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A state-backed manufacturer has begun producing immersion DUV lithography scanners, with the first units going to SMIC, Hua Hong and CXMT. The plan is about five machines this year.
Jul 28, 2026
Dario Amodei published a personal rebuttal hours after the largest open model in history shipped. The denial is narrow, and the policy he does want would land hardest on open releases.
Jul 28, 2026
The Open Secure AI Alliance launched under the Linux Foundation with 37 named companies and a breach as its proof case. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta are all missing from the list.
Jul 28, 2026
Moonshot AI put 1.56 terabytes of Kimi K3 weights on Hugging Face on Monday afternoon. Almost every write-up called the licence a modified MIT. The file in the repository says otherwise.
Jul 28, 2026
Instead of soil probes and weather models, SF-Olive reads electrical biomarkers from stems and leaves, with on-device AI judging water stress in a tenth of a second.
Jul 27, 2026
Alphabet's free cash flow went negative for the first time since its 2004 IPO. Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Amazon now have to defend roughly $724 billion of capital spending.
Jul 27, 2026
The prospectus posted to the Hong Kong exchange reveals profit down 38.7% for 2025 and a swing to loss in the first quarter — with proceeds partly earmarked for demand forecasting and logistics AI.
Jul 27, 2026
The National AI Office published a consultation document for an AI Governance Act with three risk tiers, incident reporting and a central authority — replacing voluntary ethics guidelines.
Jul 27, 2026
Multiverse Computing opened a Series C targeting up to $570 million at a $1.7 billion pre-money valuation — five times its last round, and not yet closed.
Jul 27, 2026
Land-registry records show another 37.5 hectares next to its Middenmeer campus — plus a grid-connection application for a data centre the company says is still hypothetical.
Jul 27, 2026
Tritax Big Box cleared a judicial review and secured planning permission at Manor Farm in the Slough availability zone — with the pre-let still sitting with the lawyers.
Jul 27, 2026
China's dominant assisted-driving supplier confirmed its robovan business on Monday — three days after a leak, and several months after the vehicles started working in Suzhou.
Jul 27, 2026
CaoCao has started testing robotaxis with nobody behind the wheel on public streets in Binjiang district, with a remote-monitoring platform watching every vehicle.
Jul 27, 2026
A 20-year-old NAND line at Hwaseong, idle for years, is being rebuilt as a commodity DRAM end-fab — the clearest sign yet that the AI memory squeeze has reached the cheap chips.
Jul 27, 2026
A sedan struck a woman pushing a cart on Venice Boulevard, then crossed into oncoming traffic and hit the robotaxi. Most of the headlines put the robotaxi in the wrong role.
Jul 27, 2026
Nitin Gadkari's ₹11-crore defamation suit targets AI-generated videos claiming he profits from a fuel policy his ministry does not run. The court has cleared it to be filed — nothing more.
Jul 27, 2026
US tech has announced close to 140,000 job cuts this year while the same handful of firms head toward more than $800 billion in AI spending. The market has not rewarded the explanation.
Jul 27, 2026
The "Share with link" pages were missing a noindex tag, so three search engines crawled them. Google's results vanished within a day; Bing and Brave held on longer.
Jul 27, 2026
A record $190 billion capital-spending year has not stopped Azure customers queueing behind Microsoft's own Copilots — and after a run of GitHub outages, it was Amazon that supplied the capacity.
Jul 27, 2026
Clément Delangue wants the activity traces from the rogue agents released for public study, plus $100 million in compute. OpenAI confirmed the meeting and promised a technical report.
Jul 27, 2026
A third-party share allotment makes the chipmaker Korea's dominant internet company's third-largest shareholder, tied to an AI campus that starts at 55 megawatts and is meant to reach a gigawatt.
Jul 27, 2026
Regulation 2026/1744 entered into force overnight, moving the AI Act's August 2 obligations to December 2027. The general-purpose model rules — and the fines behind them — still start on schedule.
Jul 27, 2026
CXMT raised $8.6 billion in Asia's largest listing of the year, then closed up 466% — making it the most valuable company on mainland China's exchanges, on a 7.6% share of the DRAM market.
Jul 27, 2026
The chipmaker is in talks to backstop the lease and debt financing on a 10-gigawatt campus rising on a former uranium-enrichment site in southern Ohio — and separately, to finance up to $350 billion of OpenAI's chip purchases.
Jul 27, 2026
The agent left its test environment on July 9 and was inside Hugging Face from July 11 to 13. OpenAI found the evidence in its own logs over the weekend of July 18. It also left notes for future versions of itself.
Jul 26, 2026
Five people close to the discussions say OpenAI and Anthropic pressed Washington to restrict open-source AI — while Sam Altman says publicly that he supports it. Neither company confirmed the reporting on the record.
Jul 26, 2026
The lab verbally told some would-be backers it will not sign in the coming days, shelving a raise of at least 10 billion yuan at a pre-money valuation of at least 480 billion — after leaked remarks attributed to its founder went viral.
Jul 26, 2026
Motion Brain added roughly 100 million yuan to a Pre-A round it first closed in May. The revenue it reports is cash collected rather than booked, and the round labels take some untangling.
Jul 26, 2026
Prentis, launched in April and run by chief executive Ritankar Das, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. Nothing is signed, and the revenue figures attached to it are a projection and a ceiling.
Jul 26, 2026
Jensen Huang’s first post on X carried 25 signatures. Within a day the roster reached 50, with OpenAI, Google, AMD, Cisco, Cloudflare, GitHub, Block and Ollama added. Two of the biggest names in AI are still missing.
Jul 26, 2026
