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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders fo

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Bloomberg: Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than 7B; OpenRouter was valued at 1.3B in May — Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire Op

Bloomberg: SpaceX closes its 60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup — SpaceX has completed a 60 billion acquisition of artificial in

Google LLC today launched its most capable entry-level artificial intelligence model yet. Gemini 3.7 Flash is rolling out three weeks after its predecessor. Despite the short release cycle, Google eng

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

Just when you thought the artificial intelligence model race might slow down, it starts up again double-time. This week alone brought new models and related services from OpenAI (twice), Meta (also tw

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

Application and network security company Radware Ltd. today expanded its Agentic AI Protection product with compliance reporting, deeper visibility into artificial intelligence agent activity, and new

This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0, the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (des

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

One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was to let Fable (and to a certain extent Opus) use

The Information: Sources: Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, citing security concerns — Alibaba Group has banned

Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a decade, NVIDIA has built the full GPU-accelerated computing stack — spanning hardware, frameworks, libraries, models, micro

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference — We closely track efforts b

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