2026-07-09
Enterprises using multiple AI models are underestimating failure rates by 2.25x
A team routing queries across a coding specialist, a logic specialist, and a generalist model assumes each will cover the others' blind spots. A new study evaluating 67 frontier models from 21 providers shows that assumption is mathematically flawed — and the flaw has a name: the co-failure ceiling.The assumption works like this: as long as two models don't usually fail on the exact sa [...]
2026-07-09
AI’s land rush is reaching Native American reservations
The scramble to build AI data centres is pushing developers toward Native American land. Indigenous-led group Honor the Earth says it is tracking more than 100 proposed projects on or near tribal and rural territory. The appeal for developers is practical. Large land-based tribes often have space, water rights, and power access, and reservations can offer tax […]<br /> This story continu [...]
2026-07-09
Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloomberg. The confirmation puts the CEO’s name to a plan first reported earlier this month. Meta had been said to be weighing a venture, dubbed Meta Compute, to rent out its spare AI […]<br /> This story continues at The Next We [...]
2026-07-09
AI companies are spending hundreds of millions on the midterms, and they want one thing
AI companies and their backers are pouring vast sums into the 2026 US midterms through super PACs. The spending runs into the hundreds of millions across the sector, CNBC reports, and their central demand is remarkably consistent. They want a single national framework for AI, not a patchwork of state laws. The industry argues that 50 […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-09
Palo Alto’s CEO says AI prices must fall 90% before the tech really takes off
Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says the cost of running AI needs to plunge before businesses can deploy it at scale. He told CNBC on Thursday that token prices may need to fall by as much as 90%, according to CNBC. Arora was reacting to OpenAI’s claim that its new GPT-5.6 model is 54% […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-09
EU Parliament revives a ‘zombie’ child-abuse scanning bill it rejected in March
The European Parliament has voted to advance a bill letting tech companies legally scan for child sexual abuse material. On Thursday in Strasbourg, lawmakers sent the proposal to EU member states for approval, Politico reports. The twist is that Parliament rejected this same bill in March. It was revived after a push by the centre-right European […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
2026-07-09
Anthropic puts the man who steered the Fed through 2008 on its AI oversight trust
Anthropic has appointed former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust. The AI company announced the move on Thursday, adding a central-bank-grade name to the body meant to keep it honest. Bernanke led the Fed from 2006 to 2014, steering it through the 2008 financial crisis. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-09
AI now wants half of America’s tech office space, and it’s all landing on a few streets
The AI boom is easy to measure in dollars raised and models shipped. It is harder to see where it physically lands. A new report from the real-estate platform VTS offers one answer, and it is striking. AI companies now account for nearly half of all the office space that America’s tech firms are chasing. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]