Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors Office on June 29 widened a probe into alleged illegal export of AI servers containing Nvidia chips to China, searching sites tied to Super Micro Computer, Albatr…
SpaceX is acquiring Anysphere, the company behind AI coding startup Cursor, in an all-stock deal valued at $60 billion, with the transaction expected to close in the third quarter of 2026 subject to r…
Anthropic's Claude Code, launched as a CLI in February 2025, became a developer phenomenon after a native VS Code extension was released on September 29, 2025, as part of Claude Code 2.0. By February …
China's open-weight AI models, led by Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, are being distributed for free, threatening OpenAI's paid-access model. Chinese open-weight models accoun…
Samsung Electronics reported Q2 2026 operating profit of 89.4 trillion won ($59 billion), up 1,810% year-over-year, yet its shares fell nearly 7% as a Chinese lithography breakthrough, a hawkish Feder…
TravelAI, a Vancouver-based firm operating under UpNext Ventures, acquired the Sonder brand out of bankruptcy on July 13, 2025, for its domain authority and brand recognition, but left behind the leas…
Cursor shipped Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1 million-token context window and native vision, on its launch day July 27, making the open-weight model…
Two AI models, GPT-5.6 Pro and Grok 4.5 Medium, independently produced counterexamples to the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture, a network optimization problem open since 1999, using casual prompts. Dmit…
Australia's Labor government on July 15 announced that large AI data centers must underwrite their own new power supply, pay grid connection costs, and obtain permission to use copyrighted works for t…
Meta has switched on Meta AI inside Threads direct messages for all users globally as of July 27, 2026, completing its integration of the chatbot across all its platforms and putting it in direct comp…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a formal position on July 27, 2026, stating he does not advocate for a ban on open-weight AI models but warning that Chinese frontier models like Moonshot AI's Kim…
The EPA ruled on July 27, 2026 that dedicated power plants supplying electricity exclusively to data centers are exempt from the Clean Air Act's Acid Rain Program, handing hyperscalers and AI infrastr…
OpenAI's first hardware device, the $230 Codex Micro keypad made with Work Louder, sold out in about 12 hours after its July 15 launch and is now being resold on eBay for up to $1,850, according to Fo…
OpenAI slashed the Max-tier reasoning budget on its newly launched GPT-5.6 Sol from 960 to 128 — an 87% cut — four days after launch without any announcement, then called it an experiment when develop…
OpenAI's first hardware device, the Codex Micro keyboard, debuted on July 15 at $230 and sold out within 12 hours, with resale prices on eBay reaching as high as $1,850. The keyboard, developed with b…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on the Relentless podcast that humanity is now in the singularity, but Info-Tech Research Group principal research director Brian Jackson said the recent incident in whi…
Y Combinator filled San Francisco's Chase Center with 6,000 selected AI founders from over 30,000 applicants across 120 countries for its 2026 Startup School, where Sam Altman and Jensen Huang headlin…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu challenged Elon Musk to pledge his entire $1 trillion fortune to charity by 2036, and Musk replied on X, "I am actually going to do something along these l…
OpenAI on July 23, 2026, launched GPT-Live inside ChatGPT desktop work surfaces for enterprise workspaces, enabling real-time interruptible voice interaction with tasks and agents, and separately intr…
Elon Musk predicted that AI and robotics will make money irrelevant by 2036, drawing online mockery, but Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, warned that this abundance depends on political will …