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Meta's stock rose 8% after reports that it is exploring a cloud business to sell excess AI computing power and developing a custom AI chip called Iris, easing investor fears about its massive infrastructure spending. The…
Forrester released a Q2 2026 evaluation of ten major AI consulting providers, including Accenture, Bain, BCG, Capgemini, Deloitte, EY, IBM, McKinsey, and PwC, as part of a broader 37-vendor roster. The report advises ent…
Paradigm closed a $1.2 billion AI and robotics fund on July 8, 2026, signaling a broader reallocation of venture capital away from digital assets. Crypto VC fundraising hit a six-year low in Q2 2026, with new fund format…
Google announced LiteRT.js, a JavaScript binding of its LiteRT inference library that enables high-performance AI model execution directly in web browsers via WebAssembly. The tool supports hardware acceleration across C…
Wire, a platform building context containers for AI agents, is migrating its entire data plane off Cloudflare Durable Objects due to structural limitations that hinder AI-native workloads. The move highlights four key bo…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6, a new frontier model family including Sol, Terra, and Luna, for ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API. The rollout begins globally today with full availability within 24 hours, featuring high…
OpenAI announced on July 9, 2026 that GPT-5.6 will become the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork, marking a major distribution event for the frontier model. Enterpri…
A developer argues that the era of monolithic AI systems is ending, citing inefficiencies in large context windows and the poor performance of frontier models on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark. The developer contends that true …
SemiAnalysis projects Meta will hold more AI compute capacity than OpenAI or Anthropic by end of 2026, driven by multi-gigawatt datacenters and a $14.3 billion Scale AI stake. The firm also predicts Meta could surpass Go…
Meta announced Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic tasks, with improvements in computer use, coding, and multimodal understanding. The model, released by Meta's Superintelligence Labs led by Alexan…
Pittsburg will host a virtual workshop on July 30 to address resident concerns over a data center project approved in 2024, following backlash about environmental impacts and resource constraints. The workshop aims to ed…
SK Hynix priced its American depositary receipts at $149 each on July 9, raising approximately $26.5 billion in the largest foreign offering in history, surpassing Alibaba's 2014 record. The South Korean chipmaker's Nasd…
A team building an AI tutor for children ages 4-9 developed a custom architecture that streams multiple actions in a single response to achieve sub-second latency, replacing the standard agent loop to prevent children's …
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a new AI model specializing in agentic tasks, outperforming Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on four benchmarks. CEO Mark Zuckerberg promoted the model as a cheaper alternative, off…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 on July 9, 2026, introducing a three-tier model family (Sol, Terra, Luna) with tiered pricing and Programmatic Tool Calling that runs model-written JavaScript in an isolated V8 runtime. The new mo…
A rare bacteria was discovered in a Wyoming city's water supply, traced to wastewater from an under-construction Meta AI data center, raising public health concerns.
Developer Raj Patil built Local AI Orchestrator, an offline, privacy-first AI system that runs on consumer hardware like an NVIDIA RTX 3050, achieving sub-100ms token generation times through LLM quantization. He also de…
Perplexity released a research preview of a post-trained version of Z.AI's GLM 5.2, a Chinese open-source model, that matches Claude Opus 4.8 performance at one-third the cost by using an advisor tool to escalate only co…
Lyzr is raising approximately $100 million in a Series B funding round at a $500 million valuation, with over $400 million in investor interest, according to Bloomberg. The company's enterprise AI agents, including its A…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is pressuring Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to build memory chip production facilities in the US or face 100% tariffs on chips sold into the American market. The push comes as AI-driv…