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Andhra Pradesh unveiled City Flood Alert on July 26, an AI-assisted urban-flood forecasting platform that will be deployed first in Vijayawada. Officials say it can forecast rainfall up to 48 hours ahead and flash…
The UK appointed Kanishka Narayan Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence on 20 July 2026. The official appointments list places the role jointly across the Cabinet Office and Department for Business, Innovation,…
X head of product Nikita Bier said the platform removed 42,000 accounts that were using chatbots to automate replies during a July 24-25 anti-spam response. Bier said the campaign was economically motivated and that X…
A retrospective study published July 21 analyzed 297 lung-transplant recipients and reported that a random-forest model outperformed three alternatives in predicting grade 3 primary graft dysfunction. Its validation AUC…
OpenAI announced on January 29 that GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini would leave ChatGPT's main model picker on February 13, 2026. OpenAI said only 0.1% of users still selected GPT-4o daily and that API access…
In a May 30 build log, Oscar Molnar described adapting a used 16GB Tesla V100 SXM2 to run beside an RTX 4080, producing 32GB of combined VRAM for about £200. The mixed-GPU system reportedly ran a 27-billion-parameter…
Bloomberg reported on July 25 that DeepSeek had told some prospective investors it was pausing a second fundraising round, although talks could resume. Fortune's publication of the Bloomberg report put the prospective…
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing filed a June 5 lawsuit seeking Colorado River water for its proposed Imperial Valley AI data center. KPBS reports the project wants about 260 million gallons a year after plans to…
Pakistan's finance minister said on July 25 that the Federal Board of Revenue's AI risk engine had flagged 840 high-risk audit cases with an estimated Rs34 billion ($122 million) in additional revenue potential. Arab…
Microchip Technology signed a definitive agreement on July 24 to acquire edge AI chipmaker Hailo; the transaction has not yet closed and its financial terms were not disclosed. Microchip expects completion near the end…
monday.com announced on July 22 that it will reduce its global workforce by about 20%, affecting around 620 people, while reorganizing around its AI Work Platform. The company expects $45 million to $55 million in net…
SpaceX entered a merger agreement on June 16 to acquire Cursor parent Anysphere in an all-stock transaction based on a $60 billion implied equity value, according to the company's SEC filing. The deal is expected to…
The Blogger-published analysis on July 26 examined whether artificial intelligence threatens India's IT services companies and highlighted a gap between management optimism and investor skepticism. Forbes described AWS…
Bessemer Venture Partners' May 18 survey of 173 leaders at 113 portfolio companies found 49% were delivering more without adding headcount and 13% had slowed or paused hiring. Claude was used by 73% of respondents,…
An EPRI working paper released June 18 estimates that doubling U.S. data center capacity reduced residential retail electricity prices by 3.5% from 2015 to 2024; growth from 2019 to 2024 lowered average residential…
Google Research published a mathematical account on July 15 explaining how diffusion models can generate novel outputs rather than reproduce training examples. The post attributes this capability to score-function…
Intel reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $16.1 billion, up 25% year over year, as Data Center and AI revenue climbed 59% to $6.3 billion. Non-GAAP EPS was $0.42, while Intel Foundry recorded a $2.1 billion…
On July 26, Wccftech reported that NVIDIA may halve the CPU-side LPDDR5X memory planned for Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, citing GF Securities. TrendForce had separately reported a supply-driven SOCAMM reduction in June,…
On July 23, Elon Musk told The Economist that AI could exceed the sum of human intelligence within about five years and that workplace robots could make money meaningless within a decade. He framed the outlook as an…
On July 26, AP reported that Chinese AI models were gaining adoption among US users, with Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian switching many day-to-day tasks to Moonshot AI's Kimi K3. Axios also reported that Chinese models…
Creative Bloq reported on July 26 that ubiquitous AI-generated tai chi walking ads show scammers can use visibly artificial imagery to mislead viewers, not just photorealistic deepfakes. The Tai Chi Notebook described…
U.S. stocks fell on July 23 after Alphabet and Tesla earnings revived concern about heavy AI spending, while surging oil prices added inflation pressure. Reuters reported the Nasdaq fell 2.15% and Alphabet sank 7%;…
A 20-author survey posted July 17 proposes a unified framework for long-horizon AI agents, separating external harness engineering from model optimization and mapping three task levels to three required capabilities.…
Mark Cuban wrote on X on July 24 that AI-powered job simulators could become the next major AI application for employee training. He compared the concept with pilot and race-car-driver simulation training and argued…
In July 2026, Mixfont released Ghost Font, an animated dot pattern whose hidden text is readable through motion but disappears in a paused frame. Creator Eric Lu and Mixfont report that models labeled Claude Fable and…
Email-security startup AegisAI raised a $36 million Series A led by Battery Ventures, with Accel and Foundation Capital participating. The company says the round brings total funding to $49 million and will support…
The Delaware Superior Court denied Google's motion to dismiss Robert Starbuck's defamation lawsuit over allegedly false statements generated by Google AI products. The July 24 ruling allows the case to proceed into…
OpenAI President Greg Brockman said at a July 24 media briefing that the company is exploring APIs for deeper ChatGPT integrations with smart glasses and other wearables. He described the interfaces as early-stage work,…
NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield announced a proposed expansion of NAVER's GAK Sejong AI factory from 55 MW to 200 MW by 2028. The financing plan includes up to $9 billion from Brookfield and a planned $1 billion NVIDIA…
The 29th ICFP Programming Contest began online July 24 and runs through July 27, with AI agents explicitly allowed. Organizers designed the task around a new two-dimensional language called littleman, where programs…
Registration opened July 24 for Linux Plumbers Conference 2026, scheduled October 5-7 at the Prague Congress Centre as a hybrid event. In-person registration costs €641.30 and virtual registration €54.45; organizers…
Art Baudo, AWS's EC2 product marketing head, described on July 25 how agentic AI, physical AI, inference, and high-performance computing are expanding cloud compute demand. He highlighted AMD-based EC2 instances, the…
In June 2026, plaintiffs filed proposed class actions against Amazon Ring and Google Nest alleging that familiar-face systems collected bystanders' biometric face data without consent. Reuters identified Virginia…
South Korea said domestic companies and global technology firms agreed on July 24 to pursue $950 billion in semiconductor cooperation and about 5 gigawatts of AI data centers using roughly 2 million B200-equivalent…
HCLTech signed memorandums of understanding with the Odisha government on July 24 for its first AI Data Center at the planned Odisha Sovereign AI Park and a separate Global Technology Center in Bhubaneswar. The proposed…
FNN aired a July 20 segment examining how people in Japan use conversational AI for relationships, parenting, health questions and online search, alongside prompting tips for different age groups. The program also…
SK Group and NVIDIA signed letters of intent on July 24 for a $500-billion-plus initiative covering AI factories and next-generation memory. SK Telecom plans a 2-gigawatt Vera Rubin DSX facility, with the first phase…
South Korea's Navy tested KAIST's humanoid robot PIBOT as a ship helmsman on July 23, where it received spoken orders, steered a simulated vessel, and reported course changes. According to UPI, researchers used a large…
The Northern Territory government granted Beetaloo Energy exclusive rights over 185 hectares at Weddell on July 22, 2026, for a proposed gas-powered data centre and energy precinct. Beetaloo Energy also launched…
Midjourney announced on July 24 that it acquired social astrology app Co-Star in a deal that closed during the spring; financial terms were not disclosed. Co-Star will continue operating under founder Banu Guler, who is…
UC Berkeley RDI released Agents’ Last Exam in June 2026 to test AI agents on long-horizon professional work with verifiable outcomes. PYMNTS reported on July 24 that Codex running GPT-5.5 completed 26.2% of the broader…
A Cornell and Carnegie Mellon modeling study published July 20 finds that weak AI safety rules aimed only at downstream deployers can produce less safe products than no regulation. The researchers modeled how low…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, the same base pricing as Opus 4.8 and half the price of Claude Fable 5. The company says Opus 5 approaches…
Meta launched Seller on July 24, a standalone app for U.S. Facebook Marketplace sellers aged 18 and older. According to Meta, the app synchronizes existing Marketplace listings, messages and sales history, while adding…
Microsoft said on July 23 that Bing Image Creator is now powered end to end by MAI-Image-2.5, while PowerPoint uses the model for image-to-image features and OneDrive uses it for key editing workflows. The company…
Amazon Bedrock made OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna generally available in July 2026, with a dedicated AWS announcement posted July 13. Customers can access the models through the OpenAI Responses API on the…
Tesla disclosed in a July 23 regulatory filing that it acquired an unnamed AI hardware company during the second quarter of 2026 for $1.95 billion in stock and equity awards. Of that total, $1.73 billion is tied to…
Mimic Robotics and Black Forest Labs unveiled FLUX-mimic on July 23, a video-action model for industrial manipulation built on FLUX 3. Mimic reports 95% success on a soft-body kitting test, versus 55% for an adapted…
World Foundation raised $52.5 million through a strategic sale of WLD tokens, with Pantera Capital leading the first close and Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings, Selini Capital and Susquehanna Crypto participating.…
Sierra announced on July 23 that it is acquiring AI agent startup Takeoff and that the combined teams are building a platform called Horizon. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sierra's announcement said Takeoff had…
