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Kimi: Threat or menace?
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."
Jul 18, 2026
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Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
Jul 17, 2026
The Verge
TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool
TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tes…
Jul 17, 2026
The Register
AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting
Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters
Jul 17, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relyin…
Jul 17, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
Jul 17, 2026
The Register
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester
Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands
Jul 17, 2026
The Register
South Korea making its own security-centric AI model
Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos
Jul 17, 2026
The Register
Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief
Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom
Jul 16, 2026
The Register
OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'
Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid
Jul 16, 2026
Ars Technica
It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
Jul 16, 2026
The Verge
Netflix says around 300 titles used generative AI
A scene from The American Experiment, one of the Netflix titles to use generative AI | Image: Netflix Netflix says roughly 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, most of which occurred in post…
Jul 16, 2026
The Register
Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100
Models demand trust without offering verification
Jul 16, 2026
The Register
TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan
Beware of fab makers bearing press releases
Jul 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."
Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.
Jul 16, 2026
VentureBeat AI
The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs
Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base of hyperscalers and model…
Jul 16, 2026
VentureBeat AI
The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials
Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incide…
Jul 16, 2026
Wired
Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster
The company endorsed landmark AI transparency laws in California and New York last year, but its head of US state and local policy says they may already be outdated.
Jul 16, 2026
VentureBeat AI
The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix
Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context sourc…
Jul 16, 2026
The Verge
Google is better than Apple at playing the AI regulations game
Google CEO Sundar Pichai | Bloomberg via Getty Images Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating system that powers billions of…
Jul 16, 2026
The Register
EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids
The Chocolate Factory is not amused
Jul 16, 2026
VentureBeat AI
The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway
Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their interna…
Jul 16, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’
While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.
Jul 16, 2026
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Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.
Jul 16, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu
The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.
Jul 16, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its mod…
Jul 16, 2026
The Verge
COMPUTER COPS: Inside the big business of selling AI to the police
I stood before a hulking glass and brick structure in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. Thousands gathered inside to see what had been billed as "the future of policing in the digital age." As press, I …
Jul 16, 2026
The Register
Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open
Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs
Jul 16, 2026
The Register
Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design
One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations
Jul 15, 2026
VentureBeat AI
Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on re…
Jul 15, 2026
The Verge
xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’
The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI cla…
Jul 15, 2026
Wired
AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet
Babies are tremendous learning machines, and key advances for AI may soon be found in the architecture of their little brains.
Jul 15, 2026
Wired
Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.
Jul 15, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.
Jul 15, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company released the latest ver…
Jul 15, 2026
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Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
Jul 15, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.
Jul 15, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise fi…
Jul 15, 2026
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Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models
Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
Jul 15, 2026
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Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet
The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
Jul 15, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C
The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.
Jul 15, 2026
Ars Technica
How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
"The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."
Jul 15, 2026
Politico Technology
'I wouldn't call it panic': Industry quails at Hochul's data center pause
Artificial intelligence advocates fear New York’s one-year moratorium on new data centers could embolden Democrats across the country to put more restrictions in place.
Jul 15, 2026
Politico Technology
Inside Anthropic’s state-by-state plan to ratchet up AI rules
By pushing for ever-tougher AI safety laws, Anthropic is drawing a distinction between its state lobbying strategy and OpenAI’s campaign to streamline a set of rules across the country.
Jul 15, 2026
The Register
At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills
Gartner thinks we’re headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible
Jul 15, 2026
The Register
South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot
Tender calls for providers to power free service with local LLMs, government to supply some GPUs
Jul 15, 2026
The Register
Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content
PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage
Jul 15, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
Jul 15, 2026
The Register
OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark
Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder
Jul 14, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit
OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.
Jul 14, 2026