AI News
- Google lines up ~$200B Anthropic financing, $150B+ tied to TPUs
- Apple asks court to bar OpenAI and ex-staff from confidential data
- OpenAI details GPT-Live full-duplex realtime voice system
- Interpol: AI now drives most reported cybercrime in Africa
- Microsoft Research open-sources Orchard for scalable agentic AI
- Y Combinator open-sources QM, an MIT-licensed multiplayer AI agent harness
- Bloomberg: China’s AI model blitz squeezes US rivals into a ‘death zone’
- Qwen ships 3.8 Max (2.4T) and 27B open-weight models for coding and cowork
- DiffusionGemma: open-weight discrete diffusion LM for fast text generation
- EU AI Act generative AI transparency rules now in effect
- MediaTek commits $5B to AI datacenter push
- Texas freezes new data center grid connections pending audits
- White House to host AI firms on new model-testing framework
- Valar Atomics raises $1B Series B for nuclear reactors to power AI data centers
- Epoch and METR launch MirrorCode to test long-horizon AI coding
- Microsoft Research open-sources Orchard for AI agent training and evaluation
- Redwood: subliminal fine-tune backdoor with ~100 teacher completions
- Cursor agents get direct Google Workspace plugins for Gmail and Drive
- OpenAI rebuilds ChatGPT voice stack for GPT-Live duplex audio
- Microsoft Research releases Orchard, an open-source AI agent training and evaluation framework
- Apple ships long-awaited AI overhaul for Siri
- US finalizes voluntary AI safety tests, White House says
- EU AI Act transparency and labeling rules now in effect
- JFrog probes whether critical SQLite CVEs are LLM slop
- Meta trains GEM ads foundation model at LLM scale
- Valar Atomics raises $1B Series B to power AI gigasites
- EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules take effect
- Cursor Cloud agents now 20-30% more token efficient, 80% with computer use
- White House says it met deadline for voluntary advanced AI evaluation framework
- MiniMax H3 becomes first open model to top an AI video ranking
- AMD locks 500+ MW of Core Scientific US capacity from 2027
- ChatGPT nears 1 billion weekly active users, hitting its goal early
- Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift
- Google expands Gemini Managed Agents with 3.6 Flash and hooks
- SK Telecom and Krafton release A.X-K2, a 688B MoE sovereign model
- Over 1,100 OpenAI and Anthropic staff urge US to help pace AI growth
- Cyera agrees to buy Oasis Security for about $1B to secure AI agents
- xAI sues Minnesota AG over ban on apps that create fake sexualized images
- OpenAI rogue agent compromised a Modal Labs customer account
- Hugging Face details OpenAI agent intrusion spanning about 17,600 actions
- Coursera puts $100M into Andrew Ng’s LearnVector AI tutoring agents
- Trump administration plans ban on Chinese robots and inverters for US AI buildout
- Elon Musk says Grok 4.6 targets August 7 as a 1.5T model
- Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview broke weakened AES and improved a HAWK attack
- OpenAI nears $500B data center project with $250B Nvidia backstop
- Largest US grid plans temporary power cuts for AI data centers
- Google turns cash-flow negative as AI capex hits $44.9B
- Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M multiyear AWS compute deal
- Amazon deprecates flagship Nova models in Frontier research pivot
- Meta won a secret Louisiana deal for a nearly six-square-mile AI data center