European Defense AI Startup Helsing Raises $1.8B at $18B Valuation
German defense-AI company Helsing raised $1.8 billion in a Series E round, valuing it at $18 billion — Europe's largest-ever defense-startup funding round.
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Meta Expands Louisiana AI Data Center to $50 Billion, 5 Gigawatts
Meta is expanding its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5 gigawatts of capacity, pushing total investment past $50 billion and funding local schools and infrastructure.
Read more →Microsoft Revamps Windows Patch Strategy as AI Finds Bugs Faster
Microsoft says AI-powered scanning is uncovering Windows vulnerabilities faster than engineers can review them, prompting changes to how security updates are tested and shipped.
Read more →UST Cuts Chip Validation Time 50–70% With Anthropic's Claude
UST, an engineering services firm serving chipmakers and manufacturers, says integrating Anthropic's Claude into its hardware validation platform cut test cycles by up to 70%.
Read more →TSMC Posts Record June Revenue as AI Chip Demand Outstrips Supply
Taiwan Semiconductor reported a 68% year-over-year jump in June revenue, as AI chip orders continue to outstrip its production capacity ahead of full Q2 earnings on July 16.
Read more →US Grants UAE License-Free Access to Advanced AI Chips
The Commerce Department reclassified the UAE as a trusted export partner on July 10, letting a short list of approved companies ship AI chips and servers there without individual licenses.
Read more →Anthropic Valuation Hits $1.2 Trillion on Secondary Markets
Anthropic shares are trading at an implied $1.2 trillion valuation on private secondary markets, according to Business Insider, edging past OpenAI's roughly $908 billion for the first time.
Read more →SK Hynix Raises $26.5 Billion in Record Nasdaq Debut
SK Hynix, the top maker of AI memory chips, began trading on Nasdaq on July 10 in the largest-ever US listing by a foreign company, with shares jumping 13%.
Read more →OpenAI's No. 2 Executive Fidji Simo Steps Down Amid Illness
Fidji Simo is leaving her full-time role as OpenAI's CEO of Applications after a relapse of a chronic illness, transitioning instead to a part-time advisory position.
Read more →OpenAI, Google Supplied AI to Pentagon-Blacklisted Chinese Firms
OpenAI and Google confirmed to the Financial Times that they supply AI services to Singapore units of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, all listed by the Pentagon as Chinese military-linked companies.
Read more →Ollama Raises $65M Series B, Reaches 8.9 Million Developers
Ollama, the open-source tool for running AI models locally, has raised $65 million in Series B funding, bringing total funding to $88 million as its developer base nears 9 million.
Read more →ICML Award Winner Warns AI Alignment Tools Enable Censorship
A paper honored at ICML 2026 argues that AI alignment techniques such as RLHF and Constitutional AI can double as tools for state censorship and political control.
Read more →Meta Breaks Ground on $13B AI Data Center in Alberta, Canada
Meta has begun construction on a 1-gigawatt, AI-optimized data center in Alberta — its first in Canada and 33rd globally, backed by a CAD $13 billion investment.
Read more →OpenAI to Sunset ChatGPT Atlas Browser by August 9
OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, the standalone AI browser it launched less than a year ago, folding its features into the ChatGPT desktop app and a new Chrome extension by August 9.
Read more →Anthropic Invites the Public to Submit Its Hardest Questions About AI
Anthropic is asking the public to submit its toughest concerns about AI and pledging to publicly track how it responds, backed by large-scale surveys of Americans and Claude users worldwide.
Read more →Fed Names Marc Andreessen to Lead New AI Jobs Task Force
The Federal Reserve has created a task force led by investor Marc Andreessen to study how AI reshapes productivity and jobs, informing future monetary policy.
Read more →OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Claims Proof of 50-Year Math Conjecture
OpenAI says its GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra model produced a proof of the 50-year-old Cycle Double Cover Conjecture in under an hour, but mathematicians warn full verification will take weeks.
Read more →UC San Diego Humanoid Robots Perform World-First Live Surgery
Teleoperated humanoid robots completed two live surgeries in a UC San Diego trial, a Nature study shows — a preclinical step toward cheaper, more portable alternatives to today's surgical robots.
Read more →Anthropic Appoints Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to Oversight Trust
Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke has joined Anthropic's independent Long-Term Benefit Trust, the body that advises the AI company on managing AI's societal and economic risks.
Read more →Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft
Apple has sued OpenAI in federal court, accusing two former Apple engineers of stealing confidential hardware secrets to help build OpenAI's in-development AI device.
Read more →NYT-Led Publishers Ask Court to Sanction OpenAI Over Evidence
The New York Times and other publishers told a federal court that OpenAI hid its ability to search ChatGPT logs for copyrighted material and are seeking sanctions.
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