AI is driving the convergence of entertainment apps into universal platforms, with Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, and TikTok all expanding beyond their original formats to capture more user time and reven…
Data centers are expected to consume one-fifth of U.S. electricity by 2035, quadrupling current usage, according to a BloombergNEF report. The surge in AI compute will drive data center capacity to ne…
Google DeepMind on Tuesday released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, but did not include the long-anticipated Gemini 3.5 Pro. The new models focus on efficiency, latency, and rel…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday the U.S. would examine Chinese open source AI models for intellectual property theft and threatened sanctions against Chinese AI companies if IP theft is …
Music streaming company Deezer reported that AI-generated tracks now account for more than 50% of daily uploads, with a peak of 90,000 tracks per day in June 2026. Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier said th…
Gritt exited stealth Tuesday with $34 million in total funding, including a $26 million Series A round led by Obvious Ventures, to deploy AI-controlled robots that install solar panels. The startup's …
A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, resolving claims that the AI lab illegally d…
Natural, a startup building payment infrastructure for AI agents, has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner, bringing its total funding to $40 million. The company aims to compete w…
Chris Fall, director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has resigned after just three months on the job, the agency confirmed to multiple news outlets. Fall, previously director of…
Alphabet is designing a new server chip, internally dubbed 'Frozen v2,' to make its Gemini AI models more efficient, with a planned release in 2028. The chip could be six to ten times more efficient t…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP), a key standard for AI interoperability, is getting a significant update next week that shifts to a stateless session model, making it easier for companies to run MCP …
OpenAI's head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, argued the US government should create regulatory fear around open-weight models like Moonshot's Kimi K3, but retracted after backlash from tech lumin…
Adobe is adding AI-powered features to its experimental iOS camera app Project Indigo, including photo critiques and editing suggestions using large language models, advanced object removal, depth of …
YouTube has clarified its monetization policies to crack down on AI-generated low-quality content, breaking down inauthentic content into three categories: generic/repetitive/template-based content, o…
Hugging Face disclosed a data breach last week in which attackers exploited a security vulnerability in a dataset uploaded to its platform to run malicious code, escalate permissions, and access inter…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang concluded a two-day visit to Tokyo on July 16, securing deals to build a national AI factory with Japan's Noetra consortium and partnerships with top robotics firms including F…
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI on July 10, 2026, accusing the AI company of a pattern of misconduct aimed at getting current and former Apple employees to share confidential inform…
Christopher Nolan, the Oscar-winning director of 'The Odyssey,' called AI 'a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside' and said he finds it 'pretty encouraging' to see deep skepticism o…
Nonprofit Current AI, founded in February 2025 by Martin Tisne, is racing to build open, public AI infrastructure modeled on the World Wide Web, aiming to provide free AI access for all. The organizat…
Chinese company Moonshot AI released its open source Kimi K3 model, which independent analyses show is competitive with frontier proprietary models, spooking Wall Street and causing the Nasdaq to drop…