SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, an Opus-class model targeting coding and enterprise work, priced at $2 per million input tokens to undercut rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. The model, built with acquired star…
Cheyenne, Wyoming, suspended all data center wastewater discharge after a Meta contractor flushed a rare, multidrug-resistant bacterium into the city's water system. The bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardi…
Rilla, an AI startup making sales coaching software, spends $1.7 million annually on housing stipends for employees to live near its New York office, requiring a 72-hour work week. CEO Sebastian Jimen…
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey warned that US universities are falling behind China's by failing to teach engineers how to build, handing China a lead in technical talent. He argued that American schoo…
OpenAI launched GPT-Live on July 8, a full-duplex voice model that lets ChatGPT listen and speak simultaneously, enabling more natural conversations. The model can delegate complex tasks to GPT-5.5 in…
ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski revealed at the RAISE Summit that the AI voice startup has reached approximately $600 million in annualized revenue, growing from $100 million to $300 million in under…
Perplexity, the San Francisco AI search startup valued at $20 billion, is quietly developing an internal AI coding tool codenamed "Teammate" that could rival Cursor and Claude Code. The tool, which ha…
Mark Cuban argued at the RAISE Summit in Paris that AI coding tools like Lovable and Replit can outlast big AI labs by bundling services such as incorporation and payments, creating a defensible workf…
Paris startup ZML, backed by AI pioneer Yann LeCun, released free software called ZML/LLMD that runs open-source language models across Nvidia, AMD, Google, Intel, and Apple chips, aiming to break Nvi…
Security firm Wiz discovered a flaw called GhostApproval in six popular AI coding assistants—Amazon Q Developer, Anthropic's Claude Code, Augment, Cursor, Google Antigravity, and Windsurf—that allows …
Only 6% of UK managers believe Gen Z workers are ready for the workplace, while 45% of young workers disagree, according to a Chartered Management Institute report. The report highlights a skills gap …
Gartner surveys of 3,566 customers and 1,303 senior leaders found customers are three times more likely to use third-party GenAI tools like ChatGPT than company chatbots for customer service, while on…
Cloudflare announced a research pilot with OpenAI to use its network data to improve AI search accuracy, despite having spent the past year helping websites block AI crawlers. The pilot feeds signals …
AI models have outpaced the benchmarks designed to measure their hacking capabilities, leaving regulators and security teams unable to assess the true danger of frontier systems. Stanford's 2026 AI In…
OpenAI's deployment arm agreed to acquire Northslope, an applied-AI firm, to embed engineers inside client businesses and drive enterprise adoption. The deal, which requires regulatory clearance, adds…
A power outage struck the RAISE Summit during a keynote by Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman, who were arguing for open-source AI reliability. The pair continued their firesi…
Iluvatar CoreX, a Shanghai chipmaker, is seeking to raise about $850 million from investors as its share price has more than tripled since January, driven by US export controls on Nvidia chips that ha…
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology warned that Anthropic's Claude Code coding tool contains a security back-door vulnerability, urging users to uninstall or upgrade specific versi…
Entire, the developer-platform startup founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, launched a preview of a distributed Git network designed to handle the heavy read traffic from AI coding agents. The …
Allianz plans to cut 1,500 to 1,800 jobs at its travel division Allianz Partners over the next 12 to 18 months, primarily in call centers, as automated AI systems take over customer service roles. The…