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Bloomberg: SpaceX closes its 60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup — SpaceX has completed a 60 billion acquisition of artificial in

Yes, there’s an artificial intelligence bubble, no denying that anymore — so the question becomes, “Will it burst, and when?” You’d be forgiven for thinking it could happen soon, given the continuing,

Z.ai: Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, using the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding and cyber skills, with weights due in two weeks — With GLM-5.2 we built the stack: IndexSh

Reuters: Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users — Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Fri

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: A look at workers in India who are paid extra to wear devices that capture first-person video of factory and other work tasks for use as AI robot training data — Robotics comp

ai is the ultimate grow the pie event cheaper inference = better gross margins for application companies, AND beautiful cohort expansion for model and inference companies Sequoia Capital GP @sonyatwee

A new report from threat intelligence company Flashpoint has found that criminals now use artificial intelligence in day-to-day operations, well past the experimental stage. The 2026 Global Threat Int

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s

Grok Bot just passed Google’s “I'm not a robot?” test I fail this task sometimes tbh 😅 Media Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta. Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to y

Mindgard Ltd., a leader in artificial intelligence cybersecurity, announced today that it raised 30 million in early funding to scale up its product in response to significant demand across the indust

Ara Kharazian / Ramp: Ramp's July AI index: Anthropic's market share hit 43.5%, widening its lead over OpenAI; Fable 5 is only 6% of tokens businesses bought, likely due to high cost — Dear Colleagues

Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic's investors expect it to float at a 2T+ valuation in an October IPO and to hit 100B to 120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 — Anthropic investors expect th

The OpenAI Foundation is launching AI for Civil Society and Philanthropy to help nonprofits, community organizations, and other trusted partners put advanced AI to work on urgent challenges, develop p

Denmark-based LuaBio ApS, operating as Again, today announced the acquisition of Genomatica Inc. to combine the company’s cutting-edge biomanufacturing capabilities with Geno’s artificial intelligence

Google DeepMind said today it wants to bring the artificial intelligence revolution to the estimated 70 million people across the world who are either deaf or hard of hearing with the launch of sign-l

Palo Alto Networks Inc. said today its Unit 42 consulting arm will put OpenAI Group PBC’s frontier cyber models to work inside customer environments, expanding a service it launched earlier this year

Wall Street Journal: Some health and fitness obsessives are using AI for hyperpersonalized training, building custom dashboards and tools to analyze their sleep, workouts, and diet — From marathon tra

Ellen Milligan / Bloomberg: Sources: the UK government is planning to regulate the use of AI in gene synthesis to prevent terrorists and other bad actors from using AI for bioweapons — The UK governme

ShieldFont, created by designers Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio, uses ligature‑based word substitutions within a custom web font to render a perfectly readable page for human users while embedding

Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that 'your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your

Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI, specialized cyber defense models from OpenAI, are now available on Amazon Bedrock to eligible customers. Both models run with zero-operator access enforced

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later posted to X, Lightcap told col

ELON MUSK ON BUILDING A “STAR MIND” POWERED BY THE SUN “We’ve already built the most powerful AI training clusters in the world. And then what we expect to do by the end of next year is about 10 times

“This investment is guaranteed to return 12% annually.” A claim like that in an email from an investment adviser is a regulatory disaster. Regulations prohibit financial firms from promising returns a

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. It is giving defenders new ways to sift through vast amounts of telemetry, identify anomalous behavior and automate rout

I WILL PAY 1 MILLION FOR THIS 😭 I will literally pay 1,000,000 to the developer who fixes this. ChatGPT macOS: ⌘C text → ⌘Tab back to ChatGPT → ⌘V …and the search box ISN’T FOCUSED. 🤦‍♂️ Why do I have

Julian Hast / Bloomberg: OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to manage commodity hedging across its expanding data center power portfolio, as tech companies seek reliable electricity — OpenAI is hir

After a former lead writer claimed Saber 'replaced me with ChatGPT,' CEO Matthew Karch now claims, 'Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI,' for the Rideshare 'Stimulator' game an

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised 40M led by Sequoia at a 300M valuation —

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI — Company is racing

Business Insider: Sources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise 150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least 750M — Kevin Weil, the former chief prod

Hi all, I'm seeing so many conversations from people discussing how they're 'using the models wrong' and 'don't use Sol max as high is enough for you', yet all the conversations lack the nuance of wha

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more — Wha

Joel Khalili / Wired: A profile of Founders Pledge, which has recorded $4B in pledges from founders so far in 2026, as the AI industry now accounts for a third of its lifetime total — A new generation

Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg: Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models — New la

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to say about the idealized future he now envisions for humanity co-existing with artificial intelligence - his latest essay spans more than 6,500 words on the matter

Graph neural networks are reshaping how enterprises hunt for fraud, moving detection beyond isolated transactions to reveal entire hidden networks of bad actors. As AI adoption accelerates, organizati

Liam Knox / Bloomberg: Revelio Labs: short-term AI training programs made up ~33% of the professional certificate market in 2026, up from just 2% in 2022 before ChatGPT launched — People are anxious t

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, 9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours — Anthropic PBC

New York Times: Sources: the AI-driven memory chip shortage has kicked off a rush of DC lobbying; many US officials appear unsympathetic to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips — The artificial intelli

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Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum: Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity — SemiAnalysis

Hugging Face is getting one new repository every seven seconds. That is roughly 12,000 new models and datasets a day, every day. Clem Delangue @ClementDelangue said it on stage at AMD's developer conf

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't g

Sam Altman humorously noted in a recent tweet that one of his favorite aspects of OpenAI is referred to as “tibo.” The tweet was re-tweeted by Stats Wire, which responded with the question, “How much