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A two-year-old nuclear startup has done something no American company has done before: run an Nvidia AI chip directly off a compact nuclear reactor. Valar Atomics Inc. demonstrated its Ward 250 microreactor producing live power for Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture on July 1, 2026, at a small data center in Utah. The milestone marks the first […]

The United Nations’ first independent scientific assessment of artificial intelligence warns that increasingly powerful AI systems are evolving faster than regulators and researchers can understand or govern, creating risks that could have catastrophic consequences if left unchecked. The preliminary report, released July 1 by the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, represents the […]

The United Nations’ first independent scientific assessment of artificial intelligence warns that increasingly powerful AI systems are evolving faster than regulators and researchers can understand or govern, creating risks that could have catastrophic consequences if left unchecked. The preliminary report, released July 1 by the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, represents the […]

OpenAI has proposed giving the US government a stake of up to 5 percent in the company, according to a Financial Times report, in what would be an unprecedented arrangement between a frontier AI lab and the state that regulates it. The stake, valued at approximately $42.6 billion (roughly 27 billion pounds) based on OpenAI’s […]

Brave Software has launched Brave Origin, a stripped-down version of its privacy-focused browser that removes the accumulated extras of years of feature expansion, and charges $59.99 (approximately 48 pounds) for the privilege of having less. The browser is an official response to long-running user complaints that Brave had become bloated. Originally built as a lean, […]

OpenAI has proposed giving the US government a stake of up to 5 percent in the company, according to a Financial Times report, in what would be an unprecedented arrangement between a frontier AI lab and the state that regulates it. The stake, valued at approximately US$42.6 billion based on OpenAI’s estimated $852 billion valuation, […]

Brave Software has launched Brave Origin, a stripped-down version of its privacy-focused browser that removes the accumulated extras of years of feature expansion, and charges US$59.99 (approximately £48) for the privilege of having less. The browser is an official response to long-running user complaints that Brave had become bloated. Originally built as a lean, privacy-first […]

Brave Software has launched Brave Origin, a stripped-down version of its privacy-focused browser that removes the accumulated extras of years of feature expansion, and charges US$59.99 for the privilege of having less. The browser is an official response to long-running user complaints that Brave had become bloated. Originally built as a lean, privacy-first alternative to […]

SpaceX has reportedly shown investors a prototype of a handset-like AI device, according to The Wall Street Journal, signaling the company’s ambition to move beyond satellite internet and into consumer hardware. The prototype is described as sleeker and slimmer than an iPhone, resembling a hybrid of a small touchscreen phone and the Rabbit R1, a […]

Cloudflare is making it harder for AI companies to scrape the open web for free. Starting September 15, 2026, the company’s default settings will block “mixed-use” crawlers, bots that both index content for search and collect it for AI training or agentic services, from any page that hosts advertisements. The policy shift affects new Cloudflare […]