During negotiations on Wednesday, employees voiced frustrations with what they consider an unwillingness among executives to engage meaningfully with the prospect of unionization.
At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, and generates figures and visuals.
Cursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it's acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between frontier AI labs.
Google's decision to push Gemini Spark onto the desktop signals it now sees agentic assistants as an operating-system-level battleground, not just a chat feature, putting direct pressure on Claude Desktop and Microsoft Copilot as the default AI layer on knowledge workers' machines.
Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5, a free Apache-2.0 code agent model for Lean 4.
Tech commentator **John Gruber** argues in a **July 3, 2026** Daring Fireball post that **Felix Rieseberg** - Anthropic's engineering lead for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, and a co-maintainer of the `Electron` framework - is the reason Claude's Mac app is built with Electron rather than native code.
LawZero's formal safety case backs a non-agentic AI built to watch, judge, and block the models you're already running The post Yoshua Bengio’s answer to AI you can’t govern is another AI appeared first on Digital Journal.
**Cat Wu**, who leads product for **Claude Code** and Cowork at **Anthropic**, said **90%** of Anthropic's own codebase is now written by `Claude Code`, according to an O'Reilly Radar writeup of her fireside chat with Addy Osmani at O'Reilly's AI Codecon.
Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users.
Microsoft reportedly plans to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single app in August.
Anthropic released the **Claude apps gateway** on **June 29, 2026**, a self-hosted control plane that lets enterprises run Claude Code through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Foundry with corporate single sign-on, centralized policy, and per-user cost tracking.
Agentic commerce shifts the payment boundary from human-led checkout to authenticated AI agents, changing requirements for authentication, fraud control, and integration testing for practitioners.
The trade that defined the first half of 2026, buying anything with proximity to a GPU, broke apart in the holiday-shortened week before Independence Day.
One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was to let Fable (and to a certain extent Opus) use their own judgement rather than dictating how they should work.
AI/ML practitioners and enterprise data teams should track tools that treat brand presence as a model-representation problem rather than just an indexation problem.
There is a new unit of account in the artificial intelligence industry, and it is not the GPU, the model, or the API call. It is the token. Understanding why tokens have become the fundamental currency of AI — and why the supply of compute to generate them is more constrained than the headlines suggest — is now a […]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's black Tom Ford leather jacket is up for auction, with proceeds benefiting charity, Sotheby's said.
Meta's superintelligence chief says its upcoming Watermelon model now matches GPT-5.5 on key AI benchmarks.
The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.
Anthropic is trying to block Chinese companies like ByteDance and Ant Financial from accessing Claude Code, but they're getting around the restrictions through VPNs and overseas subsidiaries.
Only 35% of CIOs have full visibility into their AI operating costs, according to a recent KPMG survey.
At Computex 2026 we came across one of the first servers based around Arm's new AGI server CPU. ASRock Rack had their 1U4E1S-ARM, a 1U single-socket server that will be the backbone of future data center systems The post ASRock Rack Had One of the First Arm AGI Servers at Computex 2026 appeared first on ServeTheHome.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Sail Research, the infrastructure company purpose-built for long-horizon AI agents, has announced it has raised $80 million in Seed and Series A funding at a $450 million valuation.
Journalist **Karen Hao**, author of **Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI**, said in a Democracy Now!
Anthropic is in discussions with Samsung to explore a potential collaboration on a custom AI chip, according to a report by The Information, marking a significant step forward from earlier indications that the company was merely considering entering the chip design space.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — AI model lab Scaled Cognition announced it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures.
Equal AI, India’s first AI call assistant, has closed a $30 million Series B round co-led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital, both of which also co-led the company’s $10 million Series A in November 2024.
Visa is expanding the use of payment passkeys across digital commerce with an issuer infrastructure in Asia Pacific, an online checkout in India, and agentic payments in Europe.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed contributing 5 percent of the company’s equity to a U.S.
Denver-based Luxonis Holding Corp. announced Thursday it raised $14 million in early-stage funding to transform industrial automation with cameras and machine vision, providing a perception layer for robotics and automated systems to understand the real world.
SpaceX has shown investors a prototype AI device described as sleeker and slimmer than an iPhone, according to a Wall Street Journal report, signalling that Elon Musk may be preparing to enter the AI hardware market in direct competition with OpenAI.
As hyperscalers struggle with delays, permitting fights, and mounting community backlash on new data center builds, overlooked brownfield facilities, including dark sites, are emerging as a practical way to bring new AI capacity online.
Fika Jobs Raises $4 Million to Replace Resumes With AI-Powered Video Interviews Stockholm-based Fika Jobs has raised $4 million in pre-seed funding to build a video-first hiring platform that uses AI interview agents to evaluate candidates before they ever apply for a specific role, offering employers a searchable...
The Beijing lab is using a free desktop app, cheaper Coding Plan tiers and WeChat-style remote control to chase Cursor and Claude Code.
The strain inside the AI boom’s biggest infrastructure bet has reached a courtroom.
This one wasn’t a blowout, but grok-4.3 won on the tasks that most clearly expose whether a model can follow instructions precisely and write with judgment. mistral-medium-2505 had one meaningful edge, yet grok-4.3 was the steadier, more reliable finisher across the set.
OpenAI reportedly has floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, perhaps the start of a series of such stakes in other AI companies as well.
SEO consultant Slobodan "Sani" Manic found that Chrome's new **Lighthouse** Agentic Browsing audit failed his `llms.txt` file with the error "File does not appear to contain any links," even though the file listed working links, because Lighthouse requires them in Markdown `[text](url)` syntax rather than plain text.
Gemini for Android Auto has been divisive, to say the least, but for all of its pros and cons, there’s still one big problem that frustrates me on a frequent basis.
Alibaba is reportedly set to ban Anthropic’s Claude Code from its internal workplace environments starting July 10, 2026, over alleged embedded backdoor risks.
For months, the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon looked like a row over access to Claude.
OpenAI shut down the consumer version of Sora in April 2026 after it burned through roughly a million…
Last month, I said I would do a bigger writeup of Nora’s funding call. I did not.
For AI/ML practitioners building sales automation or customer intelligence, tighter integration of buyer-signal unification with conversation data reduces the engineering burden of stitching pipelines and maintaining identity resolution across systems.
Claude Code subscriptions had an insane run. For a time the deal was simple: pay for Max, point Claude Code at a... Read More... Source
Journalist **Karen Hao**, author of the award-winning *Empire of AI*, said in a Democracy Now!
Meta is set to launch a new Muse Spark model with stronger coding and agentic capabilities, as Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang touted the update as a step toward closing the gap with rival AI platforms and expanding the company’s enterprise AI ambitions.
The hedge fund Bridgewater and Thinking Machines Lab report that a finely tuned open-weight model outperforms the most powerful AI models in the evaluation of financial documents, at a fraction of the cost.
People across the country are pushing for moratoriums, and electeds who approve projects are being punished Lenoxdatacenter.com went live in May, promoting what it called a “proposed advanced technology and data center campus” in Michigan.
The voice AI startup is reportedly weighing a staff share sale that would value it at nearly double its February funding round, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Increasing demand for high-density NAND for data-center and AI storage workloads raises the importance of fab capacity and newer 3D NAND generations for practitioners monitoring supply, cost, and latency tradeoffs.
Singapore-based dConstruct Technologies has closed a $125 million Series A funding round, marking the standout achievement of the inaugural cohort of Singapore's RoboNexus accelerator, a venture-building program under the National Robotics Program.
Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade
Kuaishou has raised about $2 billion from investors for its AI video division, Kling. The article Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI researcher Alisa Liu described the job hunt as "challenging but also super rewarding," and recommended plenty of sleep before interviews.
London-based AI visibility startup geoSurge has raised $12m (£9.4m) in an oversubscribed seed funding round.
The Wharton professor gave Anthropic's model Unity and MCP access, then asked for a WebGL FPS from one high-level prompt.
The Trump administration and Anthropic have not discussed the government taking an equity stake in the AI company, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
Workplace tooling bans at major cloud and developer platforms change risk calculations for internal AI adoption and vendor vetting.
The workplace ban, starting July 10, lands weeks after Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab of running the largest known distillation campaign against Claude.
Anthropic rolled out a set of admin cost-control features for **Claude Enterprise** on **July 2, 2026**: spend-threshold alerts at **75% and 90%** of an org's budget cap, a per-user and per-SCIM-group analytics dashboard, and model-level entitlements that let admins default routine work to cheaper models.
Anthropic published a **Cyber Jailbreak Severity (CJS)** framework on **July 2, 2026**, built with **Amazon**, **Microsoft**, and Google, creating a shared five-tier scale (CJS-0 to CJS-4) for rating how dangerous an AI jailbreak actually is.
China's memory price rally continues to gather momentum. Giantec Semiconductor Corporation, a Chinese NOR flash supplier, recently notified its distribution partners that prices for its entire NOR flash memory product portfolio will increase by 25% beginning July 6, 2026.
Chinese AI company Z.ai, also known as Zhipu AI, is escalating its challenge to US leaders Anthropic and OpenAI with the release of its open-weight GLM-5.2 model and a new AI coding assistant, underscoring China's growing competitiveness in frontier AI.
For practitioners building or integrating coding agents, persistent code graph indexes reduce token costs and latency when agents need structural repository context.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI boom.
A critical unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Front Gate Tickets (FGT), a Live Nation/Ticketmaster subsidiary that powers ticketing for major US festivals including EDC, Bonnaroo, and Outside Lands, allowed full administrative takeover of the platform with help from Anthropic’s Claude AI model.
NightVision reveals that even with restricted APIs, hidden details of large language models (LLMs) can be uncovered. This raises questions about the adequacy of current security measures.
Female-founded startups raised a record $73.6 billion in the United States in 2025, according to PitchBook's "All In"…
Fusion startup **Helion Energy**, armed with a **$1.5 billion** war chest, has signed an agreement to sell fusion-generated electricity to **Microsoft** for a Central Washington data center by **2028**, according to a GeekWire feature published July 2, 2026.
Anthropic has published detailed technical documentation on the cybersecurity safeguards protecting Claude Fable 5, following the model’s global redeployment.
Kuaishou Technology disclosed a **19 billion yuan** (about **$2.79 billion**) financing round for its AI video generation unit **Kling AI**, with **Tencent** contributing $200 million alongside 21 other investors, according to a July 2 regulatory filing reported by CNBC.
DigitalOcean's GPU Droplets powered by the **NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation**, RTX 6000 Ada Generation, and NVIDIA L40S have been generally available since **May 8, 2025**, according to the company's own announcement, and remain a budget option for mid-range inference and small-model training.
PagerDuty Executive Chair **Jenn Tejada** told Forbes on **July 2, 2026** that AI is shifting from experimental use into production and warned that agentic systems introduce failure modes like model drift, which is harder to detect than a traditional software crash because symptoms surface only after an agent has...
OpenAI's offer of a 5% stake to the Trump administration hints at a strategic alignment with Washington. What's the catch?
Nvidia's backing of AI startups reshapes the compute market, challenging Big Tech's dominance. This move isn't just about chips. It's about redefining the AI landscape.
China's AI chip sector has a heavyweight new entrant: veteran semiconductor figure Shaojun Wei has formally unveiled Shanghai Orient Computing Core Technology Co., a 3D AI compute chip startup now valued at CNY12.2 billion (approx. US$1.8 billion), just two years after it was founded.
Anthropic reduces system prompts for its Claude Code by 80%, claiming newer Fable 5 models thrive with less guidance. But does this innovation really pave the way for AI creativity, or are we sacrificing control?
Anthropic might team up with Samsung for custom AI chips, hinting at a strategic shift as AI firms seek to slash infrastructure costs.
Nvidia is deepening its role in the AI infrastructure market by offering financial guarantees to emerging GPU cloud providers in exchange for a share of their future cloud revenue, according to The Information.