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Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house "Iris" AI chip in September, aiming to double its data center computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, an internal memo reviewed by Reuters shows.
Read more →Chinese AI startup MiniMax closed a $2 billion share-and-bond sale after its stock plunged on an IPO lockup expiry, with founder Yan Junjie vowing to forgo salary until AGI is achieved.
Read more →Prime Intellect raised a $130 million Series A led by Radical Ventures, valuing the AI infrastructure startup at $1 billion as it helps businesses train and run their own AI agents.
Read more →OpenAI merged its Codex coding tool into a single ChatGPT desktop app and introduced ChatGPT Work, a new agent for long, multi-step office tasks, alongside the general release of GPT-5.6.
Read more →The FTC wants public comment on a policy statement warning that AI firms which secretly alter outputs to satisfy state bias rules could be committing deception under federal law.
Read more →Claude's new Reflect dashboard shows users a breakdown of their chat habits and task types, with quiet-hours and break reminders — though critics say it doubles as a retention tool.
Read more →SambaNova closed the first tranche of a $1 billion Series F round led by General Atlantic, and said JPMorganChase will deploy its chips for on-premises AI inference.
Read more →An internal audit found that roughly a third of SWE-Bench Pro's coding tasks are flawed, prompting OpenAI to withdraw its recommendation that developers rely on the benchmark.
Read more →Anthropic has expanded its Claude Cowork task-delegation tool from desktop-only to iOS, Android, and web, letting background tasks run and pause for human approval on any device.
Read more →Meta Superintelligence Labs opened a public preview of Muse Spark 1.1, a paid agentic coding model with a 1-million-token context window, taking on OpenAI and Anthropic.
Read more →OpenAI opened its GPT-5.6 model family — Sol, Terra and Luna — to all ChatGPT, API and Codex users on July 9, after weeks of government-mandated review limited access to select partners.
Read more →Meta's new AI image generator, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now live across its apps — but talent agency CAA says its opt-out design misuses people's likenesses without consent.
Read more →Shenzhen startup Even Realities raised $150 million led by Tencent and Meituan, valuing the camera-free smart glasses maker at $1 billion.
Read more →The European Commission presented an action plan on July 7 to manage the risks and harness the opportunities of advanced AI models for cybersecurity, without proposing new binding rules.
Read more →Particle6 says its AI-generated performer Tilly Norwood will star in the feature film Misaligned, a project SAG-AFTRA has already condemned as a threat to human actors.
Read more →The Future of Life Institute's latest AI Safety Index gave Anthropic the top grade among nine major AI developers — a C+ — while three companies failed outright.
Read more →OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-Live, new voice models that can listen and speak at once, replacing Advanced Voice Mode for all ChatGPT users starting July 8.
Read more →SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, its first model trained on Cursor data, priced well below Anthropic's Opus 4.8 — though its own self-reported benchmarks show mixed results against it.
Read more →Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter model that lets robots navigate using only a single camera, matching or beating systems that rely on LiDAR or depth sensors.
Read more →Canada's Alberta government used Anthropic's Claude Code to scan 466 million lines of code for vulnerabilities in 20 hours, a task it says would have taken 6.5 years manually.
Read more →Norm Ai raised $120 million in a Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the AI-native law firm at $1.2 billion.
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