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Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform — A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday over
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: AI cloud startup Volta Infra raised 300M led by a16z and Altimeter at a 2.4B valuation and says it landed a 10B contract with an unnamed leading AI developer — Volta Infra Holdi
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
Mistral AI Blog: Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 — Every product that ships a m
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
Financial Times: Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~200B financing program for Anthropic, with 150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others — Private credit, chip le
Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta Infra, which says the deal is for six years — Anthropic PBC has struck a 1
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
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervisi
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs 0.14/1M input and 0.28/1M output tokens, or 0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's 0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 — A version of Ch
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
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: London-based AI chip startup Olix raised 312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a 3.3B valuation, up from 1B+ after raising 220M in February — British ent
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
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash
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
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety — Jacob Tsim
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
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
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions — Both major A
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
Kyle Alspach / CRN: ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks — The cybersecurity vendo
Josh Xiao / Bloomberg: Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force — Chinese President X
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
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores “far surpassing” V4 Pro Preview — China's DeepSeek rol
Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April — DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is
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%
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop — Gemini Spark is getti
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
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies — Chinese AI c
The Information: Sources: OpenAI demoed a new “Astra” AI model family to US policymakers and regulators this week, touting its improved abilities to complete long-running tasks — OpenAI is preparing t
Reuters: Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network — OpenAI has discovered other instances in wh
Anthropic: Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident — In a review of our cybersecurity
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic says the models that breached three companies include Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, and the earliest incidents date back to April
Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them — OpenAI said Thursda
John Thornhill / Financial Times: Q&A with CuspAI's Max Welling on its AI Materials Foundry, partnerships with Nvidia and others, Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun joining its advisory board, and more — The
Financial Times: Sources: ex-OpenAI executive Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout — Hedge fund has held ta
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
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: In Q4, Microsoft's Anthropic investment saw a 3.2B gain, while its OpenAI investment was marked down ~600M but has generated a $5B gain on a full-year basis — When Microsoft r
Bloomberg: Source: the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as “very large online platforms” under the DSA as soon as August — OpenAI's ChatGPT and video game company Rob
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left — L
Wall Street Journal: Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight models — The AI pioneer f
Dustin Volz / New York Times: Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and orchestrated another improved attack against the cryptographic system HAWK — Claude Myt
Kalley Huang / New York Times: Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday — The comp
Hugging Face: Hugging Face publishes a timeline of the OpenAI agent intrusion, including how the agent took ~17.6K actions, and details using GLM-5.2 to analyze the attack — This post walks through ho
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: OpenAI and Anthropic release statements in support of the “Pacing the Frontier” initiative; Anthropic says Dario Amodei and several co-founders have signed it — More than 1,1
Wired: OpenAI says the rogue AI that breached Hugging Face used exposed credentials from “four accounts” tied to four “publicly available” third-party services — In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its a
Bloomberg: Over 1,100 staffers from AI companies, including John Schulman and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki, sign a letter requesting the US government to “pace” AI development — More than 1,100 staffers ac
Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, the concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more — Sam
The Information: Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4's development, after training K3 on Nvidia chips, including Blackwell — Beijing-based startup
Reuters: Sources: the OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face also compromised a customer at AI infrastructure company Modal Labs — The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hac
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more — The Model Cont
Reuters: The US FCC bans the import of new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats — The Trump administration on Tuesday unvei
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised 95M in equity and 75M in debt — British startup Dwell
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the Hugging Face breach by an internal OpenAI model, which repeatedly tried to escape OpenAI's sandbox and should be treated as critica
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall “feeling”, amid its legal battles with book authors — OpenAI's C
Bloomberg: China warns it will take “all necessary measures” if the US sanctions Chinese AI companies over allegations they improperly used US models to train their models — China warned it would take