPS interference across Europe and the Middle East, revealing a scale of signal jamming that far exceeds prior estimates. The findings, published by Space.com on June 18, show GPS signal strength dropping from 40 decibels to as little as 10 decibels in […]

On June 12, the US Commerce Department issued an export control order directing Anthropic to suspend access to its two most advanced AI models — Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — for all foreign nationals, including non-citizens working inside the United States and the company’s own employees. Anthropic disabled both models for every customer worldwide […]

The Wall Street Journal published an investigation on June 21 revealing that Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market, paid online creators to produce deceptive videos simulating lucrative bets on “near-perfect copies” of its website. The clips featured trades and winnings that were not real, were amplified by a paid “social-media army,” and reached more than […]