Artificial Intelligence

Ex-OpenAI Worker Accused of Bugging Conference Room Planned to Fly to Saudi Arabia, Prosecutors Say

Abdulrahman Alfozan’s wife and young son also left the country the day after the 35-year-old Saudi national’s arrest.

AI and integrated mobility shape Gulf travel’s next chapter, says Amadeus

Jamel Chandoul explores how AI assistants, integrated mobility platforms and personalised loyalty rewards can shape seamless travel across the Gulf.…

WhatsApp Hid Instructions in Help Pages Telling Its AI Chatbot Not to Recommend Privacy Regulators

WhatsApp's help pages carried hidden instructions for its support chatbot that told it not to recommend a data protection authority or regulator to users who could no longer delete their accounts, even though WhatsApp's own privacy policy…

VAST and Hyperfusion target faster deployment of sovereign AI inference

Haider Aziz of VAST Data discusses how modular infrastructure could address power and capacity constraints, support local data control and…

Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge

A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office to allegedly steal sensitive…

Spain-Based Startups Advance Regional Innovation With Barcelona Supercomputing Center

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)’s AI Factory Accelerator Programme, now in full operation following a pilot initiative, gives startups access to sovereign compute, technical support and training to support innovation across…

Germany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: How NVIDIA Will Help

In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat down to discuss Germany’s AI roadmap, and in particular, the industrial applications of AI.

NVIDIA Runs Record Simulation of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing at Jülich Supercomputing Centre

NVIDIA today announced a record-breaking quantum computing simulation on JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, allowing researchers to fully explore and validate magic state cultivation — a leading approach to fault-tolerant…

Write bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs

Lies, lots of adverbs, and prosaic stories don't make for very machine-readable code, it turns out

Agentic AI Explores Heterogeneous Chip and Interconnect Architectures (Argonne, UIUC)

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign published a technical paper titled “Agentic AI for Heterogeneous System Design Across Chip, Scale-Up, and Scale-Out Domains.” Abstract Excerpt: “The…

stc sets AI-native targets

stc Group seized the initiative on AI-native networking, setting a target of employing the technology directly in its core infrastructure by 2030.

NVIDIA Advances Agentic Security for Media, From European Public Service Broadcasting to Global Content Production

At a creative industry event that took place today in Berlin — hosted in collaboration with Adobe, Bertelsmann, NVIDIA and UFA — the latest advancements in intelligent media were on display.

⚡ Weekly Recap: 98 Zero-Days, Rogue AI Agents, $100M Crypto Theft, 700 Supermarkets Hit and More

The worst problems don't always come with a warning. Sometimes they arrive through a service everyone trusts, a device someone bought, or a system nobody thought to check. By the time something looks wrong, the damage may already be done.

Microsoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up

Tech giant walks away from flagship Essex project as power connection delays threaten to leave nation's AI ambitions waiting until the 2030s

UK AI strategy in tatters as Microsoft steps back

US tech giant Microsoft has reportedly pulled out of its commitment to a major new UK data center due to concerns about power infrastructure.

Optical PCIe Extends the Reach of AI Rack Design

Lumentum, Astera Labs, and Corning demoed optical PCIe, which extends reach beyond copper and enables more flexible, disaggregated AI rack designs, though it’s still an early-stage proof of concept.

Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce

After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney.

Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

RTX Spark Ignites Global Celebration as New Windows PCs Arrive

NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are now available, bringing NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics, up to 128GB of unified memory and the full NVIDIA AI platform to slim, premium Windows PCs.

Salam maps Kingdom’s route from data corridor to AI destination, says Amjad Arab

Salam’s Chief Carrier & Wholesale Officer explains why partnerships, resilient terrestrial routes, and measurable outcomes will decide whether the Kingdom’s…

Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you

Would you like personalized shopping recommendations based on that conversation you just had?

SEMICON West 2026 Displays AI-Era Chipmaking, Workforce Development

The trillion-dollar semiconductor industry is ready to adapt and expand its fab infrastructure for the AI wave.

Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price

El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16

AI datacenter capex will far exceed forecast revenue through 2030

Investors are pouring more into AI data center infrastructure than they can hope to recoup by 2030, according to Gartner.

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