a quarter of next year’s business

a quarter of next year’s business

Aug 27, 2026

Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, told analysts on August 26 that demand from the labs Nvidia backs with its

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IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models

IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models

Aug 26, 2026

IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of open reasoning language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes. Unlike earlier Granite releases, which were instruction-following assistants, Granite 4.2 is built around explicit reasoning. Every model can emit a chain of thought before

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Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data | MIT News

Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data | MIT News

Aug 25, 2026

Can a city’s seawall stand up to a blockbuster storm? Will a region’s power grid hold against record-breaking heat? And can a town’s fire-fighting resources contain a major wildfire?  To answer these questions, communities will first need to know how such extreme events

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IBM’s next-gen mainframe chip is the first to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores

IBM’s next-gen mainframe chip is the first to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores

Aug 24, 2026

IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades: a processor whose cores can natively execute both IBM's own instruction set and Arm's — switching between the two in nanoseconds.

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How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript

How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript

Aug 23, 2026

In August 2025, TypeScript became the most used language on GitHub. This was the largest shift in GitHub’s language rankings in the last ten years and it occurred during the period of most accelerated adoption of coding AI agents. Coding AI agents had

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Best GPU Neoclouds 2026: CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, and Groq Ranked by Published Pricing and Contracted Power

Best GPU Neoclouds 2026: CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, and Groq Ranked by Published Pricing and Contracted Power

Aug 22, 2026

The ‘neocloud’ label now covers five companies with very different business models. CoreWeave and Nebius are public companies that publish quarterly results and file reports with the SEC (CoreWeave on Form 10-Q, Nebius as a foreign private issuer on Form 6-K). Lambda and

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Paving the way for greener ammonia production | MIT News

Paving the way for greener ammonia production | MIT News

Aug 21, 2026

Ammonia is one of the most important chemicals produced in the world, ranking second only to sulfuric acid in the total volume produced each year. It is used mostly to make fertilizer, which is essential to feeding the world’s population. Yet its production

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TrueFoundry's open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents

TrueFoundry's open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents

Aug 20, 2026

Another day, another new AI agent harness is released. Only this time, it's one that aims to solve a growing enterprise problem as AI agents proliferate: enabling greater developer control of agents and tools, while reducing cost. TrueFoundry, a San Francisco B2B machine

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OpenAI president urges enterprises to hasten AI security defences

OpenAI president urges enterprises to hasten AI security defences

Aug 19, 2026

OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman warns that enterprise security teams face a compressed timeline to adopt AI defences. Brockman has published an account of what the company calls the “OpenAI-Hugging Face” incident, using it to argue that organisations need to uplevel their

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