GitHub began rolling out Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash to Copilot on July 21, 2026, covering paid individual and business plans across major editors, the CLI, the cloud agent and the Copilot app. Business…
Humanoid, a UK robotics company, raised $152 million in a Series A round at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation on July 21, bringing its total funding to $270 million. Prime Movers Lab led the round,…
Microsoft and Mistral expanded their partnership on July 21 with a multibillion-dollar Microsoft commitment to use part of Mistral's growing European GPU infrastructure, which will include thousands o…
The Reserve Bank of India on June 24 published draft Guidance on Regulatory Principles for Model Risk Management that would require covered financial institutions to apply a board-approved framework t…
Naver Cloud and Korea University's C5ISRT Convergence Research Center signed a July 20 memorandum to pursue about 20 billion won in South Korean defense AI work, targeting the Joint Chiefs of Staff AX…
SEMI forecasts worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales will reach $165.9 billion in 2026, up 23.2% from 2025, and a record $229.5 billion in 2028, driven by AI-related investment in lead…
IREN said on July 20 that $2.8 billion in new multi-year AI cloud contracts lifted its year-end 2026 annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to more than $4 billion, with about 85% of the…
Block launched Buzz on July 21 as a free, open-source workspace where people and AI agents share chat channels, code repositories, and automated workflows. The Nostr-based system gives agents separate…
Santa Monica began issuing $93 citations on July 1 for vehicles stopped or parked in bike lanes, using forward-facing cameras on city traffic-services vehicles that detect potential violations, with a…
The Eleventh Circuit reprimanded attorney Sabatini for using AI to generate fake case citations in appellate briefs, affirming dismissal of a challenge to pandemic workplace rules. The court found Sab…
Researchers disclosed Ghostcommit, a proof-of-concept attack that hides prompt-injection instructions inside a PNG image referenced by an AGENTS.md file, causing AI coding agents to leak repository se…
Google India launched Gemini-powered advertising tools on July 9, 2026, including a Business Agent for Leads that places an AI brand agent inside Search ads to qualify leads in real time. The rollout …
MLCommons added an Agentic Inference benchmark to MLPerf on July 8, 2026, measuring how LLM serving systems handle multi-turn agent tasks with growing context and tool use. The benchmark uses 490 codi…
Senator Ed Markey unveiled an AI accountability agenda on July 10, bundling nearly a dozen bills that expand federal oversight beyond frontier-model safety to include data center siting, workplace sur…
A July 10, 2026 Python guide from How To Profit AI details building an asynchronous agent that aggregates updates from Slack, Jira, and email into daily project summaries, offering a blueprint for tea…
Digital Insurance published a July 10, 2026 opinion arguing that insurers and fintechs need fraud controls that stop automated attacks without adding customer friction, citing $21 billion in U.S. cybe…
China imposed a temporary export ban on helium on July 10, 2026, citing foreign-trade rules amid Middle East conflict that threatens global supplies. The move aims to protect domestic semiconductor ma…
Researchers at Tel Aviv University, Technion, and Intuit have identified HalluSquatting, a supply-chain attack where AI agents can be tricked into using hallucinated resource names that attackers pre-…
China activated the Zhengzhou core node of its national supercomputing internet on July 10, 2026, adding a 100,000-card AI computing pool for large-model and scientific AI workloads. The network now a…
DEWALT commercially launched DALE, a downward-drilling robot for data center construction, on July 9, 2026, after a pilot reported 10x faster drilling than conventional methods. The robot, developed w…