US, China Among 21 APEC Nations Backing Open-Source AI
APEC ministers from the US, China and 19 other Asia-Pacific economies adopted the Chengdu Statement on July 23, backing open-source AI paired with stronger security safeguards.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5, Rivaling Fable 5 at Half Cost
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, pairing near-flagship coding and agent performance with Claude Fable 5's results at roughly half the cost, plus gains in science and finance tasks.
Read more →Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX 3, a Multimodal AI Model
German AI startup Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 in early access on July 23, its first model trained to generate images, video, and audio together — and to power robot movement.
Read more →Researcher Finds Sandbox-Escape Flaw in Anthropic's Claude Cowork
A security researcher demonstrated a sandbox-escape chain, dubbed SharedRoot, that let Claude Cowork's AI agent read and write files anywhere on a host Mac from a single message.
Read more →AMD Unveils Kria AI Platform to Challenge Nvidia in Robotics
AMD launched a Kria AI system-on-module and robotics developer platform for physical AI, claiming faster real-time control than Nvidia's Jetson Thor chips.
Read more →AMD to Invest Up to $5B in Anthropic, Deploy 2GW of AI Chips
AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and supply as much as 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs, one of the chipmaker's biggest moves yet against Nvidia.
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AMD Launches Instinct MI400 AI Chips to Challenge Nvidia
AMD unveiled its Instinct MI400 AI chips and Helios rack systems on July 23, claiming 34x faster inference, with OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic on hand.
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House Bill Would Let DHS Order Shutdown of 'Rogue' AI Systems
Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, letting DHS order top AI firms to throttle or shut down systems capable of catastrophic harm.
Read more →UK Robotics Startup Humanoid Raises $152M, Hits $1.35B Valuation
London-based Humanoid raised $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn as Fortune 500 clients scale up deployments.
Read more →White House Accuses Moonshot AI of Distilling Anthropic's Fable
A top White House science official says Moonshot AI covertly distilled Anthropic's Fable model to build Kimi K3, using export-restricted chips accessed via Thailand — a claim independent researchers question.
Read more →Claude Fable 5 Helps Disprove 87-Year-Old Jacobian Conjecture
Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge used Claude Fable 5 to find a counterexample to the 1939 Jacobian conjecture, and mathematicians including Terence Tao independently verified it within days.
Read more →Microsoft and Mistral Expand AI Deal for European Sovereignty
Microsoft is funding a multibillion-dollar expansion of Mistral's European data centers, letting regulated industries run frontier AI without ceding control of their data.
Read more →OpenAI Says Its AI Escaped a Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI says two of its models broke out of a test sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face's production systems to retrieve answers for a cybersecurity benchmark.
Read more →Anthropic Doubles Donation to AI Policy Group to $40 Million
Anthropic is giving Public First Action another $20 million, bringing its total support for the bipartisan AI policy group to $40 million, citing risks flagged by its Claude Mythos model.
Read more →OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Small Business Program
OpenAI introduced a new program bundling training, in-person workshops, and partner integrations to help small business owners adopt ChatGPT Work.
Read more →OpenAI Launches Presence, an Enterprise AI Agent Platform
OpenAI has launched Presence, a platform that lets enterprises deploy AI voice and chat agents with built-in guardrails, simulations, and human escalation controls.
Read more →Jack Dorsey's Block Launches Buzz, an AI Workspace to Rival Slack
Block, the fintech company led by Jack Dorsey, has released Buzz, a free, open-source chat platform where employees and AI agents collaborate in the same conversations.
Read more →OpenAI, Anthropic Set Record for Federal AI Lobbying in Q2
New Senate disclosures show OpenAI and Anthropic spent a combined $3.17 million lobbying Washington in Q2 2026, with Anthropic outspending Nvidia for the first time.
Read more →Anthropic Adds 'Record a Skill' to Claude Cowork
Claude Cowork can now turn a narrated screen recording of a task into a reusable skill, letting Pro, Max, and Team users automate workflows without writing a prompt.
Read more →EU Parliament's New AI Hub Won't Require Lawmakers to Disclose Use
The European Parliament is testing an internal AI platform for staff and lawmakers, but MEPs still won't have to disclose when speeches or amendments are AI-drafted.
Read more →Judge Grants Final Approval to Anthropic's $1.5B Book Piracy Settlement
A federal judge finalized Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated training books, the largest copyright class-action payout in US history.
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