1414 Degrees announced on July 27 that it signed a non-binding Heads of Agreement with an unnamed Australian data centre operator to develop up to 1 GW of AI data centre infrastructure at the Aurora E…
LG CNS announced on July 27 that it joined CuspAI's AI Materials Foundry as a founding member and Korean delivery partner, a 48-member consortium that includes Nvidia, Meta, AMD, 3M, and Merck. LG CNS…
Illinois enacted the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act on July 6, 2026, requiring annual independent audits for frontier AI developers starting January 1, 2028. The law covers models trained…
Vectoral published a June 28 investigation mapping how Chinese “relay” services pool and resell access to U.S. AI models, sometimes at discounts as high as 97.8% from official list prices. The report …
Finance One, an Australian non-bank lender, has deployed Icana.AI's CallCoach to analyze every customer conversation across its contact centers, replacing sample-based quality checks for about 2,000 c…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15, 2026, its first general-purpose open-weight model family with an Apache 2.0 license. The main mixture-of-experts model has 975 billion total paramete…
BlueQubit and research partners received $1.5 million in U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission grants on July 22 for projects applying AI and high-performance simulation to quantum error correctio…
A retrospective study of 297 lung-transplant recipients published July 21 found that a random-forest model achieved a validation AUC of 0.9989 for predicting grade 3 primary graft dysfunction, outperf…
A hardware enthusiast, Oscar Molnar, documented in a May 30 build log that pairing a used 16GB Tesla V100 SXM2 with an existing 16GB RTX 4080 produced 32GB of combined VRAM for about £200, running a 2…
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing (IVCM) filed a June 5 lawsuit against the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) seeking about 260 million gallons of Colorado River water per year for its proposed …
Pakistan's finance minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on July 25 that the Federal Board of Revenue's AI risk engine flagged 840 high-risk audit cases with an estimated Rs34 billion ($122 million) in add…
Microchip Technology signed a definitive agreement on July 24 to acquire edge AI chipmaker Hailo, though the transaction has not yet closed and financial terms were not disclosed. Microchip expects co…
Monday.com announced on July 22 that it will reduce its global workforce by about 20%, affecting around 620 people, as part of a restructuring built around its AI Work Platform. The company expects $4…
Bessemer Venture Partners' May 18 survey of 173 leaders at 113 portfolio companies found 49% were delivering more without adding headcount and 13% had slowed or paused hiring. Claude was used by 73% o…
Google Research published a mathematical account on July 15 explaining that diffusion models generate novel outputs due to score-function smoothing during denoising, which causes interpolation along a…
NVIDIA may halve the CPU-side LPDDR5X memory planned for its Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI system, according to reports from TrendForce and Wccftech citing GF Securities, while the company's public s…
The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.15% on July 23 after Alphabet and Tesla earnings revived concern about heavy AI spending, while surging oil prices added inflation pressure. Alphabet reported $119.8 billio…
Mark Cuban predicted on X on July 24 that AI-powered job simulators, driven by open source or open weights, could become the next major AI application for employee training, comparing the concept to p…
A 20-author survey posted July 17 proposes a unified framework for long-horizon AI agents, separating external harness engineering from model optimization and mapping three task levels to three requir…
Mixfont released Ghost Font in July 2026, an animated dot pattern that encodes text in motion, making it unreadable in a paused frame. Creator Eric Lu and Mixfont reported that models labeled Claude F…