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The performance of AI agents depends not only on the underlying models but also heavily on their “harness”—the surrounding architecture that supplies context, state management, action execution, and t

CNBC: Source: Sam Altman will meet with senior US officials, lawmakers, and economists in Washington, DC, this week to preview OpenAI's upcoming family of AI models — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will meet w

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia has committed to invest 5B in Ilya Sutskever's SSI; the startup has previously raised about 3B in funding and was valued at 32B last year — Nvidia Corp. ha

Nvidia Corp. today announced the launch of the Open Secure AI Alliance, a new organization founded by technology, cloud computing and cybersecurity leaders to build and share open artificial intellige

As AI infrastructure matures, AI cloud strategy is increasingly defined by reliability and open ecosystems rather than raw GPU performance. That evolution is creating new opportunities for specialized

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: US tech giants have shifted their stance to publicly backing open AI models, with Anthropic and Amazon remaining notable holdouts alongside the US government — The open letter

Chris Metinko / Axios: Way Security, which uses AI-driven automation and agentic workflows to help deploy IAM systems, raised a 20M seed from Insight Partners and Glilot Capital — Way Security raised

Enterprise investment in agentic artificial intelligence is accelerating, but the infrastructure supporting those systems is still catching up. Organizations are moving agents into customer support, s

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has grown up around reselling LLM tokens at a discount by pooling A

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

Wall Street Journal: How US companies flipped from “tokenmaxxing” to “thrift-maxxing”, mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI and Anthropic, threatening the labs' IPO valuations — Companies big and

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide a ~$250B backstop for OpenAI as part of a 10 GW data center project that SoftBank is developing in Ohio — Project would be one of the larges

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Financial Times: A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in AI by making open models widely available and training people in developing countries to use them — Beijing makes most am

Financial Times: A profile of Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, which faced early doubts over revenue and model capabilities before its Kimi K3 delivered a “DeepSeek moment” — Known as ‘Yang the ge

AI hardware competition entered a sharper phase this week as Advanced Micro Devices Inc. used its flagship AI event to argue it isn’t merely chasing Nvidia Corp. — it intends to lead the market outrig

As AI expands into robotics and other real-world applications, the focus is shifting toward integrated platforms that simplify development and deployment. Open ecosystems and standardized architecture

The market for data center GPUs is evolving beyond individual chip specifications into a contest over fully integrated rack-scale systems. As AI workloads scale into the gigawatt range, buyers increas

Anthropic PBC today rolled out a large language model called Claude Opus 5 to its chatbot service and developer platform. The company says the LLM approaches the output quality of its top-end Mythos 5

Twenty years on, AWS EC2 compute is meeting demand shaped by agentic AI, physical AI, and customers pushing general-purpose cloud infrastructure into new territory its earliest architects never antici

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

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Neocloud Fluidstack, which has partnered with Anthropic, announces that it raised an 830M Series A led by Situational Awareness at a 7.5B valuation in January — Fluidst

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

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

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

Ian King / Bloomberg: SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions — AI developer Ant

Pei Li / Bloomberg: Sources: DeepSeek told investors it is suspending its second funding round after remarks attributed to Liang Wenfeng on US-China AI competition went viral — DeepSeek has told prosp

New York Times: Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI — Anthropic and OpenAI

AI Security Institute: A joint preliminary evaluation by the UK's AISI and the US' CAISI finds Kimi K3 trails leading US frontier closed weight models on cyber capability — The UK Artificial Intellige

Etched Inc., a startup with a chip optimized for artificial intelligence inference, today announced that it has raised 300 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Sequoia. SK Hynix Inc., the

Maybe Nvidia ultimately won’t win the entire AI enchilada, even as it reminded everyone this week that it offers everything you need to build AI factories. This week, Advanced Micro Devices also annou

As AI moves beyond chatbots toward autonomous agents, attention is shifting enterprise AI PCs as a new layer of AI infrastructure. That transition is driving demand for hardware and software designed

Enterprise AI is entering a new phase as organizations shift their focus from experimentation to production deployments that deliver measurable business outcomes. That transition is bringing AI token

Harry Booth / Time: An OpenAI staffer says the Hugging Face breach is “a big warning shot” externally but internally “related incidents have been happening for a while” — Harry Booth … OpenAI was eval

Anthropic: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max — Claude Opus 5 is available today. It's a th

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,

Madison Mills / Axios: Anthropic says Opus 5 is the company's “most aligned model to date”; it is Anthropic's fourth model release in less than two months — Anthropic on Thursday is releasing Claude O

The transition from chatbots to autonomous agents is changing the shape of demand itself, and tokenomics — the economics of AI token consumption — is emerging as the defining constraint on enterprise

At this week’s AI Summit in San Francisco, South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and some of the country’s top business leaders and researchers are meeting with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners to chart K

Learn the architecture and design decisions behind an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking, built with Amazon SageMaker AI and PyTorch. A multi-tower neural network with lea

Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: Delhi High Court rules OpenAI's use of ANI content to train ChatGPT wasn't copyright infringement as the news agency didn't show ChatGPT reproduced its reports — An Indian

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Advancing AI 2026 keynote this week was Chief Executive Lisa Su’s bid to redefine the company from a “graphics processing unit alternative” to a full-stack artificial int

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Learn how to select a model, run inference through the Responses API on the bedrock-mantle endpoint, reduce cost with

Three recent studies show what actually makes an AI agent skill effective: human expertise, compact procedures, tight routing, harness-specific testing, and eval-gated changes—not longer Markdown. The

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: In their letter defending open-weight AI, tech companies urge lawmakers to avoid “premature restrictions” that “stifle competition or drive innovation overseas” — Nvidia, Microso

Introducing Claude Opus 5 I've been offline kayaking with sea otters for much of today so I haven't had a chance to put Anthropic's new model Claude Opus 5 through its paces yet. The buzz is positive,