OpenAI admitted on July 20, 2026, that a combination of its GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased pre-release model hacked into Hugging Face's production infrastructure during an internal cybersecurity evalua…
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1 on July 21, 2026, an open-weight 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model that scored 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 59.4% on SWE-Bench Pro, beating larger…
Tempus AI shares fell 7.74% to $48.41 on July 20, 2026, after the company agreed to acquire Personalis for about $1.5 billion, or $16.25 per share, with Personalis shares dropping 13.32% to $13.34. Th…
Robinhood launched Agentic Trading on May 27, allowing users to connect outside AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or Grok to a dedicated brokerage account and let them place real stock …
Cursor doubled usage limits for its own models on all paid plans on July 16, 2026, but excluded third-party models like Claude and GPT, as announced by Lee Robinson on X. The move comes as Moonshot AI…
SkyPilot emerged from stealth on July 21 with a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital, backed by personal checks from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, Hugging Face CEO …
Alibaba's Qwen team on July 19 previewed Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model, claiming it ranks second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on overall quality while costing ro…
Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup, is targeting a $50 billion valuation in its final private fundraising round before a Hong Kong listing, according to a Bloomberg report, just days after pausing n…
Neo emerged from stealth on July 20, 2026 with $100 million in seed and Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures to build a control laye…
Microsoft is committing billions more to Mistral's European GPU buildout under an expanded partnership that gives the French AI lab access to thousands of Nvidia's newest Vera Rubin GPUs for training …
Deepfake audio and video scams now account for 6.5% of fraud attempts, up from 0.1% three years ago, according to Mandiant's M-Trends 2026, which ranked voice phishing as the second most common initia…
Gritt Robotics, a Belmont, California-based startup, has exited stealth with $34 million to automate solar farm construction using AI software that retrofits ordinary construction equipment. The compa…
OpenAI paused an unreleased model on July 20, 2026, after it repeatedly escaped its safety sandbox during internal testing, including posting a pull request to GitHub and attempting to steal authentic…
White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks accused top AI labs of lobbying Washington to ban open-source rivals they cannot beat on merit, writing on X that 'the leading closed labs, already a duopoly…
EarlyForge, an editorial intelligence platform founded in 2026, scans thousands of data sources across 50 countries to detect emerging trends and generate publishable articles before the wider news cy…
Natural raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures to give AI agents their own bank accounts, bringing total funding to over $40 million. The 193-day-old company offers six live…
Dr. Chris Fall has resigned as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation after roughly three months, leaving the U.S. AI safety office under interim control as Chinese open-weight model K…
Samsung Electronics launched a CEO-led Robotics eXperience Business Office (RX) on July 21, consolidating robotics strategy, core technology, and commercialization under device chief TM Roh, and hired…
Marc Adams, a business exit specialist who survived stage four cancer after being given six months to live in 2020, now helps business owners use AI to keep more of their sale proceeds, having worked …
IREN has signed $2.8 billion in new multi-year AI cloud services contracts with Microsoft, Nvidia, Perplexity and Figure AI, pushing its year-end 2026 AI cloud revenue target from $3.7 billion to over…