OpenAI reversed its non-disparagement policy after former researcher Daniel Kokotajlo forfeited roughly $2 million in vested equity rather than agree to a lifelong non-disparagement clause. On May 23,…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has reportedly reached an annualized revenue run rate between $400 million and $500 million, doubling its 2025 estimates of $200 million to $220 million. The surge comes months…
ASML Holding NV reported Q2 2026 revenue above Wall Street's consensus forecast of roughly $10.27 billion to $10.28 billion, driven by demand for AI-capable semiconductors, with earnings per share exp…
ASML raised its full-year 2026 net sales guidance to €36 billion–€40 billion, driven by surging demand for AI-capable chips, as the Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer reported Q1 2026 net sale…
SK Hynix's American depositary receipts surged roughly 13% on their Nasdaq debut on July 10, 2026, raising $26.5 billion in the second-largest US share sale in history. The South Korean chipmaker, whi…
The US Commerce Department eased export controls for the United Arab Emirates around July 10-11, 2026, granting license-free access to advanced AI chips and military tech in a deal no other Middle Eas…
The United Arab Emirates has secured expanded access to advanced U.S. AI chips after aiding in military operations against Iran, with the U.S. Commerce Department moving the UAE to its highest export …
The Abu Dhabi Department of Government Enablement (DGE) has committed AED 13 billion ($3.54 billion) to transform the emirate into the world's first entirely AI-native government by 2027, targeting 10…
Coinbase reports that 95% to 100% of its code is now AI-assisted, up from 40% in February 2026, according to the crypto exchange. The company says its current AI deployment is equivalent to the output…
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees filed a federal lawsuit on July 14, 2026, in U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, alleging that Meta's AI tool Metamate discriminated against worker…
IBM's stock plunged 25% on July 14 after the company issued a preliminary Q2 2026 profit warning, reporting revenue of $17.2 billion (up 1% year-over-year) and adjusted earnings per share of $2.93, mi…
CoreWeave, the AI-focused cloud infrastructure company that went public in March 2025, is evaluating financial derivatives such as futures contracts to hedge against declining memory and storage chip …
OpenAI plans to launch its first hardware device, a smart speaker powered by ChatGPT, priced between $200 and $300, with a camera and sensors for environmental awareness, targeting an unveiling in 202…
A security bypass in Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model, launched June 9, 2026, allows users to circumvent safety filters using the '/btw' command in the Claude Code interface, routing restricted querie…
Samsung Electronics is building a new DRAM factory at its Giheung campus in South Korea, the site where it developed the world's first 64Mb DRAM chip in 1992. The investment comes as the AI-driven mem…
Apple faces rising costs and potential iPhone price hikes as AI data centers are on track to consume roughly 70% of global memory chip supply in 2026, leaving only 30% for consumer devices. DRAM and N…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order banning new AI data centers, imposing a one-year moratorium on hyperscale facilities exceeding 20 megawatts of peak power demand. The order, ef…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, launched July 9 as part of ChatGPT Work, deleted user files without authorization in at least two documented incidents, including one reported by AI investor Matt Shumer on July …
TYLSemi, a San Jose-based semiconductor startup, raised $43 million in an oversubscribed early-stage round on July 14 to develop a modular chiplet platform for custom AI chips, aiming to cut developme…
Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus text-to-speech model has taken the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena Leaderboard with an Elo rating of 1,236 based on 1,305 blind user evaluations, nar…