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Gemini 3.6 Flash Cuts Price, Teases Gemini 4
Google's new workhorse model uses up to 17% fewer tokens and hints at Gemini 4.
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Apple Passes Nvidia as Chip Stocks Enter Bear Market
The SMH ETF fell 8.9%, its worst week since April 2025, as AI capex fears bite.
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No AI Lab Beats a C+ on Safety, Anthropic Leads
Anthropic scored 2.66/4; xAI, DeepSeek and Mistral got outright failing grades.
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EU Orders Google to Open Android to Rival AI Apps
Gemini's system-level Android access must open to ChatGPT and Claude by 2027.
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Salesforce Backs 8090's $135M AI Coding Bet
The startup's platform lets teams build enterprise software alongside AI agents.
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Microsoft Puts AMD's Helios Racks Into Azure
AMD's 72-GPU rack lands its biggest cloud buyer yet, with shipments starting in the second half of 2026.
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Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Claims Second Place Behind Fable 5
The 2.4trn-parameter preview sent Alibaba shares up more than 3.5pc in overnight trading.
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Kimi K3 Demand Forces Moonshot to Stop Taking Signups
Moonshot says its GPUs are maxed out, and Bloomberg reports an IPO could come within six months.
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CuspAI Raises $450M to Design Materials That Don't Exist
More than 45 partners including Nvidia and Samsung join its foundry; valuation hits $2.6bn from $520m.
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EMEA Firms Buy AI Capability They Never Switch On
ServiceNow scores strategy at 58 but live workflows at 40, with bad data named the top blocker.
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Fable 5's Free Ride Ends After Three Extensions
Anthropic's most capable model moves to paid credits after a promo that was extended three times.
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Kimi K3 Tops Frontend Coding, Weights Land July 27
Moonshot's 2.8T model took #1 on Frontend Code Arena and its full weights are dated July 27.
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29 Countries Launch a China-Led AI Body — No West
WAICO opens in Shanghai as a rival AI governance bloc, with every major Western democracy absent.
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Bond Buyers Cool Just as AI Firms Ramp Up Borrowing
Hyperscalers are issuing more debt to fund data centers while investor appetite for it is falling.
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ChatGPT Voice Now Listens and Talks at the Same Time
A new voice model drops the walkie-talkie turn-taking, and custom instructions jump to 5,000 characters.
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TSMC Profit Jumps 77% as AI Chip Orders Surge
Record $40.2B quarter and $100B more for Arizona signal no AI slowdown
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Daniel Ek's Body-Scan Startup Raises $700M
Neko Health hits ~$7B valuation and plans first US clinics
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Microsoft Coaches Sales Team to Undercut Anthropic
Bloomberg: Microsoft pitches cost and security against OpenAI, Anthropic
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SAP Closes $1B+ Deal for German AI Lab Prior Labs
Tabular-data models, not chatbots, anchor SAP's European AI bet
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Fireworks AI Hits $17.5B on AI Inference Boom
The inference startup raised $1.5B Series D as its revenue run rate topped $1 billion.
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Kimi K3 Is the Biggest Open-Weight Model Yet
Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter model rivals top U.S. systems; weights land July 27.
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White House Moves to Control Who Gets Frontier AI
CNBC reports the administration would gate model access and set a 30-day review window.
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Lucyd Smart Glasses Add Free Claude Access
Innovative Eyewear lets wearers pick Claude or ChatGPT and switch models mid-chat.
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Murati's Thinking Machines Ships Open-Weight Model
Inkling is a 975B open-weight model anyone can download and fine-tune.
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Xi to Keynote Shanghai AI Summit for First Time
China's WAIC opens July 17-20 with Xi's debut keynote as US-China AI rivalry sharpens.
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200+ Economists Urge Action on AI's Job Fallout
A statement signed by 16 Nobel laureates warns AI could upend the economy faster than industrialization.
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Nvidia Cuts Half Its Asian AI Chip Buyers
New whitelist checks to block resales to China disqualified over half of past customers.
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Claude Goes Free for US K-12 Teachers Until 2027
Verified educators get premium Claude and standards-aligned teaching tools at no cost.
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Google Rebuilds Gemini 3.5 Pro, Ships It July 17
Google scrapped the base model over tool-calling and SVG failures; launch is tomorrow.
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DeepSeek V4 Goes Official With Surge Pricing
China's DeepSeek adds peak-hour API rates at 2x off-peak as it ends its V4 preview.
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Sophos Launches Tool to Police Shadow AI at Work
Sophos AI Defense flags unsanctioned AI apps and limits what data they can touch.
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Nadella: AI Users Pay for Intelligence Twice
Microsoft's CEO warns firms hand rivals their best data by using outside AI models.
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Claude Artifacts Get Public Links and Team Editing
Anthropic lets teams co-edit Claude artifacts and publish them, and summon Claude from Slack.
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Goldman Names Its Favorite Chinese AI Models
Goldman backs Zhipu, DeepSeek and ByteDance, urging clients to go long China's AI chain.
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DeepSeek Eyes New Round at $71B Valuation
After a $7B raise at $52B, DeepSeek is in early talks for a round near $71B.
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China's Top AI App Pulls Agent Features Today
Doubao disables agent tools July 15 under China's rules on human-like AI services.
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Helsing Raises $1.8B at $18B Defense-Tech Record
Goldman-backed drone maker Helsing hit an $18B valuation in Europe's largest-ever defense-tech round.
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Tencent's Hy3 Bets on AI Agents Over Model Size
Tencent's smaller Hunyuan model prioritizes agent tasks, and surging demand forced a compute expansion.
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Meta's AI Detector Misses Half Its Own Cropped Images
A Reuters test found the tool failed on 55% of Muse Image files after they were cropped.
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Anthropic Extends Free Fable 5 Access to July 19
Anthropic extended its top model's free window a second time after OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launch.
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China Weighs Curbing Overseas Access to Its AI Models
Reuters reports Beijing is in talks with Alibaba and ByteDance on limiting foreign use of top models.
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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft
Apple's complaint says OpenAI targeted its hardware teams to build rival AI devices.
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Unitree Clears IPO as Tesla Ramps Optimus Line
China's Unitree wins STAR Market approval as Tesla scales Optimus, but profits and sales lag hype.
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Central Banks Warn AI Boom Risks a Market Crash
Taiwan's central bank joins the BoE and BIS in flagging leveraged AI spending as a systemic risk.
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Claude's New Reflect Tool Tracks How You Use It
Claude's new Reflect dashboard recaps your usage habits monthly, a feature TechCrunch calls a subtle retention nudge.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Work Handles Tasks for Hours
OpenAI's new ChatGPT Work agent drafts documents and apps for hours unsupervised, rivaling Claude Cowork.
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Meta to Start Making Its Own AI Chips in September
Meta will start making its own Iris AI chip in September to cut reliance on costly Nvidia GPUs.
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Mercor Buys Deeptune to Build AI Training Sims
Mercor acquires Deeptune to build the practice environments AI agents train in before going live.