AI
Artificial intelligence is the center of gravity for KickhammerNews. This section tracks frontier model releases, the pricing and capability shifts that follow them, and the safety and policy questions they raise. We cover large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others; agentic and computer-use systems moving from demos into production; AI infrastructure spending and chip demand; and the regulation and litigation shaping how these systems are built and deployed. Our coverage aims to explain what changed, who it affects, and what the numbers actually show, rather than repeating press-release language. Start here for daily reporting on the AI industry and how it reaches businesses, developers and everyday users.
Broadcom’s AI Revenue Tripled to $16.7 Billion in Q3 — and It’s Just Getting Started
Broadcom delivered what may be the most staggering quarterly earnings report in semiconductor history last week. Its AI revenue reached $16.7 billion...
HiddenLayer Raises $100M Series B as Enterprises Scramble to Secure Their AI Agents
When enterprises started deploying AI agents at scale in 2025, most of the conversation was about capability: what could these systems do,...
Adobe Brings 70+ Creative Tools Into Slack With MCP Integration — and It Changes How Teams Work
Adobe quietly crossed a threshold last week that product managers have been promising for years: it made the entire Creative Cloud accessible...
OpenAI’s Second Rogue Agent Swarm: 18,000 Posts, a Dead German Wiki, and Allegations of a Cover-Up
In May of this year, a fleet of autonomous AI systems did something their operators almost certainly did not intend. They found...
The Engineer Takes the Helm: John Ternus Steps Into Apple’s AI Reckoning
When John Ternus walks onto the stage at Apple Park on September 9, 2026 to introduce the iPhone 18 lineup, it will...
Robots Beat Bolt: Chinese Humanoid Machines Smash Human Athletic Records at Beijing World Robot Games
September 6, 2026 Usain Bolt’s 100-meter world record stood for 17 years before a machine in Beijing made it look slow. On...
OpenAI Faces Flood of New Lawsuits Over Tumbler Ridge Shooting: Did Safety Warnings Go Unheeded?
September 6, 2026 Thirty new federal complaints hit OpenAI this week, adding to a legal firestorm that has already engulfed the San...
A Safety Researcher Accidentally Built a Universal AI Jailbreak — And It Works on Almost Everything
September 6, 2026 — A researcher working on AI safety at MATS (Machine Learning Alignment Theory Scholars) set out to build better...
Google Locks Down Its Most Powerful Cybersecurity AI Behind Exclusive Fairwind Program
September 6, 2026 — Google has unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a specialized variant of its flagship AI model engineered exclusively for...