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Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin
Jul 11, 2026
Wired
OpenAI’s Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company
Johannes Heidecke’s departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams.
Jul 11, 2026
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Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedb…
Jul 10, 2026
The Verge
Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts
Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The featu…
Jul 10, 2026
The Verge
Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered "a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by…
Jul 10, 2026
Wired
Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets
The iPhone maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.
Jul 10, 2026
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Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models …
Jul 10, 2026
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SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.
Jul 10, 2026
The Register
AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year
Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone
Jul 10, 2026
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Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models …
Jul 10, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”
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. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over conce…
Jul 10, 2026
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OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
Jul 10, 2026
The Verge
Microsoft’s carbon emissions went up 25 percent last year
Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report. As reported by GeekWire, the report states that Microsoft's carbon emissions …
Jul 10, 2026
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Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role
OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes…
Jul 9, 2026
The Verge
Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in Apri…
Jul 9, 2026
Wired
OpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, Is Stepping Down
The move comes after Simo took significant medical leave. She will stay on as a part-time adviser.
Jul 9, 2026
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OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
OpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
Jul 9, 2026
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An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
Jul 9, 2026
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OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.
Jul 9, 2026
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Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?
The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.
Jul 9, 2026
Ars Technica
OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you
Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run "for hours if needed."
Jul 9, 2026
The Verge
The ChatGPT browser is already dead
OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of n…
Jul 9, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they…
Jul 9, 2026
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Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1
Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations — the kind of automation that enterprises are increasingly turning to AI compa…
Jul 9, 2026
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New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.
Jul 9, 2026
Ars Technica
OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.
Jul 9, 2026
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Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI
While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Until now, that's something Google only required electio…
Jul 9, 2026
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Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia
The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the heart of the world's leading AI ecosystem."
Jul 9, 2026
Wired
Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5
Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic’s best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.
Jul 9, 2026
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How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?
"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
Jul 9, 2026
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Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September
The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI evolves rapidly by the time the chips are in production.
Jul 9, 2026
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Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created
Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simpler technologies and less interesting companies get rich on the sideli…
Jul 9, 2026
The Register
EU 'Chat Control' snoopfest returns after vote to kill it falls short
Opponents won the count but missed the 360-seat threshold needed to stop the interim CSAM-scanning rule
Jul 9, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips
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. Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US —Casey Cro…
Jul 9, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Large Tabular Models Excel Where LLMs Fail
The large language models (LLMs) that form the basis of generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can generate uncannily human-like text and images. But these models still struggle wi…
Jul 9, 2026
Ars Technica
Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%
AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.
Jul 8, 2026
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Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic
Earlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.
Jul 8, 2026
The Register
Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks
Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.7
Jul 8, 2026
Wired
I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You
Experiments in using AI to build AI show that the future doesn’t just belong to the frontier labs.
Jul 8, 2026
Ars Technica
Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself
More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.
Jul 8, 2026
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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’
Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
Jul 8, 2026
The Register
OpenAI job listing suggests ChatGPT could someday replace junior analysts at Goldman Sachs
What, did someone get some bad news during their IPO process or something?
Jul 8, 2026
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This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment
General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.
Jul 8, 2026
Ars Technica
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.
Jul 8, 2026
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Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at und…
Jul 8, 2026
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Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.
Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect…
Jul 8, 2026
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OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations
OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.
Jul 8, 2026
The Verge
ChatGPT’s upgraded voice mode is better at shutting up
OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like "talking to another person." The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to co…
Jul 8, 2026
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Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents
Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.
Jul 8, 2026
Politico Technology
OpenAI to release its most powerful model after weekslong hold
The company announced late Tuesday that its models, called Luna, Sol and Terra, will be available globally on Thursday.
Jul 8, 2026