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AI News Aug 03, 2026 04:26 PM

Microsoft Just Open-Sourced an AI That Can Turn One Photo Into a 3D Model in Seconds

Imagine taking a single photo of a shoe, a coffee mug, a car engine, or even a game character... Then, just a few seconds later, having a fully textured 3D model that's ready to use in a video game, movie, AR app, online store, or industrial design software. That sounds like science fiction. Microsoft just made it real. The tech giant has open-sourced TRELLIS.2, a powerful new 4-billion-parameter AI model that transforms a single image into a production-ready 3D asset

AI News Jul 30, 2026 05:11 PM

AI That Learns From Real Customer Calls Just Landed $30 Million in Funding

Imagine hiring a new customer support agent. Instead of weeks of training, manuals, and shadowing senior staff, the AI simply listens to thousands of your company's best customer conversations. It learns what your top performers say. It learns when they crack a joke. It learns which responses close deals, calm frustrated customers, and build lasting relationships.

AI News Jul 30, 2026 05:02 PM

NASA's Robot Was Supposed to Save a Space Telescope. Instead, It Started Spinning Out of Control.

Space missions are already difficult. But imagine launching a robot whose job is to rescue another spacecraft only for the rescue robot itself to end up needing help. That is exactly what has happened in one of NASA's most ambitious commercial space missions. A robotic spacecraft built to extend the life of NASA's aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has suffered a major malfunction after reaching orbit, throwing the entire rescue mission into uncertainty.

AI News Jul 29, 2026 03:44 PM

OpenAI's Sam Altman Says AI May Be Moving Too Fast

For years, the AI industry had one unofficial slogan: Move fast. Build bigger. Ship smarter models. No one embodied that mindset more than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. But something has changed. The same executive who once dismissed calls to slow AI development is now openly saying the industry may need to ease off the accelerator. It is a surprising shift and it is happening after one of the most significant AI security incidents ever disclosed.

AI News Jul 29, 2026 02:10 PM

AI's Power Problem Is Here: America's Largest Grid May Start Cutting Electricity to Data Centers

The AI boom has been powered by one thing most people rarely think about: Electricity. Every ChatGPT conversation, AI image, video generator, coding assistant, and enterprise AI model runs inside enormous data centers packed with thousands of high-performance chips. Those facilities consume staggering amounts of power. Now, America's largest electricity grid operator has admitted something that would have sounded unimaginable just a few years ago

AI News Jul 28, 2026 03:37 PM

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says OpenAI Models Are Not the Problem Chinese AI Is

or the past few days, one question has dominated conversations in the AI industry: Is Anthropic trying to stop OpenAI models? The speculation spread quickly after nearly every major AI company, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Hugging Face, Mistral, and others, signed a public letter urging governments not to impose sweeping restrictions on open-weight AI models. One notable name was missing from that list.

AI News Jul 28, 2026 11:00 AM

South Africa's Taxman Now Has AI. Hiding Income Just Got Much Harder

For years, many people believed that if they kept cash transactions off the books or quietly underreported their income, the tax authorities would never notice. That assumption is becoming increasingly risky in South Africa. The country's tax authority, the South African Revenue Service (SARS), is rapidly transforming into one of Africa's most technology-driven government agencies, using artificial intelligence

AI News Jul 27, 2026 05:08 PM

World's First Braid-Assist Robot Created by Nigerian-American Harvard Graduate

What if getting your hair braided no longer meant spending an entire day at the salon? For millions of people around the world especially Black women that idea has seemed almost impossible. Hair braiding is more than just a hairstyle. It is culture. It is creativity. It is tradition. But it is also incredibly time-consuming. A single appointment can last anywhere from six to twelve hours, leaving clients exhausted and hairstylists with sore hands, wrists, shoulders, and backs.

AI News Jul 27, 2026 03:48 PM

OpenAI Is Selling AI Agents and Sending Engineers to Build Them for Businesses

What if buying AI for your company looked less like subscribing to software and more like hiring an elite engineering team? That is exactly the direction OpenAI is taking. For years, businesses have used OpenAI by signing up online, grabbing an API key, and building their own AI applications. But now, the company is changing the rules. Instead of simply selling AI models, OpenAI is offering something much bigger

AI News Jul 27, 2026 03:36 PM

China Just Did the Impossible: Storing Data With a Single Electron

Imagine trying to store an entire library using just one drop of water. It sounds impossible. But that is essentially what a team of Chinese researchers has achieved in one of the most exciting semiconductor breakthroughs of the year. Scientists at Fudan University in Shanghai have developed an experimental memory chip capable of storing a single bit of information using just one electron, a feat many experts once believed was practically impossible.