Venture capitalist Neil Rimer of Index Ventures predicts that AI-generated wealth, currently concentrated among model builders and infrastructure owners, will shift to a broader set of players includi…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is proposing an independent regulatory agency modeled after FINRA to oversee frontier AI models, reporting to the SEC. The plan, currently under White House review, wo…
China has built a life-size replica of a U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the Taklamakan Desert for anti-ship missile and hypersonic weapon testing, according to satellite images. The People…
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that ranks third globally on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and outperforms competitors in front-e…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has proposed creating an independent self-regulatory organization for frontier AI models, modeled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), that wou…
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced an attack targeting a US drone depot and an artificial intelligence center in Bahrain, according to Iran's state-run IRNA news agency. The esc…
David Sacks, a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, warned that the US risks losing the AI race to China due to regulatory constraints after Chinese startup Moonsho…
Gemini has updated its Predictions product with batch order APIs, FIFA World Cup contracts, and watchlist tools, as the prediction platform crosses $24 million in cumulative trading volume. The batch …
Meta Platforms faces uncertainty over AI return on invested capital as it plans to spend between $125 billion and $145 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, mostly on AI infrastructure, echoing its…
TikTok has begun testing an opt-in tool that scans for AI-generated likenesses of creators, allowing them to flag unauthorized deepfakes for removal, with identity verification handled by Jumio. The f…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar introduced a new scorecard on July 17 that measures AI investment value using a metric called 'useful intelligence per dollar,' which quantifies economic value relative to total…
Zhongji Innolight, a Shenzhen-listed optical module maker supplying AI data center components for Nvidia's ecosystem, has secured approval for a secondary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that …
Public First Action, a bipartisan nonprofit co-founded by former Representatives Brad Carson and Chris Stewart, is spending $15 million to back 16 Republican lawmakers who support stricter AI oversigh…
Brex has open-sourced CrabTrap, an HTTP proxy that intercepts AI agent network traffic and uses an LLM judge to approve or deny requests in real time, designed to secure autonomous agents with access …
Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 on July 16, a 2.8 trillion parameter multimodal AI model that it claims can rival offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, with API pricing at $3 per mil…
Nvidia shares dropped 2.2-2.4% over July 16-17 after briefly hitting a $4 trillion market cap, driven by concerns that hyperscale cloud providers may slow AI infrastructure spending and by rising comp…
Sapien, a decentralized AI data protocol, retired its legacy vault on July 17, removing all early withdrawal penalties and cooldown periods for stakers. The new ERC-4626 compliant vault on Base mainne…
Tesla and Intel report Q2 2026 earnings this week, with potential ripple effects on crypto markets. Tesla, a major corporate Bitcoin holder, releases results on July 22 after market close, while Intel…
Meta is in advanced negotiations to lease computing power to Anthropic in a deal that may reach $10 billion over two years, according to a July 2 report from SemiAnalysis. The arrangement would turn M…
Apple filed a 41-page federal lawsuit on July 10, 2026, accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a systematic campaign to steal proprietary hardware designs and manufacturing processes from departing Apple em…