Google developed a ChatGPT-like chatbot called Meena in 2018, but executives blocked its release, leading creators Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer to leave and found Character.AI, which grew to 20 …
DeepSeek's V4-Flash API pricing undercuts OpenAI and Anthropic, listed at $0.14 per million cache-miss input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens, compared to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna at $0.20 inpu…
Orchid, a texting-based AI assistant from Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch founded by Nizar Abi Zaher and Adam Wazzan, faced backlash after its anniversary ad on X depicted the bot handling a boyfrien…
SpaceX's record $85.7 billion IPO in June, priced at $135 per share, has spurred a new wave of space startups, with global funding for space companies hitting an all-time high of $7.95 billion in the …
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said on CNBC on July 27 that demand for Nvidia's AI chips is outpacing supply by 12 to 1, a figure he has since raised to 15 to 1. The shortage is driven by a bottleneck in TS…
Hunt.io and security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an exposed server in Hong Kong that revealed an active intrusion attempt against Thailand's Ministry of Finance between July 9 and July 13, 202…
AMD's Instinct MI355X GPUs now run Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model at 952 tokens per second per node, undercutting Nvidia's B300 on cost per token despite Nvidia's 1.65x raw through…
Anthropic admitted that engineering missteps caused a monthlong decline in Claude Code performance, affecting paying users who reported the tool as less capable and more expensive to use. The company'…
Amazon has closed its San Francisco AGI Lab and cut jobs in its artificial general intelligence group, shifting focus to enterprise AI via AWS. The lab, opened December 9, 2024, with David Luan and Pi…
NXP Semiconductors is in talks to acquire Ambarella in a deal valued at more than $3 billion, according to the Financial Times, as the automotive chipmaker seeks to bolster its edge AI vision capabili…
California's AI Transparency Act (SB 942 as amended by AB 853) took effect August 2, 2026, requiring covered generative AI providers with more than 1 million monthly California users to offer free pub…
NXP Semiconductors is in talks to acquire Ambarella, a Santa Clara chip designer specializing in low-power AI processors for camera systems in cars, security devices, and robots, according to the Fina…
Science YouTuber Hank Green apologized after fans caught an AI-written script in a Complexly video, admitting his reliance on ChatGPT for research was driven by a dopamine hit that is 'not healthy for…
OpenAI's Codex users are losing banked rate-limit resets that expire 30 days after being granted, with no warning, as complaints mount in GitHub issue openai/codex#28888 and on the OpenAI Developer Co…
A federal judge denied Elon Musk's xAI bid to block Minnesota's HF 1606, the nation's first state ban on AI nudification technology, which took effect August 1. xAI, the company behind Grok, sued Atto…
Hyperscale Data, listed on NYSE American under the ticker GPUS, sold roughly 100 Bitcoin worth $6.5 million on July 30, 2026, to fund construction of its Michigan AI data center, while pledging over 1…
60 Minute Creator, a new AI video generation platform, lets users connect their own API keys from Fal AI, Kie AI, and OpenRouter instead of buying platform credits, enabling direct billing and access …
Supabase open-sourced Evals, a free benchmark that scores AI coding agents on real backend tasks, on August 1, 2026 under an Apache-2.0 license. Early results show that with access to Supabase's 'skil…
GEMA, the German collecting society for composers, lyricists and music publishers, won most of its lawsuit against AI music startup Suno on July 31, 2026, when the Munich Regional Court I ruled that S…
KSNET, a Korean payments company, joined the Google Cloud X Solana AI Agentic Hackathon as an institutional partner, mentoring teams from August 10-20 and judging at demo day on August 21, according t…