The 29th ICFP Programming Contest began online July 24 and runs through July 27, with organizers explicitly allowing AI agents and introducing a new two-dimensional spatial language called littleman. …
UC Berkeley RDI's Agents' Last Exam (ALE) benchmark, released in June 2026, found that every tested frontier AI agent scored 0% on its hardest tier of long-horizon professional tasks, while PYMNTS rep…
A Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University modeling study published July 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that weak AI safety rules targeting only downstream de…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, making it the default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro, with pricing at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tok…
Meta launched Seller, a standalone app for U.S. Facebook Marketplace sellers aged 18 and older, on July 24, adding AI-assisted listing creation, a unified inbox, inventory tools and performance analyt…
Microsoft said on July 23 that Bing Image Creator is now fully powered by its MAI-Image-2.5 model, while PowerPoint and OneDrive also use the model for image editing, reporting up to 84% lower GPU cos…
Tesla disclosed in a July 23 regulatory filing that it acquired an unnamed AI hardware company during the second quarter of 2026 for $1.95 billion in stock and equity awards, with $1.73 billion tied t…
Sierra announced on July 23 that it is acquiring AI agent startup Takeoff and that the combined teams are building a platform called Horizon for long-horizon, outcome-driven enterprise agents. Financi…
Nvidia joined Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Mozilla and 20 other signatories in a July 24 letter urging U.S. policymakers to preserve access to open-weight AI models and avoid premature restrictions. The coal…
A Bing malvertising campaign used a malicious public Claude Artifact hosted on Anthropic's legitimate claude.ai domain to distribute the SectopRAT remote-access trojan, compromising at least 29 organi…
OpenAI added GPT-Live-powered ChatGPT Voice to version 26.715 of its macOS and Windows desktop app on July 23, 2026, letting eligible users start, check, and steer work in Chat, Work, and Codex by spe…
Hunt.io says logs recovered from an exposed attacker server show the open-source Hermes AI agent running unattended during post-exploitation activity inside Thailand's Ministry of Finance. The firm ob…
Wiki Workers United's U.S. branch asked the Wikimedia Foundation for voluntary union recognition on July 20, saying a supermajority of eligible U.S. employees signed union cards and setting a July 24 …
The Delhi High Court on July 24 dismissed Asian News International's application for an interim injunction against OpenAI in a copyright case, ruling at a preliminary stage that storing ANI's works fo…
AMD extended its EPYC server-CPU roadmap through 2030 at Advancing AI 2026 on July 23, confirming Zen 7-based Florence for 2028 and Zen 8-based Ravenna for 2030. The Zen 7 generation will include Flor…
AMD launched Helios, a rack-scale AI system combining 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs with 18 sixth-generation EPYC Venice CPUs, at its Advancing AI event on July 23. AMD says the system is in production, whi…
Elon Musk proposed in a July 23 interview with The Economist that rival AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI, conduct regular safety discussions and pre-release review of major frontier models…
South Korea's Rural Development Administration (RDA) showcased AI-enabled insect bioresource production, plant-based biomaterials and biodegradable farm plastics at the 18th Europe-Korea Conference on…
APEC digital and AI ministers issued the Chengdu Statement on July 23, endorsing open-source AI development while emphasizing security, data protection and intellectual property rights. The 21-member …
Telli announced a $15 million seed round on July 23, 2026, led by redalpine, to expand its AI platform for customer-facing operations, bringing total funding above $18.5 million according to Tech.eu. …