xAI Launches Grok Bot, Always-On AI Teammates With Their Own Cloud Computers

xAI has launched Grok Bot, a beta product it describes as a team of always-on AI agents that get their own cloud computer, sign into a customer's existing tools, and finish multi-step jobs withou [...]

Agentic security: Enterprises enforce agent permissions two-thirds of the time — and isolate high-risk agents less than one in five

Across 116 enterprises, agents are in production and so are the incidents: A majority have already had a confirmed agent security event or a near-miss. Two-thirds of enterprises enforce scoped permiss [...]

Oracle is putting a Quantinuum quantum computer inside its own data centre

Oracle and Quantinuum have agreed a multi-year partnership under which Quantinuum will physically install its Helios quantum computer inside a US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data centre, and Oracle [...]

The European Commission is looking at Oracle’s licensing, two months after settling with SAP

The European Commission is gathering information on how Oracle licenses its software in the cloud, following a similar approach it used against SAP two months ago. Reuters reported the inquiry on Mond [...]

Nvidia has paused parts of the revenue-sharing programme it launched in July

Nvidia has halted some of the transactions under the financing programme it introduced eight weeks ago, in which it extends credit to AI cloud companies buying its chips and takes a cut of what those [...]

Nebius stock soared after its AI cloud revenue surged more than 450%

The AI cloud company posted $582 million in revenue for the second quarter, well ahead of Wall Street's estimate of $570 million [...]

Block’s new Apache 2.0 agent workspace Berd works across models and harnesses, stores conversation history locally

Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal, is open-sourcing Berd, a desktop application it originally bui [...]

Public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center after its cloud storage vendor goes out of business, losing over 70 years of archival materials and programming

A St. Louis PBS station bought cloud storage from a vendor that has now gone defunct and is now in a legal battle with its landlord for access to its own data [...]

Alibaba’s profit fell 75% as quarterly AI spending hit $10bn

Alibaba’s net profit fell 75% in the June quarter, to $1.54bn. The cause was not a weak business. It was the bill for building one. Capital spending reached $9.98bn in three months, up 75% on the sa [...]