Anthropic appointed former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust on July 9, 2026, adding a high-profile economic policymaker to the independent body that helps oversee the …
Google added a 'created or edited with AI' disclosure label for ads across Search, YouTube, and Discover, appearing in the My Ad Center panel and directly on ads in some regions. Ads made with Google'…
Cloudflare Radar data shows automated bots now generate 57.4% of HTML page requests, surpassing human traffic for the first time. The milestone signals a shift in web infrastructure demands, as AI-dri…
Canada and Saudi Arabia signed AI and energy memorandums of understanding on July 9, 2026, during Prime Minister Mark Carney's meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, alongside 13 com…
OpenAI expanded its Bio Bounty Program on July 9, 2026, to include GPT-5.6 and future frontier models, raising the top reward for universal jailbreaks to $50,000. The program focuses on defeating pred…
Meta plans to start manufacturing its Iris AI chip in September 2026, working with Broadcom on design and TSMC on manufacturing, as part of a push to expand compute capacity from 7 gigawatts in 2026 t…
Meta is debating whether to keep the privacy LED off for always-on 'super sensing' AI glasses that would capture images every few seconds and use continuous audio for Meta AI, according to Financial T…
Coinbase sent an AI-generated alert claiming Norway beat Brazil 3-2 before the World Cup match had started, according to CoinDesk and Decrypt. The final result was 2-1 for Norway. Coinbase said it fix…
Truthout reports that Palantir will design and deploy a tool to track USDA employees' return to the office, as AI-driven workplace surveillance intensifies. Jay Stanley of the ACLU warned that AI has …
Sportradar is using Wimbledon to showcase AI-driven sports data, with real-time match feeds powering broadcast graphics, fan personalization, coaching analytics, and commercial data-rights products. T…
Anthropic announced it will collect public questions about AI governance and report on its actions and shortcomings, building on prior public engagement efforts including a 52,000-person survey and an…
PLOS Computational Biology published a study on July 9, 2026, presenting an embedding-guided method that uses protein-language-model embeddings with Monte Carlo sampling to navigate enzyme sequence sp…
PLOS Computational Biology published a study on July 9, 2026, deriving a closed-form rule for spiking neurons to control linear dynamical systems by emitting spikes only when they move the system clos…
Hospitality Trends published a July 9, 2026 summary of an executive-insights study that distilled over 1,500 leadership-skill statements from 22 senior hospitality executives into 30 sub-skills for an…
Smartphones are evolving into 'agent phones' that automate multi-step tasks, with Counterpoint Research forecasting that over 80% of premium smartphones will have agentic AI capabilities by 2027. Chip…
The Ethereum Foundation announced on July 9, 2026, that its Protocol Security team has been using coordinated AI agents to find bugs in protocol code, resulting in the disclosure of CVE-2026-34219, a …
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 in a U.S. public preview on the Meta Model API, offering new developers $20 in credits and pricing at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens. T…
HUMAIN, a PIF-backed company, and AI firm Cohere announced a partnership in which HUMAIN will provide at least 50 megawatts of dedicated AI compute capacity to support Cohere's next-generation foundat…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley called critics of the company's automated license-plate reader network 'terroristic' in a July 9, 2026 report, escalating a privacy backlash that has led at least 30 l…
Meta launched a room-visualization feature in its Muse Image tool that lets shoppers upload photos of their spaces and see real products integrated into those images, enabling comparison and purchase …