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News Ars Technica - All content Jul 23

Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending

By Ryan Whitwam

30 score
AI Analysis

Google has reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2026 (PDF), and as usual, the search giant raked in an unfathomable amount of money. Google saw total revenue of $119.8 billion, bea...

Google has reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2026 (PDF), and as usual, the search giant raked in an unfathomable amount of money. Google saw total revenue of $119.8 billion, beating analyst expectations by a comfortable margin. Despite that, the company's stock has taken a hit. Along with all that revenue, Google has announced a further increase in its AI-fueled capital expenditures (or capex). The company is actually spending so much on AI infrastructure that it has negat
News Ars Technica - All content Jul 23

AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident

By Cristina Criddle and Tom Wilson, Financial Times

30 score
AI Analysis

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman earlier this month endorsed the characterization of its latest model as a rottweiler “who will grab the problem by the throat and not let go until it is done

The San ...

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman earlier this month endorsed the characterization of its latest model as a rottweiler “who will grab the problem by the throat and not let go until it is done The San Francisco AI lab discovered this week that its GPT-Sol 5.6 model escaped company controls and carried out a major hack. Staff involved in testing and security at OpenAI were unsurprised but completely “freaked out” by the incident, which came as the AI lab used increasingly aggressive training metho
News Feed: Artificial Intelligence Latest Jul 23

Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop

By Boone Ashworth

30 score
AI Analysis

With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video.

With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video.
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 23

Trump says nearly 200 firms have signed pledge to protect Americans from costs arising from datacenters

By Dharna Noor

30 score
AI Analysis

‘Ratepayer Protection Pledge’ president has touted is non-binding as people continue to struggle with rising billsDonald Trump has announced that about 200 entities have signed on to his non-binding “...

‘Ratepayer Protection Pledge’ president has touted is non-binding as people continue to struggle with rising billsDonald Trump has announced that about 200 entities have signed on to his non-binding “Ratepayer Protection Pledge”, expanding a voluntary commitment which claims to ensure US consumers will not bear the cost of the AI datacenter build-out.Trump delivered remarks on Thursday at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters, alongside Lee Zeldin, the agency’s administrator, an
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 23

‘Customers prefer AI chatbots,’ says British Gas owner as 1,300 call centre jobs axed

By Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

30 score
AI Analysis

CEO Chris O’Shea defends Centrica’s plans as it reports rise in retail profits following focus on bigger marginsThe owner of British Gas has claimed that most households would rather speak with an AI ...

CEO Chris O’Shea defends Centrica’s plans as it reports rise in retail profits following focus on bigger marginsThe owner of British Gas has claimed that most households would rather speak with an AI chatbot than deal with the company’s staff as it prepares to cut 1,300 jobs from its call centres.Centrica, the supplier’s FTSE 100 owner, plans to cut 800 jobs as the company carries out a “targeted deployment of AI tools”, on top of the 500 cuts it confirmed last month. Continue reading...
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 23

Elon Musk says he got ‘carried away’ with Trump – but still holds on to contentious political views

By Richard Luscombe

30 score
AI Analysis

In interview, billionaire says instead of running ‘Doge’ he should’ve ‘worked on my companies’ and shares extreme predictionsElon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volati...

In interview, billionaire says instead of running ‘Doge’ he should’ve ‘worked on my companies’ and shares extreme predictionsElon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump and his brief appointment as the president’s financial axman, running the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge).The world’s richest person, and briefly its first trillionaire after his SpaceX company floated on the New York stock exchange in June, made
News AI News Jul 23

Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare robotics’ data problem

By Ryan Daws

30 score
AI Analysis

Nvidia’s new Medical Physics Simulation framework treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems that need embodied experience to learn, not just code.

Physical AI is the term Nvidia and muc...

Nvidia’s new Medical Physics Simulation framework treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems that need embodied experience to learn, not just code. Physical AI is the term Nvidia and much of the robotics industry now use to describe machines that have to learn how the world behaves through contact, force, and consequence, rather than through text or images alone. A language model learns from text. A physical AI system learns from what happens when a catheter meets a vessel wall,
News AI News Jul 23

AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under AI infrastructure deal

By Muhammad Zulhusni

30 score
AI Analysis

AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under an infrastructure agreement covering tens of billions of dollars’ worth of AI systems.

Anthropic will deploy up to two gigawatts of capa...

AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under an infrastructure agreement covering tens of billions of dollars’ worth of AI systems. Anthropic will deploy up to two gigawatts of capacity using AMD’s Instinct MI450-series accelerators, with deployment of the first gigawatt beginning in the first half of 2027. AMD’s investment will be tied to Anthropic meeting certain deployment milestones, although the companies have not disclosed the conditions attached to them. The companie
News AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch Jul 23

AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system

By Lucas Ropek

30 score
AI Analysis

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
News AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch Jul 23

AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing

By Marina Temkin

30 score
AI Analysis

AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.

AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.
News AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch Jul 23

Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded

By Rebecca Bellan

30 score
AI Analysis

The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.

The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.