Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered regulators to halt approvals for data centers seeking access to the state’s main electricity grid until each project passes a review, marking a shift toward tighter oversight in one of the country’s largest technology markets.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/09/2026
Google has expanded its Ask Maps artificial intelligence feature to help users order food and identify hotels or event tickets, moving the mapping service beyond recommendations and closer to completing commercial tasks.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/09/2026
The company says preliminary testing cannot exclude “Critical” capabilities, but it has not concluded that the unreleased model crossed that threshold.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/09/2026
Alibaba has introduced its largest artificial intelligence model alongside a workplace agent platform, extending a strategy that combines increasingly capable models with lower-cost access and distribution through the company’s existing business software.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/09/2026
DeepSeek has released an updated version of its V4 Flash model through an official API that remains in public beta, pairing a steep price discount relative to its flagship model with agent-benchmark scores that the Chinese AI lab says beat its larger Pro model.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/07/2026
Demis Hassabis is handing day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to Koray Kavukcuoglu, while longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean leaves to launch a new company. The changes put Google’s ability to turn research into widely used products under fresh scrutiny.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/06/2026
Microsoft has begun testing Project Perception, a multi-agent cybersecurity system designed to investigate threats and take corrective action inside the company’s security products.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/05/2026
Representatives from leading artificial intelligence developers met with White House officials Tuesday to review a voluntary framework for testing the cybersecurity capabilities and risks of advanced models, but the administration has not publicly disclosed the testing standards or what was decided.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/05/2026
The EU has begun enforcing new transparency rules for chatbots, deepfakes, and other synthetic content. The law could reshape how AI is presented worldwide, but labels and watermarks are only as useful as their ability to survive outside the systems that create them.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/05/2026
AI is moving beyond assisting cybercriminals and beginning to operate within live attacks, according to Check Point Research. The technology is making sophisticated capabilities faster and more accessible while creating new security risks for businesses deploying their own AI systems.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/31/2026
Reflection AI wants to build a leading American open-weight frontier model. The question is whether the market still has room for another contender.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/29/2026
Moonshot AI's release of Kimi K3's model weights highlights a growing divide between companies that sell AI as a hosted service and those betting that broader access will drive adoption.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/28/2026