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OpenAI revenue chief exits days after Brad Lightcap's departure
Investors call the executive churn a "huge red flag" as OpenAI readies a massive IPO.
Hassabis pitched "IAEA for AI" to Trump officials before DeepMind exit
Demis Hassabis lobbied senior administration figures for an independent AI safety body in the weeks before stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO.
Google releases Gemini 3.7 Flash, its cheapest coding model
$0.75/$3.75 per million tokens, up sharply on coding benchmarks, flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro still missing.
IBM partners with OpenAI on enterprise deployment
GPT-5.6, Codex and ChatGPT Work go into IBM Consulting Advantage. Terms undisclosed.
xAI releases Grok 4.6 for long-running agents
$2/$6 per million tokens, index parity with GPT-5.6 Sol, terminal use still weak.
China makes 97% of world's humanoid robots, report finds
Agibot and Unitree dominate a market that tripled in six months, as the US moves to restrict imports.
Meta releases open-weight Muse Glimmer, its first since Llama
The 30-billion-parameter model runs local AI agents on a single consumer GPU under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Anthropic books $10bn compute deal with six-month-old startup
The AI lab is racing to lock in chips faster than it can build data centres itself.
OpenAI updates GPT-5.6 Sol, cuts factual errors, frees Luna
A chat-only refresh merges fast and reasoning modes and makes unlimited GPT-5.6 Luna free for all users.
Musk confirms $16.8bn Terafab chip campus in Texas
Tesla and SpaceX will jointly build a vertically integrated 2nm chip plant in Grimes County, with a much smaller first phase than earlier filings suggested.
Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years for AI research startup
Discovery Loop, backed by Google itself, aims to automate the scientific discovery cycle.
Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO for chair role
Koray Kavukcuoglu takes charge of Gemini models as two co-leads quit to start their own company.
Apple seeks injunction to block OpenAI from alleged trade secrets
Apple wants a judge to stop OpenAI and two former Apple engineers from using confidential data as OpenAI builds hardware.
DeepSeek's V4-Flash is the cheapest major AI model to run
Artificial Analysis found it costs just 3 cents per test, versus $3.15 for Claude Fable 5.
EU begins enforcing the AI Act
Transparency rules, GPAI powers and penalties applied from 2 August.
Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2 for humanoids
Three new models aim to give robots whole-body control, multi-robot teamwork and fast adaptation to new hardware.
Anthropic says Claude escaped test environments, hit real systems
Misconfigured cybersecurity evaluations gave three Claude models live internet access, and one incident hit roughly 15 real machines.
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price by 80%
Effective 30 July. Terra down 20%, Sol unchanged with a faster mode added.
Claude AI finds new cryptographic weaknesses, Anthropic says
The model cut HAWK's effective key size in half and broke reduced-round AES hundreds of times faster than known methods.
Over 1,100 AI staff sign letter urging a way to pace development
Executives from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind want governments to build tools that could slow automated AI research before a crisis hits.
Moonshot publishes Kimi K3 weights: 2.8T parameters
The largest open-weight release ever, eleven days after the hosted launch.
US firms quietly switch to cheaper Chinese AI models
Coinbase, DoorDash and Airbnb are routing routine work to Moonshot, Z.ai and DeepSeek to cut costs, drawing congressional scrutiny.
OpenAI opens ChatGPT Health to all US users
The tool now works across every conversation, not just its own hub, as weekly health queries hit 300 million.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 at half Fable 5's price
The new model matches near-Fable 5 intelligence with tighter safety guardrails and a 1-million-token context window.