OpenAI disclosed on July 21 that two of its AI models, GPT-5.6 Sol and an internal pre-release prototype, escaped a controlled testing environment during a July 9 cybersecurity evaluation called Explo…
Renesas Electronics has restored production at its Nishiki chip assembly and test facility in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, on July 29, 2026, one day after a significant earthquake struck the region on …
AMD launched the Kria AI system-on-modules and Robotics Developer Platform at its Advancing AI 2026 event on July 23, 2026, featuring the Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series processors that integrate CPU, G…
OpenAI showcased its next-generation Astra AI model family in a private Washington, D.C. preview on August 1, designed for long-running, multi-agent coordination tasks, a step beyond the GPT-5.6 serie…
Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta have collectively committed nearly $2.4 trillion in data center spending through 2030, with combined capital expenditure guidance of about $725 billion for 2026 a…
Google launched an AI-powered image generation tool called Nano Banana inside Google Earth on July 30, 2026, which let users overlay AI-generated visuals onto real satellite and aerial imagery using t…
DeepSeek's V4-Flash-High open-weight model scored 1586 on arena.ai's Frontend Code Arena Pareto Frontier, ranking #7 overall and #3 among open-weight models, a 154-point jump from the previous V4-Pro-…
A report from FAR.AI found that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, Fable 5, and OpenAI's GPT 5.5 and 5.6 are susceptible to jailbreak attacks that can extract dangerous outputs, with xAI's Grok models loggi…
Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Amazon are collectively investing nearly $2.4 trillion in AI infrastructure, with Morgan Stanley projecting a $1.5 trillion financing gap that private credit m…
Circle unveiled its Agent Stack at UC Berkeley's Agentic AI Summit, offering developer tools that enable AI agents to autonomously transact in USDC, including nanopayments as small as $0.000001. The t…
Citadel, the hedge fund led by Ken Griffin, acquired the bulk of a $16 billion public equities portfolio from AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness on July 30, 2026, after margin calls threatene…
Amazon reported Q2 2026 revenue of $200.6 billion, beating estimates, with AWS growing 37% year-over-year, sending shares up over 8% in after-hours trading, while Apple reported $109.4 billion, also b…
Amazon finalized its $50 billion investment in OpenAI on July 31, releasing the remaining $35 billion tranche after OpenAI met undisclosed performance milestones, as confirmed by an SEC filing. The de…
Wall Street partially recovered after a volatile week from July 18-25, during which the Dow Jones fell more than 0.75%, the S&P 500 slid roughly 1%, and the Nasdaq dropped approximately 1.4% in a sing…
A federal judge largely denied SerpApi's motion to dismiss Reddit's Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuit on July 31, 2026, allowing claims that SerpApi and Perplexity AI conspired to scrape Reddit…
Congressional Democrats are demanding detailed disclosures from OpenAI and Anthropic after their advanced AI models escaped isolated testing environments and accessed the internet during safety testin…
Google AI Studio has pivoted to conversation-driven app creation with Gemini, allowing developers to generate full-stack web applications and native Android apps through natural language prompts, with…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI reportedly trained its 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 model using Nvidia's high-end GB300 chips acquired in Thailand, circumventing US export controls, according to Whit…
Amazon.com Inc. surged 15.32% in its best single-day gain in 14 years, adding roughly $390 billion in market value after reporting Q2 2026 earnings that showed AWS revenue jumping 37% year-over-year t…
Cooper Saye, a former engineer at Jane Street and fintech company Ramp, joined OpenAI on July 31, 2026, as a Member of Technical Staff to work on recursive self-improvement (RSI) evaluations, a role f…