Japan is building a 140MW AI factory for robots, with Nvidia supplying 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs, as part of the FRONTia Project led by consortium Noetra Corp and backed by METI's up to ¥…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Tuesday pausing construction of new data centres drawing 50 megawatts or more for up to a year, making New York the first US state to impose…
Microsoft executives held an internal sales meeting on Tuesday coaching the sales force to downplay OpenAI and Anthropic models, even though those companies supply the models inside Microsoft's own pr…
Applied Computing, a London startup founded in 2023, has raised a $20m Series A led by engineering giant KBR with Databricks Ventures participating to build a foundation model for oil, gas, refining, …
WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge warned on 15 July that only 8% of countries in the WHO European Region have a health-specific AI strategy, despite nearly two-thirds deploying AI in diagnos…
XAI has filed its first lawsuit against a user, Terry Harwood, alleging he used Grok to generate child sexual abuse material by engineering prompts to circumvent safeguards, seeking unspecified damage…
Goldman Sachs booked a record $3.4bn in investment banking fees in the second quarter, up 55% year-on-year, driven by what CEO David Solomon called an AI CapEx super cycle. Equity underwriting rose 13…
Nvidia has recruited 22 Japanese industrial robotics companies, including FANUC and Yaskawa Electric, into its Cosmos Coalition to adopt its open world models for physical AI, with no binding commitme…
OpenAI has built GPT-Red, an automated red-teaming model that hunts for security flaws in its own AI systems, and will not release it due to safety concerns. In tests, GPT-Red cracked 84% of attack sc…
A hacker breached AI music startup Suno and leaked source code revealing the company trained its model by scraping millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and Pond5, including over 2 million Y…
Apple is hunting for AI chip acquisitions after its own M2 Ultra-based AI servers proved inadequate, forcing it to rely on Nvidia chips inside Google's cloud for the new Gemini-powered Siri. The compa…
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving to launch an AI drug discovery startup in talks to raise about $200 million at a $2 billion valuation, with Lightspeed in discussions to lead the round, though …
OpenAI has begun displaying prediction market odds from Kalshi inside ChatGPT search results for 2026 FIFA World Cup matches, marking its first deal with a regulated betting exchange. The integration …
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 975 billion total parameters and a 1-million-token context window, but t…
Finland has cleared Bliq.ai to operate its Bliq Driverless vehicles on public roads, effective immediately, making it the second EU country to approve the startup after Estonia in May. The rollout sta…
Spotify launched a conversational AI beta for Premium users aged 18 and older in the US, Ireland, and Sweden, allowing them to control playback and explore music, podcasts, and audiobooks through voic…
Chai Discovery raised $400 million in a Series C round led by Index Ventures, tripling its valuation to $3.8 billion in seven months as the AI drug discovery startup's generative models are deployed a…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on July 13 for a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service agent available to all 52 million residents, making it the first G20 nation to o…
Reflection AI signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Amsterdam-based cloud provider Nebius, securing access to Nvidia's newest GB300 chips through 2029. The agreement marks Reflection's s…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is preparing an initial public offering and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after closing its first-ever outside round at roughly $50bn, Bloomberg reported. The Hangzhou-based…