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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.
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta urge US to spare open models
Over 20 tech firms including Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta signed a letter warning Washington that broad open-weight curbs would push AI innovation offshore.
OpenAI joins open-weights letter, signatories reach 35
After conspicuously sitting out the industry's open-weights appeal to Washington, OpenAI has added its name, pushing the coalition to 35 organizations.
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.