MIT AI forecasts extreme weather without historical data

MITengineers have built an AI tool that forecasts extreme weather without training on historical disaster data. Kai Chang, a mechanical engineering graduate student, and Professor Themis Sapsis developed the tool. It produces maps of events that have not appeared in a region’s historical record but remain statistically-possible. Each map also carries estimates of the event’s … Devamını oku

XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding

XPENG’sphysical AIunit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. He Xiaopeng, Chairman and CEO ofXPENG, said: “Over the past 12 years, XPENG has remained committed to full-stack in-house R&D, building a solid technological foundation for the physical AI era—across our physical world foundation model, Turing … Devamını oku

A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations

JP Garbaccio, Head of AEO and SEO at Searchable Advertising inside ChatGPT arrived with a promise that the assistant already knows what the user wants. So far, that hasn’t entirely been the case. Searchable, the AI visibility platform, analysed more than 11,000 ads served inside real ChatGPT conversations between 4 July and 4 August 2026, … Devamını oku

Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform that gives developers access to hundreds of models through a single interface. The deal adds model selection and routing to Stripe’s existing work around AI usage and token-based billing. OpenRouter supports more than 400 models from over 80 providers, according to Stripe. Rather than requiring … Devamını oku

OpenAI president urges enterprises to hasten AI security defences

OpenAIpresident 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 security practices with what he terms unprecedented speed. He writes that he has … Devamını oku

Alvys launches AI agents for freight TMS workflows

Freight software provider Alvys has launched an agentic AI platform that allows carriers and brokers to automate operational tasks directly within its transportation management system (TMS). Called Alvys Foundry, the platform supports pre-built and custom AI agents that work with freight data and workflows already held within the TMS. Foundry includes more than 20 pre-built … Devamını oku

Reading Zhipu’s GLM-5.3 results past the headline number

Zhipu’srelease notefor GLM-5.3 contains a sentence that did not make it into most of the coverage. Describing its own cybersecurity results, the Beijing company writes that capability “is growing fastest exactly where we are furthest behind.” Zhipu, which also trades as Z.ai, is one of a handful of Chinese labs releasing models that compete with … Devamını oku