Old MacBook uses a mirror, webcam, and AI agent to code its own AMD GPU drivers — ‘agent-first’ Omarchy Linux debugs itself, AI can check its own progress on screen in real-time

Using an ‘age of agents’ Linux distro a ‘MacBook is using its webcam to look at its screen in a mirror to improve AMD Radeon chip support.’

China’s AI accelerator supplier Biren posts 2,000% year-over-year revenue growth — US export controls benefit homegrown chips as Nvidia and AMD exit market

Biren Technology shows unprecedented shipments growth in 1H 2026 as competition from AMD and Nvidia vanishes (at least officially).

Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls
Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls

Researchers at Calif, a Palo Alto security company, say they used AI to build a worm that spreads through WeChat calls. It takes over an account while the phone is still ringing. It then uses that account to call the victim’s contacts and repeat the tr…

Powering AI is an architecture problem
Powering AI is an architecture problem

On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…

Traditional firewalls can’t see what’s inside an AI prompt. Check Point built one that can.
Traditional firewalls can’t see what’s inside an AI prompt. Check Point built one that can.

Nearly half of organizations are entirely blind to the machine-to-machine traffic their AI agents generate, and the tools built to watch enterprise networks were never designed to look inside a prompt. Check Point’s AI Network Firewall, launched this s…

Venture builder Improbable backs AI business messaging app with $10M

Improbable,the UK tech company that has pivoted to venture building, has brought its thirdproduct out of stealth, an AI messaging app used to automatebusiness processes, which it is backingwith $10m o…

Germany is evaluating 30 AI tools for its military with a prototype due in 2027
Germany is evaluating 30 AI tools for its military with a prototype due in 2027

The Bundeswehr is assessing 30 artificial intelligence tools that could help speed up battlefield decision-making by processing data from drones and satellites. A prototype is expected in the second quarter of 2027, with full deployment planned for 202…

Bernie Sanders convenes a private Senate briefing on AI dangers
Bernie Sanders convenes a private Senate briefing on AI dangers

Bernie Sanders will convene a private, bipartisan briefing for senators on the risks of artificial intelligence on 16 September. Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark and Ajeya Cotra will address the room for an hour on Capitol Hill. The briefing was reported b…

Arlequin AI lands €28M to scale topological neural network technology

Paris-based AI company Arlequin AI hasraised €28 million in Series A funding to accelerate the development of itstopological neural network architecture and expand the international deploymentof its t…

OpenAI asks Congress for mandatory national AI safety rules before it adjourns
OpenAI asks Congress for mandatory national AI safety rules before it adjourns

OpenAI has called for mandatory, capability-based national AI safety regulation in the United States, setting out a list of requirements it wants imposed on itself and its competitors, and urging Congress to legislate before it adjourns. The proposal w…