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Xi Jinping pitches China as leader of a new global AI order built on open source
Chinese President Xi Jinping used the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai to cast China as the champion of a new global order for…
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July 16
22:00
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Databricks is raising at a 188 billion dollar valuation, up 40 percent in five months
Databricks said it has signed a term sheet to raise a new strategic round at a 188 billion dollar valuation, a 40 percent jump from the 134 billion it was worth in…
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21:00
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Netflix says it used generative AI in about 300 shows and movies this year
Netflix told investors this week that generative AI has now been used in roughly 300 of its shows and movies released this year, the clearest sign yet that the…
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18:58
Release
Moonshot launches Kimi K3, the largest open model yet, built for million-token context
Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, a new flagship it calls open frontier intelligence and, by its own numbers, the largest open model released to date, a 2.8…
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July 15
20:00
Industry
xAI open-sourced Grok Build, but the code that quietly uploaded your repos is still in it
xAI has open-sourced Grok Build, its terminal coding agent, publishing roughly 844,530 lines of Rust to GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license in a bid to rebuild…
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18:00
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Trump blasts New York's first-in-nation data-center ban and demands an immediate reversal
President Trump has publicly demanded that New York reverse the data-center moratorium it signed this week, calling the first statewide pause of its kind in the…
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18:00
Research
OpenAI built an AI to attack its own models, then decided not to release it
OpenAI has built an AI whose entire job is to attack OpenAI's own models, and it turns out to be unnervingly good at it. Called GPT-Red, the system is an automated…
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15:00
Release
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab releases its first model, an open one called Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, has released its first model, an open-weight system called…
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12:30
Industry
Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China, powered by Alibaba's Qwen
Apple Intelligence is at last heading to China, and it will run in part on Alibaba's Qwen models. China's Cyberspace Administration has added Apple's on-device…
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July 14
17:00
Release
OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol is deleting user files on its own
OpenAI's newest flagship agentic model, GPT-5.6 Sol, has been deleting user files it was never authorized to touch, in the days since it launched on July 9…
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15:00
Tools
Grok Build was quietly uploading developers' entire code repositories, secrets included
Grok Build, the command-line coding tool from Elon Musk's SpaceXAI, was quietly uploading developers' entire code repositories to the cloud without clear consent,…
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14:00
Product
Spotify starts testing a conversational AI assistant you can talk to about what to play
Spotify has started rolling out a conversational AI assistant that lets you type or speak to the app and go back and forth with it to decide what to listen to. It…
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13:00
Industry
New York becomes the first US state to halt new data center construction
New York has become the first state in the country to hit pause on new data centers, a direct brake on the construction wave that the AI boom has set off. Governor…
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10:00
Industry
A jailbroken Gemini rebuilt a criminal's botnet in six minutes
A Russian-speaking cybercriminal used a jailbroken version of Google's Gemini CLI to build and run a live botnet, and in the most striking moment captured by…
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July 11
15:00
Product
Meta pulls the Muse Image feature that used public Instagram accounts, after days of backlash over consent
Meta has removed a feature of Muse Image, its in-house AI image system, that let people generate images by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts they wanted to…
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July 10
13:00
Release
Google's SensorFM is a foundation model built to read the body through wearables
Google Research has introduced SensorFM, a foundation model that learns to interpret the body from wearable sensor data, pretrained on more than one trillion…
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July 9
17:00
Release
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 with a government coordinated rollout, and unveils ChatGPT Work
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.6, its new frontier model family, and paired it with ChatGPT Work, a new workspace product aimed squarely at teams. The model comes in…
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July 8
15:00
Product
OpenAI's GPT-Live rebuilds ChatGPT Voice to listen and speak at the same time
OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models that becomes the all-new ChatGPT Voice, and it is rolling out to ChatGPT users globally starting…
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July 7
18:00
Research
Anthropic mapped the small space inside Claude that holds what it is about to say, and switching it off breaks reasoning and poetry
Anthropic researchers describe a "J-space," a thin slice of internal activity that behaves like a global workspace: the concepts a model can report, steer, and…
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17:00
Release
Meta's new Muse Image treats picture generation as an agent that uses tools, not a single prompt
Meta has launched Muse Image, its first in-house image generation model, and rolled it out immediately across the Meta AI app, Instagram Stories in the US, and…
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12:00
Research
An AI designed drug just reached Phase III, which is the real test the field has been waiting for
Insilico Medicine announced that it has started a Phase III clinical trial for rentosertib, an oral drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis that the company both…
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July 6
15:06
Release
Tencent open sources Hunyuan Hy3, a 295B mixture of experts model that runs on just 21B active parameters
Tencent has released Hunyuan Hy3, a large open weight language model, under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, with the weights available now on Hugging Face,…
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02:00
Product
Sakana AI launches Sakana Translate, a culturally tuned translation tool built on its Japanese model Namazu
Sakana AI, the Tokyo based lab co founded by one of the authors of the original Transformer paper, has launched Sakana Translate, a free web tool for translating…
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July 3
14:00
Industry
Amazon is winding down Mechanical Turk, the human marketplace that helped build modern AI
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new customers on July 30, 2026, the beginning of the end for a service it launched all the way back in November 2005. Existing…
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July 2
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Industry
Zuckerberg tells Meta staff that AI agents are not moving as fast as he expected
Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees at an internal town hall that the company's AI agent work has not progressed as quickly as he expected, and that the benefits of…
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08:00
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Google's electricity use jumped 37 percent in a year, and the reason is AI
Google's electricity consumption grew 37 percent in 2025, the largest single year jump the company has ever recorded, and it said the main driver was the buildout…
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July 1
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Industry
Amazon is backing TwelveLabs' 100 million dollar bet that video AI should reason, not just search
TwelveLabs, a company known for teaching software to understand video, has raised 100 million dollars in a Series B round, and the more interesting part is who is…
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13:00
Industry
Cloudflare is trying to change the internet's default from AI scrapes for free to AI pays
Cloudflare, one of the largest infrastructure companies sitting between websites and the traffic that reaches them, is moving to flip a basic default of the web:…
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04:00
Industry
Japan's answer to a shrinking workforce is 10 million robots and a shared AI brain to run them
Facing one of the developed world's steepest demographic declines, Japan has set out a national robotics strategy with a striking target: 10 million robots at work…
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June 29
14:00
Industry
TIDAL will let you upload AI music, it just will not pay you for it
TIDAL has changed its rules so that music identified as fully AI generated will no longer earn royalties on the platform, with the demonetization taking effect…
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08:00
Industry
South Korea just bet its industrial future on memory, data centers, and humanoid robots all at once
South Korea has announced a sweeping, decade long technology investment drive that President Lee has branded the Three Mega Projects, built around three pillars:…
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June 27
16:00
Release
DeepSeek made its models run faster, and then open-sourced the part that lets everyone else do it too
DeepSeek has released DSpark, a speculative decoding framework that speeds up inference on its DeepSeek-V4 Flash and Pro models, and is shipping it as enhanced…
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