A federal judge ordered Meta to explain by July 23 how it selected four visa-holding employees for termination as part of an 8,000-person workforce reduction, amid allegations that AI tools used in la…
Nvidia signed letters of intent with South Korea's SK Group on July 25, 2026, for a collaboration valued at over $500 billion covering AI data centers, memory chip supply, and next-generation computin…
US President Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on social media depicting a US seizure of an Iranian oil tanker and a strike on Iran's Kharg oil export terminal amid ongoing US-Iran tensions. The…
Alphabet has locked down leases covering roughly 2.4 gigawatts of capacity across ten projects, partnering with former Bitcoin miners to secure power for AI data centers. In September 2025, Google agr…
XAI's Grok Build platform has introduced the /deep-research command, which deploys multiple parallel AI agents to independently verify sources, cross-reference evidence, and generate cited reports wit…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned of AI bubble risks and concentrated power in the sector during a rare TV interview on CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria aired July 26. Nadella positioned AI as a genuine…
Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion class-action settlement after using pirated books from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to train its Claude AI model, covering roughly 500,000 copyright…
Microsoft says UK grid connection delays could take up to eight years, threatening its £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) data center investment plan. The company warns that projects in Leeds, Newport, and L…
A University of Washington study published on July 16, 2026, as arXiv:2607.14611 found that AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI can correctly refuse malicious instructions but still store them in pers…
Nvidia has posted a 15,333% total return over the past decade, the highest in the S&P 500, driven by its dominance in AI infrastructure with GPUs for training and inference. In 2025 alone, Nvidia acco…
Apple's disciplined AI spending of roughly $12 billion in 2026, a 25% increase from 2025, is winning investor confidence, while Oracle's aggressive $35 billion AI and cloud infrastructure capex, up 50…
US tech giants including Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta are projected to spend $600 billion to $725 billion on AI capital expenditures by 2026, up from $150 billion in 2023, but investors are g…
The US power grid is under severe strain from back-to-back heat waves and surging AI data center demand, prompting Energy Secretary Chris Wright to order data centers to activate backup generators dur…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will brief White House officials this week on GPT-5.6, the company's most powerful AI model, amid the Trump administration's push for tighter scrutiny of frontier AI systems. The…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted in a March 2026 Wired interview that the company fell behind Anthropic's Claude Code in the AI coding tools race, with Claude Code generating nearly $2.5 billion in annu…
Generative AI patent families nearly tripled from roughly 14,000 in 2023 to over 37,800 by 2025, according to a World Intellectual Property Organization report, with China filing six times more invent…
Mitsubishi Motors has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Highlanders, Inc., a University of Tokyo spinout, to jointly develop and mass-produce AI-powered humanoid robots at its Kyoto plant, tar…
Balaji Srinivasan's Network School had its business license revoked by Malaysian authorities on July 21, 2026, forcing operations to cease the following day. Within 24 hours, the former Coinbase CTO s…
Semiconductors now drive nearly half of S&P 500 earnings growth, according to a16z, with chip stocks accounting for 44-48% of overall EPS growth in Q2 2026 and earnings surging 133% year-over-year. Th…
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood named Tesla and SpaceX as her top AI stock picks on Fox Business on July 22, 2026, citing robotaxis, Optimus robots, and orbital data centers as key drivers. ARK Invest depl…