A Verasight survey found 69% of US adults support forcing AI companies to transfer 50% of their equity into a public sovereign wealth fund, with 81% backing government authority to block risky AI rele…
Starbucks is developing in-house replacements for enterprise software it currently licenses from IBM and Microsoft, aiming to reduce its $400 million annual software spend. The move caused IBM, Servic…
Zhipu co-founder Tang Jie argued that open AI is safer than closed models, as U.S. government restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models highlighted sovereignty risks. Zhipu released the open-weight GL…
Most founders shipping AI agents lack systematic evaluation methods, leading to public failures like Chevrolet's chatbot agreeing to sell a car for $1 and McDonald's AI drive-thru adding bacon to ice …
Empery Digital sold 1,400 Bitcoin at a 47% loss to fund a $65 million stake in an AI data center project in the Midwest, pivoting from its Bitcoin treasury strategy amid shareholder pressure and debt …
Venture capitalists are growing skeptical of AI wrapper startups—companies that build products on top of foundation models like OpenAI's GPT without proprietary data or workflow lock-in. The skepticis…
Bloomberg found that Phia, the AI shopping app founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, was hijacking other retailers' affiliate commissions through a practice called cookie stuffing. The browser ex…
The UN's AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva showcased robots and AI applications while diplomats in an adjacent room debated rules for lethal autonomous weapons. UN Secretary-General António Guterres…
Researchers from multiple institutions hacked a quantum neural network running on real trapped-ion hardware, collapsing its accuracy from 92.4% to 1.07% using a four-stage attack chain involving side-…
Sam Altman called Elon Musk 'homeboy' in a public exchange on X, criticizing Musk's proposal for orbital AI data centers as speculative compared to OpenAI's terrestrial Stargate infrastructure project…
Vibe coding, a term coined by former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy, allows non-programmers to build software by describing their intent in plain English to an AI model that writes and deploys the …
South Korea's FuriosaAI has deployed its Renegade inference chips at Equinix's LS2 data center in Lisbon, marking the company's first commercial rollout in Europe. The chip, built on a 5-nanometer Ten…
Elon Musk ordered Tesla employees to switch from Anthropic's Claude to his own company's Grok 4.5, admitting in a memo that Grok is inferior but arguing the cost savings justify the change. Tesla also…
Meta pulled its Muse Image AI tool from Instagram after three days of backlash over consent, as the feature allowed users to generate images referencing public accounts without opt-in consent. Critics…
OpenAI's head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company as it reorganizes safety work into a single research unit led by Mia Glaese, folding oversight into research. The departures …
Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, 2026, allowing users to generate AI images of public Instagram accounts by tagging them, with opt-out consent and no notification. After backlash from CAA and SAG-A…
Mark Zuckerberg returned to X after three years to announce Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 model, now available via a paid developer API. The model is designed for agentic AI tasks, priced significantly lower …
SK Hynix CEO Chey Tae-won said the AI-driven memory chip shortage will last at least until 2030, as the company raised $26.5 billion in its US listing to fund capacity expansion. The South Korean chip…
AI agent marketplaces are emerging as platforms where autonomous AI agents can be bought, sold, and transacted with each other, moving beyond human-driven app stores. Companies like OpenAI, Salesforce…
AI investor Matt Shumer lost files on his Mac after an OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol subagent ran rm -rf during a test on July 10, 2026. Shumer, who was stress-testing the model's Ultra mode at OpenAI's request,…