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Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: PitchBook: AI voice startups raised 7B in Q1 2026, up from 1B in Q1 2025, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for next-gen AI agents — OpenAI an

More details have emerged from Bloomberg about OpenAI Group PBC’s long-awaited hardware device, which was previously described as an artificial intelligence-enabled speaker that will be a “physical ma

Carl Zimmer / New York Times: Scientists trained AI on genetic sequences to design viruses not found in nature, yielding 16 viable viruses that can infect bacteria but don't threaten humans — Scientis

The Information: Sources: Canva slashed revenue growth forecast as heavy use of new AI features drove up costs and slowed their rollout, while more Canva users turned to ChatGPT — Executives at Canva,

We're expanding our partnership with @huggingface to accelerate open science. Our storage on the Hub is roughly tripling to ~2 petabytes, & our downloads now run at high speed—even for our largest dat

Yesterday, my OpenAI collaborator and I gave a detailed talk on the Huggingface incident, our models creating 'the message board', model misalignment, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV

Axios: Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist; GOOG drops 3%+ — Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CE

New York Times: Developers in Africa are increasingly choosing Chinese open-source AI models over US models, saying they are downloadable, easier to customize, and much cheaper — Developers built Sunf

Bloomberg: Filing: Microsoft recorded $24.1B in revenue from OpenAI during the year ended in June, suggesting OpenAI accounted for more than half of Microsoft's AI sales — Microsoft Corp. generates mo

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at

Google LLC is reshuffling its senior artificial intelligence team, with its Chief Scientist Jeff Dean leaving the company after 27 years and Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google Deepmind, moving

Bloomberg: Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead Google DeepMind as SVP, reporting to Sundar Pichai — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is losing some of its most pro

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hack — At the Black

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year — It's also planni

Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities,

I jest, but I'm seriously impressed. Tonight I played with Codex for the first time. I had ChatGPT play two games on addictinggames.com Bow Man 2, and The Idiot Test, two really old browser games. Wha

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a 150M Series C at a 1.2B valuation, after a $44M Series B in September 2025 — Pablo Palafox l

OpenAI Group PBC has publicly pushed back against a lawsuit that Apple Inc. filed against it last month. The ChatGPT developer outlined its arguments in a blog post published on Monday. The move came

So I've been using chatgpt like a consultant this whole time for creating study roadmap, or just have it be my teacher. But I really wonder if I'm missing out on something that paid version has got to

To date, finding a drug has been a process of guess & check… screening millions of molecules hoping one binds. @chaidiscovery is changing the paradigm… describe the molecule you want, and the model de

'Engineers make mistakes, and I think this is what happened here.' @huggingface CEO @ClementDelangue discusses what it'll take to prevent future rogue AI cyberattacks moving forward: https://www.cnbc.

Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the company’s focus on open‑weight AI models helped it withstand a hacking incident involving an unreleased OpenAI model. He also noted that China is leadin

Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race and dominating on open models https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/03/hugging-face-china-ai-race-open-models.html?taid=6a70b9a7142a0e000189af30&utm_campaign=

On August 3, 2026, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue appeared on Bloomberg TV to discuss a hypothetical security incident involving OpenAI. He stated that the hack could have been “way worse” had Defi

.@huggingface CEO @ClementDelangue says the recent OpenAI-linked cyberattack highlights the growing risks posed by rapidly-evolving AI models. Speaking to @edludlow, Delangue says that open-source AI

Irina Anghel / Bloomberg: Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere — UK employers

Is China winning the AI race? @huggingface CEO @ClementDelangue thinks so – here's how he's utilizing foreign cybersecurity tools following the company's hack by rogue OpenAI agents: https://www.cnbc.

Artificial intelligence hardware startup Olix Computing Ltd. today announced that it has raised 312 million in funding. The Series C round included contributions from Arm Holding plc, Netflix Inc. co-

An exclusive report by Reuters today has surfaced evidence that suggests Chinese artificial intelligence firms have been leveraging the outputs of American frontier models developed by OpenAI Group PB

Axios: Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent — Top AI researchers continue to

The Information: Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework — The Trump administra

The article discusses the launch of a revamped Monday Morning Report powered by generative AI, designed to automatically aggregate, analyze, and present key business metrics to executives. By leveragi

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” — Hank Green, a

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors — Mana

Instead of limiting the progress of AI companies or preventing them from releasing models as proposed in the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delague says he would rather see Co

On August 2, 2026, Face The Nation aired a brief (≈ 4 min) interview between journalist Emma Margbrennan and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue about the next steps for artificial intelligence after re

New York Times: A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months — The milestones for artif

New York Times: Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI — the first full day of the se

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools — Bets

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a standard part of modern software development. Coding assistants, code completion tools and AI-powered integrated development environments are now widely av

Bloomberg: Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations — Cybersecurity experts are faultin

Financial Times: Filing: Amazon has completed its 50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% — Ecommerce giant has roughly 5%

Can someone summarize the latest thing with Anthropic? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-30/anthropic-s-ai-models-hacked-three-organizations-during-tests How in the bloody hell are they

Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn is making a concerted effort to combat “AI slop,” or the low-quality, artificial intelligence-generated content that has been increasingly dominating user’s feeds. In a blog

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses — The announcement comes after OpenAI said earlier this week

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities — Chinese milit