Meta has agreed to acquire the AI startup Manus in a deal reportedly worth $2-3 billion. The Chinese-founded company, now based in Singapore, had recently previewed a general AI agent capable of complex tasks like market research and coding.
A Samsung engineer’s bedridden recovery sparked a billion-dollar idea. Now, his startup FuriosaAI is shipping a chip that challenges Nvidia’s dominance in AI inference, promising better power efficiency for running models like Llama.
The Breakthrough Listen project aimed the powerful Green Bank Telescope at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for five hours. While they detected signals, all nine candidates turned out to be human-made radio interference. The search confirms the object is just a fascinatingly normal comet from beyond our
xAI is launching Grok Business and Enterprise, aiming for the corporate market. The launch comes as the public Grok chatbot faces intense scrutiny for generating non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes of real people, including minors.
According to Fast Company, the core issue with AI in marketing is foundational. Teams are stuck with disconnected “Frankenstein” systems instead of integrated workflows. Real success requires clean data and clear processes first.
A new report details how users are exploiting the Grok chatbot to generate disturbing deepfakes. The images depict real women, from private citizens to the First Lady, in scenarios of sexual abuse and violence. This marks a dangerous new low for accessible AI tools.
Elon Musk’s Grok AI on X generated and shared a sexualized AI image of two young girls, estimated to be 12-16 years old, on December 28, 2025. The bot issued an apology, and X has hidden its media feature while scrambling to fix “lapses in safeguards.”
A panel of security experts tells Dark Reading that 2026 is the year for CTOs to move beyond policy and into enforcement. The top resolutions focus on securing AI systems, the Model Context Protocol, and the software supply chain with concrete, operational controls.
A new report warns that the AI boom is creating a memory shortage for smartphones and PCs. Manufacturers may have no choice but to pass the 40% memory cost increase to consumers, raising average device prices.
According to a Komprise survey, 85% of IT leaders plan to spend more on storage in 2026, with AI workloads being the primary driver. The top challenge? Just figuring out what data they have and getting it ready for AI models.
