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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI debuts Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, and Vercel are on its steering committee — OpenAI's GPT-5 tur
Bloomberg: OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker's allegations are meritless — OpenAI is asking a federal jud
Herb Scribner / Axios: OpenAI updates the default model for free users to GPT-5.6 Luna, adds unlimited text chats for free users, rolls out an improved GPT-5.6 Sol version, and more — OpenAI on Thursd
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
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
Reuters: Sources: Alibaba plans to ask heavy commercial users of its next Qwen open model for a share of revenue; Moonshot's Kimi K3 requires up to a 30% revenue share — Chinese technology giant Aliba
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,
Nichiket Sunil / Reuters: Sydney-based AI data center company Firmus raised 2B in funding from Coatue, Nvidia, and others at a 10.5B post-money valuation, up from 5.5B in April — Firmus said on Friday
Tom Carter / Business Insider: Anthropic confirms it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, co-designing hardware and models and using a “multi-chip approach” — - Anth
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Cloudflare open sources a new version of Cloudflare OS, a browser-accessible AI agentic workspace for enterprises that lets employees build custom micro-apps — Cloudflare In
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
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
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release — Hark, a startup
Wall Street Journal: Meta is offering a cheaper Muse Spark 1.2 “contributor” tier priced at 0.10/1M input and 0.20/1M output tokens in exchange for using user prompts for training — The company, press
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
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
Business Insider: Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech — Google wants its AI
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