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Anthropic's Claude Mythos faces questions over value despite strong cybersecurity scores

Independent research finds cheaper rival models replicating many of the headline vulnerability discoveries attributed to Mythos.

Google upgrades Dynamic Search Ads to AI Max with expanded advertiser controls

Automatic migration begins in September, with the company promising a 7% average uplift in conversions

Adobe and Nvidia announce GPU-accelerated colour grading workspace for Premiere at NAB Show

The new Color Mode beta runs exclusively on Nvidia RTX hardware and operates at 32-bit colour depth across all grading operations

Meta partners with Broadcom on MTIA AI chips

The deal covers chip design, packaging and networking and includes an initial infrastructure commitment exceeding one gigawatt

Chrome adds Skills feature to let users save and reuse Gemini AI prompts across tabs and devices

Google says the tool eliminates the need to retype prompts when applying the same AI task to multiple webpages

Pillar raises $20m from Andreessen Horowitz to bring automated commodity hedging to mid-market firms

The startup uses AI to ingest contract, inventory and cash flow data and construct hedge portfolios automatically for metals, food and airline companies

Goldman Sachs files for Bitcoin income ETF using covered-call options strategy

The bank's proposed fund would pair spot Bitcoin exposure with options overlays to generate yield, shifting it from holding third-party products to issuing its own

Nvidia launches Ising AI models to speed quantum processor calibration and error correction

The open-source family cuts qubit tuning times from days to hours and delivers up to three times better accuracy than the current standard decoding tool

Amazon agrees $11.6bn deal to acquire Globalstar in bid to accelerate challenge to Starlink

The cash-and-stock transaction also includes a separate agreement for Amazon Leo to power satellite services on iPhone and Apple Watch

Anthropic appoints Novartis chief Narasimhan to board in first pharma hire

The Novartis chief executive joins as Anthropic is reported to be weighing an initial public offering as early as this yea

OpenClaw has a rival that knows there's room for improvement

Nous Research's new autonomous agent accumulates skills with each session and can run on hardware as modest as a Raspberry Pi

Google uses World Quantum Day to explain the science behind its quantum computing ambitions

The company's Quantum AI team outlines the challenge of building reliable quantum systems, from the basics of qubits to the problem of decoherence

Bitcoin tops $75,000 as geopolitical de-escalation and short squeeze drive broad crypto rally

The move tests the top of a two-month trading range, with $80,000 now the key technical target as the market weighs near-term headwinds

Google.org commits $15m to new AI research cohort, bringing total fund to over $35m

The expanded Digital Futures Fund will support think tanks and academics examining AI's effects on labour markets, infrastructure and governance

Novo Nordisk deploys OpenAI tools companywide in bid to accelerate obesity and diabetes drug pipeline

The Danish drugmaker will run pilot programmes across research, manufacturing and commercial operations with full integration targeted by the end of 2026

MiniMax releases frontier AI agent model then restricts commercial use in licence reversal

The Chinese lab says bad-faith hosting providers were deploying degraded versions of its models, damaging its reputation with developers

UK transport department uses Google Cloud AI to cut consultation analysis from months to hours

The tool has achieved up to 90% accuracy processing free-text responses and could save the department up to £4 million a year

Half of American workers now use AI on the job, Gallup finds, as daily use hits record high

Adoption has more than doubled since 2023, but firms deploying AI report higher rates of both hiring and redundancy than those that do not

Nvidia denies PC acquisition talks after Dell and HP shares surge on rumour

The chipmaker called reports of year-long negotiations to buy a large PC and server manufacturer "false," sending both stocks lower after-hours

Google.org funds AI training for 40,000 workers

Google.org is providing $10 million to the Manufacturing Institute to train 40,000 U.S. manufacturing workers in artificial intelligence and expand apprenticeship access to 15 regions.