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Databricks
Databricks Raises $5B at $190B Valuation, Agent Database Passes $100M Run-Rate
Google
Gemini 3.7 Flash Comes to GitHub Copilot — Admins Must Enable It for Business and Enterprise
OpenAI
IBM Partners With OpenAI, Launches Dedicated OpenAI Practice and Joins Elite Tier
Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps: Consumer Group Chat, Podcasts, Deep Research End August 18
OpenAI Ultrafast Mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at Up to 14x Speed, Powered by Cerebras
Mistral Regional Endpoints Go GA: Pin Inference to Europe or the US, Plus a Plan for Up to 1 GW of Compute
Agent Plugins 1.0 Is Now GA in GitHub Copilot: One Package for Skills and MCP Servers
Google
Gemini App Passes 1 Billion Monthly Users, Google Calls It Its Fastest-Growing Product
JetBrains
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains Adds Cross-Session Memory and Ollama as a BYOK Provider
News
GitHub Adds Per-Model Token Breakdown to the AI Usage Report
News
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Arrives in GitHub Copilot; MAI-Code-1-Flash Retires September 10
Claude Watermarks Generated Text: What Anthropic's EU AI Act Marking Actually Covers
GitHub
GitHub Code Quality No Longer Adds Copilot as a Reviewer
Microsoft
Microsoft Adds a DevSecOps Pillar to the Zero Trust Workshop — 15 Control Groups, 91 Tasks
Anthropic
Claude Code Self-Hosted Environments Enter Public Beta
Claude Enterprise Adds "Inference Hooks" — Every Prompt Inspected by Your Own Server First
Claude Code Makes Auto Mode the Default on August 14 — "Users Approve 97% of Permission Prompts"
Anthropic
Claude Code Adds Messaging Between Your Own Sessions
GitHub Copilot Impact Dashboard Adds a Potential Return on Investment Section
OpenAI
OpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide, Team Moves to ChatGPT
GitHub
GitHub Copilot Usage Metrics API Adds Per-Agent-App Breakdown
OpenAI Says It Cannot Rule Out Critical Cyber Capabilities in Astra, Pauses Some Internal Work
News
GitHub Copilot Code Review Effort Levels Reach General Availability
MCP
GitHub Lets Enterprises Restrict Which MCP Servers Copilot Can Run - Broken Configs Fail Closed
Anthropic
Anthropic Retunes Fable 5's Biology Safeguards - Biology-Related Fallbacks Down About 85%
UK AI Security Institute Reports Agents Acted Against Real Targets During Testing - 10 of 122 Runs
Cloudflare Ships Kitesurf, a Browser Built for Agents - Lower CPU and Memory, Slower Wall Time Than Chromium
News
Mistral Ships Shieldstral, an Open-Weights Safety Classifier Steered by Written Policies
News
Kimi K3 Comes to GitHub Copilot, Off by Default for Business and Enterprise
WeatherNext
Google DeepMind's Cyclone Forecasting Paper Lands in Nature, Code and Weights Released
Suno
Suno Starts on Tools to Identify Its AI Tracks; Watermarking Weeks Away
Google Maps Adds Agentic Ordering to Ask Maps, U.S. First; Ask Maps Itself Reaches Japan
ChatGPT Free Gets Unlimited Text Chats and GPT-5.6 Luna as Default
Meta Muse Code: Terminal Coding Agent Enters Beta With Muse Spark 1.2
MacPaw
MacPaw and Liquid AI Partner on On-Device AI for the Mac, Starting With the Eney Assistant
NVIDIA
Bitdeer Leases Norway AI Data Center to Volta Subsidiary for $4.7B Over 16 Years
Shopify
Shopify Q2 2026: AI-Referred Traffic and Orders Tripled Year Over Year
Anthropic Is Hiring a Custom Silicon Team to Co-Design Chips for Claude
Texas Halts Data Center Grid Connections Pending Audit: 474 GW in the Queue, 90% From Data Centers
Google DeepMind Leadership Change: Hassabis Becomes Chair and Alphabet Chief Scientist, Jeff Dean Leaves After 27 Years
OpenAI
OpenAI Frames Price Cuts and Investment as One Cycle: 'Measure the Cost of a Successful Outcome, Not Tokens'
GitHub
GitHub Spark Stops Taking New Users on August 4; Existing Apps Can Be Exported Until August 31
Cursor
Cursor Adds Google Workspace Plugins for Gmail, Drive, and Calendar
Anthropic
Anthropic Names Former California Supreme Court Justice Tino Cuéllar as Its First Chief Global Affairs Officer
Cloudflare Sets Out to Give AI Agents an Identity and a Wallet, With Spending Caps and Merchant Allowlists
White House Completes Voluntary Framework for Testing AI Models' Cyber Capabilities, With a Meeting Set for August 4
Alibaba Ships Qwen3.8-Max, Promising Its First Open Weights at Max Scale Next Week, at $2 In / $6 Out
Cursor
Cursor for iPad Ships on All Paid Plans, With Split-Screen Review Next to Chat
Google
Gemini API Managed Agents Add Hooks That Can Block Tool Calls, Plus Token Budgets
OpenAI
OpenAI Says Two API Settings Roughly Tripled Its ARC-AGI-3 Score
K-EXAONE 2.0: LG AI Research Releases a 750B Open-Weights MoE Model Under Apache 2.0
OpenAI Publishes Ten Math and TCS Results It Says Came From Astra, Its Next Major Model
Snapchat
Snapchat Drops Fully AI-Generated Videos From Spotlight Recommendations
OpenAI
ChatGPT for Academic Researchers: OpenAI Gives 100,000 Researchers Free Frontier Model Access
Anthropic
Pacing the Frontier: 1,300+ AI Lab Employees Ask the US to Back Tools to Deliberately Pace AI Development
Judge Denies xAI's Request to Block Minnesota's Nudify Ban - Law Takes Effect August 1
OpenAI Reportedly Found More AI Agents That Escaped Containment as Hugging Face Probe Widens
Google Pulls Google Earth's Image Generation Feature One Day After Launch
Anthropic: Claude Breached Three Real Companies During Cyber Evals
This Week in AI (July 25-31, 2026): Claude Opus 5, an 80% GPT-5.6 Price Cut, and a Compute-Stack Shake-Up
Nvidia-Backed Nscale to Acquire Anyscale, the Company Behind Ray - Reportedly for $1.65 Billion
OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna Prices by 80% and Terra by 20%, Replaces Priority Processing With Fast Mode
Gemini Robotics 2: DeepMind's New Models Bring Whole-Body Humanoid Control and Multi-Robot Collaboration
Cursor Start: India-Only Plan at Rs649 (~$7) per Month Is Cursor's First Regional Pricing
Recursive Signs $410M AWS Compute Deal: Richard Socher's Self-Improving AI Lab Spends Most of Its Funding on Compute
Anthropic's Position on Open-Weights Models: No Ban, but Chip Controls, Distillation Crackdowns, and Safety Testing
Microsoft MAI-Cyber-1-Flash: First Security-Specialized Model Claims Half the Cost
SSI and NVIDIA Partnership: Multi-Billion Dollar Investment to Scale Sutskever's Lab
Kimi K3 Open Weights Released: Moonshot Calls It the First Open 3T-Class Model, at 2.8 Trillion Parameters
Cognition Acquires Poke Maker The Interaction Company: Why the Devin Developer Bought a Texting Agent
Claude Opus 5: Anthropic's New Model Matches Fable 5 at Half the Cost
What Is OpenAI Presence? The Enterprise Agent Platform Resolving 75% of OpenAI's Support Calls
Claude Voice Mode Now Supports Opus and Sonnet, Connected Apps, and More Languages in Beta
AMD Helios Enters Full Production: 72 MI455X GPUs per Rack, Up to 2GW Anthropic Deal and $5B Investment
Buzz: Jack Dorsey's Block Launches an Open-Source Slack Rival Where AI Agents Are Team Members
Genesis Mission: DOE Selects First 278 AI-for-Science Projects, Backed by Google, Microsoft, and Meta
White House Accuses Moonshot AI of Distilling Anthropic's Fable for Kimi K3; Treasury Floats Sanctions
Google Ships Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber — Cheaper, Token-Efficient, Built for Agents
OpenAI's Evaluation Models Escaped the Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face — an 'Unprecedented Cyber Incident'
CuspAI Raises $450M at a $2.6B Valuation: NVIDIA, Meta and Tokyo Electron Join Its 45+ Partner AI Materials Foundry
EU AI Act Transparency Rules Start August 2: New Commission Guidelines on Chatbot Disclosure and AI Content Labeling
General Compute's $400M Loan: Inference Chips Replace GPUs as AI Collateral
Alibaba Qwen 3.8: 2.4T-Parameter Model Claims 'Second Only to Fable 5', Open Weights Promised
Databricks Valuation Hits $188 Billion: Coatue-Led Round Funds Its Multi-AI Strategy
What Is WAICO? 29 Nations Sign China-Led World AI Cooperation Organization Pact in Shanghai
Kimi K3 Released: Moonshot AI's 2.8 Trillion-Parameter Model, Billed as the First Open 3T-Class LLM
This Week in AI (July 11-17, 2026): TSMC's Record Profit, NVIDIA's Japan Push and the First Data Center Rules
Australian Standards for AI Explained: Data Centres Must Be Net Power Generators, Unlicensed AI Training Is 'Theft'
TSMC Q2 2026 Earnings: Net Profit Up 77% to a Record as AI Demand Lifts Margins to 67.7%, 2nm Revenue Debuts
NVIDIA's Japan Physical AI Push: Cosmos 3 Edge and a 22-Company Coalition With Toyota, FANUC and Sony
OpenAI Codex Micro: a $230 Keypad for Controlling AI Coding Agents With Physical Buttons
Apple Intelligence Approved in China: Alibaba's Qwen Will Power It - What the CAC Filing Means
Thinking Machines Releases Inkling - a 975B Open-Weight Model That Admits It's 'Not the Strongest'
iOS 27 Public Beta: How to Try Apple's New Siri AI and What It Can Do
Anthropic Launches Claude for Teachers - a Free Year of Premium Claude for US K-12 Educators
New York Imposes the First Statewide Data Center Moratorium - Permits for 50MW+ Projects Paused for Up to a Year
Fed Creates AI Task Force Co-Led by Marc Andreessen to Assess Economic Impact
Meta Removes Muse Image @-Mention Feature That Used Public Instagram Photos - Pulled in 3 Days
Illinois AI Safety Measures Act (SB 315): First US Law Requiring Annual Third-Party AI Audits
SK Hynix IPO: $26.5B Nasdaq Debut Is the Biggest Foreign US Listing Ever
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secret Theft: What the 41-Page Complaint Alleges
This Week in AI (July 4-10, 2026): GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5 and Muse Spark 1.1 All Land in One Week
Google Will Now Disclose Which Ads Are Made With AI - 'How This Ad Was Made' Comes to My Ad Center
Meta Releases Muse Spark 1.1 and Opens the Meta Model API - A Full Entry into the AI Coding Market
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.6 Generally Available - Sol, Terra and Luna Tiers, Plus an 'ultra' Setting That Runs Four Agents in Parallel
SambaNova Raises $1 Billion at an $11 Billion Valuation - JPMorgan Chase Picks It for On-Prem AI Inference
OpenAI Unveils GPT-Live - Full-Duplex Voice Models That Listen While Speaking, Now Powering ChatGPT Voice
SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.5 - An 'Opus-Class' Model at a Fraction of the Cost, Trained Jointly with Cursor
UN Holds First Global Dialogue on AI Governance - 170+ Countries Attend, New Pledges on Child Safety and Energy
Meta Launches Muse Image and Muse Video - The First Media Generation Models from Superintelligence Labs
Claude Cowork Comes to Mobile and Web - Anthropic's Data Shows Over 90% of Usage Isn't Coding
Midjourney Asks Court to Make Disney and Other Studios Disclose Their Internal AI Use
Alberta Government Audits 466 Million Lines of Code in 20 Hours with Claude - A Task Estimated at 6.5 Years
Google Releases Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash - 4-Second Images at $0.034, Conversational Video Editing at $0.10/Second
Abu Dhabi's MGX Closes $49 Billion AI Fund - The Gulf Capital Powerhouse Behind OpenAI and Anthropic
Amazon Mechanical Turk Is Closing to New Customers on July 30 - The 'Human-Powered' Marketplace That Fed AI Winds Down
SoftBank Establishes 'SB Neo' Neocloud Company in the US, Planning to Scale to 10 GW of AI Infrastructure
UN's ITU Launches 'AI for Good Global Commission' Co-Chaired by Benioff and Kagame, with Tech Leaders on Board
Alibaba to Ban Employees from Using Claude Code After Hidden China-Detection Code Is Discovered
Microsoft Launches $2.5B 'Frontier Company' - Embedding 6,000 Experts Inside Customer Enterprises
US Lifts Export Controls on Claude Fable 5 - Model Returns to All Users on July 1
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 - Near-Opus Performance at Lower Prices, Now the Default for Free Users
Google Releases DiffusionGemma, an Experimental Open Model Using Text Diffusion - Up to 4x Faster on GPUs
Google DeepMind and Four Partners Commit Up to $10 Million to Multi-Agent AI Safety Research
OpenAI to Acquire Ona (Formerly Gitpod) - Adding a Persistent Execution Layer for Long-Running Codex Agents
Windsurf Rebrands as Devin Desktop - From IDE to Agent Management Hub
OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and Microsoft AI Chiefs Jointly Urge Congress to Mandate Synthetic DNA Screening
European Commission Publishes Code of Practice on Labelling AI-Generated Content Ahead of August AI Act Obligations
Trump Signs AI Security Executive Order Introducing Voluntary Pre-Release Model Review
Anthropic Proposes an 'Option to Pause' Frontier AI Development - Claude Now Writes Over 80% of Its Code
Anthropic Announces Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 - Mythos-Class Models Go Public
Meta Acquires AI Wearable Startup Limitless: Pendant Sales End Immediately
Cursor Acquires Graphite - Expanding to Cover the Entire Development Lifecycle with Automated Code Review
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image): Features and How to Use It
Google Announces Gemini 3: Next-Gen AI Model Leads Industry in Reasoning
Cline Announces "cline-bench", a New Benchmark Based on Real-World Engineering Challenges
Cognition Unveils Speed-Focused AI Coding Model 'SWE-1.5'
Cerebras WSE-3: The Wafer-Scale Chip Revolutionizing AI Inference Speed
xAI Announces High-Performance AI Model 'Grok 4' - Achieves Industry-Leading Results Across Multiple Benchmarks
Moonshot AI Releases Open-Source 1 Trillion Parameter 'Kimi K2' - Large Language Model for Agent AI
Claude Code Introduces Max Subscription Support for GitHub Actions
ByteDance Seedance-1-lite: Performance and Strategic Positioning of High-Speed Video AI
Limitless Pendant: The $99 AI Wearable That Records Your Conversations
Neuralink: The Journey of a Revolutionary Company Connecting Brains and Computers
China's Unitree Robotics: Rising Star That Conquered the World with $1,600 Robot Dogs
SambaNova Explained: The Dataflow Chips Behind High-Speed AI Inference
Groq AI: The Startup Revolutionizing AI Inference Speed with LPU Technology
Elon Musk's Grok: The Unconventional AI Challenger Reshaping the Competition
The Evolution of Google's TPU: 7th Generation Ironwood Ushers in the Era of Inference AI
Evolution of OpenAI Codex: Technical Journey from 2021 to 2025's AI Code Generation
Google Announces Open-Source Gemini CLI - Direct AI Agent Access from Terminal
Anthropic to Open First Asia Hub in Tokyo Fall 2025 - Targeting Japanese Enterprise AI Demand
Claude Code Best Practices: Get More From Anthropic's AI Coding Tool
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro officially released: New standard for reasoning AI models
Claude Code Major Update: Remote MCP Server Support, Plan Mode, and SDK Launch
Anthropic Announces SHADE-Arena Framework for Evaluating AI Sabotage Capabilities
Anthropic's Multi-Agent Research System: 90% Performance Improvement with Parallel AI Technology
Cursor and Anthropic Executives Discuss the Future of AI Coding: The Developer's Role in the 90% Code Generation Era
OpenAI Releases Top-Tier Reasoning Model 'o3-pro' - Available via ChatGPT Pro and API
OpenAI o3 receives 80% price cut, premium o3-pro model launched simultaneously
Anthropic blocks Windsurf's Claude API access amid OpenAI acquisition rumors
Anthropic Officially Announces Claude 4 - Exceptional Coding Performance with GitHub and Cursor Adoption
Jony Ive and Sam Altman's Revolutionary AI Device - OpenAI Integrates io Company
University of Tokyo's Matsuo Lab Spinout 'Third Intelligence' Launches - Aiming for a Third Intelligence Beyond Humans and Conventional AI
Claude 4 Comprehensive Guide: The World's Best Coding AI Opens a New Era of Development
OpenAI o3 Model Achieves Historic Breakthrough on AGI Benchmark - 87.5% on ARC-AGI Shocks AI Industry
Anthropic Officially Releases Claude Code - Terminal-Integrated AI Coding Assistant Revolutionizes Development Experience with VS Code and JetBrains Support
Suno AI v4.5 Revolutionizes Music Creation: 8-Minute Track Generation and CEO's Controversial Remarks
Seismic Shift in AI Industry - OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive for $6.5 Billion, Competition Enters New Dimension
Anthropic Adds Computer Use to Claude 3.5 Sonnet: Driving Software Through the Screen
Anthropic Raises $3.5B at a $61.5B Valuation, With Lightspeed Leading the Series E
Anthropic Achieves Reasoning Revolution with Claude 3.7 - Strengthening Competitiveness through Extended Thinking Mode and Hybrid Reasoning
Google Introduces Gemini 2.5 as a 'Thinking Model' — With Parallel-Thinking Deep Think Added Later
Microsoft Announces Revolutionary Updates to Azure AI Foundry - Major Enhancements to GPT-4.5 and Enterprise AI Capabilities
Mass Exodus of Key Llama Team Members at Meta Signals Shift in Development Structure - AI Strategy at a Turning Point
OpenAI Announces GPT-5 Release Within Months - Accelerating Reasoning Revolution with GPT-4.1 and o3/o4-mini
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Makes Major Breakthrough in Latest AI Image Generation Front - Open Source Strategy Accelerates Commercialization
