One in six people experience loneliness, contributing to an estimated 871,000 deaths per year, according to the World Health Organization, while the global AI companion market is forecast to reach $43…
Hugging Face confirmed in a July 2026 blog post that it detected and responded to an intrusion into its production infrastructure driven entirely by an autonomous AI agent system, marking the first kn…
RB Labs, a Geneva start-up, debuted Robert the Robot at the AI for Good Global Summit in July, a face-swapping humanoid that displays real-time emotions and can morph its face into Donald Trump, Barac…
An unnamed U.S. company spent $500 million on Anthropic's Claude in a single month because no spending limit was set, according to an AI consultant cited by Axios. Uber burned through its entire 2026 …
The Chip Security Act (H.R. 3447 / S.1705) would require the Commerce Department to mandate location-verification mechanisms on export-controlled AI chips within 180 days of enactment, aiming to preve…
ASML's Q2 2026 results beat guidance with €9.3 billion in net sales and a 54% gross margin, and the company raised its full-year sales forecast to €43-45 billion, up from €36-40 billion in April. CEO …
The Court of Justice of the European Union has been asked to rule on whether Google's Gemini chatbot violated EU copyright law by reproducing and communicating to the public substantial parts of a Hun…
Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court sentenced former TSMC engineer Chen Li-ming to 10 years in prison on April 27, 2026, for leaking 2-nanometer chip secrets to Tokyo Electron's Taiwan…
The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index graded Mistral AI an F, the lowest among nine companies assessed, after the French startup failed to respond to the institute's survey. Anthr…
Elon Musk admitted Anthropic is winning the AI race, reversing his earlier criticism, after SpaceX signed a $1.25 billion monthly compute deal with Anthropic for its Colossus 1 data center. SpaceX, wh…
Telegram founder Pavel Durov accused the European Union of using 'banana republic' tactics to revive Chat Control after a low-attendance procedural vote in the European Parliament extended temporary r…
On June 26, 2026, Reps. Josh Gottheimer and John Moolenaar introduced the Cloud Security Act to close a loophole in US export controls that allows Chinese entities to rent advanced AI chips from US cl…
The European Union's Tech Sovereignty Package aims to triple data center capacity within five to seven years to reduce reliance on American cloud providers, but faces power and planning challenges. Ic…