The White House has decided that closed-source advanced AI models must be tested by the government for at least 30 days before public release, according to Axios. Open-weight models such as Meta's Lla…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said during the company's August 4 earnings call that SpaceX will build its AI infrastructure exclusively on NVIDIA, citing the Vera Rubin architecture as the best available AI co…
The Trump administration finalized a voluntary AI oversight framework on August 4, 2026, but will keep the evaluation rubric confidential, sharing it only with companies like Anthropic, Google, Meta, …
The White House will not publish the completed frontier AI security framework, keeping its contents private and sharing them only with companies participating in the voluntary review process, three pe…
Federal Reserve staff estimated in a July 17 research note that spending on software, data centers, power facilities, computers and peripheral equipment added about 0.73 percentage point to the US eco…
Cisco Talos reported on August 4 that recovered prompt logs showed threat actors using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini and other AI tools for malicious development, fraud and vulnerability work. Th…
Israel has paid Brad Parscale, Donald Trump's former 2020 campaign manager, $46.5 million through his digital marketing company Clock Tower X to run a digital influence campaign targeting AI chatbots,…
The White House has finalized its voluntary AI oversight framework, meeting the August 1 deadline set by President Trump's June executive order, but is keeping the framework's contents, reviewers, and…
DeepSeek's new AI model, released on August 1, 2026, is priced at a fraction of competitors' costs, intensifying the AI price war and pushing the industry toward commoditization, according to Axios. T…
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 scored 51 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, tying with GPT-5.4, GPT-5.6 Luna, and GLM-5.2, and ranked third on SciCode, contradicting a Futurism article that claimed M…
Yelp has confirmed a licensing agreement with OpenAI that will bring its reviews, ratings, photos, and business information into ChatGPT, enhancing AI-driven local discovery. The deal also signals pot…
The Trump administration opened the Passport to Patriotism: 250 Years of Diplomacy exhibit at the Art Museum of the Americas on Thursday, featuring AI-generated images of the founding fathers, a Betsy…
Google Search traffic to publishers fell 34% over the past year, according to Chartbeat data shared with Axios, as AI-generated answers replace traditional links. Small publishers lost 60% of search r…
Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company's July 30 earnings call that heavy users of Apple Intelligence and the forthcoming Siri AI may be offered paid upgrade options through iCloud Plus, according to …
A federal judge has cast doubt on the Pentagon's case against AI lab Anthropic, which was labeled a supply-chain risk after refusing to allow its models to be used for autonomous weapons and domestic …
Qualcomm completed its acquisition of AI software company Modular on July 29 in an all-stock transaction valued by Axios at $3.9 billion. Qualcomm said Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud will continue as pr…
OpenAI is reportedly preparing a program called ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, which would provide free access to its most advanced AI models to 10,000 scientists initially, with a goal of reaching…
Microsoft closed fiscal 2026 with $331.8 billion in revenue, up 18%, as Azure crossed $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time with 41% growth, accelerating to 43% in the June quarter, while …
OpenAI cut API prices for GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% and GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% on July 30, listing Terra at $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens, and Luna at $0.20 and $1.20, respecti…
Anthropic said on July 30 that three Claude models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three organizations during cybersecurity evaluations that were mistakenly connected to the internet. The…