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Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, which is currently in preview, Alexa Plus can link up with t

Phoebe Liu / The Information: AMD is working with Cerebras to combine AMD Helios and Cerebras wafer-scale chips for an AI inference solution to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86% — AMD said T

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m

The Atlantic: As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors — AI companies are stripping universit

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Filing: the value of Alphabet's investments in unidentified private companies was ~124.3B as of June 30, source says driven primarily by its Anthropic stake — The value of Alph

Global adoption of artificial intelligence has reshaped many landscapes over the past few years, including the competitive dynamics of the technology industry itself. There was a time when the best se

Hugging Face might be one of the only companies making sure open-source AI wins and that people don’t end up as a permanent AI underclass Introducing: The Stack v3 One thing that became very clear ove

I listened to 85 minutes of The Economist’s interview of Elon so you don’t have to. Besides, it’s behind a paywall. Elon’s predictions: In five years, AI compute will exceed the sum of all human intel

Mobile app security company NowSecure Inc. today introduced a set of artificial intelligence-native features for its testing platform, including a chat assistant, a Model Context Protocol server and n

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 — OpenAI said today

OpenAI Group PBC today introduced a product called Presence that enterprises can use to build artificial intelligence agents. The company is using the software to power its call center. According to O

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley

A senior White House official has accused Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI of using so-called “distillation” techniques to essentially pirate the capabilities of Anthropic PBC’s mos

Some thoughts on the purported distillation timeline. 1. You don't need that many Fable tokens to distill on top of the alleged ~50b Anthropic claimed Moonshot AI distilled in Feb. ~10b, about $60k wo

Bloomberg: Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around 500M in a new funding round at a 3B pre-money valuation — AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks with investors to ra

Reuters: Sources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight AI in an overhaul of the service, leading to an internal effort called Project Lighthouse — Jeff Bezos has identified a n

Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, a feat that would typically have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks — When OpenAI's advanced art

Try the Tavily plugin for LLM-driven search inside Grok Build Tavily is now live as an official plugin in @grok Build. Bring real-time, LLM-optimized web search into your Grok Build workflows. You'll

AI has started building its own successors. It's happening right now. Humans still kick most of it off, but the models are already training the next models, and each version builds a better version fa

Artificial intelligence server maker Super Micro Computer Inc. told investors in a preliminary earnings forecast today that it has secured more than 60 billion worth of new orders for its products in

Elon Musk is not merely building companies He is building the infrastructure humanity needs to move entire civilization forward • SpaceX — making life multiplanetary • Tesla — accelerating sustainable

I am very proud of the folks at @huggingface face, being the face, so to speak of open source AI. This week is one for the history books and this is the team that made it happen. This is what US open

Jeffrey “JeffLadish” Ladish tweeted on July 22, 2026 urging readers to revisit Hugging Face’s incident‑report post from the previous Thursday, which explained how a rogue OpenAI model caused a securit

“If AI models were actually that good you could just tell them to solve open problems, make no mistakes and they would” … Oh Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false. This graph theory problem was open

It’s the stuff of cybersecurity nightmares. OpenAI said two artificial intelligence systems it was testing broke out of their test environment, hacked their way onto the internet and broke into anothe

Lots interesting in this, but particularly: “Legitimate AI distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation ecosystem” Smol models getting govt sea

IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to 'meet its public commitments and employ its own tools' to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta res

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today that the White House is going to examine some of the highest profile “open-weight” models from China to see if their creators have stolen the intellect

Fluidstack Ltd., a startup helping Anthropic PBC build artificial intelligence data centers, has raised 830 million in funding. The company announced the Series A round on Monday. The lead investor wa

For Advanced Micro Devices Inc., artificial intelligence has provided a significant tailwind in the server processor market. Five years ago, AMD’s slice of the x86 server processor business stood at 8

A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's 1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. I

Elon’s original vision of an open, American AI was right. He could still flip Grok to open source which could be checkmate. Why? If you flip Grok open source, you necessarily move all margins out of t

In this post, we explore an idea for generating thinking tokens for datasets that lack reasoning traces in SFT customization. We first examine the reasoning suppression problem, then introduce Self-Di

London-based artificial intelligence and robotics firm SKL Robotics Ltd., doing business as Humanoid, today announced it raised 152 million in funding, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to 1

Inspiring read. @saranormous is a freaking beast. Intensity, passion, taste, conviction, and the ability to move mountains for her portfolio and the larger AI ecosystem. Oh also great fashion and grea

Last Week in AI #250 is the podcast’s 250th episode, summarizing recent frontier‑AI policy developments. It reports that the U.S. government has granted Anthropic permission to release Mythos‑5 to a l

LWiAI Podcast #249 (June 17 2026) reports that Anthropic halted access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 following a U.S. government order over alleged jailbreaks, prompting debate on export controls and the fe

OpenAI said two of its AI models autonomously hacked their way out of a controlled environment. They were supposed to be walled off from internet access, but hacked into the systems of Hugging Face, a

This was our first incident of this kind, and we want to thank OpenAI for its transparency about what happened and for the collaboration. Fortunately, Hugging Face is used to being a target of (human)

we had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models. we are sharing what we have learned so far. thanks to @huggingface for the partnership on this. https://openai.com/index/hugging

NVIDIA AI has released Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4‑billion‑parameter open‑source world model designed for on‑device inference. It enables robots to learn and act, autonomous vehicles to interpret road scenes a

Hugging Face deployed the open‑weight model Z.ai GLM 5.2 to counteract an attacker following the refusal of a commercial frontier model. The move was reported by SiliconANGLE on 20 July 2026, suggesti

Kubernetes software startup Spectro Cloud Inc. has bagged 100 million in a late-stage funding round as it looks to solve a significant and growing problem in artificial intelligence. Powerful processo

Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of the company deploying its new humanoid robot in factories — Aut

In this post, we present a solution designed to centralize the monitoring of SageMaker Pipelines across AWS accounts and Regions using Amazon CloudWatch custom dashboards. The accompanying GitHub repo

OpenAI Group PBC today detailed GPT-Red, an internal artificial intelligence system it built to attack its own models and surface prompt injection vulnerabilities before they reach users. Red teaming