Global data centers are running near full capacity, and the four biggest US hyperscalers are on pace to spend roughly $700 billion this year and still can’t build fast enough to keep up. That capacity crunch is exactly what’s pulling…
Mana Jampala noticed something most adults walk past every day: a small, busy team losing customers simply because nobody could get to the phone in time. She was 11 when she visited her father’s workplace in British Columbia. During the…
The bill that made Sarthak Dhawan’s startup briefly famous wasn’t the result of reckless spending. It came from a single setting nobody remembered to switch off. Dhawan, 21, co-founded Turbo AI, formerly Turbolearn, an app that turns lecture recordings and…
Yan Junjie picked a rough week to make a grand gesture. On the exact day MiniMax’s stock cratered following a mass lockup expiry, the 36-year-old founder, chairman, and CTO issued an internal memo pledging to take zero salary until the…
Generative AI has made it trivially cheap to produce ad creative that never touched a camera, a couch photographed in a studio and a couch rendered entirely by a model now look identical to the person scrolling past it. Many…
Browser-based machine learning has spent years running on a compromise. TensorFlow.js let developers run models client-side, but its JavaScript kernels never came close to the performance of native mobile runtimes. Google introduced LiteRT.js on July 9, bringing its LiteRT on-device…
Meta shipped its second model from Meta Superintelligence Labs on July 9, just two days after launching Muse Image, its first standalone image generator. Muse Spark 1.1 is a different animal entirely: a multimodal reasoning model built to plan, delegate,…
OpenAI made GPT-5.6 generally available on July 9 after a limited preview that began on June 26 for a small group of trusted partners. The company said the rollout will happen in phases over about 24 hours. OpenAI also said…
Meta shipped its first image-generation model built entirely in-house on July 7, and the technical story got buried within a day. Muse Image, developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, lets anyone inside the Meta AI…
Nubia, ZTE’s AI-focused smartphone sub-brand, says it will unveil what it’s calling the world’s first AI agent smartphone at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, running July 17 to 20. Ni Fei, ZTE’s senior vice president and head of…