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An internal memo obtained by Reuters puts Meta's custom accelerator on the fab schedule as the company doubles compute toward 14 gigawatts — and Zuckerberg says renting that compute out 'may make sense.'
Jul 10, 2026
The first model sold through Meta's new Model API is an agentic coder priced far below OpenAI and Anthropic — and Zuckerberg returned to X after three years to claim Meta's models finally beat Google's.
Jul 10, 2026
A New York Times-led coalition says OpenAI claimed it could not search its training data for copyrighted journalism — while an engineer's deposition showed it had already done exactly that, before the first lawsuit was filed.
Jul 10, 2026
A new agent that builds documents, spreadsheets and websites for non-coders arrives as OpenAI retires the standalone browser it shipped nine months ago — folding agentic browsing into a Chrome extension, the desktop app and a cloud browser.
Jul 10, 2026
The CEO of Applications, who ran product and business operations under Sam Altman, is moving to a part-time advisory role — leaving OpenAI without a clear second-in-command as it weighs an IPO.
Jul 10, 2026
A fake image of the ailing senator on life support spread across X and Reddit — until fact-checkers found Google's invisible AI watermark baked into it, in a rare public win for deepfake detection.
Jul 9, 2026
The Stockholm 'vibe-coding' startup is reportedly raising about $300 million led by existing backer Menlo Ventures — twice the $6.6 billion it commanded in December — on the back of $500 million in annualized revenue.
Jul 9, 2026
Radical Ventures led the round for the startup whose reinforcement-learning stack turns enterprises into model trainers — with Nvidia, Intel and Dell joining and revenue already running past $100 million a year.
Jul 9, 2026
Josh Kushner's holding company is pulling in outside capital from SoftBank, Altimeter and D1 to roll up accounting and IT firms — with OpenAI embedded as a shareholder and engineering partner.
Jul 9, 2026
The chip startup's first close of a Series F, led by General Atlantic, values it at $11 billion — a sharp rebound built on enterprises like JPMorgan Chase buying Nvidia alternatives to run AI in-house.
Jul 9, 2026
The Paris startup, backed by Yann LeCun, wants to break Nvidia's software lock-in with an inference server that runs open-weight models across five chip families from one stack — free, though its alpha is narrower than the pitch.
Jul 9, 2026
New voice models let ChatGPT hear and speak simultaneously, hand hard questions to GPT-5.5 in the background, and keep the conversation going — replacing Advanced Voice Mode as the default for 150 million-plus voice users.
Jul 9, 2026
According to reports, DeepMind threw out the Gemini 2.5 Pro-based foundation days before launch and started a fresh pre-training run — leaving Google the only major lab without a public flagship as GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 ship.
Jul 9, 2026
Elon Musk says the new model rivals Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 while running faster and cheaper, priced at $2 per million input tokens — a public launch timed one day before OpenAI's GPT-5.6 reaches everyone.
Jul 9, 2026
The three tiers are reaching ChatGPT, the API and Codex today, ending a nearly two-week government-coordinated preview that had held the model to about 20 vetted partners — though the rollout is staged, not flipped on for everyone at once.
Jul 9, 2026
An eight-part offering drew $62 billion in orders as Big Tech turns to debt to finance a data-center arms race — part of an AI bond wave Morgan Stanley pegs near $570 billion this year.
Jul 8, 2026
An international consortium paired machine learning with quantum physics to predict, then synthesize, two previously unknown superconductors — a screening method its leaders think could one day scan candidate materials by the billions.
Jul 8, 2026
Khosla Ventures led the Series C into a company embedding law directly into AI agents — with clients running compliance on more than $30 trillion in assets, Blackstone among them.
Jul 8, 2026
Governor Pritzker signed SB 315, forcing the largest AI developers to undergo annual independent safety audits, publish catastrophic-risk plans and report incidents — a state answer to a stalled federal debate.
Jul 8, 2026
Sysdig caught an extortion campaign run end-to-end by an AI agent — recon, credential theft, lateral movement, encryption — that fixed its own failed login in 31 seconds. The victim's data is unrecoverable by design.
Jul 8, 2026
The Claude maker will take up to 401 megawatts at a former bitcoin miner's Kentucky campus — a contract worth more than TeraWulf's entire market value, and the latest sign compute is being locked up by the decade.
Jul 8, 2026
Hunyuan 3.0 is a 295-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that fires just 21B parameters per token, ships under Apache 2.0, and edges GPT-5.5 on science — free on OpenRouter through July 21.
Jul 8, 2026
The rebrand makes it official: the Grok maker no longer exists as a separate company. Its new name signals the plan Musk has pushed since the $1.25 trillion merger — AI compute in orbit.
Jul 8, 2026
The Chinese lab that shook the AI world with cheap models is now going after the silicon — a SMIC-fabricated inference chip meant to cut its dependence on both Nvidia and Huawei.
Jul 8, 2026
The Commerce Department's AI standards body signed off after weeks of testing — ending a preview limited to about 20 vetted partners and making GPT-5.6 the first frontier model to ship on the government's schedule, not OpenAI's.
Jul 8, 2026
The energy-first data-center builder supplying Meta and Oracle may triple its valuation to about $30 billion in nine months — the clearest mark yet of how hot AI-infrastructure capital has run.
Jul 7, 2026
The all-cash deal — about 18 times Cognite's 2025 revenue — folds the Norwegian data-and-AI platform into AVEVA, as automation giants race to own the data layer that industrial AI agents run on.
Jul 7, 2026
General Atlantic is leading the first outside money into China's video-generation champion as Kuaishou preps a Hong Kong spin-off — while Beijing tells its AI firms to think twice about US capital.
Jul 7, 2026
A year ago Chinese models carried under 2% of OpenRouter traffic. Now four of the top five models are Chinese, Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro processes more than 4 trillion tokens a week — and price is the weapon.
Jul 7, 2026
CVE-2026-47729 sat in Squid's FTP parser since January 1997, leaking strangers' credentials from heap memory. Researchers found it three times in three months — one team with Claude Mythos reading the code.
Jul 7, 2026
