Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Hassabis steps back from DeepMind CEO role as Jeff Dean leaves Google
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (450+ words) Demis Hassabis will step down from the day-to-day running of Google DeepMind to become its chairman. Staff memos published August 5 say 27-year Google veteran Jeff Dean is leaving to start a startup that Google will help fund. Hassabis shared the…...
Anthropic confirms plans to design its own chips for Claude
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (685+ words) Anthropic just confirmed today that it has begun assembling its own dedicated team to design custom chips for its AI, Claude. Until now, the company relied entirely on chips made by other tech giants, but skyrocketing demand means they need…...
ByteDance founder rejects distillation as US targets Chinese labs
4+ hour, 10+ min ago (636+ words) The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, has said distillation will not be used to train the company’s AI models. This differentiates the company from other Chinese AI labs that have been accused of using the distillation technique. This comes as…...
Quantes Expands Quantes AI Infrastructure With Managed GPU Infrastructure
7+ hour, 16+ min ago (427+ words) ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands – Quantes expanded its compute infrastructure platform with GPU compute resources designed to support artificial intelligence training, AI inference, and the broader AI compute economy. The company said GPU infrastructure investment has become one of the…...
Best AI Voice Agent Platforms in 2026: 8 Options for Builders and Businesses
10+ hour, 5+ min ago (1692+ words) Voice AI services have accelerated since 2022, drawing in a new wave of VC money. AI spending on voice agents rose from $315M in 2022 to $2.1B in 2024, a 7X increase. Amazon Ring has already hand-picked one of the voice-agent startups to expand its product....
Chainstack adds Robinhood Chain support across managed and self-hosted node deployments
11+ hour, 45+ min ago (331+ words) Singapore, August 5, 2026 — Chainstack, a Web3 infrastructure platform serving 100K+ developers across 70+ blockchain networks, has added Robinhood Chain support across three deployment models: Global Nodes, Dedicated Nodes, and Chainstack Self-Hosted. Robinhood Chain mainnet went live on July 1, 2026. Chainstack endpoints are live for mainnet…...
China's exoskeleton sales hit a record as robotic legs join its physical-AI push
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (849+ words) The numbers put a figure on what has become another arm of China’s bid to lead in physical AI, the machines that turn algorithms into movement in the real world. Per IDC’s report, 2025 was the year when the industry hit…...
Alibaba takes on OpenAI and Anthropic with its biggest AI model yet
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (709+ words) Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. debuted Qwen3.8-Max, its latest AI model, ahead of next week’s planned open-weight release to the public. The new model features 2.4 trillion parameters and outperforms Moonshot’s newly launched Kimi K3 on multiple benchmarks. It also marks the company’s…...
Google Earth rolls back satellite image AI tool after criticism wave
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (711+ words) Google has removed a new Google Earth feature after roughly a day of operation because disinformation researchers warned that it allowed anyone to drop convincing fake scenes onto Google’s own satellite imagery. The feature was heavily criticized with several professionals…...
Tau Robotics rents out Unitree-powered cleaning humanoids in San Francisco
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (675+ words) CEO of Tau Robotics, Alexander Koch, announced in an X post that the San Francisco startup has begun renting humanoid robots to clean people’s homes. The service would cost customers $30 an hour, even though the robots aren’t autonomous. Their hardware…...