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…
Meta AI's Muse Spark model achieved a perfect score of 30/30 on the Asian Physics Olympiad theoretical exam, surpassing the typical gold medal threshold of 21-23 points. The result, if verified, would…
OpenAI plans to enter the consumer hardware market with a portable, screen-free smart speaker designed as a physical extension of ChatGPT, according to a Bloomberg report. The device, developed with f…
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit in US District Court in Oakland, California, alleging that the company used AI-powered performance tools to select workers for…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the GPT-5.6 Sol model, which delivers a 54% improvement in token efficiency for agentic coding tasks, but warned users to expect "hiccups and capacity crunches" during …
PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid serving 65 million people, failed its capacity auction for the 2027/2028 delivery year for the first time ever, falling short by 6,517 megawatts—equivale…
President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 2, 2026, directing the creation of an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse within 30 days, managed by the Secretary of the Treasury alongside the Nationa…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on July 14 imposing a one-year moratorium on new hyperscaler data centers requiring 50 megawatts or more, freezing permits for facilities opera…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey called for global cooperation on AI risks, warning that unilateral US action cannot contain the threats, as quantum computing—accelerated by AI—poses an existent…
U.S. stocks closed higher on July 14, 2026, with the S&P 500 gaining 0.81% to 7,543.64 and the Nasdaq rising 1.30% to 26,206.89, as light inflation data and a rebound in semiconductor stocks fueled ma…
Foreign investors sold a record $110 billion in South Korean stocks in the first half of 2026, with June alone accounting for $31 billion in outflows, the largest monthly total on record, as instituti…
Apple has held exploratory discussions with Caltech-born startup PrismML about integrating its AI model compression technology into iPhones, according to a report from The Information. PrismML claims …
OpenAI has called Apple's trade secret lawsuit meritless after Apple filed a 41-page federal complaint on July 10, 2026, alleging OpenAI ran a coordinated campaign to steal confidential information ti…
OpenAI said Codex and ChatGPT Work have reached 8 million active users as demand for GPT-5.6 Sol surged, prompting the company to reset usage limits for all users. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned of poss…
George Sivulka, CEO of AI platform Hebbia, argued that well-managed AI agents can cost $4 to $7,000 per hour, compared to roughly $80 per hour for human engineers, making token management the new comp…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order No. 62 on July 14, 2026, imposing a one-year moratorium on construction and expansion of data centers consuming 50 megawatts or more, making New Y…
Perplexity AI open-sourced WANDR, a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on complex research tasks, on July 11, 2026. The benchmark, which stands for Wide and Nuanced Deep Research, measures performance…
A coalition of publishers including Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow filed a class-action lawsuit against Google on July 10, alleging the company copied millions…