Amazon Web Services (AWS) is moving 20 AI services into maintenance mode, including Amazon Kendra, Amazon Q Business, and Bedrock Agents (now Bedrock Agents Classic), effective July 30, 2025, with no …
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture on July 28, knocking out power to 40,000 homes and halting rail services, as Asian chip stocks entered correction territory amid investor concerns…
Tesla completed a $1.95 billion acquisition of an unnamed AI hardware company on July 24, disclosing the deal only in a footnote in its Q2 2026 financial filing. The bulk of the payment, $1.73 billion…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spent the week of July 27 urging Washington to tighten chip export controls on China, crack down on model distillation, and mandate safety testing for capable AI models, arg…
Snappyit launched an AI-powered product photography platform that generates ghost mannequin images for fashion and jewelry sellers, eliminating the need for studio shoots and post-production editing. …
A federal judge granted final approval on July 20, 2026, to Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, the largest copyright class action settlement in U.S. history, but auth…
The OCC conditionally approved Upstart Bank, N.A. on July 23, just four months after the AI lender applied, in the same week the agency rejected Wise's charter bid over compliance failures. The charte…
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee up to $250 billion to help OpenAI lease a massive data center in southern Ohio, deepening a circular-financing pattern that drew scrutiny after the chipmaker announced …
Nvidia is financing up to $50 billion in leases at Hut 8's Beacon Point data center campus in Nueces County, Texas, a 1-gigawatt site designed around Nvidia's DSX reference architecture, according to …
Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors Office on June 29 widened a probe into alleged illegal export of AI servers containing Nvidia chips to China, searching sites tied to Super Micro Computer, Albatr…
SpaceX is acquiring Anysphere, the company behind AI coding startup Cursor, in an all-stock deal valued at $60 billion, with the transaction expected to close in the third quarter of 2026 subject to r…
Anthropic's Claude Code, launched as a CLI in February 2025, became a developer phenomenon after a native VS Code extension was released on September 29, 2025, as part of Claude Code 2.0. By February …
China's open-weight AI models, led by Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, are being distributed for free, threatening OpenAI's paid-access model. Chinese open-weight models accoun…
Samsung Electronics reported Q2 2026 operating profit of 89.4 trillion won ($59 billion), up 1,810% year-over-year, yet its shares fell nearly 7% as a Chinese lithography breakthrough, a hawkish Feder…
TravelAI, a Vancouver-based firm operating under UpNext Ventures, acquired the Sonder brand out of bankruptcy on July 13, 2025, for its domain authority and brand recognition, but left behind the leas…
Cursor shipped Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1 million-token context window and native vision, on its launch day July 27, making the open-weight model…
Two AI models, GPT-5.6 Pro and Grok 4.5 Medium, independently produced counterexamples to the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture, a network optimization problem open since 1999, using casual prompts. Dmit…
Australia's Labor government on July 15 announced that large AI data centers must underwrite their own new power supply, pay grid connection costs, and obtain permission to use copyrighted works for t…
Meta has switched on Meta AI inside Threads direct messages for all users globally as of July 27, 2026, completing its integration of the chatbot across all its platforms and putting it in direct comp…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a formal position on July 27, 2026, stating he does not advocate for a ban on open-weight AI models but warning that Chinese frontier models like Moonshot AI's Kim…