Category: AI
News and analysis on AI models, chips, infrastructure, applications and the business shifts behind machine intelligence.
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AI-Native Security Startups Cash In as Breach Costs Soar
Netsec’s $10M raise signals a bigger shift: AI-native cybersecurity is attracting fresh capital as breach costs climb and regulators tighten rules.
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AI Agents Talk a Big Game, but the Research Isn’t There
A new study finds AI agents overstate results and fall short of autonomous research, raising hard questions about the hype surrounding agentic systems.
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Honda Wants a Robotic Lab Assistant in Orbit. It’s Less Absurd Than It Sounds
A proposal to put a robotic lab helper on commercial space stations sounds like science fiction. The engineering case for it is surprisingly solid.
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China’s AI Models Are Getting Cheaper and Better. That’s a Global Story
Intensifying competition among Chinese AI labs is driving down costs and forcing every major player to rethink pricing.
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Ground Robots Are Reaching the Front Lines — And the Ethics Are Lagging Behind
Autonomous ground vehicles are moving from laboratories to real deployments. The technology is advancing faster than the rules governing it.
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Photonic Computing Promises CPUs 1,000 Times Faster. Here’s What That Actually Means
Light-based processors have been “five years away” for decades. A new wave of photonic startups says the physics is finally catching up to the ambition.
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The RAM Shortage Is Bringing DDR4 Back From the Dead
A memory crunch driven by AI demand is resurrecting older hardware and rewriting the economics of the PC industry.
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Controlling 2D Semiconductor Growth Could Be the Key to the Next Generation of Chips
Silicon has carried the computing industry for sixty years. A quiet research breakthrough suggests the material that replaces it is getting closer to manufacturable reality.
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AI Is Writing More Code Than Ever. So Why Are Developer Job Postings Rising?
The prediction was that AI would eliminate programming jobs. The data is telling a more complicated — and more interesting — story.
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Amazon’s Reported $7 Billion Bet on AI Video Startup Decart Reshapes the Race
If the reported talks go through, it’s one of the largest AI acquisitions of the year — and a clear signal about where Amazon thinks the next wave of value is heading.