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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 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
Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters
Jul 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
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
TechCrunch AI
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
Jul 17, 2026
The Register
Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands
Jul 17, 2026
The Register
Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos
Jul 17, 2026
The Register
Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom
Jul 16, 2026
The Register
Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid
Jul 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
Jul 16, 2026
The Verge
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
Models demand trust without offering verification
Jul 16, 2026
The Register
Beware of fab makers bearing press releases
Jul 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.
Jul 16, 2026
VentureBeat AI
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
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
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
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 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
The Chocolate Factory is not amused
Jul 16, 2026
VentureBeat AI
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
TechCrunch AI
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
TechCrunch AI
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
TechCrunch 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 16, 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. Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its mod…
Jul 16, 2026
The Verge
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
Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs
Jul 16, 2026
The Register
One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations
Jul 15, 2026
VentureBeat AI
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
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
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
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
TechCrunch AI
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
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
TechCrunch AI
The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
Jul 15, 2026
TechCrunch 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
TechCrunch AI
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
TechCrunch AI
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
TechCrunch AI
The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
Jul 15, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.
Jul 15, 2026
Ars Technica
"The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."
Jul 15, 2026
Politico Technology
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
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
Gartner thinks we’re headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible
Jul 15, 2026
The Register
Tender calls for providers to power free service with local LLMs, government to supply some GPUs
Jul 15, 2026
The Register
PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage
Jul 15, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
Jul 15, 2026
The Register
Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder
Jul 14, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.
Jul 14, 2026
TechCrunch AI
A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.
Jul 14, 2026