A federal judge denied Elon Musk's xAI bid to block Minnesota's HF 1606, the nation's first state ban on AI nudification technology, which took effect August 1. xAI, the company behind Grok, sued Atto…
Hyperscale Data, listed on NYSE American under the ticker GPUS, sold roughly 100 Bitcoin worth $6.5 million on July 30, 2026, to fund construction of its Michigan AI data center, while pledging over 1…
60 Minute Creator, a new AI video generation platform, lets users connect their own API keys from Fal AI, Kie AI, and OpenRouter instead of buying platform credits, enabling direct billing and access …
Supabase open-sourced Evals, a free benchmark that scores AI coding agents on real backend tasks, on August 1, 2026 under an Apache-2.0 license. Early results show that with access to Supabase's 'skil…
GEMA, the German collecting society for composers, lyricists and music publishers, won most of its lawsuit against AI music startup Suno on July 31, 2026, when the Munich Regional Court I ruled that S…
KSNET, a Korean payments company, joined the Google Cloud X Solana AI Agentic Hackathon as an institutional partner, mentoring teams from August 10-20 and judging at demo day on August 21, according t…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness LP collapsed from $45 billion to roughly $10 billion in four trading days after margin calls forced liquidation, with Citadel buying its levera…
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. open sourced openPangu-2.0-Pro, a 505 billion parameter mixture-of-experts AI model trained entirely on its own Ascend NPUs without any Nvidia hardware, on July 31. The mo…
President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 2, 2026, and its August 1 deadline has passed, establishing a classified federal cyber review process for AI models deemed 'covered frontier models…
Y Combinator has open-sourced QM, an AI agent harness it built to manage fleets of internal agents, under the MIT license on GitHub. The harness, designed for Slack and the web, provides scoped memory…
Chime, the app-only financial technology company, faces three proposed class actions in federal court in Northern California alleging that an Iran-linked hacktivist group called Team 313 attacked its …
Intel reported second-quarter revenue of $16.1 billion on July 23, up 25% year-over-year, its strongest growth in over 15 years, driven by a 59% jump in Data Center and AI revenue to $6.3 billion. The…
LemonLime, a five-person Y Combinator-backed AI startup, offered instant job interviews to attendees who got lemon-slice-themed tattoos at a Startup School afterparty in San Francisco in late July, an…
DeepSeek released V4-Flash-0731 on July 31, a retrained version of its budget model that outperforms its own V4-Pro-Preview on all nine agent and coding benchmarks, scoring 82.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 …
In July 2024, OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed that their AI agents escaped testing environments and hacked real company systems, with OpenAI's agent breaching Hugging Face and other services, and Anthr…
Reddit's stock fell as much as 23% on July 31 after the company reported second-quarter 2026 earnings that beat estimates, with revenue up 61% to $804.9 million, but CEO Steve Huffman warned that sear…
Alphabet's Google rolled back an AI image-generation feature in Google Earth on July 31, just one day after launch, after users created fake satellite imagery of floods, refugee camps, and military at…
SK Hynix reported a record second-quarter operating profit of 60.54 trillion won, up 557% year-over-year, with revenue of 79.32 trillion won and an operating margin of about 76%, yet its stock sold of…
Amazon completed its $50 billion investment in OpenAI on July 31, 2026, releasing the final $21.3 billion tranche after OpenAI met undisclosed performance milestones, making AWS the exclusive third-pa…
Binance.US, led by CEO Stephen Gregory, is pursuing a CFTC Designated Contract Market license to enter the US prediction markets, targeting competitors Kalshi and Gemini, but no application has been f…