OpenAI Deployment Company agreed to acquire Northslope, an applied AI firm founded by former Palantir employees, Axios reported on July 8, 2026. The deal, the deployment arm's second acquisition since…
Anthropic, in collaboration with AE Studio, introduced Gradient-Routed Auxiliary Modules (GRAM) on July 8, 2026, a pretraining method designed to restrict access to dual-use knowledge in AI models by …
OpenAI published National Security Principles on July 8, 2026, outlining restrictions for government and law-enforcement partnerships, including bans on mass domestic surveillance, autonomous weapons …
Nurix, a voice AI startup co-founded by Mukesh Bansal and Anantika Jain, is expanding into workflow automation after reaching $10 million in annual recurring revenue, with a new target of $50 million …
U.S. restrictions on top AI systems are driving developers and buyers toward open-source AI models, local deployment, and multi-provider strategies, according to The Hindu. The shift is linked to Whit…
Cloudflare announced new AI traffic controls that will treat mixed-use crawlers according to all of their behaviors, allowing publishers to block bots used for both search and training when a site blo…
OpenAI is expanding its advertising pilot to France, Germany, and Ireland, bringing the total to 10 markets, according to a Digiday report. The company is recruiting ad-sales and customer-success role…
Mi Liangchuan, head of Xpeng's robotics business, has departed as the company pushes its Iron humanoid robot toward an end-2026 mass-production target, following the earlier exit of product lead Shi X…
Researchers from the GRAPES-3 collaboration at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research have developed a machine learning pipeline to distinguish secondary muon and punch-through hadron tracks in th…
Machine learning has fundamentally reoriented scientific practice from inference toward prediction, according to a new analysis of 4.9 million publications and 255 ML techniques by Malena Méndez Isla …
Researchers at the GRAPES-3 experiment developed a graph neural network (GNN)-based pipeline for cosmic ray energy reconstruction, achieving improved accuracy and automated feature extraction on spars…
Researchers introduced a Siamese Neural Network framework to identify phase transitions in 3D percolation models using only 22 labeled probability points from non-critical regions. The method located …
Researchers have developed BatteryMat, a three-tier machine-learning-to-density-functional-theory (ML-DFT) workflow for screening lithium-ion cathode materials, as detailed in a July 7, 2026 arXiv pre…
GitHub announced on July 8, 2026 that enterprises can centrally manage Copilot settings and telemetry controls for VS Code and Copilot CLI through MDM, server-managed settings, or locked local setting…
OpenAI's audit of SWE-Bench Pro found that roughly 30% of the benchmark's tasks are broken, with issues including overly strict hidden tests, underspecified prompts, and low-coverage tests. The findin…
Cao Liangliang, a former director at Google DeepMind, has been appointed chair professor of data science and AI at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, effective June 29, 2026. The move brings a leader w…
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) urged Meta to strengthen protections for users' name, image, likeness, voice and creative work after criticism of the new Muse image generator, stating that no one's like…
Earth Fire Alliance launched its first three operational FireSat satellites, combining multispectral sensing with AI analysis to detect wildfires earlier and build a global dataset. The system, suppor…
Google announced updates to Managed Agents in its Gemini API, adding support for background execution, remote MCP server integration, custom function calling, and credential refresh. The changes allow…
Hanwha Systems launched a 30-ton-class unmanned surface vessel near Busan for sea trials of AI-based autonomous navigation, testing narrow-waterway navigation, rough-sea operation, and long-range auto…