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As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.
Jul 4, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”
Jul 4, 2026
The Verge
At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, an…
Jul 3, 2026
The Register
Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?
Jul 3, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is typically framed as an energy problem. Data centers are projected to consume a growing share of global electricity demand: The Internat…
Jul 3, 2026
The Register
KPMG finds nearly a third of execs struggle to understand costs as companies rethink deployments
Jul 3, 2026
The Register
Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade
Jul 3, 2026
TechCrunch AI
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
MeetingTV wants to see the evidence
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs
Jul 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building
Jul 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI …
Jul 2, 2026
Ars Technica
Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.
Jul 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
Jul 2, 2026
MIT Technology Review
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. LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying …
Jul 2, 2026
Ars Technica
Google tries balancing AI data center emissions with clean energy efforts.
Jul 2, 2026
The Verge
OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Fin…
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues
Jul 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office, Google Apps with AI.
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Risk factors galore
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough
Jul 1, 2026
Wired
Are you worried your AI chatbot is trying to build a bomb or leak personal information about you? There’s a website for that.
Jul 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust
Jul 1, 2026
Ars Technica
US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.
Jul 1, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll…
Jul 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
Jul 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.
Jul 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Clou…
Jul 1, 2026
MIT Technology Review
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. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an ev…
Jul 1, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January…
Jul 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The Trump administration's erratic approach to AI policymaking has left companies across the industry with little clarity about what will govern future model releases.
Jul 1, 2026
The Verge
After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access W…
Jul 1, 2026
Wired
The White House is easing restrictions on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models weeks after ordering the company to suspend access for foreign nationals.
Jun 30, 2026
Politico Technology
The action could resolve weeks of drama that had cut off widespread access to two of the U.S. tech company's most advanced AI products.
Jun 30, 2026
The Register
Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist
Jun 30, 2026
MIT Technology Review
At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way…
Jun 30, 2026
The Register
With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall
Jun 30, 2026
The Register
SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings
Jun 30, 2026
Ars Technica
Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.
Jun 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.
Jun 30, 2026
Ars Technica
They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.
Jun 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.
Jun 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.
Jun 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.
Jun 30, 2026
The Register
DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg
Jun 30, 2026