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**ghd** launched **Sculpt** on **July 9, 2026**, a consumer AI hair styler that WWD says reads hair temperature nearly **3,000** times per second to adapt heat delivery in real time. The story is a practical edge-AI…
**Anthropic** and AE Studio published **GRAM** research on **July 8, 2026**, testing removable modules for limiting access to dual-use knowledge in AI models. The method, Gradient-Routed Auxiliary Modules, routes…
**China** is planning limited access to **Nvidia H200** chips for top AI firms including Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek, Reuters-syndicated reporting said on **July 8, 2026**, citing The Information. The report said…
**OpenAI Deployment Company** agreed to acquire **Northslope** on **July 8, 2026**, Axios reported, making it the deployment arm's second enterprise-AI acquisition since launching in May. The transaction terms were not…
**OpenAI** published **National Security Principles** on **July 8, 2026**, setting out how it says government, national-security, and law-enforcement partnerships should use its AI systems. The post is not a model…
**Nurix** is expanding from voice AI into workflow automation, Mint reported on **July 9, 2026**, citing co-founder and CEO Mukesh Bansal and co-founder Anantika Jain. The company says its original goal was to run…
The Hindu reports that **U.S. restrictions on top AI systems** are helping push developers and buyers toward **open-source weights**, local deployment and multi-provider model strategies. The story links that shift to a…
**Digiday+ Research** reports that a Q1 2026 survey of more than **100** marketing professionals found marketers using AI more readily in social and retail media than in influencer or **CTV** marketing. The article's…
The **GRAPES-3** arXiv paper submitted on **July 8, 2026** presents a `dynamic GNN` pipeline for cosmic-ray energy reconstruction on an array of **400** scintillators and **3,712** proportional counters. According to…
Reports from KrASIA, 36Kr and CnEVPost say **Mi Liangchuan**, head of **Xpeng**'s robotics business, has departed as the company pushes its **Iron** humanoid robot toward an **end-2026** mass-production target. The…
**Cloudflare** says its new AI traffic controls will treat **mixed-use crawlers** according to all of their behaviors, so a bot used for both search and training can be blocked when a site blocks training; Digiday…
Digiday reports that **OpenAI** is recruiting ad-sales and customer-success roles tied to **France, Germany and Ireland**, a move it says would extend the company's ad pilot to **10 markets** globally. The report…
**arXiv:2607.07456**, submitted on **July 8, 2026**, presents a multi-scale ML framework for modeling coupled chemical, spin, and structural disorder in alloys. The paper by Zhenyao Fang and Qimin Yan combines graph…
**arXiv:2607.06969**, submitted on **July 8, 2026**, introduces **AI2Pot**, a PyTorch-compatible framework for machine-learning interatomic potential development and large-scale molecular dynamics. The paper says AI2Pot…
The arXiv preprint **arXiv:2607.06822** reports a neural-network Maxwell's demon trained to extract work from an **underdamped micromechanical cantilever** driven by thermal noise. The authors say a position-based…
The arXiv preprint From inference to prediction, revised on **July 7, 2026**, analyzes **4.9 million publications** and **255 ML techniques** to show how machine learning has shifted scientific work from inference…
**arXiv:2607.07263**, submitted on **July 8, 2026**, presents a GRAPES-3 machine-learning pipeline for distinguishing secondary muon and punch-through hadron tracks. The conference paper uses `CORSIKA` proton-shower…
**arXiv:2607.07604**, submitted on **July 8, 2026**, reports a closed-loop study of human and LLM-generated recipes for materials synthesis. The preprint says humans and LLMs produced comparable recipe success rates in…
The arXiv paper **arXiv:2607.07606** introduces **MLIP Studio**, an open platform that brings more than **60** universal machine-learning interatomic potentials into one interactive interface for atomistic simulation…
The arXiv preprint **arXiv:2607.07441** uses a **random forest** trained on **6,982** isolated ALFALFA galaxies and SDSS photometry to estimate unaltered HI mass, then uses that baseline to measure HI deficiency in…
The **Siamese Neural Network** paper arXiv:2507.14159 reports that a 3D percolation model can locate critical thresholds using only **22 labeled probability points** from non-critical regions. According to the arXiv…
The **BatteryMat** arXiv preprint submitted on **July 7, 2026** proposes a three-tier ML-to-DFT workflow for lithium-ion cathode voltage screening. According to the paper, the pipeline uses `ALIGNN` to rank JARVIS-DFT…
The arXiv preprint **arXiv:2607.07339** reports that adding site-projected orbital density-of-states, or **pDOS**, fingerprints to graph-network atomic features improves materials-property prediction. The authors fuse…
GitHub said on **July 8, 2026** that enterprise administrators can now enforce **GitHub Copilot** settings and telemetry export behavior across VS Code and Copilot CLI. The release lets organizations deliver managed…
QAI Ventures said on **July 9, 2026** that it launched the first cohort of its **Singapore Quantum Accelerator**, selecting **four startups** from 63 applications across 12 countries. The five-month program is supported…
Netris raised **$15M** in a **June 25, 2026** Series A led by **Andreessen Horowitz** to expand GPU-cluster network automation and multi-tenancy. The company says the round follows **800% ARR growth** and 35-plus live…
**OpenAI** said on **July 8, 2026** that roughly **30% of SWE-Bench Pro** tasks are broken after an audit of the coding-agent benchmark. The company reports that pass rates on the 731-task public split rose from 23.3%…
**Goldman Sachs** became **Taiwan's** top foreign broker by trading volume in the first half of **2026**, rising from 10th place in early 2025, according to a Japan Times/Bloomberg report citing exchange data. The…
PolyU appointed **Cao Liangliang** as chair professor of data science and AI effective **June 29, 2026**, after senior research roles at **Google DeepMind**, Google, Apple and OPPO, according to PolyU and SCMP. The move…
Prime Minister **Narendra Modi** said on **July 9, 2026** that **India and Australia** should move ahead as 'natural and trusted partners' and deepen cooperation in trade, investment and technology, according to…
Creative Artists Agency urged **Meta** on **July 8, 2026** to make protection the default for **Muse Image** and require clear, documented consent before third parties use a person's name, image, likeness, voice or…
Earth Fire Alliance said on **July 7, 2026** that its first **three operational FireSat satellites** reached orbit on SpaceX's **Transporter-17** mission, moving the wildfire-detection constellation into initial…
Google said on **July 7, 2026** that **Managed Agents in Gemini API** now support **background execution**, **remote MCP servers**, custom function calling, and credential refresh across interactions. For developers,…
In a **July 9, 2026** Korea Times opinion essay, Troy Stangarone argued that **Korea** should turn the AI memory-chip boom into broader industrial capacity rather than treat Samsung and SK hynix profits as permanent.…
Hanwha Systems said on **July 9, 2026** that it launched a **30-ton-class** unmanned surface vessel near Busan for sea trials of AI-based autonomous navigation. The company told Yonhap the `USV` has been testing between…
Bitter Winter reported on **July 9, 2026** that China-linked Tibet communication efforts are using **AI**, big-data analytics and algorithmic distribution to shape international narratives around Xizang/Tibet. The…
Poetic announced on June 10, 2026 that it raised **$50 million** in Series A funding at a **$500 million** valuation, with **Kleiner Perkins** leading and **OpenAI** participating. The company says its software converts…
Ahoy used a **July 8, 2026** public launch event at San Francisco's **Pink Painted Lady** to promote its **agentic meeting scheduler** and business aide, according to **Mission Local**. The outlet reports that the…
**Nvidia** shares have fallen about **16%** since their **May 14, 2026** peak, wiping out roughly **$1 trillion** in market value and pushing the stock's forward valuation back toward pre-AI-boom levels, according to…
Hugging Face published a **July 8, 2026** update saying its **Transformers** modeling backend for **vLLM** now matches or beats native vLLM throughput across several Qwen3 serving tests. The practical shift is less…
San Francisco's AI-fueled housing surge intensified in the first half of 2026, with Compass data cited by local outlets showing **144** homes sold for at least **$1 million** over asking, versus **8** in the same 2025…
Tensordyne says its **Napier** inference processor uses logarithmic math to turn matrix multiplications into additions, and the company says the **3nm TSMC** chip is now in production. That is relevant to AI…
CISA added **Langflow CVE-2026-55255** to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on **July 7, 2026**, giving federal agencies until **July 10, 2026** to mitigate it. The issue matters to AI practitioners because…
Prime Intellect raised **$130 million** on **July 8, 2026** to scale infrastructure for enterprises building their own AI agents. The practitioner signal is that post-training, reinforcement learning, evals, sandboxes,…
Topaz Labs has moved its legacy `Topaz Video AI` line to a discontinued final version, **v7.1.5**, while the newer **Topaz Video** app is subscription-only and continues receiving model updates. The workflow impact is…
**Federal Reserve** minutes for the **June 16-17, 2026** meeting identify AI buildout as a present inflation pressure, not only a future productivity story. The official minutes say demand tied to **AI infrastructure**…
Salman Rushdie told Variety that AI has **"zero" role in storytelling** while discussing screen plans for **Midnight's Children** and **The Ground Beneath Her Feet**. The AI angle is narrow but useful for AI governance…
BetaKit reports that **Anthropic** is prompting enterprise unease because the same vendor selling **Claude** to customers is also moving deeper into customer-adjacent products, including science tooling and drug…
Works in Progress argues that AI data-center growth is being slowed by **grid interconnection**, not a simple lack of electricity, using **Stargate in Abilene, Texas** and other high-load projects as examples. The…
In These Times profiles tech workers challenging **military and surveillance contracts** at major AI/cloud companies, including organizer **Hossam Nasr** and the **No Azure for Apartheid** campaign at Microsoft. The…
