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Lead Story · Wired
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.
Jul 28, 2026
The Verge
Hugging Face isn’t doing much to prevent the AI models it hosts from spitting out sexualized deepfakes. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Hugging Face is being used to make…
Jul 28, 2026
Politico Technology
Dario Amodei continued to stand aloof from other U.S. tech leaders’ unified praise for inexpensive “open weight” models.
Jul 28, 2026
The Register
Beijing happy to ‘take all necessary measures’ if sanctioned
Jul 28, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
Jul 28, 2026
Ars Technica
Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
Jul 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.
Jul 27, 2026
The Register
Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation
Jul 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.
Jul 27, 2026
The Register
MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.4
Jul 27, 2026
Ars Technica
Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.
Jul 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.
Jul 27, 2026
MIT Technology Review
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models b…
Jul 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.
Jul 27, 2026
Ars Technica
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.
Jul 27, 2026
The Verge
People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, July 20th. | Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via G…
Jul 27, 2026
The Register
The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems
Jul 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.
Jul 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion breakthroughs to the grid strain AI is putting on the …
Jul 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.
Jul 27, 2026
The Register
SPONSORED FEATURE: AI's hunger for data outstrips storage smarts, leaving GPUs famished
Jul 27, 2026
The Register
History's biggest infrastructure build-out is pushing up hardware and software prices, analyst says
Jul 27, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Imagine a healthcare system made up of multiple AI agents: one that manages symptom assessment, another scheduling, a third insurance, and a fourth pharmacy. Each is an expert in its domain. But they …
Jul 27, 2026
MIT Technology Review
For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across people, business workflows, data, and systems…
Jul 27, 2026
The Register
Trump's unpredictability is pushing governments and businesses toward open source while Britain remains glued to US tech
Jul 27, 2026
Politico Technology
More than 20 countries are joining a Trump administration initiative to coordinate next-generation wireless policy, standards and security before 6G reaches consumers.
Jul 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.
Jul 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
Jul 26, 2026
TechCrunch AI
"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
Jul 26, 2026
The Register
Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement
Jul 26, 2026
TechCrunch AI
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
Jul 25, 2026
The Register
Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code
Jul 25, 2026
The Register
And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention
Jul 24, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
Jul 24, 2026
Ars Technica
"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."
Jul 24, 2026
Ars Technica
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
Jul 24, 2026
The Register
Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?
Jul 24, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as th…
Jul 24, 2026
Wired
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.
Jul 24, 2026
Ars Technica
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
Jul 24, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
Jul 24, 2026
The Register
Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism
Jul 24, 2026
TechCrunch AI
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
Jul 24, 2026
Politico Technology
A16z, Dell, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia and Palantir are among over 20 companies that signed onto the letter shared exclusively with POLITICO.
Jul 24, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unrelease…
Jul 24, 2026
The Register
Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal
Jul 24, 2026
Ars Technica
Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be.
Jul 24, 2026
The Register
The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility
Jul 24, 2026
The Register
Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services
Jul 24, 2026
TechCrunch AI
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
Jul 24, 2026