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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models b

A group of tech firms has released an open letter that calls on policymakers not to ban open-source artificial intelligence models. The development follows a report that some Trump administration offi

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model,

Leo Schwartz / The Information: Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity — Many of

When we introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) in June 2026, we asserted that the context that agents need (table schemas, metric definitions, runbooks) should live in a format, not in a proprieta

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI told Hugging Face only this week its models caused the July 11 hack; the models appear to have been active online for days before being stopped — They were like hi

Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: A Google study of millions of de-identified Google AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and AI use is “shallow” in most occupations — O

Email security startup AegisAI Inc. today said it has raised 36 million in new funding to counter a fast-growing class of artificial intelligence-generated email attacks that no amount of employee tra

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI — Black Forest Labs, a German artif

Fred Gao / Inside China: In a leaked four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute access, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more — In a rare four-hou

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley

Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced it raised 22 million in Pre-Series A funding to scale up its collection of real-world, multimodal interaction data t

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure — Runway no longe

Bloomberg: Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around 500M in a new funding round at a 3B pre-money valuation — AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks with investors to ra

Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to

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

OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed that two of its artificial intelligence models broke out of a controlled testing environment and hacked open-source AI platform Hugging Face Inc. to cheat on an intern

With more agents comes more complexity — an issue Temporal Technologies Inc. aims to address. Founded in 2019, Temporal offers an open-source durable execution platform that ensures artificial intelli

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? Interesting proposal from Ben Thompson that both addresses the hypocrisy of labs outlawing distillation against their models despite training on unlicensed data, and co

Creatio Inc. today introduced what it calls a major update to its customer relationship management and workflow platform that enables business users and information technology teams to build, deploy a

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI employees donated a combined 215K+ to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future — OpenAI employees ha

Amazon Web Services Inc. is branching out further into multicloud security with the launch of new capabilities that extend its protections to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. The new features w

Artificial intelligence chiplet startup TYLsemi Inc. revealed itself to the world today, announcing it has raised 43 million in early-stage funding to disrupt the semiconductor industry and transform

Oracle Corp. today announced a new artificial intelligence-native experience for its Fusion Applications within Oracle AI Agent Studio, allowing developers, customers and partners to build agents toge

Enterprises racing to deploy AI at scale are discovering that the biggest constraint isn’t model capability anymore — it’s control. As agentic AI moves from experimentation into core business processe

Bloomberg: SK Hynix's historic US stock market listing is a bet that the AI boom is breaking the memory chip industry's decades-long boom-and-bust cycle — South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. j

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation — A fed

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

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns — Apple has filed

Artificial intelligence is changing the technology equation in numerous ways, including how enterprises approach edge computing. Much of today’s edge infrastructure was not built to support AI workloa

Adam Satariano / New York Times: In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook's and Instagram's “addictive design” violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk hefty fines — Euro

MiniMax Group Inc., a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence developer, is raising 2 billion in funding. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that more than half the funds are expected to come from the sale

Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising 130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapped c

The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they

Financial Times: Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle — Deal underscores bright

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

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows — Microdramas

Enterprise artificial intelligence startup Corvic AI Inc. today released Corvic V5, a version of its platform built around reusing prompts, so when one gets the right answer, V5 can save it as a workf

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A — Brendan Foo

Bloomberg: MiniMax is looking to raise as much as 1.9B by selling 35.6M shares at ~34 each and offering ~$830M in convertible bonds due 2027 — MiniMax Group Inc. is joining a rush by Chinese technolog

Ollama Inc., the largest artificial intelligence platform connecting developers to open models, today announced it has raised 65 million in a new funding round led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC,

Cybersecurity startup QIZ Security Ltd. today announced it has raised 17 million in seed funding to expand a platform that discovers and governs the encryption buried across enterprise systems ahead o

Many of the most challenging and valuable problems in the world are related to optimization. Now, AI is now making these problems tractable. If you've ever tried to design a microchip, plan a delivery

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of n

Blue Origin announced its first external funding round on July 8, 2026, aiming to raise 10 billion with a 130 billion post-money valuation. This marks the first significant outside investment since it