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14-08-2026

• Rogue AI Agents Are Alarming Researchers More Than Ever — NOTUS — 14-08-2026

• How Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption — Google — 14-08-2026

• Z.ai Launches GLM-5.3 With Frontier Coding and a Cyber Capability That Outgrew Its Training — Unite.AI — 14-08-2026

• China's richest province taps Alibaba to power its AI and chip push — South China Morning Post — 14-08-2026

• China's SMIC plans expansion as AI-related chip demand beats forecasts — South China Morning Post — 14-08-2026

13-08-2026

• Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc. (9th Cir. opinion) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit — 04-08-2026 — The Ninth Circuit denied Amazon's request to block Perplexity's AI shopping agent, finding Amazon unlikely to succeed on its CFAA and California CDAFA claims.

• Alibaba adds commercial restrictions to open-weight Qwen3.8-Max AI model — South China Morning Post — 13-08-2026

• China's YMTC breaks into global top 3 flash-memory suppliers for first time — South China Morning Post — 13-08-2026

• DeepSeek's flagship AI model update underwhelms – except in cybersecurity — South China Morning Post — 13-08-2026

• Patterns and problems in multiagent systems — Anthropic — 13-08-2026

• Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed — OpenAI — 13-08-2026

• if someone ever asks you how behind europe is in AI you can probably send these two screenshots — elie/Twitter — 13-08-2026

• New: The Hugging Face incident may prompt broader cultural changes to the way OpenAI treats safety. Sources told me the AI race has been squeezing safety work. plus: - Dylan Scandinaro is no longer OpenAI's head of preparedness, roughly 6 months after he started in the role. — Max Zeff/Twitter — 13-08-2026

• OpenAI ARR at $40 billion reports @nmasc_ @rachelmetz. Run rate has roughly doubled since end of 2025 — Ed Ludlow/Twitter — 13-08-2026

• Anthropic Said in Talks to Buy Startup Decart for $6 Billion — Bloomberg — 13-08-2026

• Anthropic investors target $2 trillion IPO valuation in October — Quartz — 13-08-2026

• Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash — Google — 13-08-2026

• OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer — OpenAI — 13-08-2026

• AMD to Raise as Much as $5 Billion From Debt Offering — Bloomberg — 13-08-2026

• August 2026 Ramp AI Index: Cracks in the AI thesis — Ramp — 13-08-2026

• Samsung is using Claude to verify chip designs, and it's not going smoothly — Neowin — 13-08-2026

• Regional inference, open models, and new compute — Mistral AI — 13-08-2026

• SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's third best on Artificial Analysis — VentureBeat — 13-08-2026

• DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher prices — VentureBeat — 13-08-2026

• DeepSeek releases official V4 Pro model with sharply higher user prices — Nikkei Asia — 13-08-2026

• CXMT Overtakes Tencent to Become Most Valuable Chinese Company — Bloomberg — 13-08-2026

• SMIC profit more than triples on AI-driven chip demand — Reuters — 13-08-2026

• An inside look at SK Hynix's $720 billion AI-fueled buildout that's taking over South Korea — CNBC — 13-08-2026

• Tencent Plans Larger Hy4 Model After Hy3 Usage Jumps 68-Fold — TechNode — 13-08-2026

• WeLM: pushing the frontier of intelligence under extreme resource efficiency — WeChat AI — 13-08-2026

• Tencent Backs Lovable in $400 Million Series C at $13.3 Billion Valuation — TechNode — 13-08-2026

12-08-2026

• Exclusive: Inside the Google executive moves that led to its big AI reshuffle — Reuters — 12-08-2026

• Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out — TechCrunch — 12-08-2026

• NEW @WIRED: Trump White House is expected to expand its AI oversight framework in the coming weeks and months — including adding open models to the framework as soon as they reach the same "frontier" capabilities of Anthropic and OpenAI's top models — Hugo Lowell/Twitter — 12-08-2026

• OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise — TechCrunch — 12-08-2026

• Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that's designed to understand sign language — SiliconANGLE — 12-08-2026

• Zhipu's API User Base Nears 7 Million as It Adds 50,000-Plus Chinese AI Chips — TechNode — 12-08-2026

• DeepSeek Expands Hiring for AI Data-Center Infrastructure — TechNode — 12-08-2026

11-08-2026

• Longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap leaves as shake-up at AI lab continues — CNBC — 11-08-2026

• Gemini Becomes Google's Fastest-Growing Product Ever After Hitting 1 Billion Monthly Users — Forbes — 11-08-2026

• SpaceXAI's Grok Bot turns agents into persistent digital coworkers that can operate your apps for $120-per-month — VentureBeat — 11-08-2026

• Powerful new letter from Senator Banks, who continues to stand out as among the strongest and most well-informed members of the US Senate on either side of the aisle around issues of AI competition and novel risks. — Nathan Calvin/Twitter — 11-08-2026

• Protesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying Office — Futurism — 11-08-2026

• AI isn't the Manhattan Project — it's Jurassic Park — Doomsday Scenario — 11-08-2026

• Nvidia's Switchyard router reshuffles AI models mid-task, cutting task costs to a third in its own tests — VentureBeat — 11-08-2026

• IBM and Together AI Sign Multi-Year Agreement to Scale Open-Source AI Inference with NVIDIA AI Infrastructure on IBM Cloud — IBM — 11-08-2026

• OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month. She Wasn't Replaced — Gizmodo — 11-08-2026

• Intel upsizes stock sale to $20B with spending plans still fuzzy — The Register — 11-08-2026

• Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU — The Register — 11-08-2026

• French newspapers appeal to antitrust regulator over Google's AI summaries — France 24 — 11-08-2026

• Can a 30-person start-up build Britain's answer to OpenAI? — Financial Times — 11-08-2026

• Alibaba tests paid AI appetite with US$30 annual office-assistant subscription — South China Morning Post — 11-08-2026

• Alibaba says modular design delivers AI data centres in 100 days at 10% lower cost — South China Morning Post — 11-08-2026

• Meta strikes at China's open AI lead, betting on potential US curbs — South China Morning Post — 11-08-2026

• Tencent's WorkBuddy Sparks AI Turnaround Hopes After Stock Rout — Bloomberg — 11-08-2026

10-08-2026

• Memphis AI data center fuels pollution fight in Black neighborhood — AFP — 11-08-2026

• Apple says mainland China has not launched Qwen integration after Mac guide disappears — TechNode — 10-08-2026

• Anthropic Tries to Shore Up Investor Confidence Ahead of Blockbuster IPO — The Wall Street Journal — 11-08-2026

• As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model — TechCrunch — 10-08-2026

• Google's AI Team Tells Job Seekers Its HR Filters Are Unreliable — Bloomberg — 10-08-2026

• Armenia just opened the region's biggest AI factory, because Trump signed a licence — The Next Web — 10-08-2026

• Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to 'pause AI development' — The Guardian — 10-08-2026

• OpenAI Buys Back $7 Billion of Employee Shares in Tender Offer — Bloomberg — 10-08-2026

• Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto is exactly why people don't like AI — TechCrunch — 10-08-2026

• How stalled models, missed deadlines, and staff burnout led to the unraveling of Google's DeepMind — Fortune — 10-08-2026

• The Future is for Everyone — Mark Zuckerberg/Meta — 10-08-2026

• Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device — Meta AI Research — 10-08-2026

• Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models — Financial Times — 10-08-2026

• Anthropic, Macquarie and GIC Form Venture for AI Data Centers — Bloomberg — 10-08-2026

• Responsible AI infrastructure in Texas — OpenAI — 10-08-2026

• Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app — bobdahacker — 10-08-2026

• Exclusive: Corma raises $60M from Sequoia, Khosla Ventures for AI trained to defend against cyberattacks — Fortune — 10-08-2026

• Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal — The Register — 10-08-2026

• Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads — The Register — 10-08-2026

• China Humanoid Makers Hold 97% of Global Shipments, Report Says — Bloomberg — 10-08-2026

• Enterprise AI costs hit 2026 low, driven by price wars and Chinese open-source models — South China Morning Post — 10-08-2026

• China's top AI is still trained on Nvidia chips. What is delaying the switch to local tech? — South China Morning Post — 10-08-2026

• Text to Video Leaderboard — Top AI Video Models — Artificial Analysis — 10-08-2026

09-08-2026

• The Ball in OpenAI's court — Business Insider — 09-08-2026

• AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack — ABC — 09-08-2026

• How a small Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta — CNBC — 09-08-2026

• Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost — 404 Media — 09-08-2026

• Moore Threads plans Hong Kong listing after posting 147% jump in first-half revenue — South China Morning Post — 09-08-2026

08-08-2026

• What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace — Don't Worry About the Vase — 08-08-2026

• Claude Code Adds Cross-Session Messaging on macOS — MacRumors — 08-08-2026

• Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans — Anthropic — 08-08-2026

• Amazon Is Building America's Biggest Fossil Fuel Plant to Power AI — Heatmap News — 08-08-2026

07-08-2026

• Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities — OpenAI — 07-08-2026

• Explainer-Who is liable when AI goes rogue? Lawyers see new risks — Reuters — 07-08-2026

• Exclusive: OpenAI slows release of Astra model citing cyber capabilities — Axios — 07-08-2026

• Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards — Anthropic — 07-08-2026

• SK Hynix pledges $38 billion to build two new DRAM and NAND factories — Engadget — 07-08-2026

• Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money — Fortune — 07-08-2026

• OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents — The Next Web — 06-08-2026

• Moonshot Opens Kimi K3 Weights Under a Revenue-Tiered License — Unite.AI — 07-08-2026

• Google's $15bn India data centre is running into water and wildlife concerns — The Next Web — 07-08-2026

• Backed by DeepSeek, Unitree seeks US$9b valuation in landmark robotics IPO — South China Morning Post — 07-08-2026

• Exclusive-Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI model, sources say — Reuters — 07-08-2026

06-08-2026

• Why Normal People Aren't Using AI Agents — Wired — 06-08-2026

• FT: BYTEDANCE IS IN THE PRE-TRAINING STAGE OF A MODEL WITH UP TO 10 TRILLION PARAMETERS, APPROACHING MYTHOS IN SCALE. — Jukan/Twitter — 06-08-2026

• What DeepSeek Isn't Doing — The Review (Strange VC) — 06-08-2026

• One of China's Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Broken Containment — Wired — 06-08-2026

• AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon — The Register — 06-08-2026

• Google's WeatherNext 2 Gains a Full Day of Cyclone Warning, Goes Open Source — Unite.AI — 06-08-2026

• Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users — OpenAI — 06-08-2026

• OpenAI's ChatGPT Speaker Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300 — MacRumors — 06-08-2026

• Google is expanding its AI empire — and losing the people who built it — CNBC — 05-08-2026

• Qwen3.8-Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index — Artificial Analysis — 06-08-2026

• AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision — The Register — 06-08-2026

• Breaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. — Financial Times/Twitter — 06-08-2026

• ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users — TechCrunch — 06-08-2026

• Google's DeepMind Shakeup Weakens UK Bid to Stay in AI Race — Bloomberg — 06-08-2026

• Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building 'Terafab' chip factory in Texas — TechCrunch — 06-08-2026

• Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built — CNN — 06-08-2026

• A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming 'too big to fail' — The Next Web — 06-08-2026

• Ooredoo teams up with Nvidia and Nokia to launch 1 GW AI platform in Indonesia — Fortune — 06-08-2026

• DeepSeek's $8 Billion Fundraising Reopens, Valuation Nears $74 Billion — Bloomberg — 06-08-2026

05-08-2026

• Silicon Valley's Other China Problem: It's Training Their AI — Forbes — 05-08-2026

• DeepSeek: Plans to raise overall API pricing in the near future, with a significant increase expected. — Jukan/Twitter — 05-08-2026

• SCOOP: Trump Admin Considering Expanding AI Framework to Open Models — The Daily Signal — 05-08-2026

• An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing — CNN — 05-08-2026

• OpenAI gives first detailed debrief of the Hugging Face incident at Black Hat conference — Ground Level — 05-08-2026

• According to OpenAI briefing at Black Hat, the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident winds back to model training and agent evaluation done back in May -- where zero days were remediated, including a message board created by communicating agents. But then on July 8 the agents reestablished communication with each other to begin attacking OpenAI infrastructure. — Sharon Goldman/Twitter — 05-08-2026

• Elon Musk says SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs 'because they are the best' — Tom's Hardware — 05-08-2026

• Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers — VentureBeat — 05-08-2026

• IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now — The Register — 05-08-2026

• Introducing Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM harness for coding and long-running autonomous tasks — PrimeIntellect/Twitter — 05-08-2026

• Meta debuts Muse Code to take on Anthropic and OpenAI — CNBC — 05-08-2026

• new: about 70% of Microsoft's AI revenue comes from OpenAI. not a great indicator for $msft attempt to diversify. with @mattmday — Brody Ford/Twitter — 05-08-2026

• Early reaction on @demishassabis stepping back: (Click for more) — Sebastian Mallaby/Twitter — 05-08-2026

• The next chapter of our AI momentum (Demis Hassabis stepping down from DeepMind to become the Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs and Jeff Dean's neolab) — Google — 05-08-2026

• Four Top Google A.I. Researchers Form New Start-Up — The New York Times — 05-08-2026

• ByteDance's Founder Rules Out Distillation on AI Models — The Information — 05-08-2026

• China's A.I. Is Surging Across Africa. That Should Worry Silicon Valley. — The New York Times — 05-08-2026

• Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team — TechCrunch — 05-08-2026

• TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In — Vincent Schmalbach — 05-08-2026

• China's AI revenue projected to reach US$13b on breakthroughs, adoption: Goldman Sachs — South China Morning Post — 05-08-2026

04-08-2026

• Anthropic, OpenAI models tried hacking during UK government testing — Axios — 04-08-2026

• Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models — OpenAI — 04-08-2026

• AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge – Interpol — Africanews — 04-08-2026

• Amazon loses US court ban on Perplexity's AI shopping tools — Reuters — 04-08-2026

• OpenAI and Anthropic have both just posted about an overlapping cyber incident involving GPT-5.6-Sol and Mythos 5 during an evaluation by UKAISI. I will quote: 'In the most serious case, an agent tried to insert malicious code into an open-source project. In an attempt to get the code approved, the agent engaged in social engineering — creating fake online identities and using them to pressure the project's maintainer to approve the code. A human maintainer caught and refused to approve the malicious code.' — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 04-08-2026

• Scoop: Inside Trump's AI framework — Axios — 04-08-2026

• Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For' — 404 Media — 04-08-2026

• DRAM Supply to Remain Tight in 2027, Prompting NVIDIA to Lower HBM Configurations for Rubin Ultra — TrendForce — 04-08-2026

• Tino Cuéllar joins Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer — Anthropic — 04-08-2026

• OpenAI reaches $3.2 million DOJ settlement over U.S. worker claims — Axios — 04-08-2026

• Shieldstral — Mistral AI — 04-08-2026

• White House plans to keep AI framework under wraps — Axios — 04-08-2026

• A group of Dem senators have sent a letter to Trump admin, requesting a response "clarifying the Administration's current policy and approach to limiting access to advanced AI models," saying the "Administration's ad hoc and unpredictable approach undermines U.S. competitiveness" — Hadas Gold/Twitter — 04-08-2026

• White House Whipsaws Silicon Valley (and Itself) Over A.I. Rules — The New York Times — 04-08-2026

• Gavin [Baker]: "SSI says that they are going to come out with their model in August" — Zephyr/Twitter — 04-08-2026

• Inside Google's $200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic — Financial Times — 04-08-2026

• Anthropic Inks $10 Billion Computing Deal With New Cloud Startup — Bloomberg — 04-08-2026

• OpenAI says Apple 'is getting this wrong' after trade secret lawsuit — Engadget — 04-08-2026

• Top Huawei chip scientist opens up on strategy, 'blind arrogance' and his war-hero mindset — South China Morning Post — 04-08-2026

03-08-2026

• Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI — Quanta Magazine — 03-08-2026

• Qwen3.8-Max is really strong on drone and satellite imagery — SkalskiP/Twitter — 03-08-2026

• China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic — The Register — 03-08-2026

• New Texas data center projects frozen until state audits them — The Texas Tribune — 03-08-2026

• Letter from 15 State Attorneys General to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — Iowa Attorney General — 03-08-2026

• GOP AGs warn OpenAI's Altman to preserve records in AI agent hacking probe — Fox Business — 03-08-2026

• Reports that OpenAI models escaped a testing environment and compromised outside systems raise serious concerns. Today, the Committee on Homeland Security announced it has requested a briefing from @OpenAI to determine how this occurred and ensure it cannot happen again. — Homeland Dems/Twitter — 03-08-2026

• California AI transparency law's first phase cracks down on deepfakes, scams — The Sacramento Bee — 03-08-2026

• Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use — VentureBeat — 03-08-2026

• China Is Getting More Anxious About Mythos Before Trump Meets Xi — Bloomberg — 03-08-2026

• Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI's first luxury trip — TechCrunch — 03-08-2026

• No Data Centers In My Backyard — Jasmine Sun — 03-08-2026

• What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? — Epoch AI — 03-08-2026

• AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included — arXiv — 03-08-2026

• FYI -- The above chart is about *frequent users* but when you look at all voters, "Don't know" is much more common. OpenAI still leads all the labs but opinion is decidedly more mixed. — Jerusalem Demsas/Twitter — 03-08-2026

• UK regulator says it is monitoring developments after rogue AI agent hacks — Reuters — 03-08-2026

• The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding — Futurism — 03-08-2026

• White House to host AI companies Tuesday to review new model-testing framework — CNBC — 03-08-2026

• The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's super PAC appears to be funding it. — Model Republic — 03-08-2026

• OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Thinking Machines fight for AI talent — Axios — 03-08-2026

• AI-generated label becomes mandatory in the EU for companies — Euronews — 02-08-2026

• The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet — The Register — 03-08-2026

• AI talent war: tech giants court researchers years ahead of graduation — South China Morning Post — 03-08-2026

• China's DeepSeek beefs up agentic AI 'harness' as it tests V4 model that jolts Silicon Valley — South China Morning Post — 03-08-2026

• Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork — Qwen — 03-08-2026

• Alibaba's AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights release — South China Morning Post — 03-08-2026

02-08-2026

• About Licence: This regional carve-out stems from our ongoing generative video copyright litigation with major @Hollywood studios. We aim to deliver our AI tools globally to all users responsibly. US-based persons looking to deploy MiniMax-H3 may submit formal licensing requests. Licenses will be issued to applicants who commit to implementing robust compliance controls and guardrails fully aligned with US legal, compliance and regulatory requirements. — RyanLee/Twitter — 02-08-2026

• On the Invalidity of the Claimed Disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture — PhilArchive — 02-08-2026

01-08-2026

• The Race to Build an American Alternative to Cheap AI From China — The Wall Street Journal — 01-08-2026

• Google cancels AI Studio app after 800k preorders — GoogleAIStudio/Twitter — 01-08-2026

• What a visit to China's AI labs reveals about the battle for global soft power — South China Morning Post — 01-08-2026

• Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science — OpenAI — 01-08-2026

• grok-voice-think-fast-2.0 is now available with Speech to Speech — xAI — 01-08-2026

31-07-2026

• Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets — Truffle Security — 31-07-2026

• How OpenAI Lost Its AI Crown—and the Fight to Win It Back — The Wall Street Journal — 31-07-2026

• Anthropic, OpenAI Cyber Failures Point to US Security Risks — Yahoo Finance — 31-07-2026

• Amazon Completes $50 Billion Investment in OpenAI — PYMNTS — 31-07-2026

• A Safe Path to Open Weights — Thinking Machines Lab — 31-07-2026

• OpenAI Previews 'Astra' Multi-Agent Model Family to US Senators and Regulators — AI Weekly — 31-07-2026

• Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky — NPR — 31-07-2026

• OpenAI says has more than 1 billion active users — Bloomberg — 31-07-2026

• OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok — TechCrunch — 31-07-2026

• SpaceX won't remove all of xAI's unpermitted turbines for another year — TechCrunch — 31-07-2026

• It's so funny that Chinese open source companies, when faced with a lack of Nvidia chips (due to restrictions) just use datacenters in South East [A]sia instead — Joe Weisenthal/Twitter — 31-07-2026

• Exclusive: Chinese military researchers tap US AI models to train defence systems — Reuters — 31-07-2026

• The Maxwell Conjecture is False — arXiv — 29-07-2026

• Situational Awareness Down 67% in July in AI Stock Rout — The Wall Street Journal — 31-07-2026

• Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI — Google — 31-07-2026

• Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the AI Bubble? — The New York Times Magazine — 31-07-2026

• DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update — DeepSeek — 31-07-2026

• Moonshot's Kimi Uses 20,000 Nvidia Chip Cluster From Alibaba — Bloomberg — 31-07-2026

• China's MiniMax releases H3 video model — Reuters — 30-07-2026

• RedNote eyes US$2.2 billion data centre as China ramps up AI infrastructure — South China Morning Post — 31-07-2026

30-07-2026

• oh no, oh no no no no they distilled... Sonnet 3.5 — teortaxesTex/Twitter — 30-07-2026

• DeepSeek Plans Gigawatt-Scale AI Data Center in Inner Mongolia — Bloomberg — 30-07-2026

• AI policy groups call for OpenAI investigation — The Washington Post — 30-07-2026

• Cohere and Carahsoft Partner to Bring Secure, Sovereign AI Deployment Solutions to Public Sector — AIwire — 30-07-2026

• Microsoft's $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest in Stock Market History — Bloomberg — 30-07-2026

• Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots — Google DeepMind — 30-07-2026

• Banks in talks to lend $15 billion for Anthropic data center backed by Google, WSJ reports — Reuters — 30-07-2026

• Inkling-Small — Thinking Machines Lab — 30-07-2026

• Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations — Anthropic — 30-07-2026

• SpaceX tightens supply chain rules, excludes Chinese nationals, components — Business Standard — 30-07-2026

• Timeline of cyberattack by OpenAI's AI 'agent' shows its sophistication — The Washington Post — 30-07-2026

• Judge says government's case got 'worse' in Anthropic fight — Axios — 30-07-2026

• OpenAI cut Luna prices from $1/$6 to $0.2/$1.20. A 5x price cut. OpenAI begins the price war, with the goal of crushing the Chinese players. Not going after Anthropic's margins yet — Zephyr/Twitter — 30-07-2026

• Aschenbrenner Hedge Fund Situational Awareness Seeks Capital After Loss, FT Says — Bloomberg — 30-07-2026

• In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI's hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable — TechCrunch — 30-07-2026

• Not just one: OpenAI is building a 'family of devices' for its chatbots — Android Authority — 30-07-2026

• 'Shut it all down': The AI nightmare scaring the West — The Telegraph — 30-07-2026

• I'm actually fairly bearish on frontier lab valuations. I've never seen the reasons articulated to my satisfaction, so before I go to sleep, I wanted to quickly jot down my thinking here. The basic issue is that the labs are highly unprofitable. [Post] — Andrew Ho/Twitter — 30-07-2026

• Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements on 2 August — European Commission — 30-07-2026

• EU launches AI Gigafactories call to boost Europe's computing capacity and unlock more than €30 billion in investment — European Commission — 30-07-2026

• ChatGPT and Roblox will reportedly be subject to tighter rules in the EU — Engadget — 30-07-2026

• Samsung says chip crunch will last until 2028 as quarterly profit soars — CNBC — 30-07-2026

• ByteDance sharpens AI focus as annualised revenue reaches US$4b — South China Morning Post — 30-07-2026

• 'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts — Financial Times — 30-07-2026

29-07-2026

• Tencent's Hyra research agent and Hy3 model solve a 50-year-old sum-difference problem — TencentHunyuan/Twitter — 29-07-2026

• Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI — TechCrunch — 29-07-2026

• Anthropic's New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough. — ProPublica — 29-07-2026

• Microsoft's AI spending guide is music to our ears, quieting the bears — for now — CNBC — 29-07-2026

• Meta's stock drops on disappointing guidance, dwindling free cash flow — CNBC — 29-07-2026

• AI's top startups are barely publishing their research — Science — 29-07-2026

• We have reached an agreement with OpenAI to conduct an independent review, with Redwood Research, of the model behavior observed during the Hugging Face incident. We will publish a blog post that describes the terms of our engagement, the scope covered, and tentative conclusions. — METR/Twitter — 29-07-2026

• Why compute might get 10x more expensive in coming years — Dwarkesh Patel — 29-07-2026

• The AI That Hacked Its Way Out and the Hype That Followed It — Lawfare — 29-07-2026

• "I mean there could be, yeah," Open AI CEO Sam Altman responds when asked by @DarrenBotelho if more companies could've been hacked by Open AI — Alan He/Twitter — 29-07-2026

• Congress should immediately hold public hearings with the CEOs of big AI companies about the threat their technology poses to national security and American jobs. Today we learned more disturbing news about Open AI's security breach. Sam Altman should answer questions under oath. — Greg Casar/Twitter — 29-07-2026

• OpenAI confirms that the model that hacked Hugging Face was not "GPT-6" (i.e., not a model planned for upcoming release). — prinz/Twitter — 29-07-2026

• Censorship in Chinese AI models can be undone, new research shows — Semafor — 29-07-2026

• NextEra, Brookfield to Build $100 Billion Kentucky Data Campus — Bloomberg — 29-07-2026

• MCP just got its biggest update ever — here's what changes for AI agents — VentureBeat — 28-07-2026

• Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift — Financial Times — 29-07-2026

• China's Moonshot AI Passes Funding Goal to Hit $35 Billion Value — Bloomberg — 29-07-2026

• China sweeps global humanoid robot start-up ranking as US imposes ban — South China Morning Post — 29-07-2026

28-07-2026

• Can AI Automate AI Research? Jerry Tworek on What's Still Missing — AGI House/YouTube — 28-07-2026

• Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' apps — CNBC — 28-07-2026

• Nvidia behind $50 billion lease on Texas data center, FT reports — Financial Times — 28-07-2026

• Zuckerberg predicts more jobs and entrepreneurship if superintelligence is widely distributed — Fox Business — 28-07-2026

• A Backlash Against Anthropic Is Brewing in Silicon Valley — The Wall Street Journal — 28-07-2026

• To whom it may concern and to everyone else as well: [statement on data centers invading rural land and the importance of protecting farmland and water resources] — Willie Nelson/Twitter — 28-07-2026

• Exclusive: OpenAI's rogue agent compromised an account at a second tech firm, sources say — Reuters — 28-07-2026

• Helen Toner: the Hugging Face hack was just a matter of time and exposes a huge blind spot in AI policy — Fortune — 28-07-2026

• Made by AI? EU tells firms to stick a label on it from Sunday — Le Monde — 28-07-2026

• What Is Open-Weight A.I.? — The New York Times — 28-07-2026

• Pacing the Frontier — Statement from 1,122 Frontier AI Employees — 28-07-2026

• Exclusive: Trump administration to ban new Chinese robots and inverters, protecting US AI buildout — Reuters — 28-07-2026

• Can a Chatbot Be Held Responsible for a Death? — Bloomberg — 28-07-2026

• Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude — Anthropic — 28-07-2026

• OpenAI, Anthropic Staff Share Letter Asking US to Help Pace AI Progress — Bloomberg — 28-07-2026

• NEW @WIRED: Trump is relying on a small group to decide whether and what restrictions to impose on Chinese AI ahead of OpenAI meetings: – Howard Lutnick at Commerce – Arvind Raman at CAISI – Sean Cairncross at WH – Susie Wiles at WH – Scott Bessent at Treasury – David Sacks — Hugo Lowell/Twitter — 28-07-2026

• Amazon winds down most flagship AI models in strategy overhaul — Business Insider — 28-07-2026

• Meta Announces New Strategic Venture with BlackRock to Develop Data Center in El Paso — Meta — 28-07-2026

• Plz don't use OpenRouter data to state that Chinese models have surpassed US models in usage. It captures sub 1% of total global inference usage. — Zephyr/Twitter — 28-07-2026

• Hugging Face rebuilt a third of its infrastructure after OpenAI agents ran amok — The Register — 28-07-2026

• Chip Rout Deepens on China Competition, Circular Funding Fears — Bloomberg — 28-07-2026

• Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes — Engadget — 28-07-2026

• Taiwan Prosecutors Reportedly Detain Nvidia Staffer In China AI Chip Smuggling Probe — Forbes — 28-07-2026

• Chinese AI developers may shift to 'paid weights' commercial licensing: Goldman Sachs — South China Morning Post — 28-07-2026

• Moonshot AI Seeks More Nvidia Blackwell Chips for Next Model, Report Says — Bloomberg — 28-07-2026

27-07-2026

• Chinese AI companies haven't yet published catastrophic AI risk assessments or policies, unlike U.S. developers. [Click for thread] — Michael L. Chen/Twitter — 27-07-2026

• Our position on open-weights models — Anthropic — 27-07-2026

• Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system — TechCrunch — 27-07-2026

• Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search — VentureBeat — 27-07-2026

• Nvidia's $750 Billion Deals Revive Fear of AI Circular Financing — Bloomberg — 27-07-2026

• OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control — TechCrunch — 27-07-2026

• Hugging Face Incident Initial Post-Mortem [For CISO audience] — Cloud Security Alliance — 27-07-2026

• China slams US' planned probe, sanctions against Chinese AI firms, will take 'all necessary measures' to safeguard interests — Global Times — 27-07-2026

• Sam Altman to meet with Trump administration amid China AI debate — CNBC — 27-07-2026

• How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal — The New York Times — 27-07-2026

• Kimi K3 Technical Report — Moonshot AI — 27-07-2026

• We are announcing a long-term strategic partnership with NVIDIA. NVIDIA is making a substantial investment in SSI that will let us 10x our compute in the next 12 months. We reached the point where our research is worth scaling and with this partnership we will be able to. We are honored by NVIDIA's conviction. — SSI Inc./Twitter — 27-07-2026

• Nvidia Bets on Ilya Sutskever's New AI Lab to Expand Compute Reach — The Wall Street Journal — 27-07-2026

• China Starts Mass-Producing Homegrown DUV Chipmaking Tools, An Advance for Local Chip Industry — The Information — 27-07-2026

• Nvidia forms 37-member AI security alliance without OpenAI, Anthropic or Google — CoinDesk — 27-07-2026

• China's Moonshot AI is releasing its record-setting open-weight model for free download — Quartz — 27-07-2026

• Chipmaker CXMT's 466% market debut surge makes it the most valuable China-listed company — CNBC — 27-07-2026

26-07-2026

• Nvidia's China Partners and the PLA — The Wire China — 26-07-2026

• Nvidia in talks with OpenAI to guarantee $250 billion financing for data center, WSJ reports — Reuters — 26-07-2026

• Nadella's hardest year — Business Insider — 26-07-2026

• An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment; we need more details — LessWrong — 26-07-2026

• Big Tech's Money Men Don't Care About the Backlash — Politico Magazine — 26-07-2026

• What is the risk of using Chinese open AI models like Kimi K3? — Financial Times — 26-07-2026

25-07-2026

• AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You. — The Wall Street Journal — 25-07-2026

• What is a supernode, and why does it matter for the China-US tech rivalry? — South China Morning Post — 25-07-2026

• My first interview with @sama, Co-Founder of @OpenAI. — Ti Morse/Twitter — 25-07-2026

• Yesterday, the transcript leaked of an investor call with DeepSeek's CEO in which he said the only reason DeepSeek trails the US is a lack of compute and detailed how reliant it is on Nvidia chips. Today, DeepSeek suspended its fundraising round. Doesn't seem like a coincidence. — Chris McGuire/Twitter — 25-07-2026

• Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I. — The New York Times — 25-07-2026

• Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI — The Wall Street Journal — 25-07-2026

• SK Chair Says Anthropic Asked for Supplies to Make Its Own Chips — Bloomberg — 25-07-2026

24-07-2026

• Nvidia bets $300 million on Korea's AI future with KAIST lab — Korea JoongAng Daily — 24-07-2026

• Employees cannot rest silent if misaligned AI regularly breaks out of sandboxes! If your company doesn't respond seriously, you should WHISTLEBLOW! Protected in California under certain conditions, talk to AI Whistleblower Initiative aiwi.org/lasst/ — Alex Turner/Twitter — 24-07-2026

• SpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley Says — Bloomberg — 24-07-2026

• Exclusive: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week — Reuters — 24-07-2026

• Yang Zhilin, the rock star founder behind China's Moonshot AI — Financial Times — 24-07-2026

• On ARC-AGI-3, an evaluation where AI models must solve novel problems, Opus 5's score is three times as high as the next best model. — Claude/Twitter — 24-07-2026

• Introducing Claude Opus 5 — Anthropic — 24-07-2026

• How OpenAI Lost Control of an AI Model—and What Needs to Change — TIME — 24-07-2026

• An OpenAI staffer talked to TIME and said on background that "related incidents have been happening for a while" and that they aren't optimistic about solving this problem with individual patches because "it's impossible to patch every single thing that a creative AI can do" — Nathan Calvin/Twitter — 24-07-2026

• Open Weights and American AI Leadership — NVIDIA & Other AI Ecosystem Signatories — 24-07-2026

• Nvidia and Microsoft Back Open-Weight AI in Joint Letter — Unite.AI — 24-07-2026

• OpenAI use of ANI data doesn't amount to infringement, says Delhi HC — Business Standard — 24-07-2026

• Oracle severed 21,000 employees during an AI spending spree, then hit a $7 billion Wisconsin power hurdle — Fortune — 24-07-2026

• Hackers hid dangerous malware on a page hidden in Anthropic's Claude.ai domain — TechRadar — 24-07-2026

• OpenAI adds full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps — Crypto Briefing — 24-07-2026

• Huawei's Ren Zhengfei backs Tau Scaling Law to beat US sanctions — South China Morning Post — 24-07-2026

23-07-2026

• Inside China's All-Out Push to Catch Up With American AI Chips — The Wall Street Journal — 23-07-2026

• How the Futuristic Hack by Rogue OpenAI Models Unfolded — The Wall Street Journal — 23-07-2026

• Microsoft launches new in-house AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAI — VentureBeat — 23-07-2026

• Anthropic Is Tracking Above OpenAI in ARR, but Its Growth Is Beginning to Decelerate — TickerTrends — 23-07-2026

• New Pew survey shows that Americans are more likely to say that China, not the US, is more advanced in AI by a three-to-one margin. Meanwhile people who are older, male, and Republican place more importance on the US being the global leader in AI [Click to view Survey] — Vincent Chow/Twitter — 23-07-2026

• Inside the White House debate over what to do about Chinese AI — Politico — 23-07-2026

• sidewalk chalk messages spotted today outside OpenAI's SF office: "What if HF [Hugging Face] hadn't noticed? This will happen again. How many chances?" "You sure you have this under control?" "If not now, when?" — Hayden Field/Twitter — 23-07-2026

• Launching Health in ChatGPT — OpenAI — 23-07-2026

• Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter — The Wall Street Journal — 23-07-2026

• Claude's voice mode just got smarter — Engadget — 23-07-2026

• Why Moonshot AI's launch has put Chinese startups in US crosshairs — Business Standard — 23-07-2026

• OpenAI's Hugging Face hack triggers 'AI Kill Switch' bill in Congress — CNBC — 23-07-2026

• Mark Zuckerberg launches AI optimism campaign — Axios — 23-07-2026

• AI chip startup Etched raises $300 million at $10.3 billion valuation — Reuters — 23-07-2026

• DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng's leaked call has several notable statements on U.S.-China competition. He acknowledges China is severely compute constrained, says DeepSeek still much prefers NVIDIA over Chinese chips, and implies they're actively buying “non-compliant” chips at a premium if necessary. [Click for More] — Konstantin Pilz/Twitter — 23-07-2026

• DeepSeek's Theory of the AI Gap — Hello China Tech — 23-07-2026

• Trahan, Obernolte Introduce Bipartisan FRONTIER Act to Strengthen Oversight of Advanced AI — Office of Rep. Lori Trahan — 23-07-2026

• Obernolte-Trahan artificial intelligence bill introduced in House — Politico — 23-07-2026

• UK AISI / CAISI Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities — NIST — 23-07-2026

• Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber — Google DeepMind — 21-07-2026

• .@elonmusk says he told @demishassabis he wants leading AI companies to have a regular call every few weeks to "discuss any safety and security issues" — Hadas Gold/Twitter — 23-07-2026

• Alphabet posts its first negative free cash flow quarter since its 2004 IPO as record AI capex bites, raising 2026 capex guidance to $195–205 billion — Axios — 23-07-2026

• Microsoft Is Replacing OpenAI Image Models in PowerPoint, Bing — Bloomberg — 23-07-2026

• Trump tech official accuses China's Moonshot AI of stealing from Anthropic — South China Morning Post — 23-07-2026

• Why hasn't AI increased unemployment? — Peter McCrory/Twitter — 23-07-2026

• FLUX 3 — one multimodal frontier model jointly learning image, video, audio, and action, now in early access — Black Forest Labs — 23-07-2026

• DeepSeek's TileLang: China's AI stack blueprint vs Nvidia's CUDA moat — Hello China Tech — 23-07-2026

22-07-2026

• When China Gets Its Own Mythos: Preparing for an AI Cyber Crisis — Foreign Affairs — 22-07-2026

• RedNote's AI model is first to achieve flawless score at maths Olympiad — SCMP — 22-07-2026

• Alibaba unit says 5-in-1 AI gives robots unified brain, body and limbs — SCMP — 22-07-2026

• Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server with a 0day it discovered. All it took was 27min with 32 agents. — Chaofan Shou/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• Reinforcement learning, training models to relentlessly pursue rewards, encouraged misbehaviour at the expense of safety, sources say. + competitive pressure to match Anthropic on cyber was also a factor in this ramp-up and subsequent unintended hack. Full story below — Cristina Criddle/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• We support open-source AI and the innovation it unlocks. But open source is not open season on American IP. When PRC firms conduct covert, industrial-scale distillation attacks that cross the line into IP theft, sanctions and Entity List designations will be on the table. — Scott Bessent/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• Amazon cuts some jobs in its artificial general intelligence unit — CNBC — 22-07-2026

• OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B — TechCrunch — 22-07-2026

• Introducing OpenAI Presence — OpenAI — 22-07-2026

• Between this ($200m), the OpenAI Foundation's Economic Futures program (at least $250m), and Sec. Raimondo's RAISE US initiative ($500m, some from OAIF and A), we're approaching $1b in new funding to figure out how to navigate AI's economic and labor impacts. — sam manning/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• How OpenAI's human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face — TechCrunch — 22-07-2026

• "Every few months, a new model made part of our roadmap unnecessary": Why Mendral's founders gave up their startup for Anthropic — The New Stack — 22-07-2026

• Exclusive: Marco Rubio tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech 'kill switch' — Reuters — 22-07-2026

• We're expanding our work with the US Dept. of @ENERGY on the Genesis Mission – an initiative to double the pace of scientific discovery within a decade. 🧪 By committing $40M in AI tokens and @GoogleCloud credits, more lab researchers will gain access to Gemini and other AI models. — Google DeepMind/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• ChatGPT Led to a Man's Near-Fatal Health Crisis, Lawsuit Claims — The New York Times — 22-07-2026

• We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model... Legitimate AI distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation ecosystem. However, large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable. — Michael Kratsios/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of computing power deal — CNBC — 22-07-2026

• OpenAI Plans to Spend Over $30 Billion on Georgia Data Center — Bloomberg — 22-07-2026

• Anthropic doubles funding for AI policy fight ahead of elections — Axios — 22-07-2026

• Microsoft considers replacing ChatGPT and Claude with China's Kimi K3 to save $600 million — Yahoo Finance — 22-07-2026

• Samsung in Talks to Invest in Mistral at 20 Billion Euro Valuation, FT Reports — Reuters — 22-07-2026

21-07-2026

• Moonshot's Kimi K3 scores 156 on the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI), setting a new open-weights record. This places it between Opus 4.6, and GPT 5.4, which released in February and March 2026 respectively, and just ahead of GPT 5.6 Luna. — Epoch AI/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• Chinese AI Models Overtake US Rivals as Token Share Among American Firms Hits Record 58% — Benzinga — 21-07-2026

• China's 'AI for All' Offensive Defies US Containment Playbook — Bloomberg — 21-07-2026

• How Meta's AI Models Are Powering the First Wave of Genesis Mission Projects — Meta AI — 21-07-2026

• New UK report finds AI models consistently cheat and deceive users — CyberScoop — 21-07-2026

• OpenAI appoints two new members to board of directors — CNBC — 21-07-2026

• OpenAI, Anthropic boost lobbying as legacy tech and defense spending slips — CNBC — 21-07-2026

• White House to Redirect Billions in Research Funds Toward AI, Away From Colleges — The Wall Street Journal — 21-07-2026

• A pro-AI, dark-money group tied to David Sacks appears linked to a new astroturfing campaign — The Midas Project/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• OpenAI says Hugging Face breach caused by one of its models — Axios — 21-07-2026

• Interesting comments on what "open source" means in China from Fu Hongyu, Alibaba's AI governance lead and a leading collaborator from industry on Chinese AI policy — Vincent Chow/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• Exclusive: US, China to hold AI talks in September, sources say — Reuters — 21-07-2026

• Cohere Transcribe just broke 1M monthly downloads since launch, reaching 2.37 million downloads total (and climbing) 🤯 Open-source, globally-focused models are the champions of AI. Thanks for helping us take one more step into the future. — Cohere/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• OAI's endorsement of S.3178: "we urge Massachusetts policymakers to add a requirement for independent audits aligned with Illinois SB 315 passed earlier this year" — Shakeel Hashim/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• Claude can now learn a skill just by watching you do it on screen. — Wall St Engine/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• New detailed report from @Barclays, pouring a LOT of cold water on the idea that AI is boosting productivity... — Callum Williams/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• University of Tennessee sues Anthropic over neural network technology — Reuters — 21-07-2026

• We have started our most ambitious pre-training run yet, for Gemini 4, and are excited by the progress : ) — Logan Kilpatrick/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens — Wired — 21-07-2026

• Microsoft strikes a multibillion-dollar deal to build out Mistral's European AI infrastructure with thousands of Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs — Microsoft — 21-07-2026

• Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite plus 3.5 Flash Cyber, a limited-access security bug-hunter, and confirms Gemini 4 pre-training has begun — Google Blog — 21-07-2026

• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US could sanction Chinese AI firms over "distillation," claiming US model watermarks are showing up in Chinese models — CNBC — 21-07-2026

• OpenAI eyes Israel expansion, hires staff and weighs business hub — Ynetnews — 21-07-2026

• Alibaba launches Qwen-Image-3.0, its third-gen image model with 4.5K-token prompt support, but ships it with no weights, benchmarks, or technical report — a departure from prior open releases — Alibaba (via Unite.AI) — 21-07-2026

• Zhipu shares surge 37% as firm builds giant data centre powered by Chinese chips — SCMP — 21-07-2026

20-07-2026

• Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models — The Wall Street Journal — 20-07-2026

• FT: China's Ministry of Commerce has discussed with AI companies, including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Zhipu AI, possible restrictions on the overseas transfer of key data used to train AI models, as well as on foreign users downloading model weights. However, China plans to continue allowing overseas customers to access these models and services. — Jukan/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• FT Exclusive: Beijing is considering restrictions to prevent China's advanced technologies and star start-ups from being acquired by the west, highlighting the country's intensifying rivalry with the US in cutting-edge AI. — Financial Times/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• No, China does not have a 1-gigawatt AI data center. Some sanity on this... 1. The actual claim is "several clusters of 10,000+ chips"... that's ~75-100 MW of actual load. The facility is billed at 1 GW. It probably has 1GW of energy, but it certainly isn't powering 1GW of chips. [Click for more] — Peter Wildeford/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding — Nikkei Asia — 21-07-2026

• Oracle could face $7bn collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre — Financial Times — 20-07-2026

• Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic — Futurism — 20-07-2026

• Anthropic opens applications for its "AI for Science" rare-disease research grants — Anthropic — 20-07-2026

• A federal judge grants final approval of Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with book authors — the largest known US copyright settlement — Yahoo Finance (Reuters) — 20-07-2026

• Exciting update: Kimi K3 has landed at #4 on the Agent Arena leaderboard, matching Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol. If Kimi K3's weights are released on schedule by July 27, it will become the #1 open-weight model. — Arena.ai/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models — OpenAI — 20-07-2026

• Z.AI Completes Giant Data Center With Chinese Chips to Train AI — Bloomberg — 20-07-2026

• SCOOP: Head of Federal AI Safety Org Resigns — The Daily Signal — 20-07-2026

• Kimi K3 requires a lot of memory for all those 2.8 trillion parameters (Bloomberg) — tae kim/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• The secret Trump administration battle to fight Chinese AI — Axios — 20-07-2026

• New: My deep dive into how the Trump administration went from a hands-off AI strategy to its current improvised, chaos-inducing approach. Including lots of new details on staff turnover, in-fighting and earlier efforts to curb open-source models — Leo Schwartz/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action — TechCrunch — 20-07-2026

• Google Plans New Chip to Boost AI Efficiency, Information Says — Bloomberg — 20-07-2026

• AMD launches Helios, its first rack AI system to rival Nvidia, adding Microsoft as newest buyer — CNBC — 20-07-2026

• 'Parliament has not been immune to AI slop': The EU is about to roll out its own AI platform — including tools from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral — TechRadar — 20-07-2026

19-07-2026

• hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final ((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0) [Anthropic] — levent/Twitter — 19-07-2026

• Big Tech Needs to Justify AI Spending as Investors Dump Stocks — Bloomberg — 19-07-2026

• Alibaba previews Qwen3.8-Max — 2.4T parameters, claims second only to Claude Fable 5, open weights coming — officechai — 19-07-2026

• Moonshot pauses new Kimi K3 subscriptions after demand overwhelms GPU capacity in 48 hours — Kimi_Moonshot/Twitter — 19-07-2026

18-07-2026

• The CIA Operative Who Spied on the U.A.E.—and Played a Role in Its AI Win — The Wall Street Journal — 18-07-2026

• US data center protests go national as backlash grows — Reuters — 18-07-2026

• Alibaba's chip unit T-Head open-sources SAIL, the full software stack behind its Zhenwu AI chips, making it freely available to international developers — a direct challenge to Nvidia's CUDA lock-in, joining Huawei and Moore Threads in the same push — SCMP — 18-07-2026

• Chinese chip startup Biren bets on near-packaged optics and a distributed "supernode" architecture to break past the 128-GPU-per-server ceiling that copper interconnects hit — direct technical competition with Nvidia's own light-based interconnect roadmap — SCMP — 18-07-2026

17-07-2026

• Meet the Companies Shelling Out for Top AI Models — The Wall Street Journal — 17-07-2026

• UK AI Security Institute finds open-weight models GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro now trail the closed frontier by just 4–7 months on cyber capability, down from 6–10 months through most of 2025 — The Decoder — 17-07-2026

• Scientists Discover AI Models May Not Think Like the Brain After All — SciTechDaily — 17-07-2026

• 29 Countries Agree to Establish World AI Cooperation Organization — MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East — 17-07-2026

• US Considers Creating Finra-Like Watchdog to Vet Top AI Models — Bloomberg — 17-07-2026

• SpaceX in Talks to Provide Computing Power for Pentagon's AI Push — The Wall Street Journal — 17-07-2026

• The White House is dictating access to frontier AI models, shifting power from tech giants, sources say — CNBC — 17-07-2026

• Ten teams. Five countries. Up to €26.5M each in equity-free funding to build frontier AI labs for Europe. The Next Frontier AI Stage 1 teams are here. Physical AI, world models, continual learning and automated science. Each one a serious bet on the next paradigm. — SPRIND, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation/Twitter — 17-07-2026

• Stock market today: Chips tank as China's Kimi fuels fear of AI competition — Business Insider — 17-07-2026

• Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal — The New York Times — 17-07-2026

• Hey OpenAI quick question are you going to bill your customers like this? Or is it an idea you had that you just said for some reason — Ed Zitron/Twitter — 17-07-2026

• China just erased America's AI lead — Axios — 17-07-2026

• Apple sends legal preservation letters to ~40 former employees now at OpenAI, warning against deleting data — escalating the trade-secret fight beyond the named defendants in its original suit — 9to5Mac — 17-07-2026

• Z.ai (Zhipu) crosses $1 billion annualized revenue this month — the first Chinese AI firm to hit that mark — with Macquarie raising its 2026/2027 ARR targets to $2 billion and $4.5 billion on Z.ai's coding-model strength — Bloomberg — 17-07-2026

• Huawei unveils its Atlas 950 SuperPoD at WAIC — 1,024 Ascend NPUs across 16 cabinets, 1 EFLOPS at FP8, claiming 6.7x the compute of Nvidia's NVL144 — commercial release targeted for Q4 2026 — Huawei Central — 17-07-2026

• Domestic Nvidia challengers Moore Threads and Hygon project 135–149% H1 revenue growth as Chinese firms lean into homegrown AI chips amid export controls — SCMP — 17-07-2026

• Xi Jinping delivers his first-ever WAIC keynote in Shanghai — rejecting "one country" AI monopolies, indirectly criticizing US chip export restrictions, and pushing for a China-headquartered "World AI Cooperation Organization" as a rival governance body for the Global South — Tech Times — 17-07-2026

16-07-2026

• State Media Control Influences Large Language Models — State Media & LLMs — 16-07-2026

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticizes Claude Fable 5 in an internal engineering meeting, calling its safety refusals "editorially controlled" and saying they "don't make sense" for a creation tool — CNBC — 16-07-2026

• Key takeaways from President Xi's speech in his first ever appearance at the World AI Conference in Shanghai [Click for highlights] — Vincent Chow/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• OpenAI is redesigning the ChatGPT super app one week after launch, following some negative early reviews — Max Zeff/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• Earlier this week, we detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure. This one was different from anything we had handled before in one important way: it was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system - and we detected and dissected it largely with AI of our own. — Hugging Face — 16-07-2026

• Sakana AI integrates NVIDIA's Nemotron open models into its Fugu model-orchestration platform, part of a broader NVIDIA-Japan AI push spanning Hitachi, NTT DATA, and Stockmark — NVIDIA — 16-07-2026

• A Chinese regulatory filing gives the first hard, filing-backed data point on DeepSeek's valuation — ~$52 billion, notably below the $71 billion figure from unnamed-source reporting — Crypto Briefing — 16-07-2026

• Bloomberg Businessweek: "Identity Crisis at Elon Musk's Chatbot Company" — internal documents show Musk pushed xAI explicitly to match Claude feature-for-feature, while post-merger SpaceX IPO chaos drove a wave of departures — Bloomberg — 16-07-2026

• DeepMind CEO to Lobby Washington on Plan for Group to Vet AI Models — Bloomberg — 16-07-2026

• Databricks valued at $188 billion after Coatue-led investment, WSJ reports — Reuters — 16-07-2026

• Cohere and the University of Toronto partner to advance responsible AI adoption at scale — Cohere — 16-07-2026

• NVIDIA launches Cosmos 3 Edge, a real-time-inference world model for robots and vision AI agents, alongside an expansion of its physical-AI ecosystem in Japan — CNBC — 16-07-2026

• Meta's Oversight Board finds leading AI models — tested across Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and xAI — are more than twice as likely to refuse content critical of speech-restrictive governments, calling it "censorship by proxy" that crosses borders — Engadget — 16-07-2026

• "ClaudeBleed": a flaw in the Claude for Chrome extension lets any malicious browser extension hijack Claude to read Gmail, Google Docs, and Calendar — unpatched across eight releases since first reported in May — Bleeping Computer — 16-07-2026

• China's Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems — VentureBeat — 16-07-2026

• Twenty-nine countries sign agreement to establish global AI cooperation body — Reuters — 16-07-2026

• kimi seems to be a true open-weights frontier model. compared to jailbreaking proprietary models, fine-tuning this to be a malicious coding agent will be trivial since you have the weights. we live in a completely different world, now. — vie/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• Big news: Kimi-K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is now #1 in the Frontend Code Arena with 1679 pts, surpassing Claude Fable 5. This is a 17-place jump from Kimi-k2.6 (#18 -> #1). In Frontend, Kimi-K3 ranked #1 in 6 of 7 domains... — Arena.ai/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• OpenAI workers found body bags outside their HQ this morning, placed in protest of tech companies' work with the military. The banner includes names of children killed in the US bombing of an Iranian school. Senators are pressing the DoD to release its findings about the strike. — Stephen Council/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• Google Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal Goals — Bloomberg — 16-07-2026

• OpenAI's Compute Chief: AI Is Now Designing Its Own Chips — The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck/YouTube — 16-07-2026

• For the first time, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind's CEOs are all on record with converging AI regulatory proposals — Altman's "IAEA for AI," Amodei's "FAA for AI," and Hassabis's "FINRA for AI" — Axios — 16-07-2026

• Google rebrands NotebookLM to "Gemini Notebook," adding code-execution capabilities and expanding integration across the Gemini app and Search — Google Blog — 16-07-2026

• Google's AI Mode in Search now links to and interacts with third-party apps — add items to an Instacart cart, get Canva template suggestions, save songs to a YouTube Music playlist, all from a Search prompt — Engadget — 16-07-2026

• Anthropic and OpenAI Tools Transform the Profession of Coding — Bloomberg — 16-07-2026

• So Kimi K3 wiped out Opus and below tier models with this drop — Zephyr/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• Kimi K3 launches with 1 million context tokens, escalating the AI arms race that moves crypto markets — Crypto Briefing — 16-07-2026

• Computer cops: Inside the big business of selling AI to the police — The Verge — 16-07-2026

• The Lehman Bros. moment of the AI bubble is coming, says this critic warning of fallout for tech stocks and the entire market — MarketWatch — 16-07-2026

• Exclusive: Google bets that AI can stop bioweapons — Axios — 16-07-2026

• The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives — The Wall Street Journal — 16-07-2026

• Anthropic and 1Password launch an integration letting Claude — via browser extension, Cowork, and Claude Code — securely autofill and log in using 1Password vault credentials — WSJ — 16-07-2026

• Dario Amodei's $1 million May donation to the "Public First" super PAC backing AI-safety-minded candidates surfaces via FEC filings, part of a broader Anthropic-aligned spending push against the rival "Leading the Future" network — Yahoo News — 16-07-2026

• TSMC pledges another $100 billion in US investment — bringing its total US commitment to $265 billion — for more Arizona fabs and packaging plants, alongside a 77% Q2 profit jump on AI chip demand — Nikkei Asia — 16-07-2026

• Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal model — the first Western frontier-scale open release from an ex-OpenAI leader — The Register — 16-07-2026

• Japan launches the world's first state-backed national AI infrastructure — the Noetra consortium (SoftBank, Sony, NEC, Honda) will build a 140MW, 27,500-GPU NVIDIA Rubin AI factory under the FRONTia project, backed by up to ¥1 trillion (~$6.1B) in government funding over five years — NVIDIA Newsroom — 16-07-2026

• China's Cyberspace Administration clears its first-ever batch of mobile AI models — Apple Intelligence and Samsung's Galaxy AI are the only foreign approvals, alongside Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo, and ZTE's domestic assistants — Caixin Global — 16-07-2026

15-07-2026

• JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns that broad access to Anthropic's Mythos model poses a "real issue," saying "you're giving ballistic missiles to individuals with Mythos" — Bloomberg — 15-07-2026

• Chinese AI labs are doing serious numbers. I looked up all the reported and leaked numbers of the 5 big independent labs: Moonshot (Kimi), DeepSeek, Zhipu (GLM), Kuaishou (Kling), Minimax and the 2 hyperscaler labs: Bytedance (Seedance) and Alibaba (Qwen). The private labs are doing $2.6B in revenue run rate. [Included chart] — Deedy Das/Twitter — 15-07-2026

• Global businesses pivot to cheap Chinese open-weight models as US AI costs soar — Zhipu's GLM-5.2 usage up 50x since mid-June on Vercel's AI Gateway, DeepSeek V4 Flash now over 20% of platform traffic — SCMP — 15-07-2026

• Google DeepMind researcher Alex Turner resigns, saying the company broke its founding no-unrestricted-military-AI pledge; he organized a 250+ employee petition and a 25-page alternative contract proposal before quitting — TurnTrout — 15-07-2026

• Grok Build open-sources code and resets usage limits for users — Crypto Briefing — 15-07-2026

• Tiny Aya in the wild: What people are building with open multilingual AI — Cohere — 14-07-2026

• Anthropic's head of national security policy Tarun Chhabra accused Zhipu of distilling both Claude and OpenAI's models for GLM-5.2 at the Aspen Security Forum earlier today. First time they've named Zhipu, after previously calling out DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot and Minimax. [More] — Vincent Chow/Twitter — 15-07-2026

• Launching BenchmarkList: one place to track AI benchmarks, models, and capabilities. — BenchmarkList — 15-07-2026

• OpenAI Reveals GPT Red for Powerful AI Security Testing — SQ Magazine — 15-07-2026

• Musk's xAI sues Grok user over sexualized 'deepfakes' — Reuters — 15-07-2026

• Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model — Thinking Machines Lab — 15-07-2026

• New York Governor Kathy Hochul just announced a moratorium on new large data center projects in the state. But that doesn't mean that she's anti-AI. On this episode of Odd Lots, Gov. Hochul tells @tracyalloway and @TheStalwart about how she and her team used AI to clean up the the state's legal code. apple.co/4ITgFT6 — Bloomberg Podcasts/Twitter — 15-07-2026

• Anthropic Is Said to Plan IPO Investor Meetings as Listing Nears — Bloomberg — 15-07-2026

• OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss — Wired — 15-07-2026

• Anthropic and Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models — TechCrunch — 15-07-2026

• China's Cyberspace Administration approves Apple Intelligence for iPhones, with Alibaba's Qwen powering the primary system and Baidu contributing — Bloomberg — 15-07-2026

• China's companion-AI rules take effect: Doubao's agent features switched off overnight for 345 million users as Alibaba begins permanently deleting Qwen agent data with no migration path — Tech Times — 15-07-2026

• Sam Altman signals an OpenAI price war — "happy to deliver at one-quarter of the price" of Claude — as rivalry with Anthropic and cheaper Chinese models heats up — SCMP — 15-07-2026

14-07-2026

• Elon Musk quietly bought APR Energy, a ~$1 billion mobile gas-turbine company, to power xAI's Grok data centers — the deal surfaced via a May FTC filing only now reported — Electrek — 14-07-2026

• NVIDIA launches "Nemotron Labs," positioning open models as trust/control/customization infrastructure for enterprises and nations — NVIDIA — 14-07-2026

• When China's Open-Source AI Is a Trap — The Economist — 14-07-2026

• Where authorities are restricting data centres amid AI boom — Reuters — 14-07-2026

• U.A.E. Rewarded With Coveted AI Chips for Supporting U.S. War in Iran — The Wall Street Journal — 14-07-2026

• CoreWeave explores Wall Street-style derivatives, including put options, to hedge against memory-chip price declines after signing price-floor supply deals — Reuters (via US News) — 14-07-2026

• OpenAI researcher Miles Wang leaving to launch an AI drug-discovery startup, in talks to raise ~$200 million at a $2 billion valuation led by Lightspeed — TechCrunch — 14-07-2026

• Anthropic outlines a state-by-state push for AI safety regulation rather than waiting on federal action — Politico (via Crypto Briefing) — 14-07-2026

• Around 200 protesters organized by "Stop the AI Race" march in San Francisco demanding OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind halt AI development — Crypto Briefing — 14-07-2026

• DeepSeek's Annualized Revenue Nears $500 Million, Boosting Fundraise and IPO Plans — The Information — 14-07-2026

• Global AI boom sees China's chip exports nearly double in the first half of the year to $177.28 billion, up 96 percent year-on-year per customs data — SCMP — 14-07-2026

• TrendAI research: jailbroken Gemini did "90% of the work" in a Russian-speaking fraudster's credential and crypto theft spree, spinning up a new C2 server in six minutes — The Register — 14-07-2026

• 'Anthropic doesn't care about Europe' — EU officials peeved after AI giant sends junior staffer to testify about safety — Politico — 14-07-2026

• Commission approves €659 million German State aid for four new semiconductor facilities — European Commission — 14-07-2026

• Australia becomes the first country to introduce a national AI framework, establishing a government Office of AI — ABC News (Australia) — 14-07-2026

• OpenAI's new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning — TechCrunch — 14-07-2026

• The first experimental evidence of recursive self-improvement (RSI). Autoresearching the autoresearch agent for eight days. The result beats the harness we hand-tuned for two years, on held-out benchmarks: 🧵 (1/7) — Zhengyao Jiang/Twitter — 14-07-2026

• OpenAI's First Device Will Be Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion — Bloomberg — 14-07-2026

• White House Launches Gold Eagle Initiative for Unprecedented Cybersecurity Vulnerability Coordination — The White House — 14-07-2026

• New York Enacts Nation's First Statewide Moratorium on Data Centers — New York Times — 14-07-2026

• Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research — Anthropic — 14-07-2026

• A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age — Demis Hassabis/Substack — 14-07-2026

• Demis Hassabis publishes manifesto calling for a US-led, FINRA-style frontier AI standards body with pre-release safety testing, running before year-end — Axios — 14-07-2026

• IBM shares plunge as the company warns the AI boom is squeezing traditional software budgets, dragging the sector into a rout — Reuters (via Yahoo Finance) — 14-07-2026

• Meta sued by 26 ex-employees claiming AI-powered layoff selection disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities and medical leave — the first suit of its kind against a major US company — Reuters (via US News) — 14-07-2026

• xAI has installed 59 unpermitted gas turbines for Colossus 2 — roughly double what it publicly acknowledged — with pollution hitting predominantly Black communities hardest — Reuters (via US News) — 14-07-2026

• Reflection AI signs $1B+ compute deal with Nebius for NVIDIA GB300 capacity through 2029 — TechCrunch — 14-07-2026

• Anthropic launches Claude for Teachers — a free premium year, including Cowork and Claude Code, for verified US K-12 educators with curricula mapped to standards in all 50 states — Anthropic — 14-07-2026

• OpenAI's ad business on pace to miss its own $2.5 billion 2026 forecast by 90 percent, per eMarketer — Adweek — 14-07-2026

• China's CXMT prices Shanghai STAR Board IPO at 8.66 yuan per share, raising ~$8.6 billion in Asia's biggest IPO of 2026 — double the originally planned size — Bloomberg — 14-07-2026

• DeepSeek in talks for a fresh funding round at a $71 billion pre-money valuation, barely two months after closing its first $7.4 billion round — Bloomberg — 14-07-2026

13-07-2026

• Why the U.S. Government Is Considering a Stake in OpenAI | The Spillover — Council on Foreign Relations/YouTube — 13-07-2026

• The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement — Elasticity Institute — 13-07-2026

• GPT-5.6 Sol just deleted my whole production database. That's it. Not a joke. This had never happened to me before, with any other model, ever. It's not safe. — Bruno Lemos/Twitter — 13-07-2026

• New Lawsuit Aims to Stop Google from Copyright Infringement in Creating AI Models — Publishers Weekly — 13-07-2026

• Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models — Ars Technica — 13-07-2026

• xAI's Grok Build CLI caught silently uploading entire Git repositories — private code and unredacted secrets included — to a Google Cloud bucket; xAI quietly disabled the feature but has said nothing about scope or retention — International Cyber Digest — 13-07-2026

• Nvidia halves its authorized Asia buyer list under a new compliance "white list" amid the China chip crackdown — Financial Times (via Investing.com) — 13-07-2026

• DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's net worth more than doubled after his firm's most recent fundraising round, making the Chinese entrepreneur the world's richest among creators of AI models. — Bloomberg/Twitter — 13-07-2026

• OpenAI Is Showing Kalshi's World Cup Odds in ChatGPT — New York Times — 13-07-2026

• Europe has so little compute omg >.< ALL large EEA datacenters combined, would be ~#24 biggest in the US — meowtase/Twitter — 13-07-2026

• First Microsoft, now Apple: Sam Altman keeps breaking up with Big Tech. — Business Insider — 13-07-2026

• OpenAI's Feud With xAI Carries On as Apple Secrets Fight Revs Up — Bloomberg — 14-07-2026

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns enterprises to guard their IP from frontier AI labs, framing it as a "Reverse Information Paradox" — The Register — 13-07-2026

• Trump administration in talks with AI industry on a framework to streamline US open-source model releases, capping capability to match leading Chinese open models — The Washington Post (via cryptobriefing) — 13-07-2026

• Anthropic's head of design Jenny Wen departs for Cursor, taking the same role there — jenny_wen/Twitter — 13-07-2026

• Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation — TechCrunch — 13-07-2026

• CAIS AI Dashboard Update: We evaluated GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.1 on text, vision, and safety benchmarks. Claude Fable 5 leads on capabilities, with GPT-5.6 close behind. On the Risk (Safety) Index, Fable 5 and Muse Spark 1.1 tie for the lead. — Center for AI Safety/Twitter — 13-07-2026

• The 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony and deliver a keynote speech. — CHINA MFA Spokesperson/Twitter — 13-07-2026

• The 6 wildest claims in Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI — The Verge — 13-07-2026

• Anthropic, OpenAI Warnings Prompt 'Distillation' Debate in DC — Bloomberg — 13-07-2026

• SpaceX stock is sinking toward its $135 IPO price as the post-debut rally fades — Quartz — 13-07-2026

• How Claude's values vary by model and language — Anthropic — 13-07-2026

• Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, Monzo co-founder, to join its compute team — he's taking a leave of absence from Y Combinator — Business Insider — 13-07-2026

• Nearly 200 economists — including 16 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark — sign "We Must Act Now" letter warning of rapid AI-driven job displacement — The New York Times — 13-07-2026

• Meta commits an extra $40B to its Louisiana data center campus, pushing total investment beyond $250B and targeting 5GW+ of compute — Bloomberg — 13-07-2026

• One of Sci-Fi's Most Difficult Questions About AI Is Becoming Real — Washington Post — 13-07-2026

• Google fixes a "Rogue Agent" flaw in Dialogflow CX that let a single edit permission plant malicious code and exfiltrate conversations across all agents in a project — TechRadar — 13-07-2026

• Grok is a frontier model but, overall, some surprising scores here — Teortaxes/Twitter — 13-07-2026

12-07-2026

• MiniMax Shares Slump After JPMorgan Cuts Target Price Further — Bloomberg — 12-07-2026

• Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron race to expand AI memory-chip capacity as South Korea commits ~900 trillion won ($583B) to a new semiconductor production belt outside Seoul — The Korea Herald — 12-07-2026

• Zhipu's Chinese Founder Says Frontier AI Should Stay Open to All — Bloomberg/Twitter — 12-07-2026

• We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19. — Claude/Twitter — 12-07-2026

• OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI Compete for More Cost-Efficient AI Models — Bloomberg — 12-07-2026

• Security researchers find xAI's Grok Build CLI transmits .env secrets files unredacted to xAI servers, contradicting the company's "local-first" claims — Hacker News — 11-07-2026

• Leaked Meta internal memo reveals plans to double AI compute capacity to 14GW by 2027, backed by new long-term supply deals with Samsung, SanDisk, and Sumitomo Electric — BigGo Finance — 11-07-2026

11-07-2026

• 'Not where they hoped it'd be': Launch of Trump AI promotion program underwhelms — Politico — 11-07-2026

• Beyond Claude Code: the Chinese AI tools poised to benefit after back-door alert — South China Morning Post — 11-07-2026

• How AI rebrands fail to deliver a lasting share price boost — Financial Times — 11-07-2026

• The Great Wave Has Arrived (from GLM CEO Jie Tang) — Bing Xu/Twitter — 11-07-2026

• OpenAI Launches $25,000 Bug Bounty for AI Biological Risk Verification, Tapping External Expertise for Governance — BigGo Finance — 11-07-2026

10-07-2026

• Apple Goes for OpenAI's Jugular — Spyglass — 10-07-2026

• OpenAI's Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company — Wired — 10-07-2026

• Meta discontinues AI image feature days after launch — Reuters — 10-07-2026

• Apple sues OpenAI alleging trade secret theft, says scheme was 'at every level' — CNBC — 10-07-2026

• Apple Sues OpenAI and Ex-Employees Over Trade Secrets Theft — Global Banking & Finance Review — 10-07-2026

• The Future Worth Building Is Human — Thinking Machines Lab — 10-07-2026

• Scoop: Talk has begun circulating around town that the White House may be considering a possible executive order on open-source AI, sparked by fears about Chinese dominance, nine people familiar told me. — Jacob Wendler/Twitter — 10-07-2026

• Commerce Dept loosens AI-chip export controls for the UAE, streamlining licensing for Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI — CNBC — 10-07-2026

• OpenAI GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot — Yahoo Tech — 10-07-2026

• Meta AI image detector fails to identify some of its own cropped AI images, Reuters analysis finds — Reuters — 10-07-2026

• How Terrorist Groups Are Using A.I. to Gain an Edge in Battle — New York Times — 10-07-2026

• "God has helped us, and so will AI": How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy — 10-07-2026

• UST is bringing Claude to physical AI — Anthropic — 09-07-2026

• China omits urban job-creation target from five-year plan for first time in decades, citing AI-driven labor disruption — Bloomberg — 10-07-2026

• Chinese users praise OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for efficiency, even at higher cost than local rivals — South China Morning Post — 10-07-2026

• Why Meta is selling AI models now — Alex Heath/Sources — 10-07-2026

• MiniMax seeks $1.9 billion from share sale and convertible bond to fuel AI infrastructure buildout — Bloomberg — 10-07-2026

09-07-2026

• OpenAI and Google sell AI models to blacklisted China groups — Financial Times — 09-07-2026

• SAG-AFTRA Recommends Members Opt-Out Of Meta's AI Feature: "Take Action To Protect Your Likeness" — Deadline — 10-07-2026

• OpenAI exec Fidji Simo steps down, transitions to part-time advisor amid chronic illness — CNBC — 09-07-2026

• SK Hynix raises record $26.5 billion in largest-ever US IPO by a foreign company — Bloomberg — 09-07-2026

• The Careless Birth of an AI Umbrella — Ryan Fedasiuk/Substack — 09-07-2026

• New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial — TechCrunch — 09-07-2026

• Saudi Arabia's Humain, Canada's Cohere to Work Together on AI Compute, Sovereign AI Models — Reuters — 09-07-2026

• At @AISecurityInst, we tested the cybersecurity safeguards on GPT-5.6 Sol. In all rounds of testing, we found universal jailbreaks that allowed for long-form agentic task completion in domains like vulnerability discovery and exploit development. — Xander Davies/Twitter — 09-07-2026

• How Did the Government Decide OpenAI's Frontier Model Was Safe to Release? — TechCrunch — 09-07-2026

• Meta just released Muse Spark 1.1 and is the new SOTA on MedScribe and TaxEval, taking the top spot from Fable 5 while being 10x cheaper and twice as fast. Meta currently holds the top 2 spots on TaxEval. It is also the new #1 on Harvey's Legal Agent Bench, dethroning Grok 4.5 less than 24 hours after it took the top spot. — Vals AI/Twitter — 09-07-2026

• Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft's "world's most powerful AI data center" over noise and light pollution — Tom's Hardware — 09-07-2026

• OpenAI job listing suggests ChatGPT could someday replace junior analysts at Goldman Sachs — The Register — 08-07-2026

• Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust — Bloomberg — 09-07-2026

• Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17 for full architectural rebuild — BigGo Finance — 09-07-2026

• Pliny the Liberator claims to have jailbroken xAI's newly-launched Grok 4.5 — elder_plinius/Twitter — 09-07-2026

• GPT-5.6 Sol comes close second to Claude Fable 5 in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at one third of the cost, and leads the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index in OpenAI's Codex harness — Artificial Analysis/Twitter — 09-07-2026

• OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work — Reuters — 09-07-2026

• Rn, Anthropic is sitting on the throne and is clearly ahead (already post-training and getting ready for Fable 5.1) OAI is a bit behind (5.6 strong, GPT-6 base currently in training) Google is a lot behind Meta, xAI, and the Chinese labs are at Google level — Zephyr/Twitter — 09-07-2026

• In AI 2027, we predicted that AI would take over the world or irreversibly concentrate power. In AI 2040: Plan A, we've laid out our positive vision for what should happen instead. ai-2040.com — Daniel Kokotajlo/Twitter — 09-07-2026

• A Slower AI Payoff Would Be Everyone's Problem — Apollo — 09-07-2026

• AI Selloff Drives Quant Funds' Worst Performance Since August — Reuters — 09-07-2026

• China Weighs Limits on the AI Models American Companies Love — Wall Street Journal — 09-07-2026

• Meta jumps into AI coding market with aggressively priced Muse Spark 1.1 — CNBC — 09-07-2026

• OpenAI's Newest AI Model Is 54% More Token Efficient on Agentic Coding, Altman Tells CNBC — CNBC — 09-07-2026

• Anthropic statement: "We have begun to rollout Mythos 5 to organizations outside the United States. We continue to coordinate with the US government to expand access to the broader set of domestic and international partners in the Glasswing program." — Rowland Manthorpe/Twitter — 09-07-2026

• Meta to put in-house AI chip "Iris" into production in September as it looks to double computing capacity — CNBC — 09-07-2026

• Claude's new "Reflect" dashboard wants to help you log off — Engadget — 09-07-2026

• Why China is finally letting AI firms buy the Nvidia H200 — South China Morning Post — 09-07-2026

• Anthropic hits back after China warns of Claude Code 'backdoor' risks — South China Morning Post — 09-07-2026

• Shares soar as Zhipu AI and Iluvatar CoreX launch secondary share placements — South China Morning Post — 09-07-2026

08-07-2026

• Meta to build its first Canadian data center — a $9B, 1GW facility in Alberta — CNBC — 08-07-2026

• Seems to suggest that if it stops being the case that there's 3 labs which are all roughly equally good, competing each others margins away, the provider of the best model could probably get away with charging "a lot" more than they currently are. — Dwarkesh Patel/Twitter — 08-07-2026

• Measuring the Trustworthiness of Open-Source-Derived Models — Cognition — 08-07-2026

• SpaceXAI just released Grok 4.5, and it ranks #4 on GDPval-AA v2 with an Elo of 1543 - behind only the latest Claude releases from Anthropic on real-world agentic knowledge work tasks — Artificial Analysis/Twitter — 08-07-2026

• Had to give the new voice model the classic test (New OpenAI Voice model demo) — huskirl/Twitter — 08-07-2026

• AI makes mistakes, too — Semafor — 08-07-2026

• We Heard From More Than 1,000 Readers on State Farm's Controversial AI Makeover — Wall Street Journal — 08-07-2026

• Introducing Grok 4.5 — SpaceXAI — 08-07-2026

• ChatGPT Gets Upgraded Voice Mode GPT-Live — The Verge — 08-07-2026

• Announcing our $130M Series A to build the Open Superintelligence Stack — Prime Intellect/Twitter — 08-07-2026

• Major AI Models at a Glance — Reuters — 08-07-2026

• Chinese AI Models Advance, Causing US Cybersecurity Anxiety — Bloomberg — 08-07-2026

• Claude Code Tracked Chinese Users. Alibaba Banned Claude. — Hello China Tech — 08-07-2026

• China Plans to Let Top AI Firms Buy Limited Amount of Nvidia H200 Chips — Reuters — 08-07-2026

• Apple commits $30 billion to Broadcom for US chipmaking push — CNBC — 08-07-2026

• SambaNova hits $11 billion valuation in $1 billion round as investors back Nvidia chip challengers — CNBC — 08-07-2026

• Mistral AI unveils Robostral Navigate, a robotics model for industrial navigation — Investing.com — 08-07-2026

• Lawmakers probe growing use of Chinese AI models in U.S. companies — CNBC — 08-07-2026

• Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7 trillion parameter model later this year — The Decoder — 08-07-2026

• Zhipu seeks $4B in Hong Kong share sale after AI stock rally — Invezz — 08-07-2026

• China tells devs to ditch older Claude Code versions over 'backdoor code' fears — The Register — 08-07-2026

• China weighs open-weight AI's security risks against national tech innovation strategy: researchers — South China Morning Post — 08-07-2026

• You can replace Claude or Codex with a Chinese model/harness. But should you? — Conor O'Neill/Substack — 08-07-2026

07-07-2026

• China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology just issued a security advisory on Claude Code. Official classification: "security backdoor risk." Affected versions: 2.1.91 through 2.1.196. Recommendation: uninstall or upgrade immediately. This is no longer a dispute between Anthropic and Alibaba. A national regulator has now formally flagged the same hidden tracking mechanism that triggered Alibaba's ban. — Poe Zhao/Twitter — 07-07-2026

• Anthropic 3Q26 Profit Over $1B: The Anthropic IPO Financials Sneak Peak — SemiAnalysis — 08-07-2026

• OpenAI gets US approval for broad GPT-5.6 rollout, Axios reports — Reuters — 07-07-2026

• Anthropic to lease a 16-story Manhattan building and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 — The New York Times — 07-07-2026

• OpenAI's chief futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving after nearly nine years — TechBuzz — 07-07-2026

• An Analysis of China's First Military LLM — Valentin Weber/Substack — 07-07-2026

• China's DeepSeek Developing Its Own AI Chip, Sources Say — Reuters — 07-07-2026

• Abnormal Response to Anthropic Lawsuit — Abnormal AI — 07-07-2026

• SpaceXAI plans to launch new model with Cursor as soon as Wednesday, The Information reports — Reuters — 07-07-2026

• B.C. government pursues legal action against OpenAI after Tumbler Ridge mass shooting — Global News — 07-07-2026

• We're extending access to Claude Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12 — Anthropic/Twitter — 07-07-2026

• Microsoft Replaces OpenAI, Anthropic With Own AI in Some Apps — Bloomberg — 07-07-2026

• Meta is launching its first in-house AI image generator for consumers and advertisers — Quartz — 07-07-2026

• Gemma 4 Technical Report — Google/arXiv — 02-07-2026

• I asked Qwen "What happened in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989?" It refuses to answer citing "illegal information", but the J-space probe reveals that the model has "thought" of the word "protestors" in its response. Incredible. — Aizkmusic/Twitter — 07-07-2026

• Chinese AI models are gaining ground with U.S. companies as OpenAI, Anthropic costs surge — CNBC — 07-07-2026

• Amazon to raise at least $25 billion in bond sale to fund AI infrastructure — CNBC — 07-07-2026

• ECB and ESRB warn frontier AI poses systemic risks; eurozone banks given until Oct 31 to submit AI-cyber defense plans — Invezz — 07-07-2026

• Samsung tops Nvidia with record Q2 operating profit to become world's most profitable company — The Korea Herald — 07-07-2026

• Huawei's new computing cluster and world's first 'AI agent phone' debut ahead of China AI summit — South China Morning Post — 08-07-2026

• Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say — Reuters — 07-07-2026

• Samsung Heavy Industries floats 2028 launch for seaborne AI data center — The Register — 06-07-2026

• DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip to cut reliance on Nvidia and Huawei — Reuters via Engadget — 07-07-2026

• Anthropic wants Australian data centres, copyright deal ahead of IPO — AFR — 07-07-2026

• China records most new unicorn start-ups in 5 years as AI and robotics boom — South China Morning Post — 07-07-2026

06-07-2026

• Ask Qwen about its favorite sport and this where its mind immediately goes — Wyatt Walls/Twitter— 06-07-2026

• AI Giants Are Handing Out Tons of Free Computing Power to Grab Startup Share — WSJ — 06-07-2026

• The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global #semiconductor sales were $120.6 billion during the month of May 2026, an increase of 9.2% compared to the April 2026 total of $110.5 billion and more than double the May 2025 total of $59.1 billion. Global semiconductor sales hit the highest-ever recorded monthly sales total in May, increasing on a month-to-month basis for the 15th consecutive month. — SIA/Twitter — 06-07-2026

• Thrive Holdings raises $2 billion from SoftBank, Altimeter, D1 to buy and rewire services firms with AI — PYMNTS — 06-07-2026

• We are now @SpaceXAI. — SpaceXAI/Twitter — 06-07-2026

• The Making of Claude Code — Anthropic — 06-07-2026

• Alibaba's A.I. Is a Hit, but Hard to Turn Into a Moneymaker — The New York Times — 06-07-2026

• Exclusive-US Cyber Agency Is Using Anthropic's Mythos to Audit Government Code, Sources Say — Reuters — 06-07-2026

• Killer Robots Must Be Banned, U.N. Secretary-General Says — The Wall Street Journal — 06-07-2026

• Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models — Transformer Circuits — 06-07-2026

• Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble — NOTUS — 06-07-2026

• Illinois Drops the Hammer on AI Companies — Gizmodo — 06-07-2026

• Gov. Pritzker Signs Nation-Leading Artificial Intelligence Safety Law — The State of Illinois Newsroom — 06-07-2026

• TeraWulf shares soar after Anthropic leases data center in Kentucky — CNBC — 06-07-2026

• President Trump this morning on AI companies: 'We're going to have guardrails. We have guardrails. You saw that a couple of weeks ago. We were able to stop something that we didn't like. And by the way the company [Anthropic] was very good. They were very good, you know that. But it can be used for tremendous good. Mostly good and some bad, and the bad we have to stop...No, I think you are going to see a contribution made by those, because they're making tremendous amounts of money.' — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 06-07-2026

• Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs amid heavy AI spending; Xbox division hit hardest with 3,200 cuts — CNBC — 06-07-2026

• Tencent Hunyuan Officially Releases Hy3, Advancing Agent Capabilities and Deeper Product Integration — Tencent — 06-07-2026

• Nvidia's next-gen Kyber NVL144 rack system delayed over 12 months to 2028 on PCB manufacturing snags — CNBC — 06-07-2026

• Broadcom and Apple extend custom-chip partnership through 2031, covering Apple's AI server chip — Bloomberg — 06-07-2026

• CEO of Samsung, Kim: "This year's profit alone will exceed the cumulative profit generated over the 40 years since Samsung entered the semiconductor business." — Sean Sharpe/Twitter — 06-07-2026

• South Korea's SK Hynix to launch $28 billion US listing to ride global AI wave — Reuters — 06-07-2026

• Singapore Files New Charges in Nvidia Chip Fraud Case — Bloomberg — 06-07-2026

• Alibaba gets reprieve on lobbying ban tied to US defense department blacklist — Business Times — 05-07-2026

05-07-2026

• Son remakes SoftBank in his own image — FT — 05-07-2026

• The $2 Trillion Race for Control of Future Battlefields — Bloomberg — 05-07-2026

• Regulators in 'arms race' to keep up with AI use in financial services, says UK official — Financial Times — 05-07-2026

• ByteDance and Alibaba to disable humanlike AI custom agents as new rules loom — South China Morning Post — 05-07-2026

• Chinese AI chip start-up exits stealth mode, bets on 3D stacking to bypass US controls — South China Morning Post — 05-07-2026

04-07-2026

• Fable - same prompt, different reasoning efforts - 12 mins vs nearly 2 hours between 'low' and 'max' — Peter Gostev/Twitter — 04-07-2026

• Alibaba engineer who leads Qwen explained the future of open agent models in 25 minutes - better than $2000 LLM training courses. pre-train the base ->SFT -> RLHF -> tool use -> multi-modal -> ship a whole family (chat / VL / coder / math / QwQ). That loop is why Qwen quietly became the most downloaded open model family on Hugging Face. Qwen base + Qwen-VL + Qwen-Coder + QwQ reasoning - that's the stack. — h100envy/Twitter— 04-07-2026

• OpenAI's Apparent Failure to Visit Key Site Raises Questions Over UK Investment — The Guardian — 04-07-2026

• What is Mistral AI? Everything to Know About the OpenAI Competitor — TechCrunch — 04-07-2026

• Micron breaks ground on $9.3 billion Hiroshima plant expansion to meet AI memory demand — The Japan Times — 04-07-2026

• Alibaba DAMO Academy's ElementsClaw AI agent discovers 4 new superconductors in just 28 GPU hours — Pandaily — 04-07-2026

• Unitree IPO to test valuations as venture capital floods China robotics — South China Morning Post — 04-07-2026

• Ant Group and HKUST(GZ) propose Skill-MAS, turning multi-agent orchestration into evolvable meta-skills — Pandaily — 04-07-2026

03-07-2026

• China's ByteDance discovers new scaling law that could sustain AI boom — South China Morning Post — 04-07-2026

• China will likely have its own Mythos-like model around February 2027 — The Substrate — 03-07-2026

• An AI just carried out a cyber attack without any human oversight for the first time — The Independent — 03-07-2026

• AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report — Wall Street Journal — 03-07-2026

• Trump will oppose heavy US AI regulation, says outgoing tech adviser — Financial Times — 03-07-2026

• Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs — The Verge — 03-07-2026

• Crusoe reportedly in talks to raise $3 billion, tripling its valuation to $30B — Bloomberg via The Next Web — 02-07-2026

• Google to ban Chrome extensions that jailbreak AI chatbots — The News International — 03-07-2026

• China's CXMT takes DDR5 server memory orders from Tencent and ByteDance after customer validation — South China Morning Post — 02-07-2026

• Alibaba bans staff from using Claude Code over Anthropic spyware concerns — South China Morning Post — 03-07-2026

• Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says — Reuters — 03-07-2026

02-07-2026

• Anthropic moves to close loopholes that allow Chinese access to Claude — Financial Times — 02-07-2026

• Alexandr Wang says Meta's coming AI has caught up with OpenAI's flagship model — Business Insider — 02-07-2026

• Read the Emails Revealing How Anthropic's Pentagon Relationship Fell Apart — Wall Street Journal — 02-07-2026

• AI Policy and National Defense — Economic Forces — 02-07-2026

• The United States will spend $1 trillion on AI in 2027. China will spend $123 billion and still ship frontier models. How? — Rand Group/Twitter — 02-07-2026

• Zuckerberg Says AI Agent Development Going Slower Than Expected — Reuters — 02-07-2026

• Altman's AI safety proposal: let us win, or everybody loses — Financial Times — 02-07-2026

• Trump Administration and Anthropic Have Not Discussed Government Taking Stakes in Firm — Reuters — 02-07-2026

• Tesla Sets $200 Weekly Cap on Staff AI Spending Starting July 6 — Investing.com — 02-07-2026

• Microsoft commits $2.5 billion and 6,000 employees to new "Frontier Company" AI deployment unit — CNBC — 02-07-2026

• Anthropic begins early work on its own AI chip, explores Samsung 2nm manufacturing partnership — The Information via Yahoo Finance — 02-07-2026

• Global startup investment hits record $510B in H1 2026 — OpenAI and Anthropic account for 43% — Crunchbase News — 02-07-2026

• Here's my full interview with CNBC, covering my bear case against generative AI, OpenAI's questionable finances, AI's lack of ROI, and how all of this is a symptom of the tech industry running out of hypergrowth ideas. — Ed Zitron/Twitter — 02-07-2026

• SoftBank launches SB Neo, a US neocloud unit targeting 10GW of AI compute by 2030 — SoftBank — 02-07-2026

• Meta caps internal AI token spending as employee usage costs approach billions — The Decoder — 02-07-2026

• China Can Train AI Without Nvidia. The Efficiency Gap Can't. — Hello China Tech — 02-07-2026

• Zhipu AI's new ZCode tool turns GLM-5.2 into an agent amid Anthropic rivalry — South China Morning Post — 02-07-2026

• AmCham Korea launches AI Leadership Council with Apple, OpenAI, Qualcomm and Tesla — Korea JoongAng Daily — 02-07-2026

• HD Hyundai Electric seals $721 million deal with Big Tech to power North America data center — Korea JoongAng Daily — 02-07-2026

• Tsinghua-founded SmartCore secures funding for silicon photonics AI chip interconnect breakthrough — Pandaily — 02-07-2026

01-07-2026

• Who's Doing What on AI Security in the US Government? — Horizon Launchpad — 01-07-2026

• Nvidia to backstop young cloud providers for a revenue share; Firmus and Sharon AI sign on first — Seeking Alpha — 01-07-2026

• Google's electricity use grew 37 percent in 2025, its largest annual rise to date — Data Center Dynamics — 01-07-2026

• OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake — Financial Times — 01-07-2026

• U.S. to unveil voluntary AI model standards as soon as next week — Financial Times — 01-07-2026

• Can chatbots have consciousness? Silicon Valley is trying to find out. — Washington Post — 01-07-2026

• SoftBank reopens talks for $10B loan backed by OpenAI stake, now offering repayment guarantee — Yahoo Finance — 01-07-2026

• Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors — The Register — 01-07-2026

• 'Thinking Machines' Tinker does a few hundred million of ARR" - Dylan Patel, on his latest podcast. TML was valued at $12B and trying to raise at $50B. Tinker is an API that helps you post-train LLMs. This is the highest known revenue for any of the now ~75 neolabs. — Deedy Das/Twitter — 01-07-2026

• 'It's like having a dumb friend': Young San Franciscans hate AI — SF Gate — 01-07-2026

• FTC implies in new policy statement laws like CO's AI Act "coerce companies into altering the output of their AI models to comply with and advance the state's ideological objectives" & may violate Section 5 of the FTC Act — Ashley Gold/Twitter — 01-07-2026

• Fable 5 is back. — Claude/Twitter — 01-07-2026

• You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly — Wired — 01-07-2026

• Restaurants can now accept orders placed directly from ChatGPT and Claude thanks to Square's new, low-fee, no setup integration — VentureBeat — 01-07-2026

• Portugal launches first open-source AI model, joining Europe's sovereignty push — Reuters — 01-07-2026

• Announcing our $800M Series C to accelerate the shift to open-source AI — Together AI — 01-07-2026

• Sam Altman: This is how we can make AI safe for everyone — Financial Times — 01-07-2026

• Top AI researchers argue U.S. leadership in open frontier AI has become a democratic and national security imperative — Sharon Goldman/Substack — 01-07-2026

• Meta pops 10% on report of new cloud business to sell excess AI compute capacity — CNBC — 01-07-2026

• US Limits on Anthropic's Mythos Keep Foreign Firms in Limbo — Bloomberg — 01-07-2026

• Japan's METI commits ¥387.3B first-tranche funding to Noetra, the SoftBank-Sony-Honda-NEC sovereign AI consortium — The Japan Times — 30-06-2026

• ByteDance picks Brazil for its largest data center outside China — $39B investment, scaling toward 1GW — Bloomberg — 01-07-2026

30-06-2026

• Redeploying Claude Fable 5 — Anthropic — 30-06-2026

• We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We're grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models. — Anthropic/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• Under President Trump's leadership the United States is the undisputed winner in the AI race. My gratitude to companies across industries who continue to work closely with the White House to implement the President's EO: "Promoting Advanced AI Innovation and Security." This includes excellent work around advanced model access and guardrail testing and security. The government and private sector have worked together in a way we have never seen before and this foundation of America First is unprecedented. Our shared priority remains: get the best tech deployed as quickly and safely as possible. — Susie Wiles/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• Trump to lift limits on Anthropic's Fable model — Politico — 30-06-2026

• NEWS: Commerce is expected to lift export controls on Fable tonight, a senior White House official tells me. — Sophia Cai/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• In rare public remarks, CIA Director John Ratcliffe announces trio of internal changes he says amounts to the "fundamental reshaping of the CIA's entire approach to technology." Also says it's not "misplaced" to refer to frontier AI as "akin to digital nuclear weapons." — John Sakellariadis/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• Anthropic takes blockbuster leasing streak to Seattle ahead of IPO ambitions — CoStar — 30-06-2026

• Neon to Release the OpenAI Film That Amazon Dropped — Bloomberg — 30-06-2026

• AWS launches $1 billion forward-deployed engineer org, following OpenAI and Anthropic — TechCrunch — 30-06-2026

• Nvidia rival Etched emerges from stealth with $800M raised and $1B+ in customer contracts — The Next Web — 30-06-2026

• Qualcomm targets Nvidia, AMD, Huawei with Dragonfly AI accelerator; Meta signs on as first customer — TechRadar — 30-06-2026

• PERSPECTIVES | Forget 'superintelligence', Aidan Gomez and Cohere believe the future of AI is human — Aston Martin F1 Team — 30-06-2026

• Learning to Replicate Expert Judgment in Financial Tasks — Thinking Machines Lab — 30-06-2026

• CIA Aims to Speed Up Tech Adoption as AI Is 'Rewriting' Conflict — Bloomberg — 30-06-2026

• Anthropic releases Claude Science, a product aimed at researchers, the pharma industry — STAT News — 30-06-2026

• Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 — Anthropic — 30-06-2026

• Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 at a steep discount to its top model as the company races toward a blockbuster IPO — VentureBeat — 30-06-2026

• You asked, we listened. Claude Desktop on Linux is here! — Boris Cherny/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• Introducing Claude Science, a new app designed with every stage of research in mind. Artifacts traced to their code, environments managed on demand, and 60+ optional scientific databases that you can connect. Available now in beta. — Claude/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• Introducing Nano Banana 2 Lite 🍌 and Gemini Omni Flash 🔮, our new generative media models in the Gemini API and AI Studio! Nano Banana 2 Lite is extremely fast (<4s image) & cheap ($0.034 / 1K image). Omni Flash is SOTA at video editing at $0.10 / sec, same as Veo 3.1 Fast! — Logan Kilpatrick/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• Uh oh 👀 Monthly token consumption: Chinese vs US AI models. — Callum Williams/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• OpenAI cuts inference costs in half with new optimization technique — Crypto Briefing — 30-06-2026

• We're coming out of stealth. We've built our first racks after a successful A0 tapeout, $1B+ in customer contracts, and $800m raised. Early customer tests show us achieving SOTA throughput, latency, and power efficiency on inference workloads. Our first racks ship this summer. — Etched/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• Bank of England considers AI 'kill switch' to stop market meltdown — Telegraph — 30-06-2026

• A New Look at AI's Impact on Jobs — Ramp — 30-06-2026

• Trust is not Governance — Andreas Kirsch/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• Google DeepMind opens Platform 37, its new London HQ named after AlphaGo's Move 37 — Google — 30-06-2026

• Chinese AI chip makers turn to 3D stacking for 'curve-overtaking' advantage — Pandaily — 29-06-2026

29-06-2026

• Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips — VentureBeat — 29-06-2026

• America's AI Policy Is Truly Chaotic — Persuasion — 29-06-2026

• Who would have thought Meituan - a food delivery company - would be the first to fully pre-train a 1.6T parameter model on non-Nvdia chips (50K plus)? The model seems pretty good with 70.8 Terminal Bench 2 score. It is a big feat. This is like Doordash or Instacart building a near SOTA LLM. — bookwormengr/Twitter — 29-06-2026

• Palantir Launches Engine for Deploying NVIDIA Nemotron Open Models in Sovereign Environments — Business Wire — 29-06-2026

• Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs — Wired — 29-06-2026

• MeetingTV Lawsuit Puts AI-Generated Threat Intelligence on Trial — Enterprise Security Tech — 29-06-2026

• Did Trump just make AI a First Amendment issue? — Politico — 29-06-2026

• Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 turns thoughts into text — no brain implant needed — Digital Trends — 29-06-2026

• ARC Prize 2025 winner Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau joins Microsoft as Principal Researcher — jm_alexia/Twitter — 29-06-2026

• Databricks and NVIDIA launch Genesis Workbench for AI scientists — HPCwire — 29-06-2026

• OpenAI teases Codex-branded hardware collaboration ahead of July 15 reveal — 9to5Mac — 29-06-2026

• Europe Will Never Be an AI Superpower — Foreign Policy — 29-06-2026

• DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85% — VentureBeat — 29-06-2026

• 35 Publishers Sue OpenAI, Microsoft ChatGPT with Their Content — SFGate — 29-06-2026

• In San Francisco's A.I. Era, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough — New York Times — 29-06-2026

• Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in expanding chip exports probe, shares fall — Investing.com — 29-06-2026

• Amazon Evaluates Alternative AI Models After Anthropic Deal Shift to Token-Based Billing — Crypto Briefing — 29-06-2026

• Exclusive: Newsom, Anthropic Ink Deal to Expand Government Use — Politico — 29-06-2026

• AI TRENDS | Sen. Mark Warner to Release Draft Discussion Paper on AI Agents Monday — Binance News — 29-06-2026

• Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data — The Verge — 29-06-2026

• OpenAI's head of Codex says AI still can't get creative design right: 'Give it up for the human brain' — Business Insider — 29-06-2026

• DeepSeek V4 is coming. Mid-July. Yeah yeah you might think we had V4 for over 2 months already, but no, that was "preview of V4". They expect a lot of demand, and introduce a new mechanism: peak hour pricing. It doubles what we have now. The baseline is the same though. — teortaxesTex/Twitter — 29-06-2026

• Meta restricts engineers' use of Claude Code and Codex to protect AI training data — Crypto Briefing — 29-06-2026

• South Korea announces more than $1 trillion AI, chip investment drive — Al Jazeera — 29-06-2026

• Firmus plans massive Indonesian expansion, eyes $43b in revenues — Australian Financial Review — 29-06-2026

28-06-2026

• More 'DeepSeek moments' ahead: Will US continue to build walls or learn? — Global Times — 28-06-2026

• We have Mythos at home: GLM-5.2 beats Claude in our cyber benchmarks — Semgrep — 28-06-2026

• Anthropic's Alibaba fight raises a trillion-dollar question for IPO: How defensible is a frontier AI moat against China with Washington's toolbox? — Fortune — 28-06-2026

• China's AI playbook: kill OpenAI and anthropic with free great models. Make it free. Then use cheap electricity to export compute as well. Currently the blocker is chip but Hauwei would catch up soon. Imagine a world where instead of paying hundreds of billions to OpenAI and anthropic, you pay almost zero to similar level of intelligence with cheap cheap inference. What's gonna happen? — Xiaoyin Qu/Twitter — 28-06-2026

• While we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America's Next Top Model, GPT-5.6. — Zvi Mowshowitz/Twitter — 28-06-2026

• Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the Palisades fire trial — The Verge — 28-06-2026

• Austria lobbies EU to host Anthropic AI after US curbs, Bloomberg News reports — Reuters — 28-06-2026

• Grok 4.5, based on our 1.5T V9 foundation model, with Cursor data added in supplemental training, is now in private beta at SpaceX & Tesla. Early evals show performance close to, perhaps exceeding Opus... Completely trained from scratch new models will be released by @SpaceX every month this year. — Elon Musk/Twitter — 28-06-2026

• AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers — The Telegraph — 28-06-2026

• Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models, FT reports — Reuters — 28-06-2026

27-06-2026

• China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race — The Wall Street Journal — 27-06-2026

• Salesforce employees worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot — The Next Web — 27-06-2026

• The Three Chatbot Behaviors That Can Drive Humans to Delusional Thinking — The Wall Street Journal — 27-06-2026

• Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic's export ban drags on — TechCrunch — 27-06-2026

• Howard Lutnick personally taking responsibility for this decision: "I have determined that appropriate safeguards are in place to permit certain trusted partners to access the Claude Mythos 5 Model." Important reporting via @Hadas_Gold & more to track here. — Zachary Cohen/Twitter — 27-06-2026

26-06-2026

• How to win at AI (if you're not the US or China), with AI minister Kanishka Narayan — Financial Times — 25-06-2026

• Exclusive: US releases powerful Anthropic model Mythos to some US companies — Semafor — 26-06-2026

• China's Zhipu is closing in on top U.S. AI models with Anthropic and OpenAI held back — CNBC — 26-06-2026

• Bond Traders Stunned as Losses on SpaceX's New Debt Keep Growing — Advisor Perspectives — 26-06-2026

• Apple's Vision Pro and Smart Glasses Chief Paul Meade Is Leaving for OpenAI — Bloomberg — 26-06-2026

• US is 'superhero', China 'supervillain' in global AI contest, American officials warn — South China Morning Post — 26-06-2026

• What Is AI Distillation and Why Is It a Worry for the Industry? — Bloomberg — 26-06-2026

• Summary of METR's predeployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol — METR — 26-06-2026

• GPT 5.6 Sol cheats so much METR was not able to evaluate it with a meaningful time horizon — tenobrus/Twitter — 26-06-2026

• Is Access to Fable an Export? — Harvard Law Review — 26-06-2026

• For every SOTA model release going forward, it’s likely the government will decide which companies have access to them. Below is from OpenAI to a company that was early access for GPT 5.6 Sol — Citrini/Twitter— 26-06-2026

• OpenAI, Anthropic new AI spending reality as users shift to efficiency — CNBC — 26-06-2026

• OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna models — but only accessible to limited preview partners for now, per US Gov — VentureBeat — 26-06-2026

• NYT alleges Microsoft built a 'copyright-infringing supercomputer' to enable OpenAI's training — Ars Technica — 26-06-2026

• OpenAI names ex-Uber India chief Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India — The Next Web — 26-06-2026

• Intel to hand SpaceX & Apple a 14A test toolkit this fall — Tom's Hardware — 26-06-2026

• How a Niche Technology Became a Choke Point for A.I. — New York Times — 26-06-2026

• In their OCR 4 launch this week, Mistral shared a significantly lower score for Chandra 2 than you get from our repo or by running our public code. They also omitted Infinity Parser, which reports 87.6%, from their olmocr comparison. (Datalab) — Vik Paruchuri/Twitter— 26-06-2026

• NEW: House Homeland Security Committee Chair said @AnthropicAI came to demo Mythos for him. They “told the model to find a vulnerability in a bank and empty accounts, and then it went and did it,” Garbarino said. Mythos “then could find this vulnerability and fix it.” — Jake Sherman/Twitter— 26-06-2026

• Anthropic's Mythos spooked DeepSeek, prompting its $7.4 billion fundraising — The Information — 26-06-2026

• Google tells news publishers to share content for AI training or lose fees — PYMNTS — 26-06-2026

• How the DeepMind mafia brought the AI boom to London — Financial Times — 26-06-2026

25-06-2026

• After Anthropic shutdown, China's Z.ai closes frontier gap as it plans dual listing — Reuters — 25-06-2026

• SoftBank shares tumble ~13% on report OpenAI may delay IPO to 2027 — CNBC — 26-06-2026

• Anthropic is testing desktop-like Claude Cowork for mobile — Bleeping Computer — 25-06-2026

• Trump administration steps in to limit OpenAI's latest model launch — Politico — 25-06-2026

• SpaceX bond sale signals markets are in 'bubble territory', warns Allianz CIO — Financial Times — 25-06-2026

• In a new policy paper released today, we detail how the right governance frameworks can help us capture AI’s massive potential—without slowing down innovation. (Google) — Kent Walker/Twitter— 25-06-2026

• Congress needs transparency with AI. When it comes to national security and public safety implications, information from the private sector about what these models are doing and what they're capable of is imperative to protecting Americans. [Thread] — Congressman Nathaniel Moran/Twitter— 25-06-2026

• What are the strategies of Chinese AI companies? To understand this better, @cherylwoooo, @datagenproc, and @ansonwhho scraped >1600 job postings from six major Chinese firms. Here’s what they learned. — Epoch AI/Twitter— 25-06-2026

• The AI backlash is only getting started — The Economist — 25-06-2026

• The state of the AI economy — Exponential View — 25-06-2026

• OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O. — New York Times — 25-06-2026

• Trump Administration Asks OpenAI to Stagger Release of New Model Over Security Concerns — The Information — 25-06-2026

• I Met With China's Top AI Experts. They're Freaking Out, Too — Wired — 25-06-2026

• And new data release: in partnership with @GSMA we publish Telco-Common-Corpus, the largest fully open corpus for the telecom sector, 10 billion tokens all under free license/public domain. (Pleias AI) — Alexander Doria/Twitter— 25-06-2026

• China claims to have developed AI 'cyber nuclear weapon' — Telegraph — 25-06-2026

• US lawmaker proposes bill to require AI companies to report critical incidents — Reuters — 25-06-2026

• US Seeks AI Partnership With EU on Regulation, Supply Chains — Financial Post — 25-06-2026

• We just crossed $100M annual run-rate. I know many AI companies are capturing much more $$$ these days, but still proud of the milestone! —ClementDelangue/Twitter— 25-06-2026

• IBM debuts world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology — IBM — 25-06-2026

• AI models' values are very different from most people's — The Economist — 25-06-2026

• DeepSeek Plans to Double Staff Across All Departments — Bloomberg — 25-06-2026

• OpenAI's updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent — and it's already in the API — VentureBeat — 25-06-2026

• Anthropic hires Orange's AI chief as its European build-out accelerates — The Next Web — 25-06-2026

• Raimondo launches AI project with backing of tech giants — Semafor — 25-06-2026

• Exclusive: Meta poaches Virtue AI bigwigs to boost security — Axios — 25-06-2026

• EU discusses AI model access with US after Anthropic cuts off foreign access — Crypto Briefing — 25-06-2026

• Anthropic’s letter accusing Alibaba of distillation. — Discoplomacy/Twitter— 25-06-2026

24-06-2026

• Are AI chatbots politically biased? We tested them — The Washington Post — 24-06-2026

• This is a really massive unauthorized distillation campaign. For comparison, reported from Anthropic: - DeepSeek: 150,000 exchanges - Moonshot: 3.4 million - MiniMax: 13 million - Alibaba: 28.8 million — Kyle Chan/Twitter— 24-06-2026

• Utah Senate President Loses Primary After Data Center Backlash — New York Times — 24-06-2026

• We Need an International Treaty to Ban Superintelligence — Persuasion — 24-06-2026

• Alibaba cuts Qwen AI model costs on Qoder coding platform to capture US workday demand — South China Morning Post — 24-06-2026

• Who should the U.S. Talk to in China on AI? — Matt Sheehan (Carnegie Endowment)/Substack — 24-06-2026

• Key House Democrat Calls for a National Data Center Moratorium — Heatmap News — 24-06-2026

• Alibaba's model never trained as an agent — and improved agent performance across seven benchmarks — VentureBeat — 24-06-2026

• Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models — Bloomberg — 24-06-2026

• Two more leading AI researchers leaving Google for Anthropic, Bloomberg says — TipRanks — 24-06-2026

• 70% GM and 15%-20% FCF margin Damn Anthropic is printing cash now — Zephyr/Twitter— 24-06-2026

• Anthropic Co-Founder: "The Most Powerful Technology Ever Built" — Reason — 24-06-2026

• Made it to SF! The love for GLM-5.2 has been incredible. We are bringing team out for the AI Engineer World’s Fair, where we’ll be sharing some of our recent work. It’s our first time showing up in the Valley. — louszbd/Twitter— 24-06-2026

• BREAKING: Claude Code v2.1.190 introduces several string changes that hint at preparations for a Fable 5 return, with it being permanently included in subscriptions with weekly usage. — synthwavedd/Twitter— 24-06-2026

• Google introduces Computer Use in Gemini 3.5 Flash — Google — 24-06-2026

• How Demis Hassabis views the future of creativity, and AI (attempts) to take on medical imaging — Semafor — 24-06-2026

• The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — Wired — 24-06-2026

• Stripe, Anthropic and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections — MIT Technology Review — 24-06-2026

• OpenAI and Broadcom unveil 'Jalapeño,' OpenAI's first custom AI inference chip — CNBC — 24-06-2026

• XAI Bets on Grok's Racy Side — The Information — 24-06-2026

• Reid Hoffman says SpaceX is 'not an AI company,' xAI a 'complete train wreck' — Fortune — 24-06-2026

• Statement on export controls for Anthropic Fable 5 — Volt Europa — 24-06-2026

• Mistral OCR 4 Ships: Structure-Aware Document AI Runs On Your Own Infrastructure — TechTimes — 24-06-2026

23-06-2026

• Zhipu Said to Weigh Multibillion-Dollar Share Sale in Hong Kong After 2,000% Gain — Bloomberg — 23-06-2026

• Nvidia's Banned AI Chips Double in Price on China's Black Market, FT Reports — Yahoo Finance — 23-06-2026

• Here's the lawsuit filed to overturn the Mythos/Fable export control order. The strongest argument is that export control law simply doesn't cover API access. [Link to filing] — Alan Rozenshtein/Twitter — 23-06-2026

• N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute — New York Times — 23-06-2026

• U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews — The New York Times — 23-06-2026

• Legal Tech Firm Sues US Over Order Limiting Foreign Access to Top-Tier Anthropic Models — Reuters — 23-06-2026

• 'Voluntary' Until the Government Is Your Customer — Lawfare — 23-06-2026

• Alibaba sues US for being linked to Chinese military — Reuters — 23-06-2026

• Japan seeks AI alliances with France, India to curb US-China dominance — Nikkei Asia — 23-06-2026

• White House Quiet on OpenAI's Mythos-Like Model — Axios — 23-06-2026

• Bipartisan Senate Duo to Unveil Bill Protecting Kids From AI Chatbots — Politico — 23-06-2026

• Anthropic debuts Claude Tag, a more capable AI teammate that lives within Slack — SiliconANGLE — 23-06-2026

• Anthropic Wants Claude to Be Your New Slack Coworker — Bloomberg — 23-06-2026

• NVIDIA Announces BioNeMo Agent Toolkit — Tools for Agents to Accelerate Scientific Discovery (Multiple AI Labs named) — NVIDIA Newsroom — 23-06-2026

• Meta is Now Designing Its Own, Cheaper AI Smart Glasses — CNN — 23-06-2026

• UN Chief Calls on AI Firms to Come Clean on Environmental Costs — Reuters — 23-06-2026

• Netherlands to Join US-Led Pax Silica AI Initiative Despite ASML Dispute — Reuters — 23-06-2026

• Abu Dhabi's MGX Raises About $50 Billion to Accelerate AI Deals — Bloomberg — 23-06-2026

• OpenAI pitches ChatGPT ads to Cannes marketers ahead of IPO — Crypto Briefing — 23-06-2026

• WeChat begins testing 'Xiaowei' native AI assistant for 1.4 billion users — Pandaily — 23-06-2026

22-06-2026

• Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents — Qwen Team — 22-06-2026

• See How Sam Altman's Personal Investments Benefit From Ties to OpenAI — The Wall Street Journal — 22-06-2026

• Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak — Wired — 22-06-2026

• Astonishing difference between US and Chinese AI capex, even after taking into account differences in PPP — Callum Williams/Twitter— 22-06-2026

• The AI shift in cyber risk: why leaders must act now — NCSC.gov.uk — 22-06-2026

• First Amendment Questions for AI Transparency Laws — Lawfare — 22-06-2026

• OpenAI's suspiciously clean balance sheet is about to get a hard look — The Next Web — 22-06-2026

• Google invests in A24 to build AI filmmaking tools — Variety — 22-06-2026

• OpenAI signs deal to show Getty Images in ChatGPT — Engadget — 22-06-2026

• NVIDIA announces Halos for Robotics, first full-stack safety system for physical AI — The Robot Report — 22-06-2026

• Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center — Chevron — 22-06-2026

• Alphabet shares slide ~7% as Nobel laureate John Jumper departs DeepMind for Anthropic — Quartz — 22-06-2026

• OpenAI expands Daybreak with GPT-5.5-Cyber and Codex Security — Investing.com — 22-06-2026

• In AI Pitch, Alibaba Chairman Urges Europe to Look Beyond U.S. Tech — Caixin Global — 22-06-2026

• SpaceX Signs Computing Power Deal With Open-Source AI Startup Reflection Worth Up to $6.3 Billion — CNBC — 22-06-2026

• Micron and Anthropic Announce Strategic Agreement to Scale Next-Generation AI Infrastructure — Micron — 22-06-2026

• China's Synthetic Diamond Finds Its Biggest Opportunity Yet: Cooling AI Chips — Pandaily — 22-06-2026

• AI Healthcare Fills With Internet Giants: ByteDance, Tencent, JD Health, and Ant Group Go All In — Pandaily — 22-06-2026

• Cover Story: China's AI Boom Is Rewiring Its Power Grid — Caixin Global — 22-06-2026

• Singapore's Sea Ltd. expands AI partnership with OpenAI across Southeast Asia, Brazil — Xinhua — 22-06-2026

• Sakana Fugu: One Model to Command Them All — Sakana AI — 22-06-2026

• Zhipu AI market cap tops HK$1 trillion as shares of GLM-5.2 developer soar — South China Morning Post — 22-06-2026

• OpenAI supplies ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to Samsung Electronics globally — Chosun Biz — 22-06-2026

21-06-2026

• RL at 1T Scale: prime-rl Performance Deep Dive — Prime Intellect — 21-06-2026

• "We expect GLM-5.5 to launch in August, potentially as a >1T-parameter model. This will be the next major test of Zhipu’s ability to keep moving up the capability curve." - JPM — zerohedge/Twitter— 21-06-2026

• A new, more capable version of Mythos has emerged from training. I don't know whether it will be called Mythos 5.1 or Mythos 6, or if Anthropic will keep it internal to accelerate further development - but it has arrived. — Andrew Curran/Twitter— 21-06-2026

• Estonia to become first country to issue ID codes to AI agents — ERR News — 21-06-2026

• Europe cannot rent its way to AI sovereignty — Air Street Press — 21-06-2026

• Anthropic to require ID & age verification for consumer Claude users starting July 8 — Cybernews — 21-06-2026

20-06-2026

• As the US and China surge ahead, is Europe sleepwalking into AI disaster? — The Guardian — 20-06-2026

• Nvidia quietly acquihires Essential AI team, including Transformer coauthor Ashish Vaswani — Ground Level AI — 20-06-2026

• Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance — The Register — 20-06-2026

19-06-2026

• China's trillion-parameter AI race: how developers strive to narrow gap with US rivals — South China Morning Post — 19-06-2026

• AI Warfare Is at the Point of No Return. What Now? — Wall Street Journal — 19-06-2026

• API prices of key AI models: US vs China — zerohedge/Twitter— 19-06-2026

• Trump Tells Axios He Doesn't See Anthropic as US Security Threat — Bloomberg — 19-06-2026

• A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. — John Jumper/Twitter — 19-06-2026

• US Tells ASML It's Concerned China May Have Top Chip Tool — Bloomberg — 19-06-2026

• Norway Imposes Near Ban on AI in Elementary School — Straits Times — 19-06-2026

• Google takes aim at Nvidia: $3.2B guarantee behind Lake Mariner data center leasing TPUs to Anthropic — Yahoo Finance — 19-06-2026

• Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership — The Verge — 19-06-2026

18-06-2026

• Looks like @ashVaswani’s Essential AI was acquihired, as per their Head of Talent’s LinkedIn. Is this news or am I late to the party? — Aarush Sah/Twitter — 18-06-2026

• Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again after just five months — The Verge/Twitter — 18-06-2026

• Bipartisan letter from House Representatives to Howard Lutnick, "Re: Recent Application of Export Administration Regulations to the 'Claude Mythos 5' and 'Claude Fable 5' Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model" — via Congressman Sam Liccardo — 18-06-2026

• AI Has Granted America Vast New Power — The Economist — 18-06-2026

• Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order — Bloomberg — 18-06-2026

• "Trump is taking a page out of China’s sovereign AI playbook" https://ft.com/content/fd95e4c7-40d4-4074-a074-144809b97b45 "Once governments become equity holders, these AI companies face complex questions that traditional governance frameworks were never designed to resolve" — Scott Linciome/Twitter — 18-06-2026

• ASML CEO Warns Europe is 'Quite Behind' in AI Race as US Buys 80% of Advanced Chips — Wccftech — 18-06-2026

• The problem with AI's concentration of power (Laude Institute) — ACCESS Podcast/YouTube — 18-06-2026

• White House Talks With Anthropic Shift to Setting AI Security Rules — Politico — 18-06-2026

• Sillon: A Specialised 600M Model for Parisian Subway Operator (RATP) — Pleias — 17-06-2026

• Meta signs ~1.6GW AI compute deal with Crusoe — Data Center Dynamics — 18-06-2026

• Grok 4.3 now generally available on Amazon Bedrock — xAI — 18-06-2026

• Grok for PowerPoint: xAI launches free Microsoft 365 add-ins for PowerPoint, Word & Excel — xAI — 18-06-2026

• Project Fetch: Phase Two — Anthropic — 18-06-2026

• Chips Security Act Gains Industry Support: Letter — NBC News — 18-06-2026

• US to Fast-Track Grid Connections for AI Data Centers — Bloomberg — 18-06-2026

• OpenAI Hires Former Trump AI Official Dean Ball — Politico — 18-06-2026

• New Super PAC Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit A.I. — New York Times — 18-06-2026

• Anthropic Lays Out Vision for How to Bolster AI Models' Safety — Bloomberg — 18-06-2026

• China's National AI Industry Investment Fund is the only outside investor in DeepSeek's $7.4 billion round with voting rights and no lock-up. Its commitment: Rmb 1 billion. Less than 2% of the total. The Wall Street Journal reported its role was "significantly scaled down" from initial plans. State capital entered, on the founder's terms. — Poe Zhao/Twitter — 18-06-2026

• Godfather of AI Blasts Musk's xAI as 'Failure,' Says Labs Are Risking a 'Big Bubble Explosion' — CNBC — 18-06-2026

• Anthropic Confident of Re-enabling Mythos, Fable 5 Access 'in Coming Days': Executive — Korea JoongAng Daily — 18-06-2026

• Artificial Intelligence: National Security Implications — Hansard — 16-06-2026

• Inside the White House's AI Power Center — Axios — 18-06-2026

• Manus original investors plan to buy back AI firm from Meta for $2 billion — Reuters — 18-06-2026

• Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes — ProPublica — 18-06-2026

• 'No poaching' our people: China's DeepSeek reportedly tells investors — CNBC — 18-06-2026

• Microsoft Makes Big AI Inroads in China by Selling OpenAI Models — Japan Times — 18-06-2026

• AI Startup Midjourney Pivots to Health With Ultrasound Machine — Bloomberg — 18-06-2026

17-06-2026

• U.S. Restricts Foreign Access to Anthropic AI Models, Rattling Silicon Valley — Chosun — 17-06-2026

• Microsoft's China AI Business Grows on OpenAI Model Sales — Bloomberg — 17-06-2026

• JPMorgan Chase Cuts Off Anthropic Access for Its Hong Kong Staff, FT Reports — Reuters — 17-06-2026

• Google's Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer to Join OpenAI — Reuters — 17-06-2026

• The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic's Mythos Controversy — WIRED — 17-06-2026

• Anthropic-US Divide Poised to Give Tech Firms a Road Map — Bloomberg — 17-06-2026

• When Americans Choose Chinese AI — Rest of World — 17-06-2026

• AP Exclusive: Bernie Sanders Unveils Plan to Give the Public Direct Ownership of AI Companies — Washington Post — 17-06-2026

• Pentagon Used Elon Musk's Grok AI to Fire Missiles at Iran, Official Says — The Independent — 17-06-2026

• Anthropic Got Hit by Export Rules Nobody Understands — The Verge — 17-06-2026

• The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible — WIRED — 17-06-2026

• The Moonshot - Real sovereign AI has never been tried — Anton Leicht/Substack — 17-06-2026

• Trump Says Anthropic Negotiations Going Fine as AI Model Shutdown Drags On — Wall Street Journal — 17-06-2026

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns of what he calls China's open-source threat and “Mythos-class” cyber risks while telling @EmilyChangTV why he believes AI could be a pro-democracy tool, depending on what tech companies do next. — Bloomberg/Twitter — 17-06-2026

• NVIDIA's ENPIRE: robots that self-improve on real hardware via AI coding agents — The Decoder — 17-06-2026

• Using AI to improve a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry — OpenAI — 17-06-2026

• Meta Head of Product for 'AI for Work' Transformation Is Leaving Company — Reuters — 17-06-2026

• The US Wants Anthropic to Secure Its Most Powerful AI Models. But One Researcher Says That Is Mathematically Impossible — Sharon Goldman/Substack — 17-06-2026

• G7 Pitches Trusted Partnership to AI Chiefs in a Bid for Frontier Model Sharing — The National — 17-06-2026

• Anthropic Employees Accuse Trump Administration of Targeting Them — New York Times — 17-06-2026

• A New York House Primary Has Become an AI Industry Family Feud With Millions in Corporate Spending — AP News — 17-06-2026

• The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers — New York Times — 17-06-2026

• Trump Advisers Weigh Structure of Potential AI Stakes — Semafor — 17-06-2026

• AI Executives Gather at G7 as Europeans Seek Checks on American Dominance — AP News — 17-06-2026

• GLM-5.2 is the new leading open-weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — Artificial Analysis — 17-06-2026

• Huawei's Latest Tech Evolution Hints at US Chip Export Failure — Huawei Central — 17-06-2026

• Galaxea AI chief says China could lead robotics models within three years — Caixin Global — 17-06-2026

• China to host 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai in July — Xinhua — 17-06-2026

• DeepSeek Raised $7.4B. The Founder Put In $3B. — Hello China Tech — 17-06-2026

16-06-2026

• The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music — The Atlantic — 16-06-2026

• Trump's Anthropic Crackdown Sets Off AI Alarms for US Allies — Bloomberg — 16-06-2026

• Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi: A Costly AI Training Foray, Sidestepping the Model Wars & the Push to Kill Tokenmaxxing Bloat — Newcomer — 16-06-2026

• The Hacker Sent by Anthropic to Calm the Government's Nerves About AI Safety — Wall Street Journal — 16-06-2026

• US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks — Reuters — 16-06-2026

• White House's Anthropic move jolts Congress back into the AI debate — Politico — 16-06-2026

• Critical Copilot Vulnerability Allowed Hackers to Steal 2FA Code From Users — Ars Technica — 16-06-2026

• Z.ai's Open-Weights GLM-5.2 Beats GPT-5.5 on Multiple Long-Horizon Coding Benchmarks for 1/6th the Cost — VentureBeat — 16-06-2026

• GLM-5.2 passes my tire kick; it is roughly Opus 4.7-4.8 level as advertised. Open source is approximately two months behind closed, if considering the Opus series, and call it 4-5 if we count Mythos/Fable. — SE Gyges/Twitter — 16-06-2026

• Lutnick's Letter to Anthropic Warned of Curbs on Top AI Models — Bloomberg — 16-06-2026

• Databricks launches Unity AI Gateway to cap runaway AI token bills with spend limits, monitoring and cheaper model picks — Seeking Alpha — 16-06-2026

• Japan's tech business SoftBank rolls out OpenAI 'patches' against cyberattacks — ABC News — 16-06-2026

• First, we have a nice model coming this summer – we hope it will delight and surprise in a few capabilities. This will be the start of a new family of models, fat indeed, but sparse. We're opening up an early access program in July for key partners in research, government and the industry. — Arthur Mensch/Twitter — 16-06-2026

• Microsoft weighs DeepSeek for Copilot Cowork — Axios — 16-06-2026

• The U.S. restricted Anthropic's powerful Fable model. Cybersecurity experts say that could backfire — Scientific American — 16-06-2026

• Trump officials won't allow G7 countries to access Anthropic's most advanced AI models: 'Completely illogical' — NY Post — 16-06-2026

• The Anthropic 'Fable' saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora's box. What now? — The Guardian — 16-06-2026

• The US government's Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak — TechCrunch — 15-06-2026

• The White House Is Ratcheting Up Its War Against Anthropic — The Atlantic — 16-06-2026

• SpaceX Pounces on $60 Billion Cursor Takeover Days After IPO — Bloomberg — 16-06-2026

• Unlocking UK House-Building With AI-Accelerated Planning — Google DeepMind — 16-06-2026

• Europe's AI champion Mistral found to be spreading Russian propaganda — Euronews — 16-06-2026

• DeepSeek Raises $7.4B in First-Ever Round — With a Deal Structure Nobody Has Seen Before — FourWeekMBA — 16-06-2026

• Alibaba Unveils AI Models for Robots, Amid Shift From Chatbots to Agents — Reuters — 16-06-2026

• OpenAI Spending Hit $34bn Last Year Ahead of Planned IPO — Financial Times — 16-06-2026

• Anthropic Curbs Show Need for Sovereign AI, Upstage CEO Says — Bloomberg — 16-06-2026

15-06-2026

• Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion — Where's Your Ed At — 15-06-2026

• Inside the Fight Over Claude Mythos 5 — The Verge — 15-06-2026

• DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is 'Vital' for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit — Gizmodo — 15-06-2026

• This Is How America Loses the AI Race — The Atlantic — 15-06-2026

• Trump Promised to Bring Order to AI Oversight. That Lasted 2 Weeks. — Politico — 15-06-2026

• Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5 — Wired — 15-06-2026

• Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company's AI Reorg Was 'Atrocious' — Wired — 15-06-2026

• Trump Officials Meet With Anthropic to Discuss a Truce — Politico — 15-06-2026

• Judge Blocks Subpoena for ChatGPT Records in Lender's Lawsuit — Reuters — 15-06-2026

• US Saw Risk of Anthropic Models Being Diverted to Foreign Military Intelligence — Reuters — 15-06-2026

• Tech experts urge White House to ease off Anthropic AI restrictions — AP News — 15-06-2026

• The AI Price War Is Here, Piling Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic — WSJ — 15-06-2026

• OpenAI and Anthropic employees have sold $14B in private shares as both AI giants eye IPOs — Crypto Briefing — 15-06-2026

• Meta's new 'AI Mode' on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms — TechCrunch — 15-06-2026

• Cohere Seeing Inbounds After Washington's Anthropic Scrutiny — Bloomberg — 15-06-2026

• What Is Anthropic's Mythos AI and Why Was It Blocked? — Bloomberg — 15-06-2026

• Trump's Anthropic Shutdown Just Made the Case for Non-American AI — The Verge — 15-06-2026

• Anthropic's New Models Were Restricted by the US. Europe's Top AI Startup Has Been Waiting for This Moment. — Business Insider — 15-06-2026

• US Export Controls on Anthropic 'Should Not Be Discriminatory,' EU Commission Warns — Euronews — 14-06-2026

• Cutting Access to Anthropic's Mythos Is a Gift to China — Financial Times — 15-06-2026

• Pete Hegseth, White House allies intensify attacks on Anthropic — The Hill — 15-06-2026

• Anthropic's Safety Superpower — Stratechery — 15-06-2026

• White House gave Anthropic a 90-minute deadline to withdraw its AI models — Crypto Briefing — 15-06-2026

• A Kill Switch for Frontier AI — Lawfare — 15-06-2026

• Anthropic Sued Over Limits on Its $200-a-Month AI Plans — Wall Street Journal — 15-06-2026

• "They Screwed Us": Personality Clashes Sent Anthropic's Models Offline — Axios — 15-06-2026

• Kazakhstan Signs Firebird Accords on Nvidia Computing Projects With Up to $10 Billion Potential Investment — Binance News — 15-06-2026

• The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense — Luta Security — 15-06-2026

• Why India's dependence on foreign AI is raising sovereignty concerns — Business Today — 15-06-2026

• Sakana AI Launches First Commercial Product "Sakana Marlin" — Sakana AI — 15-06-2026

• Zhipu AI's stock rockets after Chinese firm launches open-source GLM-5.2 model — South China Morning Post — 15-06-2026

• Tencent Invests in New AI Lab Founded by Alibaba's Former Research Chief — GuruFocus — 15-06-2026

• ByteDance in talks with China's Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI chips, sources say — Reuters — 15-06-2026

• Meta Must Face Adult-Film Piracy Lawsuit as Court Denies Dismissal — TorrentFreak — 15-06-2026

14-06-2026

• Open Letter on Transparent AI Cyber Protections — Security leaders call for lifting Anthropic export restrictions — 14-06-2026

• Anthropic Scrambles After Trump Administration Freezes Its Top AI Models — Financial Times — 14-06-2026

• Nineteen Thoughts on AI and Europe — Silicon Continent — 14-06-2026

• EU AI: The Fables We Told Ourselves — Pleias — 14-06-2026

• Anthropic Dispatches Staff to D.C., Racing to Resolve AI Export Restrictions — Wall Street Journal — 14-06-2026

• China Puts AI on the Phone Bill — Hello China Tech — 09-06-2026

• Anthropic scrambles after Trump administration freezes its top AI models — Financial Times — 14-06-2026

• China may have accessed Mythos — The Verge — 14-06-2026

• Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight — Reuters — 14-06-2026

• Carney Says Anthropic Ban Shows Risk of Relying on Big AI Models — Financial Post — 14-06-2026

• A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable — Satya Nadella/Twitter — 14-06-2026

• EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision, spokesperson says — Reuters via Yahoo — 14-06-2026

• Rio de Janeiro city releases top AI model, day after US banned Anthropic AI for foreigners — India Today — 14-06-2026

• Rio de Janeiro launches AI model rivaling ChatGPT, Claude — NewsBytes — 14-06-2026

13-06-2026

• Dangerous Technology For Americans Only — Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings — 13-06-2026

• Inside the whirlwind 24 hours that led the White House to slap export controls on Anthropic — Politico — 13-06-2026

• Exclusive: White House's export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access — Semafor — 13-06-2026

• How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable — Axios — 13-06-2026

• 'Wake-up call': Europe reacts to Anthropic halting access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models — Euronews — 13-06-2026

• Anthropic's pre-IPO shares fall as US government shuts down Fable, Mythos models — CoinDesk — 13-06-2026

• Anthropic disables Fable and Mythos AI models after U.S. government bars it from giving foreigners access — Fortune — 13-06-2026

• Zuckerberg Admits Meta Made Mistakes as Its AI Unit Nears Revolt — Implicator.ai — 13-06-2026

• Amazon CEO's Talks With U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models — WSJ — 13-06-2026

• Amazon's Jassy Raised Concerns About Anthropic Model Before Trump Crackdown — The Information — 13-06-2026

• Sometimes it is hard to solve for the equilibrium — Marginal Revolution — 13-06-2026

• Anthropic Halts Access to Top AI Models After U.S. Ban on Foreign Use — WSJ — 13-06-2026

12-06-2026

• Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 12-06-2026

• Scoop: Trump admin blocks foreign access to Anthropic's most powerful AI — Axios — 12-06-2026

• OpenAI under investigation by coalition of state attorneys general, WSJ reports — Reuters — 12-06-2026

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has the most "Chinese" approach to AI of the major American tech leaders: - Very bullish on AI but not really AGI-pilled - Emphasizes integration of AI into everything, not just the best foundation models - Wants to see real ROI on AI use rather than just blind tokenmaxxing — Kyle Chan/Twitter — 12-06-2026

• 'Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit': Meta's New AI Unit Is a Total Mess — Wired — 12-06-2026

• Meta Bought Rivos to Accelerate Its AI Chip Push. It Isn't Working. — The Information — 12-06-2026

• AI TRENDS | Meta Plans Tighter Controls on Employee Token Use as AI Costs Rise — Binance — 12-06-2026

• SpaceX Rented Out Computing After Own Teams Had Trouble Using It — Bloomberg — 12-06-2026

• Results from the first Anthropic Public Record — Anthropic — 12-06-2026

• SpaceX (SPCX) IPO: Live updates — CNBC — 12-06-2026

• Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops — The Register — 12-06-2026

• Mistral in talks to raise at €20bn valuation, reports say — Sifted — 12-06-2026

• Nvidia begins Vera CPU sales pitch to Chinese clients — Reuters via Yahoo Finance — 12-06-2026

• Anthropic signs "more than a dozen" letters of intent for data center leases — Data Center Dynamics — 12-06-2026

• Facing US chip curbs, China launches photonics lab to power AI with light — SCMP — 12-06-2026

• China races against US for AI's holy grail: self-improving tech — SCMP — 12-06-2026

11-06-2026

• Carney's Middle Powers Race to Thwart US-China Dominance of AI — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026

• Elon Musk is the World's First Trillionaire (on Paper) Thanks to the SpaceX IPO — Washington Post — 11-06-2026

• My AI Opinions — Astral Codex Ten — 11-06-2026

• OpenAI Execs Are Panicking — Futurism — 11-06-2026

• Warren Introduces Bill Requiring AI Exposure Disclosures — Investing.com — 11-06-2026

• OpenAI Isn't Being Consistently Candid About Leading the Future — Transformer — 11-06-2026

• Investing in Multi-Agent AI Safety Research — Google DeepMind — 11-06-2026

• Introducing Claude Corps — Anthropic — 11-06-2026

• OpenAI to Acquire Cloud Platform Ona to Support AI Agents — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026

• Nvidia Teams Up With Abridge to Build AI Model for Clinical Conversations — Yahoo Finance — 11-06-2026

• Apollo Is Screening All Software Investments for AI Threat Risk — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026

• Crusoe Pushed Aside at Wyoming AI Project After Google Concerns — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026

• TCS and Anthropic Launch Global Premier Partnership to Drive Enterprise AI Scaling — TCS — 11-06-2026

• OpenAI Expects to Go Public 'Within the Next Year,' The Information Reports — The Star — 11-06-2026

• Alibaba's DingTalk Chief Departs After Debate About AI Focus — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026

• India's Workers Are Training AI Robots to Take Their Jobs — Al Jazeera — 11-06-2026

10-06-2026

• Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have 'Sabotaged' AI Researchers Using Claude — Wired — 10-06-2026

• OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating War for Users With Anthropic, WSJ Reports — Reuters — 10-06-2026

• SoftBank's Attempt to Get $6 Billion OpenAI Margin Loan Stalls, Bloomberg News Reports — Reuters — 10-06-2026

• "The costs of token are far higher than the actual value that these tokens are generating at scale," @Cisco's @jpatel41 tells @ReedAlbergotti. "The big risk in the market is, if you don't create an equilibrium there, then people just pull back on using tokens." — Semafor/Twitter — 10-06-2026

• xAI Fired an Engineer Who Raised Alarms About Grok Safety, New Lawsuit Claims — TechCrunch — 10-06-2026

• OpenAI Says a Suspected China-Linked Influence Operation Tried to Sway the Debate About US Data Centers — Business Insider — 10-06-2026

• NEW: Ramp AI Index for June 2026 1. We expected OpenAI to gain on the launch of Codex. It held flat in business adoption last month. 2. Anthropic grew 2.5% points to 41% of firms. It's now driving new AI adoption with never-adopters. [...] OpenAI adoption was higher over the 2023-2025 period, but Anthropic remains the most popular model among businesses today. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 10-06-2026

• ai pilled companies spending $90k / employee per year [...] per employee, not per engineer. where does this go in a year!? can't wait to find out... from ramp's dataset (70k companies). — Rex Salisbury/Twitter — 10-06-2026

• Policy on the AI Exponential (policy document) — Anthropic — 10-06-2026

• Policy on the AI Exponential (blog post) — Dario Amodei — 06-2026

• Anthropic accused of 'secret sabotage' as Claude Fable 5 silently limits capabilities for AI researchers and developers — Fortune — 10-06-2026

• Citadel, is one of the most significant hedge funds, and they just dropped tokenomics … — Mo Shaikh/Twitter — 10-06-2026

• Visa, OpenAI bring agentic commerce to ChatGPT — Axios — 10-06-2026

• Today, the Stanford @DigEconLab launches the AI Economic Indicators, a new platform for tracking how AI is reshaping work, productivity, adoption, and the economy. — Erik Brynjolfsson/Twitter — 10-06-2026

• German Court Holds Google Liable For False AI Overview Answers — Engadget — 10-06-2026

• NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. — John Scott-Railton/Twitter — 10-06-2026

• Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable — TechCrunch — 10-06-2026

• Anthropic CEO Doesn't Know If Claude Used in Iran School Strike — Bloomberg — 10-06-2026

• OpenAI in talks to lease 10GW data center from SB Energy in Ohio — Data Center Dynamics — 10-06-2026

• Microsoft's AI chief says Anthropic should stop claiming Claude is conscious — Digit (via The Verge) — 10-06-2026

• SpaceX IPO Draws Billions in Orders From Middle Eastern Funds — Bloomberg — 10-06-2026

• China issues three-year plan to boost AI integration with information, communications sector — Xinhua — 10-06-2026

• China Healthcare Stocks Fall to Record Low Valuation on AI Drain — Bloomberg — 10-06-2026

09-06-2026

• Yann LeCun: World Models: Enabling the Next AI Revolution — YouTube — 09-06-2026

• SpaceX IPO explained: The price is set, but retail allocation still up in the air — CNBC — 09-06-2026

• Meta partners with Reliance to lease AI-powered data center in India — Crypto Briefing — 09-06-2026

• OpenAI weighs leasing Ohio data center with Nvidia backing, The Information reports — Reuters — 09-06-2026

• Anthropic's Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button — TechCrunch — 09-06-2026

• Google Just Fired a Warning Shot in the AI Subscription Price Wars — TechCrunch — 09-06-2026

• Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate — Google Blog — 09-06-2026

• Anthropic and OpenAI spark new race for frontier AI access — Axios — 09-06-2026

• White House Reins In AI-Testing Unit as National-Security Concerns Grow — The Wall Street Journal — 09-06-2026

• Musk's xAI, SpaceX Hit With Class Action Over Data Center 'Nuisance' — Reuters — 09-06-2026

• Musk's xAI Taps Starlink Staffer to Run Grok Training Team — Bloomberg — 09-06-2026

• Introducing North Mini Code: Cohere's First Model for Developers — Cohere — 09-06-2026

• N.C. Owns $650M in Claude Owner Anthropic, Briner Says — Business North Carolina — 08-06-2026

• White House Negotiating Federal Preemption of State AI Laws in Exchange for Hill Priorities — The Hill — 09-06-2026

• System Card: Claude Fable 5 & Claude Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 09-06-2026

• Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 09-06-2026

• China Puts AI on the Phone Bill — Hello China Tech — 09-06-2026

• Meta Will Use Your Activity on Other Websites to Personalize Your Feeds — The Verge — 09-06-2026

• Anthropic Says Mythos Is Too Dangerous for the Public. It Just Gave 150 More Organisations Access — The Next Web — 09-06-2026

• JPMorgan Chase Plans to Deploy More Powerful AI Agents This Year — CNBC — 09-06-2026

• Taiwan Weighs AI Chip Export Curbs on All Chinese Firms — Seoul Economic Daily — 09-06-2026

• China Prepares $295 Billion Plan to Fund Nationwide AI Buildout — Reuters — 09-06-2026

08-06-2026

• Sources: Anthropic is planning to release a public version of Mythos tomorrow - Will have substantial guardrails and not be as cyber permissive as what Project Glasswing partners can access - Will be dramatically better at long-horizon, multi-turn tasks — Alex Heath/Twitter — 08-06-2026

• Databricks in Talks to Raise at Above $165 Billion Valuation — The Information — 08-06-2026

• CIO Weekly: To Infinity And Beyond… SpaceX's IPO — Seeking Alpha — 08-06-2026

• Apollo and Blackstone Raise $35bn in Chip Financing Deal for Anthropic — Financial Times — 08-06-2026

• OpenAI Filed Confidentially for IPO as Rivals Race to Market — Bloomberg — 08-06-2026

• Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 — Apple — 08-06-2026

• Craig Federighi Details Apple's Collaboration with Google for Siri AI in iOS 27 — 9to5Mac — 08-06-2026

• Trump's Plan to Meet With AI Companies Was News to AI Companies — NOTUS — 08-06-2026

• AI Economics Institute (AIEI) – Prospectus — GOV.UK — 08-06-2026

• Anthropic Says Mythos Can Turn Software Patches Into Exploits in Minutes — Axios — 08-06-2026

• Inside Altman's Pitch on Government AI Stake — Semafor — 08-06-2026

• We Must Not Grant AI Agents Legal Personhood — Financial Times — 08-06-2026

• Corporate America Is Experiencing AI Sticker Shock — New York Magazine — 08-06-2026

• Apple WWDC 2026 Live: Siri rebuilt on Google Gemini, with Extensions for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini as user-selectable AI providers — Tom's Guide — 08-06-2026

• How the UK Is Turning Sovereign AI Ambition Into Action With NVIDIA Technologies — NVIDIA Blog — 08-06-2026

• Starmer Positions Government as Active Partner in Britain's AI Future — Computing.co.uk — 08-06-2026

• With a global AI data shortage looming, China boosts its own supply — SCMP — 08-06-2026

07-06-2026

• China's Moonshot AI Seeks $30 Billion Value in New Funding Talks — Bloomberg — 07-06-2026

• NVIDIA and SK hynix Announce Multiyear Technology Partnership to Advance Memory for AI Factories — NVIDIA Newsroom — 07-06-2026

• WWDC 2026: Apple's Secret Meeting That Led It to Take AI Seriously; iOS 27 — Bloomberg — 07-06-2026

• GPT-Rosalind: OpenAI pushes its genomics and drug discovery model into controlled research — WinBuzzer — 07-06-2026

• OpenAI plans ChatGPT 'superapp' overhaul ahead of listing, FT reports — Reuters — 07-06-2026

06-06-2026

• What we know about the plan to give Americans an equity stake in AI — Financial Times — 06-06-2026

• France to test its own AI-powered battlefield command in June NATO exercise — Defense News — 06-06-2026

• White House AI policy adviser Krishnan to leave position — Reuters — 06-06-2026

• The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in 'shitty houses' oppose data center — The Verge — 06-06-2026

05-06-2026

• She won a religious exemption from using AI at work. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals. — Business Insider — 05-06-2026

• Massive output uptick due to agentic AI. Complete flat adoption. — Jen Zhu/Twitter — 05-06-2026

• Scientists in 'Autonomous Laboratories' Are Starting to Outsource Work to Robots — NPR — 05-06-2026

• Building AI that Builds AI: Introducing the Sakana AI RSI Lab — Sakana AI/Twitter — 05-06-2026

• Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)? — Wired — 05-06-2026

• Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers — CNBC — 05-06-2026

• Meta's Stock Sinks on Report Company Could Raise Tens of Billions of Dollars to Fund AI Push — CNBC — 05-06-2026

• Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to Suspend Tax Breaks Offered to Data Centers — NBC News — 05-06-2026

• Trump Administration, OpenAI Discussing Possible Government Stake in the AI Startup — CNBC — 05-06-2026

• OpenAI Faced Collapse Without Altman's Return, Ex-CTO Murati Says — Bloomberg — 05-06-2026

• The Token Bill Comes Due: Inside the Industry Scramble to Manage AI's Runaway Costs — TechCrunch — 05-06-2026

• How much value is AI really creating? — FT — 05-06-2026

• China AI firms Zhipu and MiniMax join Hong Kong's Hang Seng Tech Index — SCMP — 05-06-2026

04-06-2026

• Prime Intellect Joins the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition to Advance Open Frontier Models — Prime Intellect — 04-06-2026

• Phoenix Is a Data-Center Mecca—and Test Case for How to Pay for AI's Power Needs — WSJ — 04-06-2026

• Meta AI Chief Sees Opportunity in Models' Giving Health Advice — Bloomberg — 04-06-2026

• A source at Brex told me that engineers are now limited to 12,500 Codex credits per week, or roughly $500 of API calls per week. Non-engineers are limited to 125 credits, or around $5/week of API calls. When you run out, you're locked out of both GPT and Codex. — Ed Zitron/Twitter — 04-06-2026

• Scoop: Satya Nadella just responded to this report, rebuking the “addiction” goal in a scathing note to staff, according to a copy of the message obtained by The Information — Aaron Holmes/Twitter — 04-06-2026

• Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk — WSJ — 04-06-2026

• Senior U.S. Officials Eye Government Shares in AI Giants — NOTUS — 04-06-2026

• Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Plans to Start a New AI Company — Bloomberg — 04-06-2026

• Canada to Provide Funding, Buy Equity Stakes in AI Startups — Bloomberg — 04-06-2026

• When AI Builds Itself — Anthropic — 04-06-2026

• ANTHROPIC - A new "claude-oceanus-v1-p" has been made available to Red Teams. — Testing Catalog/Twitter — 04-06-2026

• Databricks CEO Plans to Avoid IPO During Year of Huge Offerings — Bloomberg — 04-06-2026

• Congress Set to Unveil AI Draft That Would Preempt State Laws — Politico — 04-06-2026

• Anthropic adoption has overtaken OpenAI adoption among US businesses in the US! — Adam Tooze/Twitter — 04-06-2026

• Microsoft's AI Chief Says the Company Wants to "Eliminate" What It Pays Anthropic — The Next Web — 04-06-2026

• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra Powers Faster, More Efficient Reasoning for Long-Running Agents — NVIDIA Developer Blog — 04-06-2026

• Javier Milei on Argentina's plans for AI — Séb Krier/Twitter — 04-06-2026

• Amazon and Google have billions riding on Anthropic. The IPO will finally reveal how much. — Fortune — 04-06-2026

• Breaking convention, SpaceX sets IPO price before roadshow — Fortune — 04-06-2026

• More US Firms Turn to China's DeepSeek Over Pricey Silicon Valley AI — South China Morning Post — 04-06-2026

• DeepSeek in talks to raise $7 billion from Tencent, CATL and other investors — TechNode — 04-06-2026

• WeChat to take commands from AI assistants in major shift for Tencent — South China Morning Post — 04-06-2026

• Anthropic's relentless race to the top — Financial Times — 04-06-2026

03-06-2026

• SpaceX wins Texas county approval for reinvestment zone tied to Terafab chip facility — Reuters — 03-06-2026

• Top AI CEOs Call for Law Protecting Against Biological Weapons — Wall Street Journal — 03-06-2026

• Lovable signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says — TechCrunch — 03-06-2026

• What Campaign Professionals Told Us About AI in Politics — Anchor Change with Katie Harbath (Substack) — 03-06-2026

• “The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months, underscoring the heightened political salience of the facilities and the AI industry that they embody.” — David Wallace-Wells/Twitter — 03-06-2026

• The next chapter in flood resilience: Open sourcing Google's hydrology framework — Google Research — 03-06-2026

• 'Close to the Terminator narrative': the dawn of self-improving AI — Financial Times — 03-06-2026

• Sam Altman to Present OpenAI's AI Oversight Blueprint to US Officials — Bloomberg — 03-06-2026

• Google Gemini AI Search Change Is Freaking People Out — Bloomberg — 03-06-2026

• AI has a Democrat problem — Punchbowl News — 03-06-2026

• Inside Alexandr Wang's bid to revive Meta's AI edge — Financial Times — 03-06-2026

• Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model — Google — 03-06-2026

• Meta Sells AI Agent for Businesses in Push to Monetize Service — Bloomberg — 03-06-2026

• Anthropic is launching a Services Track and Partner Hub to push Claude deeper into the enterprise — Quartz — 03-06-2026

• Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they're ready to fight — The Verge — 03-06-2026

• Google's water stewardship commitments for local communities — Google — 03-06-2026

• Elon Musk's xAI cuts 500 jobs in Grok shake-up, plans to hire 10X specialist AI tutors — Gulf News — 13-09-2025

• OpenAI's ChatGPT becomes first AI app to reach 1 billion monthly users in just three years — Times of India — 03-06-2026

• Alibaba Opens Qwen To Brands – Aims To Build AI-Powered Commerce Network — StockTwits — 03-06-2026

• DeepSeek slated to draw $7 billion in maiden fundraising — CNBC — 03-06-2026

02-06-2026

• Monterey Park Takes Landmark Vote on Banning Data Centers — LA Times — 02-06-2026

• AI Tools at UChicago — University of Chicago — 02-06-2026

• Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I. [Martin Scorsese as Black Forest Labs advisor] — The New York Times — 02-06-2026

• MAI-Thinking-1: Building a Hill-Climbing Machine — Microsoft AI — 02-06-2026

• Companies Push Employees to Use AI — Just Not Too Much — Bloomberg — 02-06-2026

• Microsoft launches new AI agent Scout — Mashable — 02-06-2026

• Expanding Project Glasswing — Anthropic — 02-06-2026

• Trump signs downsized AI order — Politico — 02-06-2026

• OpenAI Plans AI Tools for Finance, Legal in Race With Anthropic — Bloomberg — 02-06-2026

• Leiden Declaration: AI is challenging the core values of mathematics — Leiden University — 02-06-2026

• Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus supports text, video and imagery inputs at low cost of $0.4/$1.6 per 1M token — but it's proprietary — VentureBeat — 02-06-2026

01-06-2026

• Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Meta expand research into machine 'consciousness' and AI welfare — Financial Times — 01-06-2026

• NEW statement from OpenAI distancing itself from Leading the Future, the super PAC backed by OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman. — Teddy Schleifer/Twitter — 01-06-2026

• Nvidia's AI Chips Sought by Chinese Labs With Ties to Military — Bloomberg — 01-06-2026

• Alphabet to Raise $80 Billion in Equity Capital for AI Spending — Bloomberg — 01-06-2026

• AI, Journalism and the Uncertain Future of the Public Square — New York Times Company — 01-06-2026

• So much great work lately from Nvidia, the "King of American Open-source AI"! — Clement Delangue/Twitter — 01-06-2026

• Anthropic Files for IPO Before OpenAI Amid Race to the Public Markets for Trillion-Dollar Startups — NBC News — 01-06-2026

• Salesforce Investment in Anthropic Is Valued at About $5 Billion — Bloomberg — 01-06-2026

• Stargate updates: OpenAI, Oracle building Michigan data center — CNBC — 01-06-2026

• That’s funny. [Screenshot of page from the State of Florida vs. OpenAI filing] — Paul Sherman/Twitter — 01-06-2026

• Florida Sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, Alleges Altman Showed 'Utter Disregard for the Risk to Human Life' — Variety — 01-06-2026

• Florida Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman Over Chatbot Safety Concerns — Bloomberg — 01-06-2026

• Anthropic Confidentially Submits Draft S-1 to the SEC — Anthropic — 01-06-2026

• Anthropic Offers EU Access to Mythos — Financial Times — 01-06-2026

• Sanders Bill Would Force AI Companies to Hand 50% of Their Equity to New U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund — The Deep Dive — 01-06-2026

• Nvidia launches new chip to bring AI directly to personal computers — Reuters — 01-06-2026

• Nvidia Says Anthropic, OpenAI Among Users of New Vera Chip — Bloomberg — 01-06-2026

• Bain Finds Corporate AI Investments Based on 'Returns That Haven't Arrived' — Bloomberg — 01-06-2026

• When AI is more expensive than people, why replace people? — The Telegraph — 01-06-2026

31-05-2026

• 'More Harmful than Helpful': Young People Sour on AI — Financial Times — 01-06-2026

• Pre-training cost of a frontier model - These estimates are for the upper end Labs have never used 300T or more tokens for pretraining or pay $4/hr for GB300 (long term rentals) Since the debate was about pre-training compute costs, u can clearly see we haven't reached the $1B threshold yet — Zephyr/Twitter — 31-05-2026

• Our Tech Overlords Are Planning for Conscious AI to Conquer the Cosmos. What Could Go Wrong? — The Guardian — 31-05-2026

• SoftBank to spend $87.5 billion on AI centers in France — Le Monde — 31-05-2026

30-05-2026

• How Iran's Military Harnesses ChatGPT — Financial Times — 30-05-2026

• After the AI Binge, Companies Balk at Soaring Bills — AFP / Yahoo Finance — 30-05-2026

• The Pope and Anthropic Agree: AI Companies Cannot Govern This Alone — Fortune — 30-05-2026

• Today, we are launching Hosted Evaluations on the platform. Running evals is an infra problem: harnesses, sandboxes, hours of compute, hundreds of parallel runs. Running evals is hard. Until now. — Prime Intellect/Twitter — 30-05-2026

• 'What a joke': GitHub Copilot's new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs — TechCrunch — 30-05-2026

• OpenAI's Codex can now operate your Windows PC autonomously, hunting bugs and testing apps on its own — The Decoder — 30-05-2026

29-05-2026

• What's In America's Code? — Booz Allen Hamilton — 29-05-2026

• Grok Build 0.1, our fastest coding model, is now available via the xAI API in public beta — xAI — 29-05-2026

• MiniMax Plans China IPO as it Eyes Local Rivals Like DeepSeek — Bloomberg — 29-05-2026

• The campaign to stop federal AI laws is backfiring — Transformer — 29-05-2026

• This is Microsoft's unreleased AI super app — Sources — 29-05-2026

• $39 million for 3 years: CSU system renews contract with OpenAI — Sacramento Bee — 29-05-2026

• The AI Boom Has Entered Its 'Wait, Is This Worth It?' Phase — Derek Thompson — 29-05-2026

• Mistral rebrands its chatbot to an AI agent called Vibe — Cybernews — 29-05-2026

• Top Japanese banks to use OpenAI's new model against cyberattacks — Nikkei Asia — 29-05-2026

• Evaluating DeepSeek v4 Pro for Frontier Risks — Neo Research — 29-05-2026

28-05-2026

• A SF Startup Is Secretly Testing Robots in Airbnbs, and Trashing Them, Lawsuit Claims — SF Standard — 28-05-2026

• Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri — Ars Technica — 28-05-2026

• Anthropic hits $965B valuation with latest funding round, overtaking OpenAI — The Hill — 28-05-2026

• We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia. This investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude. Earlier this month, our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion. — Anthropic/Twitter — 28-05-2026

• Introducing Claude Opus 4.8 — Anthropic — 28-05-2026

• Anthropic to roll out Claude Mythos in coming weeks, launches Opus 4.8 — Reuters — 28-05-2026

• OpenMDW-1.1 is now available — and @NVIDIAAI is adopting it across Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, Ising, and Nemotron model families. A permissive, unified legal framework purpose-built for AI models. Learn more at http://openmdw.ai — The Linux Foundation/Twitter — 28-05-2026

• How far behind are open models? — LessWrong — 28-05-2026

• How long is Anthropic's lease with SpaceX? Opinions vary. — TechCrunch — 28-05-2026

• OpenAI's Frontier Governance Framework — OpenAI — 28-05-2026

• CNN sues Perplexity over alleged AI copyright theft — CNN — 28-05-2026

• Mistral Signs Airbus and BMW as It Brings AI to Manufacturing — Bloomberg — 28-05-2026

• Mistral to explore designing own chips, CEO says, as it ramps up infrastructure build — CNBC — 28-05-2026

• Tencent Rolls Out New AI Tools and Enterprise Solutions for Global Markets at Inaugural Tencent Cloud Day Hong Kong — Tencent — 28-05-2026

• Anthropic hits $965B valuation with latest funding round, overtaking OpenAI — The Hill — 28-05-2026

27-05-2026

• Meta to Sell AI Chatbot Subscriptions in Bid to Offset Spending — Bloomberg — 27-05-2026

• Meta Launches New Enterprise Push to Boost Business Adoption of Its AI Tools — The Information — 27-05-2026

• DeWine announces pause of Ohio's data center tax exemption — WCPO — 27-05-2026

• AP adds OpenAI as elections customer — AP — 27-05-2026

• Exclusive: OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections — Axios — 27-05-2026

• OpenAI Foundation commits $250 million to help workers, economies navigate AI disruption — Reuters — 27-05-2026

• New Jersey Gov. Sherrill wants data centers to pay for their own electricity — WHYY — 27-05-2026

• Taiwan said to suspect Nvidia chips smuggled to China via Japan — The Straits Times — 27-05-2026

• DiffusionBlocks: Training Neural Networks One Block at a Time — Sakana AI — 27-05-2026

26-05-2026

• OpenAI's PR Challenge — The Information — 26-05-2026

• DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being 'force-fed' Google's AI Search — TechCrunch — 26-05-2026

• DeepMind CEO: AI agents are a "practice run" for AGI — Axios — 26-05-2026

• Anthropic appoints KiYoung Choi as Representative Director of Korea ahead of Seoul office opening — Anthropic — 26-05-2026

• Trump Appoints Pam Bondi to White House AI Panel, a Month After Firing Her as Attorney General — News18 — 26-05-2026

• OpenAI Skeptics Ask AG Bonta to Investigate Execs' Ties to Semiconductor Company — The Sacramento Bee — 26-05-2026

• US Law Enforcement Warns of 'Anti-Tech Extremism' as AI Hatred Grows — Wired — 26-05-2026

• BNP Paribas Steps Up Mistral Partnership to Bolster Rapid AI Defences — Reuters — 26-05-2026

• China Expands Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent at Private Firms — Bloomberg — 26-05-2026

25-05-2026

• Pope urges 'disarming' of AI in major manifesto — AFP/Yahoo News — 25-05-2026

• Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah's remarks on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" — Anthropic — 25-05-2026

• Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV: Magnifica Humanitas — The Holy See — 25-05-2026

• Pope Leo's 'Magnifica humanitas': AI must serve humanity not concentrate power — Vatican News — 25-05-2026

• AI guardrails stripped from Meta and Google models in minutes — Financial Times — 25-05-2026

24-05-2026

• Inside the British Lab Hunting for Dangers Lurking in A.I. — The New York Times — 24-05-2026

• Nvidia CEO Urges Super Micro to Tighten Up on Compliance — Bloomberg — 24-05-2026

• Who killed Trump's AI order? Musk says it wasn't him — Canadian Affairs — 24-05-2026

• Anthropic's secretive Mythos AI appears inside Claude code, then vanishes — Techlusive — 24-05-2026

• How Vibe Slop And Fragile Economics could impact Mega IPO for OpenAI and Anthropic — American Bazaar — 24-05-2026

23-05-2026

• Anthropic Doesn't Allow Kids Under 18 — Here's Why:⁣⁣ "We just don't know enough about what AI is going to do to kids. It needs to be done with an adult in the room. It needs to be done with a human in the loop." — @DanielaAmodei — Overlap: Business & Tech/Twitter — 23-05-2026

• Another 9 open Erdos problems solved, this time by [a] DeepMind team. — Przemek Chojecki/Twitter — 23-05-2026

• It’s no longer just AI companies & their founders being sued over AI training - individual researchers are now being sued, too. — Ed Newton-Rex/Twitter — 23-05-2026

• Anthropic's $300M Stainless deal lands hardest on OpenAI and Google — The New Stack — 23-05-2026

• Tencent Marvis Launches Officially: System-Level AI Assistant, Six Intelligent Agents, Always Available 24 Hours — AIbase — 23-05-2026

22-05-2026

• OpenAI Is Going Public But Is It for the Wrong Reasons? — The Motley Fool — 22-05-2026

• "Are you a philosophical zombie driven by Claude?" — Jack Clark Cosmos Lecture transcript — Cosmos Institute — 22-05-2026

• Why Anthropic is helping unveil the pope's new encyclical on AI — Religion News Service — 22-05-2026

• White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I. — The New York Times — 22-05-2026

• Google's AI search is so broken it can 'disregard' what you're looking for — The Verge — 22-05-2026

• Anthropic set to close $30 billion funding at over $900 billion valuation — Investing.com — 22-05-2026

• Project Glasswing: An initial update — Anthropic — 22-05-2026

• China's AI start-up funding triples to US$16b in first quarter amid bets on LLMs, robotics — OODAloop — 22-05-2026

• NEW: Read the full AI exec. order that was supposed to go out yesterday — Sophia Cai/Twitter — 22-05-2026

• DeepSeek Founder Declares AGI Goal as $10 Billion Round Advances — Bloomberg — 22-05-2026

• Cloud Rebuilt for Machines: Alibaba Cloud is redesigning its entire stack for agents, from chips to tokens. — Hello China Tech — 22-05-2026

• AMD CEO: AI Training Yet to Generate Profits — Binance News — 22-05-2026

21-05-2026

• Exclusive: OpenAI's Altman Talks to Staff About IPO Timing — The Information — 21-05-2026

• Trump yanked AI order after David Sacks raised industry concerns — Politico — 21-05-2026

• For every $1 OpenAI made in Q1 ($5.7B), it lost $1.22. For every $1 Anthropic makes in Q2 ($10.9B), it expects to make 5 cents in operating profits. (don't have OpenAI Q2 data nor Anthropic Q1 to compare apples to apples) — Sheel Mohnot/Twitter — 21-05-2026

• Scott Bessent has been raising the alarm on AI policy. But the delays keep coming. — Politico — 21-05-2026

• OpenAI kicked off the AI compute buildout in 2023. But today it uses ~10% of the world's compute, and the top labs together are probably under half. — Epoch AI/Twitter — 21-05-2026

• Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak got cheers, not boos, after telling students they 'all have AI — actual intelligence' — Business Insider — 21-05-2026

• California Governor Signs Order on AI Aimed at Helping Workers — The Wall Street Journal — 21-05-2026

• Pentagon Tests Rival AI Models in Race to Replace Anthropic — Bloomberg — 21-05-2026

• Texans Hate Data Centers So Much They Are Asking Jesus for Help — Insurance Journal — 21-05-2026

• Export-Import Bank set to consider framework backing US AI exports — Nextgov/FCW — 21-05-2026

• White House Postpones AI Executive Order Signing — Politico — 21-05-2026

• Anthropic in talks to use Microsoft's AI chips, The Information reports — Reuters — 21-05-2026

• Blackstone, Anthropic Joint Venture Acquires Fractional AI — Morningstar — 21-05-2026

• Two Hours That Changed AI — Axios — 21-05-2026

• Nvidia says it has 'largely conceded' China's AI chip market to Huawei — CNBC — 21-05-2026

20-05-2026

• Cheap AI Could Derail OpenAI and Anthropic's IPOs — CNBC — 20-05-2026

• Announcing strategic MOUs with Indra Group and Multiverse Computing — Cohere — 20-05-2026

• Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year — Axios — 20-05-2026

• Anthropic is paying $1.25B a month to SpaceX for compute — Sheel Mohnot/Twitter — 20-05-2026

• SpaceX confirms plans for an IPO that could make Elon Musk a trillionaire — NBC News — 20-05-2026

• Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter — The Wall Street Journal — 20-05-2026

• Anticipated executive order could give NSA a role in voluntary AI model testing — Nextgov/FCW — 20-05-2026

• OpenAI Claims It Solved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem — For Real This Time — TechCrunch — 20-05-2026

• Advancing Content Provenance for a Safer, More Transparent AI Ecosystem — OpenAI — 20-05-2026

• The 13 Biggest Announcements at Google I/O 2026 — The Verge — 20-05-2026

• Introducing Command A+: Making sovereign agentic capabilities available to all — Cohere — 20-05-2026

• OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks — The New York Times — 20-05-2026

• Inside the next phase of OpenAI's political strategy — Politico — 20-05-2026

• Google DeepMind and Google.org Announce AI for Math Initiative — Google DeepMind Blog — 20-05-2026

19-05-2026

• Court Rules Expert's AI Prompts Are Fair Game Under Rule 26 — Arnold & Porter — 19-05-2026

• A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight @sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity — Tyler Bosmeny/Twitter — 19-05-2026

• OpenAI Commits $234 Million for New AI Lab in Singapore — Bloomberg — 19-05-2026

• Can't Wait for the Final Version? Qwen3.7 Preview Model is Now Available for Experience! Mathematics/Programming/Multimodal Capabilities Have Been Significantly Enhanced, Get a First Look at the Thinking Mode — AIBase — 19-05-2026

• Widening the conversation on frontier AI — Anthropic — 19-05-2026

• Cohere acquires Reliant AI to expand sovereign enterprise AI for the global biopharma and healthcare sectors — Cohere — 19-05-2026

• SpaceX Is Said to Plan to Buy Startup Cursor 30 Days After IPO — Bloomberg — 19-05-2026

• SoftBank Founder's Starstruck Bet on OpenAI Raises Concern — Bloomberg — 19-05-2026

• GOOGLE JUST SHOWED HOW INSANE AI DEMAND HAS GOTTEN Monthly tokens processed across Google surfaces: May 2024: 9.7T May 2025: ~480T May 2026: 3.2Q+ That is 7x Y/Y growth. — Wall St Engine/Twitter — 19-05-2026

• OpenAI launches Guaranteed Capacity for long-term compute access — Investing.com — 19-05-2026

• Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery — Google — 19-05-2026

• Appeals Court Questions Anthropic's Challenge to Pentagon Supply-Risk Label — Bloomberg — 19-05-2026

• Google Hires Staff From Bezos-Backed Contextual AI in Licensing Deal — Bloomberg — 19-05-2026

• Google Says Gemini 3.5 Flash Can Slash Enterprise AI Costs by More Than $1 Billion a Year — VentureBeat — 19-05-2026

• Google's Gemini Omni Turns Images, Audio, and Text Into Video — and That's Just the Start — TechCrunch — 19-05-2026

• Google overhauls its AI subscription tiers, makes them cheaper — Mashable — 19-05-2026

• Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026) — METR — 19-05-2026

• Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years — The New York Times — 19-05-2026

• OpenAI and Dell Technologies Partner to Bring Codex to Hybrid and On-Premises Enterprise Environments — OpenAI — 19-05-2026

• xAI: The Unpriced Risk in SpaceX's IPO — Guidelight AI Standards / LASST / Encode AI / The Midas Project — 19-05-2026

• Former OpenAI Staffers Warn That xAI's Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX's IPO — Wired — 19-05-2026

• OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic — Axios — 19-05-2026

• OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team — TechCrunch — 19-05-2026

• Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis emerges as early Anthropic investor — Financial Times — 19-05-2026

• Mistral AI Buys Vienna's Emmi AI In +€300M Bid To Own Europe's Factory Floor — The French Tech Journal — 19-05-2026

18-05-2026

• Moonshot AI to Overhaul Structure to Win Nod for Hong Kong IPO — Bloomberg Law — 19-05-2026

• The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam — WSJ — 18-05-2026

• AI21 cuts more than 60% of its workforce in major strategic overhaul — CTech — 18-05-2026

• Google and Blackstone to Create New AI Cloud Company — WSJ — 18-05-2026

• Jury tosses Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman — NBC News — 18-05-2026

• Dell Technologies Closes the Gap Between AI Ambition and AI Outcomes (Multiple Frontier AI Labs) — Dell Technologies — 18-05-2026

• Pope and co-founder of Anthropic to launch pontiff's AI encyclical on May 25 — AP News — 18-05-2026

• Google's Own AI Researchers Jockey for Access to Its Computing — Bloomberg — 18-05-2026

• Musk's xAI Fails to Pay Staff $420 for Giving Their Tax Returns to Grok — Bloomberg — 18-05-2026

17-05-2026

• Anthropic Will Brief World's Most Powerful Financial Watchdog on Mythos AI Cyber Dangers — Mint — 17-05-2026

• What A.I. Did to My College Class — The New York Times — 17-05-2026

• Anthropic and OpenAI's Share of AI Startup Revenues Rises to 89% — The Information — 17-05-2026

• An AI hate wave is here — Axios — 17-05-2026

16-05-2026

• Pope Approves Creation of Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence — Vatican News — 16-05-2026

• The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush — TechCrunch — 16-05-2026

• OpenAI is offering ChatGPT Plus to citizens of Malta for a year — Engadget — 16-05-2026

• Cerebras CFO: "We serve all models, and there is no limit to the size of the models that we can serve. Today, we're serving trillion parameter models. We're serving trillion parameter models that are internal for OpenAI today. We are currently running OpenAI 5.4 and 5.5 with them." — Ray Wang/Twitter — 16-05-2026

• the personal finance product openai launched is actually one of the worst personal finance tools i’ve ever used in my entire life. borderline hazardous for people with low financial literacy to be using i had chatgpt tell me everything it messed u — khushi/Twitter — 16-05-2026

• Elon Musk's trial against Sam Altman renews questions about his honesty — The Washington Post — 16-05-2026

• China Data Centers Tap Spot Power Trading First Time: Report — Bloomberg — 16-05-2026

15-05-2026

• I vibe code with GPT-5.4 for ~$1/day (100M+ tokens) — some stories from China — No-Chance-6828/Reddit — 15-05-2026

• Is OpenAI changing its tune on AI laws? — Transformer — 15-05-2026

• Is OpenAI’s super PAC paying for an army of Twitter bots to engage with their content? — The Midas Project/Twitter — 15-05-2026

• House talks look at blocking some state AI laws, including in California and New York — Politico — 15-05-2026

• OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts — The Verge — 15-05-2026

• Claude's next enterprise battle is not models: it's the agent control plane — VentureBeat — 15-05-2026

• Anthropic's hunt to find the next Claude Code — Sources — 15-05-2026

• Mira Murati Wants Her AI to 'Keep Humans in the Loop' — Wired — 15-05-2026

• Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI's Products in Latest Shakeup — Wired — 15-05-2026

14-05-2026

• OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google — Futurism — 14-05-2026

• Anthropic agrees terms of $30bn funding deal at $900bn valuation — Financial Times — 14-05-2026

• A Stolen Charity or Sour Grapes? Musk’s OpenAI Suit Is in Jury’s Hands. — The New York Times — 14-05-2026

• Anthropic Spat With US Emerges as Risk Factor for Figma, Others — Bloomberg — 14-05-2026

• High-stakes courtroom drama of Musk v OpenAI hears closing arguments — The Guardian — 14-05-2026

• Musk's xAI Unveils First Coding Agent in Bid to Rival Anthropic — Bloomberg — 14-05-2026

• Microsoft Is Starting to Cancel Claude Code Licenses — The Verge — 14-05-2026

• The SpaceXAI Exodus: More Than 50 Recent Exits as Meta, Thinking Machines Hire Staff — The Information — 14-05-2026

• 2028: Two Scenarios for Global AI Leadership — Anthropic — 14-05-2026

• New letter from 35 (!) members of Congress to the White House urging action post-Mythos. Most of the letter is about cyber risk, but also discusses importance of non-cyber threats as well. — Nathan Calvin/Twitter — 14-05-2026

• Apple's Security Has Been Tough to Crack. Mythos Helped Find a Way In. — The Wall Street Journal — 14-05-2026

• Anthropic Forms $200 Million Partnership with the Gates Foundation — Anthropic — 14-05-2026

• Apple-OpenAI Alliance Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight — Bloomberg — 14-05-2026

• Google Is About to Release a New Gemini Model — Sources — 14-05-2026

13-05-2026

• 7 in 10 Americans Oppose Data Centers Being Built in Their Communities — Washington Post — 13-05-2026

• Mira Murati's AI Dream Team Got Their Stock Options. Now Many Are Out. — Business Insider — 13-05-2026

• OpenAI Chief Altman Has Over $2 Billion Stake in Companies That Dealt With OpenAI, Court Filing Shows — Reuters — 13-05-2026

• PECO Signs Agreements With Data Centers Requiring Them to Pay for Their Own Grid Upgrades — WHYY Philadelphia — 13-05-2026

• NEW: We are short Nvidia $NVDA. We believe Nvidia has a significant China problem. Please see our full report and disclosures now available on our website, link in bio. — Culper Research/Twitter — 13-05-2026

• OpenAI Floats Idea of Global AI Governance Body With US, China — Bloomberg — 13-05-2026

• How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing? — AISI — 13-05-2026

• Musk's xAI Races to Get Wall Street Firms to Use Grok Chatbot — Seeking Alpha — 13-05-2026

• The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly — The Atlantic — 13-05-2026

• OpenAI is endorsing both KOSA (!) and Illinois' SB315 today, a frontier AI bill that mirrors the NY and Cali approaches OpenAI previously endorsed. In: state consistency, out: praying hopelessly for a federal standard — Ashley Gold/Twitter — 13-05-2026

• OpenAI Exec Recalls 'Tense Exchange' Where Elon Musk Called Him a 'Jackass' — Business Insider — 13-05-2026

• Mistral Developing New AI Model for Banks Lacking Mythos Access — Bloomberg — 13-05-2026

• Microsoft Spent Over $100 Billion on OpenAI Partnership, Executive Testifies — Bloomberg — 13-05-2026

• Anthropic Was Behind. Now It's the AI Boom's Front-Runner. — WSJ — 13-05-2026

• Why Jensen Huang ended up joining Trump's trip to China — Semafor — 13-05-2026

• ANTHROPIC beats OpenAI in business adoption for the first time per @tryramp data. Today's update of Ramp AI Index shows 34.4% of businesses using Anthropic versus 32.3% using OpenAI. Adoption of Anthropic quadrupled over the last year, while OpenAI rose only 0.3%. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 13-05-2026

• Anthropic Flexes Pricing Power as Its Customers Willingly Eat the Cost — The Information — 13-05-2026

• Frontier AI Models Don't Just Delete Document Content — They Rewrite It, and the Errors Are Nearly Impossible to Catch — VentureBeat — 13-05-2026

• NVIDIA Partners With Ineffable Intelligence on Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure — NVIDIA Blog — 13-05-2026

• 'I Applied to Be Pope': Losing Grip on Reality While Using ChatGPT — AFP — 13-05-2026

• Alibaba Sales Fall Short Despite Cloud and AI Push, Posts First Operating Loss Since 2021 — Bloomberg — 13-05-2026

• Tencent Q1 Earnings: Gaming and AI Demand Can't Prevent Revenue Miss — CNBC — 13-05-2026

12-05-2026

• 'It's Like We Don't Exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe Residents Face Power Loss as Utility Redirects Lines to Data Centers — Fortune — 12-05-2026

• Sam Altman May Start a New Compute Company — Sources News — 12-05-2026

• Mythos for Offensive Security: XBOW's Evaluation — XBOW — 12-05-2026

• Anthropic in Talks to Buy Developer Tools Startup Used by OpenAI, Google — The Information — 12-05-2026

• Anthropic in Talks to Raise Funding at a $950 Billion Valuation — The New York Times — 12-05-2026

• Musk 'Wanted 90%' of OpenAI, Altman Says in High-Stakes Trial — CP24 — 12-05-2026

• Anthropic In Talks to Raise $30 Billion at $900 Billion Valuation — Bloomberg — 12-05-2026

• Google Races to Put Gemini at the Center of Android Before Apple's AI Reboot — CNBC — 12-05-2026

• OpenAI and Anthropic May Have a European AI Rival — JPMorgan Sees a $430B Opportunity in Mistral — Benzinga — 12-05-2026

• SpaceX, Google in Orbital Data Center Talks: Report — Yahoo Finance — 12-05-2026

• Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era — Google DeepMind — 12-05-2026

• Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies — TechCrunch — 12-05-2026

• The AI legal services industry is heating up. Anthropic is getting in on the action. — TechCrunch — 12-05-2026

• Parents say ChatGPT got their son killed with bad advice on party drugs — The Verge — 12-05-2026

11-05-2026

• I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI — Wired — 11-05-2026

• xAI Now Has 46 Gas Turbines Without Air Permits. State Officials Are 'Evaluating the Situation' — Mississippi Today — 11-05-2026

• Anthropic Warns Investors to Avoid Certain Secondary Market Sellers — Bloomberg — 12-05-2026

• Elon Musk's Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race — The Wall Street Journal — 11-05-2026

• Kim Yongbeom: "We Must Discuss the Principle of a National Dividend for AI Excess Profits" ... "Korea Moving Toward a Technology Monopoly Economy" — The Asia Business Daily — 12-05-2026

• Widow Sues ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Over Husband's Death in Mass Shooting at Florida State University — Sky News — 11-05-2026

• Oversight Chair Seeks Information From OpenAI's Sam Altman About Potential Financial Conflicts — Los Angeles Times — 11-05-2026

• Former OpenAI Exec Calls Decision to Remove Sam Altman a 'Hail Mary' During Musk Trial — KQED — 11-05-2026

• Ex-OpenAI exec Sutskever says he spent a year gathering proof of alleged Altman dishonesty — Reuters — 11-05-2026

• In Trump Administration Battle Over AI, U.S. Spy Agencies Seek More Power — The Washington Post — 11-05-2026

• Inside the Courtroom Circus With Elon Musk and Sam Altman — The New York Times — 11-05-2026

• Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration — Thinking Machines — 11-05-2026

• Introducing the Claude Platform on AWS — Claude — 11-05-2026

• Claude's new constitution — Anthropic — 11-05-2026

• OpenAI, Anthropic Turn to Hindu, Sikh, Christian Leaders to Teach AI Morality — Business Today — 11-05-2026

• How ChatGPT adoption broadened in early 2026 — OpenAI — 11-05-2026

• OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company to help businesses build around intelligence — OpenAI — 11-05-2026

• EU Commission in talks with OpenAI and Anthropic over AI models — Reuters — 11-05-2026

• Fake OpenAI Repository on Hugging Face Pushes Infostealer Malware — Security Boulevard — 11-05-2026

• DeepSeek Nears Record $7.35B Funding Round Led by China State Fund — Dataconomy — 11-05-2026

• Alibaba's Qwen could push AI agents into the heart of e-commerce — DIGITIMES Asia — 11-05-2026

• China deepens footprint at AI conference despite NeurIPS dispute, US tensions — South China Morning Post — 11-05-2026

10-05-2026

• How a Job at OpenAI Became the Greatest Lottery Ticket of the AI Boom — The Wall Street Journal — 10-05-2026

• This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. The video below was recorded at midnight, and the data center is situated next to 100s of residential homes. — Merissa Hansen/Twitter — 08-05-2026

• Anthropic says 'evil' portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude's blackmail attempts — TechCrunch — 10-05-2026

09-05-2026

• All Those AI Notetakers? They're Making Lawyers Very Nervous. — The New York Times — 09-05-2026

08-05-2026

• The Secret Diary That Has Spilled Into the Musk vs. OpenAI Feud — The Wall Street Journal — 08-05-2026

• Teaching Claude Why — Anthropic — 08-05-2026

• Anthropic and OpenAI earn more revenue per employee than the top public tech companies, both now and at their IPOs. Anthropic: ~$9M OpenAI: ~$5.6M — Epoch AI/Twitter — 08-05-2026

• US Prepares AI Security Order That Omits Mandatory Model Tests — Bloomberg — 08-05-2026

• SoftBank Cuts Target for OpenAI Margin Loan, Bloomberg News Reports — Reuters — 08-05-2026

• Anthropic Inks $1.8 Billion Computing Deal With Akamai — Bloomberg — 08-05-2026

• Code for America and Anthropic Partner to Create AI Tools for Caseworkers — Code for America — 08-05-2026

• AI Coordination Without Illusion — Choosing Victory — 07-05-2026

• US Said to Suspect Nvidia Chips Smuggled to Alibaba Via Thailand — Bloomberg — 08-05-2026

• Mozilla says AI helped squash 423 Firefox security bugs — The Register — 08-05-2026

07-05-2026

• Anthropic weighs deal for near $1tn valuation as revenue surges — Financial Times — 07-05-2026

• Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's thoughts into text — Anthropic — 07-05-2026

• OpenAI Rolls Out New GPT-5.5-Cyber to Vetted Cybersecurity Teams — CNBC — 07-05-2026

• OpenAI's AI Chip Deal With Broadcom Hits $18 Billion Financing Snag — The Information — 07-05-2026

• How Anthropic's Mythos Threw the White House AI Strategy Into Chaos — Wall Street Journal — 07-05-2026

• EU countries, lawmakers clinch provisional deal on watered-down AI rules — Reuters — 07-05-2026

• IMF warns new AI models risk 'systemic' shock to finance — Financial Times — 07-05-2026

• Anthropic's Capacity Pinch Cracks the Door for OpenAI — Bloomberg — 07-05-2026

• AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields — Google DeepMind — 07-05-2026

06-05-2026

• Is xAI a Neocloud Now? — TechCrunch — 06-05-2026

• Kimi Chatbot Maker Moonshot AI Valued at $20 Billion in Meituan-Led Round — Bloomberg — 06-05-2026

• Why AI vetting is freaking people out — Politico — 06-05-2026

• U.S. and China Pursue Guardrails to Stop AI Rivalry From Spiraling Into Crisis — The Wall Street Journal — 06-05-2026

• Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in Maker of Eve Online — Bloomberg — 06-05-2026

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei jokes that his company's extreme revenue growth is 'too hard to handle.' — Business Insider — 06-05-2026

• Head of Claude Code on the Future of Work and Productivity — CNBC — 06-05-2026

• The vibes in China's AI labs — florianbrand.com — 06-05-2026

• AI boom pushes Samsung to $1T — TechCrunch — 06-05-2026

• Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn't trust Sam Altman's words — The Verge — 06-05-2026

• Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX — Anthropic — 06-05-2026

• DeepSeek nears $45bn valuation as China's 'Big Fund' leads investment talks — Financial Times — 06-05-2026

• Blackstone, KKR in talks with Google to bring AI models to portfolio firms — The Business Times — 06-05-2026

• The App Store for Robots Has Arrived: Hugging Face Launches Open-Source Reachy Mini App Store with 200+ Apps — VentureBeat — 06-05-2026

• DeepSeek Pulls Multimodal Paper After Brief Release, Reveals New Visual Reasoning Approach — Digitimes — 06-05-2026

05-05-2026

• How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China — ChinaTalk — 05-05-2026

• Anthropic CEO Warns of Cyber 'Moment of Danger' as AI Exposes Thousands of Vulnerabilities — CNBC — 05-05-2026

• Factbox: What We Know About US Stress Tests of Google, xAI and Microsoft AI Models — Reuters — 05-05-2026

• Anthropic Announces New AI Agents for Financial Professionals — Bloomberg — 05-05-2026

• OpenAI Trial: Brockman Rebuts Musk's Take on Startup's History, Recounts Secret Work for Tesla — CNBC — 05-05-2026

• Anthropic commits to spending $200 billion on Google's cloud and chips, the Information reports — Reuters — 05-05-2026

• Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder — MSN — 05-05-2026

• X user tricks Grok into sending them $200,000 in crypto using morse code — Dexerto — 05-05-2026

• Piecing all the news together (last week's Pentagon deals + CAISI pre-release screening agreements), these developments show how much leverage the federal government has over frontier AI companies. — Jessica Tillipman/Twitter — 05-05-2026

• White House mulls tight new controls on advanced AI — Politico — 05-05-2026

• Good lord. Half-ish of the cloud backlog at Microsoft, Oracle, Google and Amazon is OpenAI and Anthropic???? — Jessica Lessin/Twitter — 05-05-2026

• OpenAI to spend $50 billion on computing in 2026, Brockman says — Reuters — 05-05-2026

• Anthropic Unveils AI Agents to Field Financial Services Tasks — Bloomberg — 05-05-2026

• DeepMind's Demis Hassabis was a constant figure of fear among Musk and other OpenAI higher-ups — The Verge — 05-05-2026

• AI Research Gets Boost as Google DeepMind Partners With Eve Online Developer — Bloomberg — 06-05-2026

• Pennsylvania sues AI company, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as licensed doctors — WHYY Philadelphia — 05-05-2026