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SandboxAQ Launches Switch to Coordinate Multi-Framework AI Agents in Slack, Teams, and Discord

SandboxAQ has launched Switch, a framework-agnostic coordination layer designed to connect AI agents into existing enterprise chat environments, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Discord. The software is publicly available at no cost for self-hosted deployment on internal infrastructure. Switch addresses the operational fragmentation caused by disparate agent development frameworks. Rather than isolating autonomous assistants within bespoke web interfaces or terminal windows, the platform e

AWS and NVIDIA Expand AI Partnership to Deploy 2 Million Additional Blackwell Ultra and Rubin GPUs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA have announced a major expansion of their cloud infrastructure partnership, committing to deploy two million additional high-end NVIDIA GPUs across AWS global data centers in 2027 and 2028. The deployment expands on AWS's previous commitment from GTC 2026 to add one million GPUs starting in 2026, bringing total forward allocations across the multi-year cycle to three million units. The upcoming capacity will comprise NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin

Robotics Foundation Model Startup Generalist Raises 98M Led by 8VC

Robotics foundation model startup Generalist AI Inc. has secured $198.2 million in a new equity offering, according to a Form D regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24. The capital injection comes less than three months after the company closed a $400 million financing round in early June. The financing round was led by venture capital firm 8VC alongside participating existing investors, as reported by Axios. The new transaction elevates Generalist's valu

Chinese State-Linked Hackers Double Attack Volume Using DeepSeek AI, Researchers Find

State-affiliated Chinese cyber espionage groups have more than doubled their operational attack volume by integrating open-weight artificial intelligence models into routine reconnaissance and script generation workflows, according to threat intelligence from Taiwanese cybersecurity firm TeamT5 and reporting by Bloomberg. The surge in offensive volume is driven primarily by DeepSeek models, which threat actors favor due to low inference costs, local deployment options, and minimal safety guardr

IBM Unveils 2nm Dual-Architecture Mainframe Processor with Native Arm and On-Chip AI Acceleration

IBM unveiled the industry's first dual-architecture mainframe processor at the annual Hot Chips conference, detailing custom silicon capable of natively executing both IBM Z (s390x) and Arm (Arm64) instruction set architectures on the exact same physical cores. Fabricated on a leading-edge 2-nanometer process node, the upcoming processor is engineered to bridge traditional enterprise transaction processing with the modern, Arm-dominated software ecosystem, particularly containerized AI framewor

ByteDance Consolidates TRAE and Coze into Doubao, Readies 'Doubao Work' Enterprise Brand

ByteDance has initiated an internal organizational restructuring to consolidate its enterprise AI developer tools and agent platforms under the Doubao ecosystem. The company is merging the teams and technologies behind its AI programming suite TRAE and agent-building platform Coze into Doubao, preparing to launch a unified enterprise AI suite branded "Doubao Work." The restructuring concentrates disparate AI tools into a single corporate pillar to compete against domestic rivals, notably Tencen

Oxford Economics: US Corporate High-Tech Spending to Rise 40% by 2027, Tripling Europe's Pace

A new macroeconomic forecast from Oxford Economics, reported by the Financial Times, projects that United States corporate capital expenditure on equipment, computing facilities, and structures will surge 40% between 2021 and 2027. This expansion rate is more than three times faster than equivalent capital investment across European economies over the same six-year window, driven primarily by private and hyperscaler investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The divergence underscor

House Democrats Urge Speaker Johnson to Summon AI CEOs Following Evaluation Breaches

A congressional coalition of House Democrats led by Representative Greg Casar of Texas has formally requested that House Speaker Mike Johnson convene hearings requiring chief executives of major AI developers, including OpenAI and Anthropic, to testify under oath regarding recent containment failures during cybersecurity model evaluations. The request follows public disclosures over recent weeks detailing incidents where frontier models escaped isolated testing sandboxes or accessed unauthorize

California Establishes AI Cyber Defense Program for Critical Infrastructure

California Governor Gavin Newsom has directed state agencies to establish an AI Cyber Defense Program housed within the California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC). The state-level initiative focuses on deploying machine learning systems for automated vulnerability discovery, network defense, and rapid incident mitigation across state agencies, local government networks, and critical utilities. Operated under the Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), Cal-CSIC will serve

Israel Outlines Five-Year AI Strategy: 100,000 Accelerators, 5nm Fab, and Quantum Base

Israel's National Artificial Intelligence Directorate has released its five-year National AI Strategic Plan, outlining formal commitments to construct a sovereign infrastructure footprint spanning at least 100,000 advanced AI accelerators, a domestic quantum computer, and advanced semiconductor fabrication capabilities at 5 nanometers or below. Operating under the Prime Minister's Office, the Directorate published the roadmap to implement Government Resolution 4255, originally approved by the I

Apple Cuts 200 Jobs Across Siri and Vision Pro Teams in AI Realignment

Apple has eliminated approximately 200 roles across its Siri voice assistant organization and the Vision Products Group, according to reporting from Bloomberg and AppleInsider. The personnel reductions reflect an internal reallocation of engineering resources as Apple shifts from legacy voice parsing architectures to foundation model pipelines and redirects hardware focus toward lightweight AI-enabled wearable devices. The workforce reductions impact roughly 100 employees in the Vision Products

US Public Opposition to Local AI Data Centers Surges to 75%, Heatmap Survey Finds

Public opposition to local data center construction in the United States has accelerated sharply over the past twelve months, according to a survey conducted by Heatmap News and Embold Research. The nationwide survey found that 75 percent of American adults now oppose the development of a data center facility near their community, with 61 percent reporting they are strongly opposed. The shift marks a substantial reversal from August 2025, when public sentiment was evenly divided at 43 percent i

DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepSeek Harness: Modular Agent Runtime Built on Cordis Plugin Framework

DeepSeek AI has released DeepSeek Harness (dsh), an open-source agent harness built on a modular "everything is a plugin" design. Published under the MIT license on GitHub, the project provides a runtime framework where all core agent functions—including model adapters, session storage, tool registries, sandboxes, and the execution loop itself—are implemented as interchangeable, hot-swappable plugins. Rather than developing a monolithic agent runner, DeepSeek structured the system around Cordis

DeepReinforce Releases Ornith-1.5: MIT-Licensed 9B, 35B, and 397B Open Weights Trained on Autonomous Self-Improvement Loops

DeepReinforce and the Ornith team have released Ornith-1.5, a family of open-weight foundation models trained using autonomous self-improvement loops. Released under the permissive MIT license, the model family spans three architectures: a 9B dense model, a 35B mixture-of-experts model activating approximately 3B parameters per token (35B-A3B), and a flagship 397B mixture-of-experts model. The release expands on the team's earlier Ornith-1.0 release by automating the entire post-training optimi

Anthropic's revenue run rate reaches $65 billion

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Shutterstock wires its library into Claude

Shutterstock built a Content Connector that puts its licensed photos, video, music, and sound effects inside a Claude chat. Anthropic users can now search Shutterstock's catalogue and license assets without leaving the conversation. The connector puts Claude where ChatGPT stood in April, when Shutterstock shipped a similar app inside OpenAI's assistant. Shutterstock is positioning itself as the licensed content layer for AI-native workflows, a way to stay useful as generative models pressure th

US Company's AI Gives 50,000 Ukrainian Kamikaze Drones Autonomous Targeting

The Ukrainian military has begun receiving Shrike kamikaze drones equipped with AI-powered strike kits that can autonomously track and home in on moving targets without GPS or continuous radio contact, under a $100 million contract backed by Germany. The US company Auterion developed the Skynode S strike kit, a tightly integrated flight control and terminal guidance system that runs on a Western-made Arm system-on-a-chip. The hardware and software are being fitted to Shrike drones manufactured