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Financial Times: Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend 7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and 2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years — Ride-hailing app races to make

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested 30B — More banks are being invited

Norwegian defense technology startup Stendr said today it has closed on 5.4 million in pre-seed funding in order to deliver advanced artificial intelligence capabilities for modern weapons systems. Th

Cory Schouten / Semafor: Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for a US IPO; it was valued at 13.3B in April, down from a 20B peak in late 2025 — The US crypto ex

Technology and computing giant Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of Ising, the world’s first open artificial intelligence model family aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correctio

The Information: Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~1B, vs. 550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace this year — AI firms' voracious appet

Barbara Moens / Financial Times: The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressure — Antho

Cloudflare's mission has always been to help build a better Internet. Sometimes that means building for the Internet as it exists. Sometimes it means building for the Internet as it's about to become.

A report called 'KellyBench,' released by AI start-up General Reasoning, tested eight leading AI models in a virtual re-creation of the 2023–24 Premier League season, providing them with detailed hist

Enterprise tech is already preparing for “Q-day” — when quantum computing will be able to break today’s public-key cryptography. Although that date is still years away, staying ahead of the curve is a

Meta Platforms Inc. said today it’s going to throw an additional $21 billion at the cloud artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave Inc. as it strives to keep pace with rival AI develo

Editor’s note: This blog post outlines Google Cloud’s GPU AI/ML infrastructure reliability strategy, and will be updated with links to new community articles as they appear. As we enter the era of mul

Artificial intelligence computing company Blaize Holdings Inc. today announced the launch of Blaize AI Services, a new platform designed to help AI infrastructure providers and enterprises deploy prod

The *Interconnects.ai* article argues that fears around releasing an open-weight version of Claude Mythos are overstated, noting that closed frontier models still lead open-weight ones in robust, ...

Google LLC will adopt multiple future iterations of Intel Corp.’s Xeon processor series as part of a collaboration announced today. Shares of the chipmaker closed 4.7% higher on the news. Google will

Artificial intelligence is proving to be a big bet for many companies across the enterprise landscape, and the gamblers are getting nervous. A survey of 2,400 global employees and C-suite leaders rele

Wasabi Technologies Inc. has agreed to acquire the Lyve Cloud business from Seagate Technology Inc., expanding its position in the market for object storage compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s

Kenrick Cai / Reuters: Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Sergey Brin urged key staff to go all in on Gemini, and some teams shifted from DeepMind to corporate Google — Google co-found

Shane Burke / The Information: US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development — Local government re

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to b

Anna Tong / Forbes: Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs — The same Silicon Va

Pinecone announced the general availability of Pinecone Nexus, a knowledge engine that converts an enterprise’s proprietary data into governed, agent‑ready knowledge delivered through a single query c

Bloomberg: Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is conce

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

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at 1.25/1M input and 4.25/1M output tokens — Meta is rolling o

Back in 2024 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept 'art' created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5

The White House met with representatives from leading artificial intelligence companies today to discuss a safety framework for the government to review frontier models prior to launch, although there

Wired: OpenAI says one of its models exploited a website after third-party AI security lab Irregular mistakenly gave it access to the internet during evaluations — Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anth

Sam Sabin / Axios: The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July — The U.K. AI Security

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

Cybersecurity chiefs at the White House have reportedly finalized the outline of a forthcoming framework that will enable artificial intelligence companies to voluntarily submit their latest frontier

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week — Alibaba Group Ho

The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Accidental cyberattacks by OpenAl and Anthr

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

Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal invited me to join their podcast to talk about the wild week we've had - with Kimi K3 show

CNBC: In an internal meeting, OpenAI finance chief Sarah Friar told employees that the company's annualized recurring revenue in July was higher than in Q2 as a whole — As OpenAI chases rival Anthropi

The developers of the Model Context Protocol, an open-source technology that underpins many artificial intelligence applications, today released a new version of the software. The release is described

Engima Ltd., a provider of artificial intelligence software for robots, launched today with 71 million in funding. Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital jointly led the seed round with participation from

Open source software is a critical pillar of the global economy. It underpins cloud computing, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government and internet services by making technol

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition including CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity — Nvidia (NVDA.

Jamie John / Financial Times: How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups — Anthropi

More than any of these eval scores, what is most exciting to me is something else: Opus 5 is our least prompt injectable model yet. It is a bit buried in the system card, but across PI evals and red t

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

Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyb

LWiAI Podcast #252 (July 11, 2026) reviewed major AI releases: OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5.6 and relaunched its agentic coding product as ChatGPT Work, amid disputes over U.S. governmental oversight and jai

Running frontier AI in production is demanding — accelerators to manage, latency to hold steady across continents, regulated data to keep in-region, and long-context requests to serve reliably. Claude