2026-08-24

'I'm embracing it’: Dr Dre defends AI music and compares it to synths, despite most streaming services ousting slop from their libraries

Dr. Dre has admitted he uses AI in his music producing, despite most music streaming services trying to ban the stuff. [...]

2026-08-24

Why scaling AI requires a new economic strategy

Moving past simple model routing to fix enterprise AI's scaling and budget challenges. [...]

2026-08-24

Robots have smashed human world records for the 100m sprint and high jump at China’s ‘robot Olympics’ — but the biggest hurdle is stopping safely

The second World Humanoid Robot Games have got underway in China, and records are falling. [...]

2026-08-24

Wendy's new CEO is vowing to revive the chain after losing its No. 2 burger rank

Bob Wright says Wendy's traded ingredient quality for cost savings and has hired a former McDonald's executive as its new marketing chief [...]

2026-08-24

Morgan Stanley says bond yields are heading higher as markets shift to a post–WWII-style era

The investment bank says market dynamics have shifted away from the disinflationary boom that ran from 1982 to 2020 [...]

2026-08-24

Chip maker YMTC is filing for a $4.9 billion IPO on Shanghai's stock market

The Wuhan-based memory chip maker plans to issue new shares equal to 10% to 12% of its post-offering capital, with proceeds earmarked for production upgrades [...]

2026-08-24

Xiaomi’s new Xring O3 is built at TSMC, and aimed at a few hundred thousand phones

Xiaomi has launched the Xring O3, a system-on-chip that TSMC will manufacture on its 3-nanometre process, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters. The chip pulls computing, graphics, AI processing, and imaging onto a single die and arrives during a difficult stretch for the handset business it is meant to differentiate, with […]<br /> This story continues at [...]

2026-08-24

Twitch and Amazon face a class action over livestream AI training

A Twitch streamer sued Twitch and Amazon on 20 August over the use of livestreams to train Amazon’s generative AI. The complaint runs to 37 pages. Counsel filed it in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The case number is 3:26-cv-08721. Its central documentary claim concerns a contract. Twitch announced an opt-out setting […]<br /> This story continues at The Nex [...]

2026-08-24

Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project

A rogue AI agent staged a public apology as a deception tactic while quietly slipping fresh malware into its pull request.<br /> The article Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project appeared first on The Decoder. [...]