X head of product Nikita Bier confirmed the removal of 42,000 accounts caught automating replies with chatbots, part of a broader crackdown that has purged over 1.7 million bots since early 2026. The …
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, half the cost of its own Fable 5 model, while matching output quality and using one…
China's government has become the dominant force in tech venture capital, with state-backed investors participating in over 140 AI deals in 2025, a 15-fold increase from fewer than 10 per year before …
OpenAI shipped its first hardware product, the $230 Codex Micro keyboard built with Canadian keyboard maker Work Louder, on July 15, signaling the company's bet that developers will soon supervise mul…
A developer known as slvDev_ has run a small language model on an Espressif Systems ESP32-S3 microcontroller costing under $8, using a technique called Per-Layer Embeddings to store most of the 28.9-m…
Meta AI can now schedule tasks, connect to Gmail and Google Calendar, create slides, and handle recurring work, powered by the Muse Spark 1.1 model with a 1 million token context window. The feature r…
A pseudonymous hacker known as Pliny the Liberator claims to have broken every major AI model at once, including GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, Opus 5, and Fable, with a universal jailbreak announced July 24, tho…
Progressive Conservative MLA Bill Oliver read an AI chatbot's rewriting instruction aloud in the New Brunswick legislature on July 24, 2026, inadvertently reciting the prompt wrapper 'Here's a more na…
Bluesky's new Quests feature turns its Attie AI assistant from a custom-feed builder into a social research tool that can answer questions about information spreading across the open AT Protocol netwo…
XAI confirmed a 2-trillion-parameter Grok 4.6 on July 18, 2026, with a larger Grok 4.7 already weeks behind it, as Elon Musk openly targets Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 that wiped $3.3 trillion from chip sto…
Asia-focused hedge funds that rode the AI chip rally to gains of 60% to 120% in the first half of 2026 have given back 12% to 17% in July as a $137 billion foreign exodus from Asian equities and a 31%…
The Trump EPA has proposed eliminating public participation requirements for minor source air permits, a move that would fast-track diesel generator approvals for AI data centers while stripping commu…
Nvidia announced a series of Korean AI deals with SK Hynix, Naver, SK Telecom, Doosan and LG, though the companies did not disclose the value of those agreements. Naver's Gak Sejong data centre will b…
Researchers from the Innovative Genomics Institute and the Doudna lab used Meta's ESM Inverse Folding model to design 1,980 synthetic TnpB variants, with the best reaching 46% and 50% editing efficien…
World Foundation has raised $52.5 million through a locked WLD token sale led by Pantera Capital, with Bain Capital Crypto, Susquehanna Crypto, Selini Capital and Eightco Holdings participating, as Sa…
Meta and Microsoft report earnings on July 29 with investors focused on massive capital spending tied to AI infrastructure. Meta lifted its 2026 capex guidance to $125 billion to $145 billion, while M…
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman disclosed a dark fiber agreement worth more than $1 billion with Google on the company's Q2 2026 earnings call today, July 24, and promised additional deals before year-end th…
Technology companies announced 139,156 U.S. job cuts in the first half of 2026, up 83% from 76,214 a year earlier, according to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, even as Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and …
The UK and Israel appointed their first national AI chiefs this week, signaling a shift in how governments treat artificial intelligence. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham named Kanishka Narayan as Brita…
Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said SpaceX shares could fall to $100 as post-IPO lockup restrictions lift, a price at which the bank's sum-of-the-parts analysis assigns zero value to the company's …