OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware
OpenAI will not use the name “io” for its forthcoming line of AI hardware devices, according to a…
Anthropic closes in on $20B round
Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new capital at a valuation of $350…
Chinese AI company unveils $173K ‘biometric’ robot built for human companionship
Chinese robotics company DroidUp has created a ‘fully biometric’ robot named ‘Moya’ that’s blurring the lines between science…
Lidar-maker Ouster buys vision company StereoLabs as sensor consolidation continues
Lidar-maker Ouster has acquired StereoLabs, a company that makes vision-based perception systems for robotics and industrial applications, for…
Can a machine ever love you?
While the concept of romantic love may mean somewhat different things to different people, in recent decades scientists…
Discord puts everyone in teen mode by default • The Register
Don’t want Discord to start treating your account like it belongs to an underage kid? Then you’d better…
John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM
Anybody can create an X account and speak their mind, but not all minds are worth listening to.…
Microsoft’s stock is cheaper than IBM’s for the first time in a decade. What that says about the AI trade.
Published: Feb. 9, 2026 at 5:20 p.m. ET As the market digests Big Tech’s ambitious artificial-intelligence spending plans for…
The Last ‘Person’ You Want Handling Your Surgery Is a Hallucinating Robot
Everyone’s favorite nightmare scenario when it comes to artificial intelligence is that it somehow gains sentience and starts…
Anthropic’s India expansion collides with a local company that already had the name
As Anthropic expands into India, a local software company has filed a court complaint saying it was already…
Micron’s AI Memory Story Reassessed After Losing Nvidia HBM4 Orders
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Microsoft boffins show LLM safety can be trained away • The Register
A single, unlabeled training prompt can break LLMs’ safety behavior, according to Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and…