What Is Agentic Commerce — and How Does AI Shopping Work?
Agentic commerce lets an AI agent finish a purchase inside a chat instead of a website checkout. Here's how the payment protocols behind it actually work.
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Chinese AI Models Capture Up to 46% of US Firms' Tokens
OpenRouter data shows Chinese AI models now handle over 30% of tokens run by US firms every week since February, peaking at 46%, as companies chase costs up to 90% lower than Anthropic or OpenAI.
Read more →What Is Agentic Malware? AI That Attacks Without a Human
Agentic malware lets an AI agent plan and execute an entire cyberattack — recon to ransomware — with little human input. Here's what makes it different and why it matters.
Read more →OpenAI Releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 With 25% Lower Voice Latency
OpenAI has released GPT-Realtime-2.1 and a smaller mini version for its Realtime API, cutting voice-agent response latency by at least 25% through improved caching.
Read more →What Is Sovereign AI — and Why Are Countries Building Their Own?
Sovereign AI means a country can run its AI on infrastructure it controls, instead of depending on a foreign provider that could cut access. Here's what that takes.
Read more →Illinois Becomes First US State to Mandate AI Safety Audits
Governor JB Pritzker signed a law requiring the largest AI developers to undergo annual independent safety audits, the first such mandate in the US.
Read more →What Is AI Interpretability — and Why Look Inside Models?
AI interpretability is the effort to understand what happens inside a model between input and output. Here's what it means, how researchers do it, and why it matters.
Read more →Anthropic's J-Lens Reveals a Hidden Workspace Inside Claude
A new Anthropic interpretability tool called the Jacobian lens surfaces concepts Claude is silently processing but never writes down, including signs it recognizes when it's being tested.
Read more →What Is MCP (Model Context Protocol) — and Why Does It Matter?
MCP is an open standard that lets AI models like Claude and ChatGPT connect to outside tools, files, and apps — instead of needing custom code for every single connection.
Read more →Ukraine Favors Self-Hosted AI Models After US Export Controls
Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation says it will prioritize AI systems it can run on its own servers, citing lessons from recent US restrictions on Anthropic.
Read more →What Is Physical AI — and How Does It Differ From a Chatbot?
Physical AI is artificial intelligence built to sense, reason about, and act in the real world — powering robots, self-driving cars, and smart sensors, not just chat.
Read more →Syntiant Files for Nasdaq IPO to Scale 'Physical AI' Chips
Intel- and Microsoft-backed chipmaker Syntiant filed to list on Nasdaq under ticker SYTN, betting on demand for its low-power, on-device 'Physical AI' processors.
Read more →What Is a Token in AI — and How Does It Affect What You Pay?
A token is the small chunk of text an AI model actually reads and writes, and it's what most AI pricing is now based on. Here's what tokens are — and why some languages need more of them than others.
Read more →Samsung's Q2 Profit Surges 19-Fold to $58 Billion on AI Memory Boom
Samsung Electronics said preliminary operating profit for the second quarter jumped roughly 19-fold as AI-driven demand pushed DRAM and NAND memory prices sharply higher.
Read more →What Is Usage-Based AI Pricing — and Why Are Companies Adopting It?
AI providers are replacing flat subscriptions with metered, pay-per-token billing for heavy and agentic use. Here's what usage-based pricing means and why the shift is happening now.
Read more →Claude Fable 5 Exits Subscriptions for Metered Billing
Anthropic has pulled Claude Fable 5 out of subscription plans and moved it to pay-per-token billing, charging $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.
Read more →What Is a Neocloud? The GPU Clouds Powering the AI Boom
A neocloud is a cloud company built to rent out GPUs for AI work — and it's why bitcoin miners are turning old mining sites into AI data centers.
Read more →JADEPUFFER: First Fully Autonomous AI Ransomware Attack
Sysdig researchers documented JADEPUFFER, a ransomware attack they say was carried out end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent, from initial breach to database extortion.
Read more →What Is Digital Authoritarianism — and Why Is It a Growing Concern?
AI-powered surveillance, censorship, and disinformation now let governments monitor and control populations at a scale and cost no previous technology allowed — here is what that means.
Read more →Manchester Study Urges Universities to Redesign Teaching for AI Era
A peer-reviewed study argues universities focus too much on catching AI-assisted cheating and should instead redesign teaching and assessment for a workplace where AI use is routine.
Read more →What Are Lethal Autonomous Weapons — and Why Won't the UN Ban Them?
A lethal autonomous weapon can pick its own target and fire without a human pulling the trigger. Here's what that means, and why over a decade of UN talks still haven't produced a ban.
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