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U.S.-based chip manufacturing giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has recently gotten license clearance and approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce to proceed with exporting its Instinct MI308 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. AMD’s MI308 chip, designed for data centers and large-scale AI networks, was caught in the crosshairs of the brewing U.S.-China technology rivalry that eventually resulted in a trade war. The trade war, involving a tit-for-tat tariff imposition on both country’s imports, later bleeded into the U.S. taking drastic steps in order to protect its technological advancements and to not allow China lead the AI race. It…

Meta, known for its Llama family of open-source large language models (LLMs), has been a driving force behind open AI research. However, the company’s newly proposed Superintelligence Labs (MSL), if fully adopted, will signal a notable shift in the AI research landscape which might also alter the trajectory of open-source AI development worldwide. Llama’s public release catalyzed developer communities, enabled transparency, and set high standards for accessible, state-of-the-art AI models. But with the creation of the Superintelligence Labs comes the opposite, which will allow for Meta to have tighter controls over its intellectual property and also allow it to compete…

Positioning Amazon as a direct rival to established tools like GitHub Copilot, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially entered the AI-powered coding market with the launch of Kiro, a new integrated development environment (IDE) that is designed to transform the way developers write, document, and maintain code. It promises to transform rapid AI-generated vibe-coding into robust enterprise-grade software systems.  Vibe-coding, a term coined by Andrej Karpthy, is a fast, creative process that can generate impressive demos but often leaves projects lacking the clarity, documentation, and structure needed for real-world production environments. For Amazon’s Kiro, as it is stated on its…

In a move that mirrors the recent YouTube crackdown on identifying “mass-produced and repetitious content,” Meta also wants to protect “original” content on its social media platform, Facebook. The social media giant announced in a blog post that they are “introducing stronger measures to reduce unoriginal content on Facebook and ultimately protect and elevate creators sharing original content.” This move complements the action that was carried out by Meta in the first half of the year, when the company said it had deleted about 10 million Facebook profiles that were impersonating big content creators and making money from their contents.…

King Digital, the renowned developer behind the addictive game application Candy Crush Saga and owned by Microsoft through its acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2022, has laid off about 200 employees as part of an aggressive shift towards integrating AI-powered solutions into its services. The aim of this move is to allow AI-driven systems to take over many activities or workflows previously handled by human teams. The layoffs, impacting approximately 200 employees, affected core development departments that are central to the company’s structure; employees in level design, narrative copywriting, and user experience (UX) were mostly hit. According to insiders, many…

IBM has announced the launch of its new Power11 chips, introducing a new generation of servers designed to meet the growing demands of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads while maintaining the reliability and security that IBM Power systems are known for.  The Power11 platform is IBM’s first major update to its Power processor line since 2020. Available from the 25th of July, IBM says it will bring a comprehensive redesign that spans processor technology, hardware architecture, and virtualization software. With these changes, IBM aims to deliver, through the chip, what it calls the “six-nines of operationality” — 99.9999% uptime, which translates…

Now accessible to both Pro and Ultra AI Subscribers, Google wants to use Veo3 to normalize cinematic video generation by powering it with artificial intelligence (AI). Veo3 is the AI model from Google DeepMind that is designed for generating high-quality, cinematic videos directly from text or image prompts. It is also a model that is standardizing improved video quality and the ability to generate synchronized audio that matches the visual content’s mood and action.  Some of the technology’s standout capabilities are text-to-video generation, advanced prompt understanding, realistic lip-syncing, physics-based motion, and image-to-video animation, The image-to-video generation feature was recently introduced…

Scattered Spider, an aggressive cybercrime gang, has escalated its SIM-swap attack campaign by targeting some of the world’s most prominent airlines in 2025. Once known for smaller-scale exploits and having roots in online gaming communities, the group has evolved into one of the most effective and persistent cybercrime gang that has forced the hands of major companies and law enforcement agencies across the globe to rethink their cyber-defensive strategies. The cybercriminal group, also known as 0ktapus, Starfraud, UNC3944, Scatter Swine, Octo Tempest, and Muddled Libra, was linked earlier this year to coordinated cyberattacks against Canada’s second-largest airline, WestJet, which brought…

A new wave of cybercrime where artificial intelligence is used (AI) to impersonate high-profile government officials has emerged. In a recent and alarming incident, an AI-powered voice scam targeted several high-level U.S. and foreign officials by mimicking the voice and writing style of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also the Acting National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump. This AI-powered voice scam involved unknown perpetrators launching a target campaign by creating a Signal account under a name that looked legitimate and closely related to Rubio’s official email. Using a powerful AI voice cloning technology, the perpetrators were able…

The U.S. Senate recently voted 99-1 to remove a controversial 10-year moratorium on state artificial intelligence (AI) regulations from President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” The vote, held during a marathon session on July 1, 2025, marked a rare moment of overwhelming bipartisan agreement in the U.S. Senate, and it also marked a shift in how the rapidly growing AI technologies should be governed. The moratorium, originally included in Trump’s tax policy bill, aimed to prevent states from enacting or enforcing their own AI regulations for a decade. Supporters of this moratorium argued this would avoid a patchwork of…