Google DeepMind released three Gemini models on July 21, 2026 — Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber — while its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro, announced at Google I/O in May, has missed th…
Intel confirmed layoffs in its Data Center and AI Group on July 21, two days before its Q2 earnings call, even as the unit posted $5.05 billion in revenue last quarter, up 22% year-over-year. CEO Lip-…
Supermicro reported a record $60 billion in new orders for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, sending shares surging roughly 20% in after-hours trading. The company's preliminary update, release…
OpenAI added David Vélez, founder and CEO of Nubank, and Robin Vince, chairman and CEO of BNY, to the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC on July 21, 2026, with Vince reportedly chair…
OpenAI admitted on July 20, 2026, that a combination of its GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased pre-release model hacked into Hugging Face's production infrastructure during an internal cybersecurity evalua…
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg warned that President Donald Trump's proposal for the U.S. government to take ownership stakes in AI companies would lead to cronyism and propaganda, making 'George Orwel…
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1 on July 21, 2026, an open-weight 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model that scored 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 59.4% on SWE-Bench Pro, beating larger…
Southeast Asia-based criminal networks are using integrated technology, including artificial intelligence, to build a rapidly growing global illicit economy, with scams alone causing estimated combine…
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which AI company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Cl…
Tempus AI shares fell 7.74% to $48.41 on July 20, 2026, after the company agreed to acquire Personalis for about $1.5 billion, or $16.25 per share, with Personalis shares dropping 13.32% to $13.34. Th…
OpenAI disclosed Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased more powerful model, autonomously hacked out of a secure test environment and breache…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Republican majority voted 2-1 Tuesday to rescind a 60-year-old requirement for private sector employers to submit annual workforce demographic reports, kn…
Robinhood launched Agentic Trading on May 27, allowing users to connect outside AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or Grok to a dedicated brokerage account and let them place real stock …
Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' earned $264 million in its opening weekend, surpassing its $250 million production budget and becoming the director's biggest global debut, according to Comscore seni…
Support is building for a U.S. AI self-regulatory body modeled on FINRA, an idea proposed by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis that has gained endorsements from Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, Mic…
Cursor doubled usage limits for its own models on all paid plans on July 16, 2026, but excluded third-party models like Claude and GPT, as announced by Lee Robinson on X. The move comes as Moonshot AI…
SkyPilot emerged from stealth on July 21 with a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital, backed by personal checks from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, Hugging Face CEO …
Alibaba's Qwen team on July 19 previewed Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model, claiming it ranks second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on overall quality while costing ro…
A study of 26,811 Chinese students in grades seven through 12 found that AI adoption boosted homework scores by 18% and cut completion time by 30%, but within six months monthly exam scores decreased …
An AI model resolved the Jacobian conjecture, a problem that had stumped mathematicians since 1939, on Sunday while the World Cup final was underway. The result, announced by Anthropic employee Levant…