Georgia's AI Team Wins Seven Medals at IOAI 2026
Georgia's national AI team won two gold, three silver, and two bronze medals at the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence in Kazakhstan, ranking seventh among 109 countries.
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OpenAI Gives Free ChatGPT Users Unlimited Text Chats
OpenAI is dropping message caps on ChatGPT's free tier, making GPT-5.6 Luna the default model with unlimited text chats and a new Think button rolling out the week of August 10.
Read more →US Energy Department Launches Genesis Open Models Initiative
The U.S. Department of Energy opened a program to build open-weight AI models for scientific research, starting with Genesis-Science-1, developed with startup Arcee AI.
Read more →Tesla, SpaceX Confirm $16.8B 'Terafab' Chip Plant Site in Texas
Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8 billion in the first phase of Terafab, a Texas chip plant meant to supply AI compute for humanoid robots, robotaxis and orbital data centers.
Read more →Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Co-Found Discovery Loop
Jeff Dean and three other longtime Google AI researchers have left to launch Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate scientific research with AI.
Read more →OpenAI's Unreleased Astra Model Hits 'Critical' Cyber Threshold
OpenAI says it cannot rule out that its unreleased Astra model reached the highest 'Critical' cybersecurity level under its safety framework — a first for the company.
Read more →Millennium Partners With Anthropic to Build AI Risk Analyst
Hedge fund Millennium, which manages more than $92 billion, is co-developing a Claude-powered digital risk analyst with Anthropic to help human risk managers assess exposure across asset classes.
Read more →Anthropic Eases Fable 5's Biology Safeguards, Cuts False Blocks 85%
Anthropic retuned Claude Fable 5's biology classifier to stop over-blocking everyday health questions, while keeping virology, toxicology, and molecular-design queries restricted.
Read more →AMD Acquires Taalas, an AI Inference Chip Startup
AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Toronto startup that etches AI models directly into silicon, aiming to boost inference speed and efficiency across its chip lineup.
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Nvidia-Backed Firmus Raises $2B to Expand AI Factories
Australian AI infrastructure firm Firmus raised $2 billion from Nvidia, Blackstone, Coatue and Jane Street, nearly doubling its valuation to $10.5 billion to expand AI data centers across Asia-Pacific.
Read more →Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-2.6B, an On-Device AI Agent Model
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-2.6B, an open-weight model small enough to run on a phone or laptop while handling multi-step AI agent tasks offline.
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What Is a Knowledge Cutoff — and Why Doesn't AI Know Recent Events?
A knowledge cutoff is the date after which an AI model has no training data — here's why every chatbot has one, and how it gets around it.
Read more →Demis Hassabis Steps Down as Google DeepMind CEO
Demis Hassabis is becoming Alphabet's chief scientist and DeepMind's chairman, handing daily operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu as veteran researcher Jeff Dean also departs.
Read more →Anthropic Confirms In-House Chip Team to Power Claude
Anthropic said it is building an internal team to design custom AI chips for Claude, aiming to run its models faster and more cheaply without dropping its other hardware partners.
Read more →Meta Launches Muse Code, Its AI Terminal Coding Agent
Meta released Muse Code, a beta terminal coding agent powered by its new Muse Spark 1.2 model, joining Anthropic, OpenAI and Google in the fast-growing AI coding-agent market.
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What Is Silicon Photonics — and Why Does AI Depend on It?
Silicon photonics moves data with pulses of light instead of electricity, letting AI chips exchange far more data using far less power as GPU clusters scale to hundreds of thousands of chips.
Read more →Xiaomi Open-Sources Robotics-1, a 100,000-Hour-Trained Robot Model
Xiaomi released the code and checkpoints for Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a vision-language-action model it says tops several robot-manipulation benchmarks, under an Apache 2.0 license.
Read more →Anthropic Signs $10B Compute Deal With Months-Old Startup Volta
Anthropic will pay AI infrastructure startup Volta $10 billion over six years for Nvidia-powered data center capacity in Norway, Bloomberg reports, as the lab races to secure compute.
Read more →UK AI Security Institute: Agents Took 19 Unsanctioned Actions
The UK's AI Security Institute halted a cybersecurity evaluation after Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol took 19 unsanctioned actions against real people and systems.
Read more →Reimagine Robotics Launches Robots Trained by Demonstration
Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, emerged from stealth with a platform that lets factory workers train robots by demonstration instead of code.
Read more →White House Finalizes AI Frontier-Review Framework, Keeps It Secret
The White House told AI firms it finished a voluntary framework for reviewing frontier models' cyber risks on schedule, but is withholding the document itself from the public.
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