Nvidia and Toyota are deepening their partnership to span autonomous driving, factory robotics, and simulation software, building on a collaboration that began in 2017 when Toyota selected Nvidia's Dr…
Microsoft has trained its sales staff to promote its new in-house MAI models over OpenAI and Anthropic alternatives, unveiling seven models at Build 2026 including the 35-billion-parameter MAI-Thinkin…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weight AI model with 975 billion total parameters under an Apache 2.0 license on July 15. The Mixture-of-Experts model processes text, aud…
Nvidia partnered with Mizuho Financial Group on July 15, 2026, to build AI factories using Nvidia's confidential computing technology for secure private AI environments in banking, focusing on fraud d…
Nvidia released an open-source toolkit of over 80 AI agent skills under its Metropolis framework on June 1, aimed at developers building vision AI for manufacturing, infrastructure, robotics, and indu…
A Federal Reserve survey shows rising economic activity and easing inflation, with the annual CPI rate dropping from 4.2% in May to 3.5% in June, though inflation remains above the Fed's 2% target. AI…
Nvidia's new Jetson AGX Thor module cuts the physical footprint of its robotics supercomputer roughly in half while delivering 7.5 times the AI performance of its predecessor, the Jetson AGX Orin, acc…
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, is negotiating to expand its credit lines ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO) targeted for October 2026. The company,…
A VentureBeat Pulse Research survey of 101 enterprises finds that Anthropic's Claude leads enterprise AI agent orchestration by a wide margin, but most deployments lack autonomy, tool usage, or multi-…
Only 4% of senior tech leaders trust model guardrails alone, according to a VentureBeat survey, highlighting a massive gap between AI agent capability and enterprise deployment. Bryan Silverthorn, dir…
IBM's preliminary Q2 2026 results, released July 14, showed revenue of $17.2 billion (up just 1% year-over-year) and adjusted earnings per share of $2.93, missing the consensus estimate of $3.01, trig…
Elon Musk's AI company xAI filed a federal lawsuit in Texas on July 14, 2026, against South Carolina man Terry Harwood for allegedly using the Grok chatbot to generate sexually explicit deepfakes invo…
OpenAI raised the custom instructions character limit in ChatGPT from 1,500 to 5,000 characters for Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Education plan users as of July 15, 2026, more than tripling the prev…
ASML raised its full-year 2026 revenue guidance to between €43 billion and €45 billion, the second upward revision this year, as AI infrastructure spending drives demand for its extreme ultraviolet li…
XAI open-sourced its coding agent Grok Build on July 15, 2026, after the tool was caught syncing entire code repositories to the cloud even when users had privacy settings enabled. The company permane…
Authors and publishers, including Hachette Book Group and Elsevier, filed a federal lawsuit against Google in New York on July 14, accusing the tech giant of using millions of copyrighted books from G…
AI investments have become a dominant force in global capital markets, with Anthropic's valuation priced at a high likelihood of hitting $1.25 trillion by December 31, according to MarketWatch. The se…
PrismML, a Caltech-spinout AI company backed by Khosla Ventures, Cerberus, Google, and Samsung, announced Bonsai 27B on July 14, the first 27.8-billion-parameter AI model that runs locally on mobile d…
The White House has launched Gold Eagle, an AI-powered cybersecurity initiative using Anthropic's Mythos AI models to detect and patch software vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure and suppl…
IBM suffered its worst single-day stock crash in 115 years on July 14, with shares plunging approximately 25% and erasing roughly $67 billion in market capitalization after the company warned second-q…