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A group of tech workers today published an open letter that calls for a new approach to regulating automated artificial intelligence development initiatives. All the document’s 1,134 signatories work

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

AMD’s AI accelerator software stack has progressed sharply, moving from a 0 % chance of catching Nvidia’s CUDA moat in early 2025 to a “great chance” of success by July 2026 after leadership changes a

Ruff v0.16.0 Astral shipped a significant new version of their Ruff Python linting tool a few days ago on July 23rd. I noticed today because my various CI jobs all started failing thanks to new defaul

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

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

Vera Rubin NVL72 is Nvidia’s second‑generation, rack‑scale Oberon architecture that achieves inference gains through extreme co‑design. Early engineering‑sample data from CoreWeave show DeepSeek R1 de

Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World's Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, c

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 #248 (June 12, 2026) reviews major AI developments, noting Anthropic’s release of Claude Fable 5, a safeguarded variant of Mythos 5, which shows benchmark improvements but raises concern

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

NVIDIA Cosmos 3 was post‑trained in under a day using TAO agent skills and LoRA adapters, raising accuracy on the Woven Traffic Safety video QA dataset from 54.41 % to 93.35 %. The mixture‑of‑transfor

The race to build the fastest AI infrastructure is reshaping the semiconductor industry, with inference speed emerging as the defining competitive dimension of the AI era. As AI model wars intensify a

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp went on CNBC this week and delivered what one outlet generously called a “televised nervous breakdown.” He called the artificial intelligence indus

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp’s recent broadside against the frontier model vendors put a knife to the throat of the central enterprise artificial intelligence debate. Karp’s ar

I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to see if it could help me get to a 4.0 sta

Release: llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Another Fable 5 experiment. Now that my LLM library has evolved into more of an agent framework it's time to see what a simple coding agent would look like built on it.

Sam Altman is calling for a US-led international forum to set global safety standards for artificial intelligence, arguing that no single country should be left to dominate the technology. In an op-ed

Build Inc., an artificial intelligence-driven startup that automates complex industrial real estate development management projects, today announced it has raised an 8.5 million seed round led by Inde

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal documents: Meta is placing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fearing inadvertent distillation — As Meta Pl

China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque, and how to fix it, including using independent auditors — 35 thoug

This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-re

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Menlo raised 3B for funds dedicated to backing AI startups, its largest fundraising to date; sources say Menlo's Anthropic stake is currently worth nearly 14B — In 202

The US government ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models in June 2026, citing national security concerns related to jailbreak vulnerabilities that cou

Wall Street Journal: Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday — The talks have been

This episode features Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, in a crossover special between the 'No Priors' and 'Latent Space' podcasts, likely discussing Microsoft's AI strategy, product developments, and

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would ha

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about its models catching up to the state of the art from months ago, refusing to distill models, and more — THE SCENE —

Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new 'flagship' model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M — Ope

Device intelligence company FingerprintJS Inc. today launched a preview of two products built to identify traffic from artificial intelligence assistants, addressing a detection gap that has opened as

Artificial intelligence training data provider Human Archive Inc. today announced that it has raised 8.2 million in funding. Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, Y Combinator headlined the consortium th

U.S. law enforcement agencies are monitoring growing backlash to AI and have begun classifying anti-technology sentiment as an extremism threat, with unpublished reports from the Department of Homelan

New York Times: A look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers probe AI models for safety gaps, as its work becomes a blueprint for other governments' AI policies — The government's A.I. Se

Artificial intelligence developer Decart.ai Inc. today announced that it has raised 300 million in funding at a nearly 4 billion valuation. Radical Ventures led the round with participation from Nvidi

I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says the judge and jury “never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality” and he will file an appeal — Regarding the Op

CNBC: Musk v. Altman jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman; the judge dismisses two additional claims citing the statute of limitation — After less than two hours of deliberat

Deedy / @deedydas: SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth — The vibes in SF fee

Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman's team passed up what looked - from a distance - like a little league trophy. It was not. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had the lawyers rea

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp told employees that the company needs external capital to significantly increase launch frequency, stating that achieving established launch goals requires 'a large amount of

Cade Metz / New York Times: Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised 650M+ from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a 4B valuation to pursue “recursive self-improvement” — Recursive S