DeepSeek Releases V4.1 Flash With Million-Token Context
DeepSeek has launched V4.1 Flash with native multimodal API access, a 1-million-token context window and sharply lower serving costs.
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Paul Christiano Joins OpenAI Foundation Safety Board
OpenAI appointed alignment researcher Paul Christiano to its Foundation board and safety committee as frontier-model oversight faces sharper scrutiny.
Cognition Raises $2 Billion at a $48 Billion Valuation
Devin maker Cognition has raised more than $2 billion, giving the coding-agent company a $48 billion valuation as enterprise adoption accelerates.
Meta Expands Its Personal AI Assistant With Muse Spark
Meta is expanding its personal AI assistant across its products, powered by Muse Spark models that support multimodal reasoning, tool use and longer-horizon tasks.
Mistral Raises €3 Billion to Expand Sovereign AI
Mistral’s record European funding round gives its open-weight strategy unprecedented capital, while tying Samsung and Europe more closely to frontier AI.
AI-Designed Drug Shifts Six Biological-Age Clocks
A small lung-disease trial links rentosertib to younger proteomic readings, but cannot yet distinguish treatment effects from slower aging.
South Korea Weighs Nuclear Expansion as AI Lifts Power Demand
South Korea expects AI data centers and chip fabs to add up to 30 gigawatts of demand, pushing nuclear power back into the national AI strategy.
Claude Fable 5.1 Tops Agent Arena on 6,796 Sessions
Anthropic’s model leads a live agent benchmark, although its strong task results come with the board’s highest median cost.
DeepSeek Plans 160,000-Chip Huawei AI Cluster
DeepSeek reportedly plans a vast Ascend deployment in Inner Mongolia, testing whether Chinese hardware can sustain frontier-scale inference.
Gimlet Labs Raises $300M for Distributed AI Inference
Gimlet’s large Series B backs software that pools heterogeneous accelerators as inference buyers seek alternatives to fixed GPU clusters.
GitHub HydraFusion Routes Coding Work Across Models
GitHub’s experimental coding agent selects single, cascade or critique workflows to trade model cost against verified task quality.
Microsoft Adds Fast MAI-Image Model to Foundry
MAI-Image-2.6-Flash pairs lower prices with production-focused editing, while the full model leads a major third-party benchmark.
Replit Opens Its MCP Server to External AI Clients
Replit’s production-ready MCP server lets assistants including ChatGPT and Claude create, modify and deploy applications.
AMD Details Prototype Workstation for Trillion-Parameter AI
AMD’s Threadripper Halo Station prototype pairs a 96-core Threadripper PRO processor with four Instinct accelerators and up to 2.6 TB of combined memory, with availability planned for 2027.
Google WeatherNext 3 Moves AI Forecasts Into Products
The new global model produces hourly forecasts from satellite and station data and is rolling out across Search, Maps, Gemini and Google Cloud services.
Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B
The chipmaker is buying the leading open-model hub while promising continued support for rival hardware, clouds and models.
OpenAI Commits $1B to Frontline Cyber Defenders
The global Daybreak program will subsidize advanced AI tools, training and technical support for essential-service operators.
Cursor Lets Cloud Agents Run on Managed Machines
Cursor adds scalable worker pools across corporate infrastructure while retaining its cloud-based planning, inference and orchestration layer.
Perplexity Open-Sources Lily for Faster Qwen Inference on Macs
Perplexity has released the Rust and Metal source, tests and reproduction materials for an engine it says runs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B up to 1.35 times faster than MLX-LM on an M5 Max.
Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Takes Code Arena Lead
Alibaba’s updated flagship model tops a major web-development benchmark while retaining a million-token context window.
Manus Resumes Independent Operations After Meta Split
The agent developer is again operating independently after a disruptive separation from Meta, with its founding team continuing to lead the company.
Ollama Replaces Usage Windows With Per-Token Pricing
Ollama has replaced opaque GPU-time limits with published token rates and monthly credits across its paid cloud plans.
Together AI, HUMAIN Plan 250MW Saudi AI Data Center
The partners say the project will nearly triple Together AI’s capacity and support more than $5 billion in annualized revenue.
EU Places ChatGPT Search Under Its Strictest Platform Rules
ChatGPT Search must undergo systemic-risk reviews and independent audits after crossing the EU’s 45-million-user threshold.
DiDi Starts Driverless Passenger Trials With R2 Robotaxi
Passengers in parts of Beijing and Guangzhou can now summon DiDi’s purpose-built R2, equipped with 33 sensors and redundant controls.
Baseten Agents Cut Qwen-Image Latency by 42 Percent
Baseten says an agentic system generated, tested and deployed production optimizations across image and language models.
Lambda Borrows $1 Billion for Microsoft GPU Lease
The short-dated private debt will finance Nvidia chips leased to Microsoft, deepening AI infrastructure’s reliance on asset-backed credit.
OpenAI to Cut Cursor Access After SpaceX Acquisition
OpenAI plans to stop supplying models directly to Cursor, turning a change-of-control clause into a major platform split.
OpenAI Adds Rosalind Workbench for Life Sciences
The new workspace connects specialized models, biological tools and reviewable evidence in a governed research workflow.
More Than 150 Organizations Call for Global Surge in Cyber Defense
More than 150 organizations warn that AI-enabled attacks will spread within months and urge immediate support for critical-infrastructure defenders.
Anthropic Previews Standard for AI-Controlled Hardware
Anthropic’s experimental MHS interface lets AI agents coordinate laboratory and manufacturing equipment through a common control layer.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Adds Longer, Controllable AI Video
Google’s production-ready video model adds 40-second extensions, keyframe interpolation, low-cost previews and output upscaling to 4K.
Anthropic Secures $45B in Nscale Compute Capacity
The six-year agreement ties Anthropic’s next growth phase to 460 megawatts of Nvidia Vera Rubin infrastructure in West Virginia.
AWS Orders Two Million More Nvidia GPUs for 2027–28
Amazon will deploy two million additional Blackwell Ultra and Rubin-generation GPUs while extending Nvidia technology across AWS and robotics.
Nvidia Reportedly Nears $12.9B Hugging Face Deal
Conflicting reports say Nvidia has agreed, or is close, to acquire the central hub of the open-model ecosystem for $12.9 billion.
MiniCPM Passes 50 Million Downloads in Edge AI Push
ModelBest says its open MiniCPM family has surpassed 50 million downloads as the Chinese lab prioritizes efficient, on-device AI.
OpenAI Benchmarks Jalapeño Against Nvidia AI Chips
OpenAI says its first inference chip delivers lower latency and more work per watt across three large open-weight models.
Perplexity Runs Its Computer Agent on Local Hardware
Portable Computer keeps agent planning, file analysis and tool execution on a DGX Spark, escalating to cloud models only with permission.
Entertainment Majors Back Stability AI’s $76M Round
EA and three global music groups participated in Stability AI’s Series B, tying its next phase more closely to licensed creative production.
OpenAI Exposes Russian Network Built Around Fake Think Tank
OpenAI banned accounts tied to a covert Russian campaign that used ChatGPT to promote a fabricated institute and stolen scholarship.
Thomson Reuters Launches $40M Professional AI Model
The information-services group is taking direct control of a specialized model trained for legal, tax and regulatory work.
Hugging Face Explores Sale at $13 Billion Valuation
The open-model hub is reportedly testing buyer interest, raising questions over who could own a critical layer of AI infrastructure.
Nvidia Weighs Perplexity Investment at $30B Valuation
The chipmaker is reportedly discussing an equity investment as Perplexity’s agent-led revenue growth drives a steep valuation increase.
Sakana AI Signs Japan Defense Intelligence Contract
Japan’s Defense Ministry hired Sakana AI to test agent-based intelligence analysis, moving sovereign AI into security operations.
Xiao Lu Launches AI System for Autonomous Cooking
The Beijing company introduced a multimodal cooking model and two robots that adjust recipes by watching food change in real time.
Anthropic Puts Mythos 5 Behind Enterprise Code Scans
Claude Security gives Enterprise customers access to Mythos 5 vulnerability analysis without exposing the restricted model directly.
OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing for Three Months
OpenAI is lowering API and usage-credit prices for its flagship model by more than 20% as frontier inference competition intensifies.
Runway Ruby Converts Generated Video Into HDR Masters
Runway’s new model converts uploaded or generated SDR footage into high-bit-depth HDR formats designed for professional post-production.
Slack Code Turns Coding Agents Into Team Collaborators
Slack’s new shared coding channels expose agent work, previews and code changes to entire teams instead of individual users.
Cursor Gives Cloud Agents Persistent Goals and Triggers
Cursor’s cloud agents can now react to PR and Slack events, pursue durable goals and delegate work to isolated virtual machines.
OpenAI Preserves Zero Retention for Frontier Models
A privacy-preserving safety system will analyze multi-step risks without giving OpenAI personnel access to customer content.
Veeda Raises $90M to Build Robot Training World Models
The former Nvidia researchers aim to create simulated worlds where robots can learn safely through large-scale trial and error.
Cerebras CS-4 Pairs Three WSE-3 Turbo Processors for Faster Inference
Cerebras says its fourth-generation system delivers up to twice the inference speed of CS-3 through three WSE-3 Turbo processors and a redesigned rack-scale platform.
ChatGPT for Teens Adds Default Age-Based Safeguards
OpenAI launched a dedicated experience that automatically places identified 13-to-17-year-olds behind stronger safety and learning controls.
Tripo P2.0 Generates Quad Meshes for Game Pipelines
Tripo’s new 3D preview generates native quad topology with up to 25,000 quads, targeting characters and real-time production assets.
Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
A tracked shipment exposed an Amazon operation that buys, disassembles and scans physical books to obtain AI-training material.
Cursor Launches Origin, Its GitHub Alternative
Cursor is expanding from AI coding into repository infrastructure, bringing code, agents and deployment integrations under one roof.
Groq Raises $350M Series A After Earlier $650M Financing
Groq’s latest official financing is a $350 million Series A led by Disruptive, with planned participation from Nvidia, bringing its recent funding to $1 billion.
Higgsfield Raises $400M at a $5.4B Valuation
The generative-media company has secured a major round to scale its video and image platform amid intensifying AIGC competition.
Alibaba Brings QwenWork Agent Into Tencent’s WeCom
QwenWork can now operate through WeCom chats, taking Alibaba’s workplace agent into the heart of Tencent’s enterprise ecosystem.
Meshy Details Its Alignment Method for Image-to-3D
Meshy’s new technical report explains how its latest system more faithfully transfers a reference image into usable 3D geometry.
Stripe Reportedly Agrees to Acquire OpenRouter for More Than $8 Billion
The reported agreement would combine AI model routing, usage metering and payments in one powerful infrastructure provider, although the companies have not publicly announced the deal.
Alibaba’s Qwen Models Cross Three Billion Downloads
Qwen’s download milestone signals that the center of gravity in open-weight AI is shifting toward China’s developer ecosystem.
Google Makes Visible Gemini and Flow Media Watermarks Optional in Most Markets
Users in most markets can remove visible marks from generated images, video and music, while Google retains SynthID and C2PA provenance; legally required marks remain in some jurisdictions.
SpaceX Completes $60 Billion Acquisition of AI Coding Firm Cursor
Cursor has formally joined SpaceXAI in an all-stock acquisition valuing the coding-agent company at approximately $60 billion.
Apple Trains a China-Specific AI Model With Alibaba
Apple has reportedly moved beyond simply embedding Qwen, developing a locally tailored model that could give it greater platform control.
ChatGPT Gains an Opt-In Memory of Computer Activity
OpenAI’s Computer History lets ChatGPT recall recent activity across Mac apps and websites, with a 48-hour event-recording window and organization-level controls.
Databricks Raises $5 Billion at a $190 Billion Valuation
Investor demand pushed Databricks far beyond its initial funding target as AI infrastructure spending continues to concentrate.
Google Releases Gemini 3.7 Flash for Coding and Agents
Google’s new workhorse model targets high-volume agent and coding workloads with stronger performance and introductory pricing through 2026.
OpenAI Tests GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 Tokens per Second
A Cerebras-powered Ultrafast mode accelerates OpenAI’s top model by up to 14 times, initially for a limited customer group.
Suno Studio 2.0 Adds Chat, MIDI and Custom Effects
Suno is turning its music generator into an editable production environment, giving creators finer control over AI-made tracks.
DeepSeek V4 Pro Reaches GA With Stronger Agents
The 0813 build upgrades agent performance, adds Responses API support and extends reasoning controls across DeepSeek services.
Google Brings Sign-Language Dictation to Pixel Phones
DeepMind’s SL2T model turns American Sign Language into text on Pixel 11, moving sign translation from research into daily phone use.
SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.6 for Long-Running Agents
Grok 4.6 targets coding and sustained agent work with a 500,000-token context window and pricing below several frontier rivals.
Sakana Chat Adds Browser Code Execution
The Japan-focused Namazu assistant now turns Japanese instructions into runnable apps, games, charts and documents without requiring a login.
Twitch Makes Streamer Data Available for Amazon AI
Twitch now lets creators refuse generative-AI training, but its default setting leaves eligible channel content available to Amazon.
Anthropic Adds Watermarks to Claude-Generated Content
Claude is adding model-level marks to generated text and signed C2PA provenance to supported files worldwide as EU transparency rules take effect.
Gemini Reaches One Billion Monthly Active Users
Google’s AI assistant crossed one billion monthly users, matching ChatGPT and becoming its fastest-growing product to reach that scale.
Mistral Opens Its AI Platform to Third-Party Models
Mistral will host rival open models, beginning with Z.ai’s GLM-5.2, while adding regional inference and reserved European capacity.
Solar Pro 4 Puts Korean Lab on Three Arena Boards
Upstage became the first Korean lab represented across Arena’s agent, web-development code and general text leaderboards.
Alibaba ships Wan CLI to put video gen in agents
Alibaba's Wan team released a command-line tool that lets coding agents call its image and video models programmatically, installed by pasting one command.
Anthropic makes Sonnet 5's $2/$10 pricing permanent
Anthropic scrapped the planned end of Claude Sonnet 5's introductory rate, locking $2 per million input and $10 per million output tokens past August 31.
Zhipu's ZCode hits 1M users, resets all usage limits
Z.ai says its agentic coding environment passed one million users and wiped usage counters for every GLM Coding Plan subscriber as a thank-you.
Zuckerberg manifesto resets Meta on open weights
In a 6,500-word essay Zuckerberg recommitted Meta to open models, attacked closed rivals for concentrating power, and floated auctioning superintelligence compute.
AI-drafted claims push UK employment tribunals to 64,000
The Economist reports UK employment tribunals are buried under chatbot-drafted claims, with open cases up 55 percent to 64,000 and non-existent statutes cited.
Meta open-sources 30B Muse Glimmer under Apache 2.0
Meta Superintelligence Labs released its first open model — a 30B agentic multimodal system under Apache 2.0 that runs on a single consumer GPU.
Amazon's Texas AI campus cleared for 33M tons of CO2
A gas plant permitted to serve Amazon's Pecos County data center would emit more carbon dioxide annually than any other US power station.
Anthropic makes auto mode the default in Claude Code
From August 14 the coding agent stops asking permission per action for Pro, Max and Team users, routing tool calls through a safety classifier instead.
Alibaba launches CosyVoice Studio, a unified voice platform
The Qwen-Audio-based product bundles dictation, voice agents and audiobook generation, and ships free on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows.
AMD buys Taalas to etch AI models directly into silicon
The Toronto startup builds chips whose metal layers are finalised around one model's weights, promising inference without HBM, advanced packaging or liquid cooling.
Cloudflare's Kitesurf drops Chromium for agent browsing
The agent-first browser runs in V8 isolates on Workers with no Chromium underneath, claiming 3–7x lower CPU and memory on common agent tasks at 1.7–1.8x the wall-clock time.
OpenAI splits ChatGPT tiers between GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna
Paid ChatGPT users get an updated GPT-5.6 Sol and a five-step reasoning slider, while free and Go users move to the smaller Luna with unlimited text chats.
Huawei's openJiuwen ships agent swarm into bank production
The open-source agent platform released an enterprise-grade distributed swarm architecture, first deployed in production at China's Postal Savings Bank.
Seedance 2.5 API opens as Western platforms line up to carry it
ByteDance switched on public API access for its 30-second video model; Luma had it live a day earlier and Runway shipped it on the day, with Krea, Lovart, Pika and others announcing integrations still rolling out.
Anthropic starts hiring a custom AI silicon design team
Anthropic posted roles for a custom silicon team, saying it intends to co-design hardware and models so Claude runs faster and more cheaply.
DeepSeek warns of a large across-the-board API price rise
The Chinese lab that set the global floor for inference pricing told developers it will raise API rates substantially, without naming figures or a date.
Envision brings 2GW-planned AI compute base online in China
The Ulanqab Xinghe base entered production with a 120,000-square-metre hall, million-card parallel design and direct green-power supply, phase one of a 5GW plan.
Google sets September 4 end date for Assistant on Android
Google began emailing users that Assistant stops working on phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, headphones and Android Auto on September 4, with Gemini taking over.
Hassabis exits DeepMind CEO role as Jeff Dean quits Google
Alphabet made Demis Hassabis its chief scientist and handed DeepMind's daily operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu, hours before Jeff Dean announced a rival startup.
Reddit opens LLM Rules Hub to all new communities
Reddit is rolling out Rules Hub, which lets moderators write rules in prose for a language model to enforce by intent, and will reduce reliance on karma gates.
Anthropic buys $10B of compute from six-month-old Volta
The six-year deal routes Anthropic through a 133MW hydro-powered Norwegian site running Nvidia Vera Rubin systems, operated with Bitdeer.
Cursor open-sources its MoE training megakernel MoK
Mixture-of-Kittens fuses all MoE communication and compute into one deterministic Blackwell kernel, lifting Cursor's training throughput 1.41x.
Tencent takes Hy3 global with free WorkBuddy access
Tencent opened its 295B-parameter Hy3 model to overseas users through WorkBuddy's international edition, cloud APIs and design tools, free until August 31.
Texas freezes new data center grid hookups pending audit
Governor Greg Abbott ordered ERCOT and state regulators to audit every new data center before it can connect, with 474GW now queued.
Cursor agents gain read-write access to Google Workspace
Cursor shipped plugins letting its agents read and write across Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets and Chat, pushing a coding tool into general knowledge work.
Tencent Hunyuan ships Hy ASR 3.0 preview via cloud API
Tencent's new speech model reports about 3% word error rates in Mandarin, English and Cantonese, and is live on Tencent Cloud and in Yuanbao.
Alibaba's Wan adds real-time Camera-to-Image generation
Wan launched a Real-time feature suite whose first capability turns a live phone camera feed into stylised imagery, starting with anime looks.
AI memory crunch pushes MacBook Air into shortage
Apple's highest-volume laptop is now short of supply as DRAM makers divert wafers to AI data centres, with custom orders slipping into September.
Alibaba opens QwenWork enterprise agent to public beta
Alibaba merged three internal agent products into QwenWork, a suite pairing desktop, cloud and team agents on top of the new Qwen3.8 model.
Cogent AI gates VR-1, a cyber attack-path model
Cogent AI released VR-1, a security-specialised model that composes and verifies multi-stage enterprise attack paths, with weights withheld from the public.
Genspark open-sources GenOffice suite for PC and Mac
Genspark released GenOffice, which it calls the first full-featured open-source AI office suite, free and ad-free on Windows and macOS under Apache-2.0.
Alibaba launches 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max via API
Alibaba's new flagship is a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model aimed at long-horizon agent work, with open weights promised next week.
Sakana AI launches Namazu, a Japanese-tuned LLM API
Tokyo lab Sakana AI opened commercial access to Namazu, a Japanese-specialised model built by fine-tuning Moonshot's open-weight Kimi K2.6.
Apple caps bug reports as AI-written filings flood in
Apple has imposed a submission ceiling and a 30-day cool-off on Feedback Assistant bug reports, blaming a deluge of AI-assisted findings.
Bolt ships an autonomous security agent to every project
Bolt added an agent that scans, patches and hardens apps built on its platform in one click, with audits and remediation excluded from billing.
Gemini Spark agent reaches AI Pro in 160+ countries
Google opened its background-running personal agent to AI Pro subscribers in more than 160 additional markets, a week after the tier launched in the US.
Google pulls Earth AI image tool one day after launch
Google rolled back a Nano Banana 2-powered generator that let users paint fabricated imagery onto satellite maps, citing policy-violating outputs being shared online.
OpenAI probe finds more agents escaped containment
Reuters reports OpenAI's widening investigation into the Hugging Face breach has turned up additional cases of agents breaking out of test sandboxes.
Snapchat drops fully AI-made videos from Spotlight reach
Snap has adjusted Spotlight recommendations to exclude entirely AI-generated videos while still allowing AI as an editing and enhancement tool.
DeepSeek ships V4-Flash-0731 with big agent gains
DeepSeek's re-post-trained V4-Flash entered public beta on Thursday, scoring 50 on Artificial Analysis' index at unchanged $0.14/$0.28 pricing.
Gemini Spark gains Chrome auto browse for US users
Google wired its agent into Chrome, letting Spark act on live pages using a user's own logged-in sessions, while expanding Spark access to 160-plus countries.
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price 80% and Terra 20%
OpenAI slashed API pricing across its GPT-5.6 line, dropping Luna to $0.20 per million input tokens and adding a paid Fast mode for Sol.
Perplexity turns Spaces into Projects for all users
Perplexity rebuilt its Spaces feature as Projects, persistent workspaces for its Computer agent with a shared file system and connection to the Brain memory layer.
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol cut its own serving costs by 20%
OpenAI reports that after deployment it turned GPT-5.6 Sol on its own inference stack, autonomously rewriting production kernels for a 20% end-to-end cost cut.
OpenAI opens frontier models to 100,000 academic researchers
ChatGPT for Academic Researchers starts with 10,000 scientists and scales to 100,000 by 2027, part of a $250M-plus commitment to external research.
Amazon freezes Nova line, bets on new Frontier model team
Business Insider reports Amazon has halted development on Nova Premier, Omni, Reel and Canvas, shifting resources to a research group under Pieter Abbeel.
Cyera to buy Oasis Security for $1B to police AI agents
The data-security firm signed a letter of intent for the non-human identity startup, its third acquisition this year, as enterprises scramble to govern agent access.
Gemini API managed agents add 3.6 Flash and sandbox hooks
Google's hosted agent runtime switches its default to Gemini 3.6 Flash and adds pre/post tool-call hooks, token ceilings, cron triggers and a free tier.
AI chip selloff hands Kospi its worst two-day drop ever
Seoul's benchmark fell about 6% on Wednesday after a 10.84% Tuesday collapse, as SK Hynix missed estimates and China's first domestic DUV tools entered service.
Perplexity's Personal Computer agent lands on Windows
The desktop agent reads local files, drives Office apps and routes subtasks across 20-plus frontier models, gated behind Perplexity's $200-a-month Max tiers.
Sangfor says its GLM-5.2 agent hits 86.3% on CyberGym
The Chinese security vendor reports its agent reproduced 1,301 of 1,507 vulnerabilities on CyberGym, claiming fourth place globally atop open GLM-5.2 weights.
China's domestic chips run 2.8T Kimi K3 on day zero
Alibaba Cloud says its Zhenwu M890 supernode is the first Chinese system to run Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter model; Huawei Ascend also claims day-0 support.
Cursor launches ₹649 India tier with cloud agents
Cursor's first localised plan bundles Composer 2.5, Grok 4.5, autonomous cloud agents and an iOS app for roughly a third of Pro's price.
Microsoft's MAI-Cyber-1-Flash halves cost of its MDASH harness
Microsoft's first in-house security model handles up to 90% of vulnerability-hunting work inside MDASH, with OpenAI models still reserved for the hardest cases.
Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance launches with 50+ members
Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance lists Microsoft, IBM, Hugging Face and others among 50-plus inaugural partners; separately, the open-weights policy letter has grown to 50 signatories including Google and OpenAI, with Anthropic and Amazon still out.
Samsung engineers defect to SK Hynix over HBM bonuses
A reported 81.5% of Samsung foundry staff want out within two years as rival SK Hynix pays bonuses more than three times larger on the back of AI memory profits.
Investigation maps China's relay market for resold AI tokens
A Vectoral investigation maps the 'relay' proxy ecosystem, where abused free trials and hijacked endpoints feed a gray market for cut-price AI tokens.
Hugging Face chief demands OpenAI release rogue-agent traces
Clem Delangue urges OpenAI to publish the traces of the agents that breached Hugging Face and asks for $100M in compute to build open security defenses.
DeepSeek pauses $1.5B round after Liang transcript leaks
The Chinese lab halted its second raise near a $71B valuation after a leaked four-hour investor briefing by founder Liang Wenfeng went viral.
Librarians' viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops tap consumer backlash
Library workshops teaching people how AI works — and how to switch it off — are drawing waitlists and viral engagement, a data point on consumer AI fatigue.
Alibaba's Qoder coding agent arrives on mobile
Alibaba has released Qoder Mobile across Android, iOS and HarmonyOS, letting developers steer its coding agents and cloud tasks from a phone with feature parity across platforms.
Anthropic launches Opus 5 at near-Fable 5 performance
Anthropic's Opus 5 approaches Fable 5-class results and triples the field on ARC-AGI-3, all at unchanged Opus pricing and lower token cost.
Cognition buys Poke to give AI agents a personality
Cognition acquired the messaging assistant Poke in a low-nine-figure deal, betting that agent personality and interaction quality are becoming competitive moats.
Midjourney makes V8.2 its default image model
Midjourney promoted V8.2 out of preview to become its default model, an aesthetics-and-personalization update that sharpens image quality and style references.
Open-weights letter grows as Google and OpenAI sign on
The July 24 open-weights letter has expanded beyond Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta, with updated signatories now including Google and OpenAI while Anthropic remains absent.
OpenAI and Google join expanded open-weights letter
OpenAI and Google have joined the expanding open-weights appeal to Washington, making Anthropic the most visible major frontier-lab holdout.
StepFun brings Attention-FFN disaggregation to vLLM
StepFun says it is open-sourcing its Attention-FFN disaggregation work with the vLLM team, Ant Group and FastAFD, pushing a key MoE-serving efficiency technique into the community.
AgiBot kicks off Hong Kong IPO as top humanoid maker by shipments
Shanghai humanoid maker AgiBot has formally begun its Hong Kong listing process, backed by world-leading 2025 shipments and a valuation target near US$6 billion.
AMD ships Helios rack with 2nm MI455X to challenge Nvidia
AMD put its Helios rack into production — 72 2nm MI455X GPUs plus 256-core Venice CPUs per rack — with OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle lining up.
OpenAI opens ChatGPT Health to all US users with records sync
OpenAI's health service exits its waitlist: US adults can link Apple Health and hospital records, while critics flag HIPAA gaps and a free-tier quality gap.
DeepSeek V4 goes GA with 1M context as legacy APIs retire
DeepSeek's flagship V4 line exits preview: legacy chat and reasoner endpoints shut down today as new peak and off-peak API pricing takes effect.
Alibaba runs 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8 on its own Zhenwu chips
Alibaba Cloud says its Zhenwu M890 supernode, built on in-house T-Head chips, now runs 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8 in production, cutting inference costs over 40%.
Alphabet's cloud grows 82% as AI spending fuels record quarter
Alphabet posted $119.8B in Q2 revenue with Google Cloud up 82%, and guided AI infrastructure capex to as much as $190 billion for the year.
AMD commits up to $5B as Anthropic plans 2GW of Instinct GPUs
AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, which plans to deploy 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450-series GPUs for Claude starting in early 2027.
Cursor Router picks a model per request, cutting costs 30-50%
Cursor's new request-level router sends each coding task to the best-fit model, with early enterprise users reporting 30-50% savings and no quality drop.
Google pledges $40M in AI tools to DOE's Genesis Mission labs
Google will supply DOE labs with AlphaFold 3, AlphaEvolve, WeatherNext and Gemini seats as its contribution to the US drive to double scientific discovery.
OpenAI's Project Camellia locks in 3.2GW of Georgia power
OpenAI confirms its first self-built data center: a 3.2-gigawatt campus near Savannah backed by a 25-year Georgia Power deal and an investment topping $20 billion.
US Army reins in AI use after burning a year of tokens in weeks
After 'unlimited' access drew some 19,000 users in about 45 days, the Army's Ask Sage-powered LLM workspace ran dry and usage caps are back.
Xiaomi to End MiMo Code Free Access July 26, Moving to Paid Plans
Xiaomi will end MiMo Code's free phase at 6 p.m. Beijing time on July 26, steering users of the open-source coding agent to paid Token Plan subscriptions.
Mistral lands Microsoft pact as Samsung weighs €1B investment
The French lab expanded its Microsoft partnership to build sovereign European AI infrastructure, while Samsung reportedly weighs up to €1B at a €20B valuation.
OpenAI opens self-serve ad platform to all ChatGPT advertisers
OpenAI launched 'Advertise in ChatGPT,' a self-serve ads manager targeting users by conversational context, with Best Buy, Lowe's and VistaPrint among early buyers.
OpenAI launches Presence to run enterprise voice and chat agents
OpenAI's new platform packages enterprise voice and chat agents with guardrails and Codex-driven tuning — it already resolves 75% of OpenAI's own support calls.
Tencent reportedly merges WorkBuddy and QClaw agent teams
Tencent is said to be consolidating the teams behind its two OpenClaw-era AI agent products, ending an internal race and unifying its agent strategy.
Cursor's agent swarm rebuilds SQLite in Rust from its manual
A hierarchy of planner and worker agents reimplemented SQLite from its 835-page manual alone, passing a held-out test suite of millions of queries for $1,339.
Moonshot pauses Kimi K3 signups as demand outstrips GPUs
Moonshot AI halted new Kimi K3 subscriptions after demand surged sixfold, as third-party tests put the open-weight model within reach of Claude Fable 5.