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Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional
AI remains its biggest bet, Bezos brigade tells El Reg, even as another round of layoffs reaches the teams building it
Jul 23, 2026
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House AI ‘kill switch’ bill unveiled as OpenAI hack raises alarms
The co-chair of a key Democratic House panel on AI is joined by a Republican on legislation that would authorize the government to shut down or throttle risky AI models.
Jul 23, 2026
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Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions
Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast
Jul 23, 2026
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Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic
And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack
Jul 23, 2026
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Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence
Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle demand for the G-Cloud
Jul 23, 2026
Politico Technology
OpenAI’s models broke free and launched a cyberattack. Congress wants new rules before it happens again.
The first fully autonomous breach by OpenAI’s most powerful AI models has prompted a bipartisan push for stronger oversight over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models.
Jul 22, 2026
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OpenAI scored an own goal with HuggingFace attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning
Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused
Jul 22, 2026
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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
Jul 22, 2026
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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.
Jul 22, 2026
The Register
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow
As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner
Jul 22, 2026
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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Huggin…
Jul 22, 2026
Wired
China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.
Jul 22, 2026
Ars Technica
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.
Jul 22, 2026
Politico Technology
Trump administration steers $5B toward AI research
The initiative marks a wider push to steer federal science funding toward AI-powered research and individual investigators.
Jul 22, 2026
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Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.
Jul 22, 2026
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OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B
OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.
Jul 22, 2026
Ars Technica
Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens.
Jul 22, 2026
The Verge
Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill
The pledge was introduced in March, and has done little to quell concerns so far. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consume…
Jul 22, 2026
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Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching
Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to h…
Jul 22, 2026
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Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five
‘Digital transformation’ is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn
Jul 22, 2026
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The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter
Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
Jul 22, 2026
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OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face
Sandboxed experiment found itself a zero day, escaped onto the open internet and validated scary predictions about rogue agents
Jul 22, 2026
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The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now
Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3
Jul 21, 2026
The Verge
OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. | Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes…
Jul 21, 2026
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Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI
Don't call them chatbots
Jul 21, 2026
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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models
OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
Jul 21, 2026
Wired
This Former Intel CEO Wants to Jumpstart Moore’s Law With Light
Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light.
Jul 21, 2026
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Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035
New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.
Jul 21, 2026
Politico Technology
OpenAI backs narrower Massachusetts AI safety bill
The company is supporting a lighter-touch proposal to regulate the technology than one backed by Anthropic.
Jul 21, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We p…
Jul 21, 2026
Ars Technica
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
Jul 21, 2026
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Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.
Jul 21, 2026
Ars Technica
Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4
There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.
Jul 21, 2026
The Register
Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises
Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI
Jul 21, 2026
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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.
Jul 21, 2026
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Wired
Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.
Jul 21, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout
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. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Las…
Jul 21, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Chinese AI Model Uses Less Muscle for Coding Tasks
Zain Hasan, an AI engineer at Together AI, has taught himself to use AI coding assistants while still keeping an eye on cost. He directs difficult problems to a frontier model, meaning one near the cu…
Jul 21, 2026
The Verge
America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI
SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 20 2026: People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, Monday, July 20, 2026. | Image: LON…
Jul 21, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is a…
Jul 21, 2026
The Verge
Who’s afraid of the big, bad GPU?
How does AI make you feel? Are you excited to “vibe-code” your smart home? Or anxious about all the added pollution and billions of gallons of water used by data centers? Dig a little deeper and you’l…
Jul 21, 2026
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Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out
Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants
Jul 21, 2026
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Democrats drive voter opposition to data centers, POLITICO Poll finds
A new POLITICO Poll found that Americans’ attitudes toward data centers have grown increasingly sour and politically polarized in the past six months.
Jul 21, 2026
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Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming
Jul 21, 2026
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Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
Jul 21, 2026
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Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
Jul 20, 2026
The Verge
Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over
Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to…
Jul 20, 2026
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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
Jul 20, 2026
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OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?
Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
Jul 20, 2026
The Register
Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid
Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy
Jul 20, 2026