Enterprise AI & Business

China’s new regulations governing AI-powered companion services took effect July 15, introducing some of the world’s toughest rules for chatbots built for emotional support and companionship. The Interim Measures for the Management of Artificial Intelligence Anthropomorphic Interactive Services, issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China alongside four other government agencies, apply to AI services that…

Neocloud provider QumulusAI said today that it will starting trading Thursday as a publicly traded company on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol QMLS via a direct listing. For those unfamiliar with the process, the typical initial public offering takes time and requires an investment banker, whereas a direct listing does not create new shares. Instead, existing…

Qumulo partners with Databricks to unify governed access to data for AI and analytics by integrating OpenSharing with Qumulo NeuralSearch SEATTLE, July 16, 2026 — Qumulo today announced a partnership with Databricks, integrating Qumulo NeuralSearch with Databricks OpenSharing, the first open protocol to cover agent skills, AI models, and unstructured data. Customers can discover, query, and…

Disclaimer: This article discusses nonconsensual sexual imagery and child sexual abuse material.  xAI is suing a Grok user it accuses of repeatedly changing rejected prompts until the chatbot produced sexual deepfakes of adults and children. Elon Musk’s AI company filed the case against South Carolina resident Terry Wayne Harwood in federal court in Texas. Reuters…

Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Summary: An Accenture survey of 1,928 executives across 28 countries reveals that most companies treat sovereign AI as a compliance issue rather than a strategic opportunity. Sovereignty is a continuum of choices, and companies best positioned to scale artificial intelligence globally treat those choices as a competitive advantage. Three…

Agentic inference is reshaping the center of gravity in AI infrastructure. What began as a race to scale training has shifted into a phase defined by expanding context windows, memory‑augmented reasoning and the need to keep graphics processing units continuously fed with data. As enterprises push deeper into agentic systems, storage has moved into the…

In the past year, AI has moved from chatbots to autonomous agents that can retrieve information, make decisions and take action. That shift creates a new data risk beyond employee oversharing: agents may access more information than they should or act on data that is not appropriate, necessary or governed. The next challenge is ensuring…

Microsoft is removing promotional content from Windows Search web results and giving users more control over whether online suggestions appear beside their files, apps, and settings. The company began rolling out a series of Search Box improvements on July 13 to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel. The update includes a simplified home screen, clearer…

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