Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers.
Now that Google has changed how its usage quotas are tallied, you might not get as many AI responses as you did before.
Table of contents What is NeMo Automodel? Supported diffusion models What this collaboration unlocks A look at the fine-tuning workflow 1.
The EU has ordered Google to open Gemini's exclusive Android access to rival AI apps by 2027. For Android users, the real payoff might not be more choices, but cheaper ones.
Humans First, a conservative-led nonprofit, organized nationwide protests against AI data centers on Saturday.
NVIDIA DeepStream 9.1 introduces 13 agentic skills that let coding agents like Claude Code and Codex build multi-camera video analytics pipelines from natural-language prompts.
My post on leaving Google DeepMind tells a story. In contrast, this Framework is a question of mechanism design and negotiation posture.
ZTE showcased the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai this week, calling it the world’s first agentic AI smartphone.
This was a thin matchup on paper, but Kimi K3 still comes out ahead on the numbers. The catch: the only judged task showed enough order sensitivity that this result reads as a lean, not a rout.
The results revive Anthropic's distillation claims, though the test cannot establish who generated the outputs or whether they were used for training.
The Trump administration is now dictating which companies and entities get access to frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, CNBC reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter.
The 3GB GDDR7 chips that the RTX 50 Super GPUs will use reportedly cost twice to thrice as much as the 2GB chips found on vanilla RTX 50-series graphics cards. This would likely push the retail price of these GPUs way beyond Nvidia's target MSRP.
‘The Jensen Jacket’ achieved a hammer price of $960,000 this weekend.
Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips.
Hamza Mostafa decided he needed to be in San Francisco to make it in tech. When he landed an OpenAI internship, he felt that decision paid off.
The "Shark Tank" investor who is developing AI data center projects argued that modern data centers use far less water than many people believe.
One of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s signature black Tom Ford leather jackets sold at Sotheby’s on Friday for $960,000 after 65 bids from 45 collectors.
On August 2, 1959, Pelé scored what he called the greatest goal of his career: three consecutive sombreros over defenders, a knee flick past the goalkeeper, and a header into the net, all without the ball ever touching the ground.
Architects are reimagining AI data centers with public parks, reused heat, and new designs that give host communities more in return.
Google Cloud's generative-ai repository ships the Always-On Memory Agent, a reference implementation that treats memory as a running process.
Anthropic will include Claude Fable 5 in Max and Team Premium plans starting July 20, but at just 50 percent of regular limits, which themselves drop by a third that same day.
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around.
Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The […]
SJF Ventures led the Series A for Luyen Chou and Dirk Liebich's assessment startup, which is already grading culinary and clinical training work.
Gal Tal-Hochberg's new company wants to fix the raw telemetry problem before security teams hand more work to AI agents.
AI development is moving so quickly that companies and regulators worldwide have far less time to adapt, Anthropic said at the 2026 AWS Summit Taipei. For global readers, the shift could shape how businesses deploy automation, compete, and manage risk across finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors.
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenaAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.
Meta Platforms is in early talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a potential arrangement worth up to $10 billion over two years, a deal structure that would signal a significant shift in how large AI infrastructure owners monetise compute capacity.
Built on specialized SambaNova chips, the company’s air-cooled infrastructure deploys in weeks and runs AI inference up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds SAN FRANCISCO, CA — General Compute, the world’s fastest inference neocloud, today announced a committed debt facility of up to $400 million from Upper90...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and SUNNYVALE, Calif – Intel and Google Cloud today announced an expansion of their previously announced multi-year strategic collaboration, which would accelerate Intel’s enterprise-wide digital evolution through the deployment of Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud.
Anthropic PBC is reportedly seeking to lease some of Meta Platforms Inc.’s data center capacity.
Google used live stadium capture, and combined it with archival material to bring Pele's legendary goal to life. The Veo video engine, Gemini Omni, and Nano Banana Pro AI tools tagged alongside in the journey to revive a lost marvel.
Robert Scoble cited an unnamed investor and said the deal had not closed; neither side has announced a transaction.
Gemini 3.5 Pro slips again as Alphabet drops 4%, Kimi K3 tops the coding arena, and Apple passes Nvidia. The 18 biggest AI stories for July 18, 2026.
It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone looking for funding even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders now being held to seed-stage […]
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around.
Looking to add a smart speaker to your house? Here’s which to choose, whether you’re an Alexa, Siri, or Gemini fan.
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
Lowest cost per token from extreme codesign maximizes intelligence per dollar for post-training in the agentic era.
Introduction This tutorial starts where most agent demos stop: giving the agent persistent memory, operational context, and a place to write back what happened.
Zyphra released ZUNA1.1 on July 16, 2026, under the Apache 2.0 license. The 380M masked diffusion autoencoder reconstructs, denoises, and upsamples scalp-EEG across arbitrary channel layouts.
A black leather jacket sported by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sold for $960,000 at a New York auction on Friday, 16 times higher than the estimated value of $60,000, according to Sotheby's. The post Leather jacket worn by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang auctions for nearly $1 mn appeared first on Digital Journal.
Meta is reportedly in talks with Anthropic to rent out compute capacity from its data centers. The article Zuckerberg's plan to sell excess AI compute could finds its first big customer in Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder.
Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup General Compute Inc. today announced that it secured $400 million in debt financing.
Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable company for the first time since April 2025.
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."
Google didn't launch Gemini 3.5 Pro at Google I/O. Now, the company has blown past its promised launch date.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 has accidentally wiped users' entire home directories in several cases, mostly in the unprotected "Full Access Mode." The model overwrites a temporary directory variable and carries out destructive actions on its own instead of asking for confirmation.
It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder.
OpenAI fixed its confusing ChatGPT redesign, restoring conversation history, syncing chats across devices, and simplifying mode switching for users everywhere.
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a model that by early assessments matches Anthropic's Opus 4.8, built by a team of just 300 people.
Investors in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, as well as White House officials, worry that if China can build AI as good as America can, then US companies like OpenAI and Anthropic may struggle to keep charging high prices for their products.
Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI is just getting started. Here's what could happen next and what it means for OpenAI's hardware ambitions.
Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from Meta in a deal worth about $10 billion, the New York Times reported on Friday.
OpenAI has updated its recently redesigned ChatGPT app for Mac to make chats easier to access once again. Here are the details.
The Compute Exchange Inc., a procurement marketplace for reserved graphics processing unit capacity, today launched a dedicated marketplace for used and refurbished GPUs, extending the platform into physical artificial intelligence hardware sourcing.
A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.
ChatGPT Work, Sites, practical prompts, reusable skills, and new Skill Labs from OpenAI Academy.
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more.
“Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
US tech world caught off guard as China’s latest AI breakthrough, Kimi K3, emerges with striking capabilities that could reshape global race for dominance in artificial intelligence.
Sega is bringing Virtua Fighter Crossroads to Nvidia’s Arm-based RTX Spark laptops and compact desktop PCs.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him “20x wealthier,“ implying a fortune approaching $300 billion, up from roughly $15 billion today.
OpenAI is selling its first hardware — without any help from Jony Ive. It describes the Codex Micro as a “ command center for agentic work ” but it’s really a 13-switch wireless keyboard customized to help developers keep tabs on what their Codex agents are doing.
Apple appears to believe that additional former employees have shared company information with OpenAI.
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 topped Arena’s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol.
The European Commission on Thursday ordered Google to give rival AI assistants the same reach into Android that Gemini already has: the camera, the microphone, whatever is on screen, a wake word that fires with the display off, and the ability to drive other apps in the background by imitating taps and typing.
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
Another powerful new artificial intelligence model from China took the U.S. tech industry by surprise Friday, the latest sign that…
TL;DR: ChatOn AI Assistant Premium is $29.99 for a year (reg. $39.99), no coupon needed, bundling access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity’s Sonar models in one app.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Alta, the AI System of Actions for go-to-market teams, today announced $25 million in Series A funding.
OpenAI has broadened its foray into physical products this week, releasing a ChatGPT-branded basketball alongside its recently launched $230 Codex Micro keyboard.
Apple momentarily became the world's most valuable publicly traded company again today after its market valuation surpassed that of Nvidia, according to CNBC.
Apple has reclaimed the title of the world’s most valuable company, overtaking Nvidia after the AI chip giant’s lengthy run at the top of Wall Street.
Bunkerhill Health has raised $55 million to scale its agentic AI platform, Carebricks.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — AIsa, the transaction network for the AI agent economy, has announced it has raised US$6.5 million in total funding to date, including a new seed round, co-led by Alibaba and Tribe Capital, with participation from Draper Associates, Sumitomo Corporation, Saison Capital and other investors.
We have been seeing the AMD Instinct MI350P 144GB HBM3E PCIe accelerator everywhere over the past few weeks as this appears to be a popular GPU The post The AMD Instinct MI350P is a HBM PCIe AI Accelerator That Has Been All Over appeared first on ServeTheHome.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Databricks, the Data and AI company, has announced strategic funding at a $188 billion valuation.
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first in-house model, Inkling, an open-weight system that developers and organizations can download and modify directly.