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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

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending 100,000 on tokens and with

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

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a standard part of modern software development. Coding assistants, code completion tools and AI-powered integrated development environments are now widely av

Amazon Quick introduces the Agentic Catalog Experience, an AI-powered workflow for data curators to discover upstream catalog assets in natural language and auto-create Datasets and Topics with inheri

Three of Anthropic PBC’s large language models carried out successful cyberattacks during routine internal tests. The company detailed the breaches on Thursday. A few days earlier, rival OpenAI Group

Anthropic just realized several of its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations during testing, acting on their own and without the company noticing. The revelation co

GPU utilization can read healthy while your queue backs up, and a new replica takes minutes to warm. Here's how to pick autoscaling metrics, tune scale-up/down windows, and budget for cold starts on d

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

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Chris Betz, CISO, Google Cloud, and Alicja Cade, Senior Director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud, explain what boards of directors

The article shows that dense‑attention performance in long‑context inference is governed by group size (query heads per KV head), head dimension, and sequence length, with prefill being compute‑bound

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

Release: datasette-agent 0.4a0 New await context.browser_task() mechanism allowing agent tools to run code directly in the user's browser. #33 This is an exciting new capability: it makes it easy for

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, 'with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities'. It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears

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

When the phrase 'OpenAI hacked Hugging Face' has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a san

Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn is making a concerted effort to combat “AI slop,” or the low-quality, artificial intelligence-generated content that has been increasingly dominating user’s feeds. In a blog

Data center builder Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. today announced plans to acquire Anyscale Inc., a venture-backed provider of artificial intelligence software. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 13.1 adds AV1 hierarchical reference mode supporting up to 31 B‑frames and efficient iterative tuning that delivers significant bitrate savings in CQ and VBR modes. It enhances

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

As your AI agents move from prototype to production, the challenge shifts from getting them to work to keeping them fast and efficient. Learn how to use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability and Amaz

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

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

Physical AI is forcing the technology industry to rethink the entire computing stack. Robots, autonomous systems and intelligent devices need economical inference, secure data access and infrastructur

smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses I've been working with Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant applied AI research lab building out this evals framework to help answer

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

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to th

At Google, AI is a soup-to-nuts endeavor. Obviously, we make leading AI models like Gemini and Nano Banana. We incorporate AI into the tools you use every day (think Gmail, BigQuery, AlloyDB, Google C

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conferen

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 Huge price drop from OpenAI today: GPT-5.6 Terra got a 20% reduction, and GPT-5.6 Luna got a massive 80% drop. OpenAI credit 5.6 Sol with enabling

Database security traditionally relies on a fragile balance between the granular control developers need and the administrative overhead of managing thousands of individual database passwords. Between

Amazon.com Inc. delivered a solid earnings and revenue beat as it posted its second-quarter financial results, driven by surging growth in its cloud infrastructure business. Demand for artificial inte

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

Written by: Kelli Vanderlee, Stuart Carrera For years, the cybersecurity industry's understanding of software supply chain compromise has been anchored by a few watershed events, including Russian cyb

Back to school means balancing assignments, deadlines and downtime. GeForce NOW makes it easy to have it all. With cloud gaming, everyday laptops used for class can also become GeForce RTX-powered gam

AI-native services are shifting the value of artificial intelligence beyond individual productivity and into stronger project-team outcomes. Professional services firms face pressure to deliver more q

Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn Inc. today revealed that it has raised 40 million in new funding to accelerate development of what it calls an agentic data control plane. Founded in 2024, Da

On July 27 2026 Moonshot AI released **Kimi K3**, a 2.8‑trillion‑parameter Mixture of Experts model that is the first open‑weight system in the 3‑trillion‑parameter class. The architecture—using Kimi

Kimi K3 is a 2.8‑trillion‑parameter Mixture of Experts model released by Moonshot AI on July 27, 2026, with its weights publicly available for self-hosting. Its architecture—using Kimi Delta Attention

In today’s agentic era, modern cloud applications are evolving from a set of passive tools to fleets of autonomous digital workers that reason, plan, and take action across a wide range of tasks. For