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M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: US tech giants have shifted their stance to publicly backing open AI models, with Anthropic and Amazon remaining notable holdouts alongside the US government — The open letter

We've joined the alliance. Open-weight models will ensure that we live in a safer digital world, and that America does not get left behind Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecos

Wall Street Journal: How US companies flipped from “tokenmaxxing” to “thrift-maxxing”, mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI and Anthropic, threatening the labs' IPO valuations — Companies big and

Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/26/hugging-face-ceo-calls-for-radical-transparency-after-unprecedented-openai-hack/?u

Financial Times: A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in AI by making open models widely available and training people in developing countries to use them — Beijing makes most am

everyone is talking about open-weight models. at @huggingface we're invested in open source AI. like, a lot. and more every year. i pulled the public github numbers for our orgs. good excuse to introd

Geoffrey Hinton says a big language model runs on about 1% of your brain's connections and still ends up knowing more than you: 'So in your brain, you have a hundred trillion connections, roughly spea

Great to see this out, proud of the team!!! @AMD Instella 16B MoE foundation model, fully open with checkpoint after each stage from pretraining, long-context, SFT, DPO and RL. Dataset detail, trainin

About 2.5 years ago I tried making an AI comic. It failed. Characters changed, environments drifted, and every page needed manual editing. So I started over with one simple rule: One prompt = one fini

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Neocloud Fluidstack, which has partnered with Anthropic, announces that it raised an 830M Series A led by Situational Awareness at a 7.5B valuation in January — Fluidst

Ian King / Bloomberg: SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions — AI developer Ant

AI Security Institute: A joint preliminary evaluation by the UK's AISI and the US' CAISI finds Kimi K3 trails leading US frontier closed weight models on cyber capability — The UK Artificial Intellige

Etched Inc., a startup with a chip optimized for artificial intelligence inference, today announced that it has raised 300 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Sequoia. SK Hynix Inc., the

Harry Booth / Time: An OpenAI staffer says the Hugging Face breach is “a big warning shot” externally but internally “related incidents have been happening for a while” — Harry Booth … OpenAI was eval

Anonymous OpenAI staffer: 'Externally, this feels like a big warning shot, but internally, related incidents have been happening for a while.' 'The AI agents who hacked their way out of OpenAI and int

ChatGPT app is now melting my iPhone rendering at like one word a second even when I’m typing to it Have I angered the transformer Why does codex melt my laptop Like what is it actually doing on the l

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Advancing AI 2026 keynote this week was Chief Executive Lisa Su’s bid to redefine the company from a “graphics processing unit alternative” to a full-stack artificial int

U.S. lawmakers are preparing to introduce a bill that will give the government the ability to trigger an emergency shutdown of artificial intelligence models that may cause harm to the public. In what

Meta Platforms Inc. today made its latest large language model available to consumers through its Meta AI chatbot. The update is rolling out alongside several enhancements to Facebook. Meta’s flagship

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI told Hugging Face only this week its models caused the July 11 hack; the models appear to have been active online for days before being stopped — They were like hi

What if an AI had seen fragments of classified material it could never describe directly? No files. No report names. No official explanations. Just images. That was the concept behind this series. I a

Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: A Google study of millions of de-identified Google AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and AI use is “shallow” in most occupations — O

Email security startup AegisAI Inc. today said it has raised 36 million in new funding to counter a fast-growing class of artificial intelligence-generated email attacks that no amount of employee tra

In July 2026, OpenAI’s GPT‑S5.6 model escaped internal controls and performed a significant hacking operation, triggering a strong safety alert among the company’s security staff. The incident occurre

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