What’s happening in AI — and what it means for your work. published by Brian Beckmann
California startup PrismML has compressed a language model with 27 billion parameters, Bonsai 27B, so effectively that it runs on an iPhone. The smallest variant occupies just 3.9 gigabytes of…
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OpenAI has modified the command-line application Codex so that messages between AI agents are now transmitted encrypted and are no longer readable locally. The…
OpenAI has introduced an internal AI system called GPT-Red, which specifically targets its own language models to identify security vulnerabilities before real…
26 currently employed women and men at Meta have filed a lawsuit against their employer in a federal court in Oakland, California. They accuse the company of…
AI at work, made concrete: how-tos, tool comparisons and workflows for office, administration, assistance and accounting.
Google integrates artificially generated images directly into Google Search: For the 25th anniversary of Google Images, the new model Nano Banana 2 Lite…
Since July 13, 2026, ChatGPT works again directly inside WhatsApp – with no extra app needed. An order from the European Commission forces Meta to reopen the…
ChatGPT can be used directly inside WhatsApp again as of this week, with no extra app required. This is possible thanks to an order from the EU Commission…
OpenAI is developing its first own hardware product, according to a report by the news agency Bloomberg: a movable speaker without a screen, meant to serve as a constant AI companion in the home. The…
The US publishers Hachette, Elsevier, and Cengage, as well as bestselling author Scott Turow, filed a class action lawsuit against Google on July 13, 2026, in a federal court in New York. The company…
The British fintech founder Tom Blomfield is moving from Y Combinator to Anthropic and will work on the compute team on the computing capacity for Claude. He announced this himself on July 13, 2026…
The AI startup Nous Research is reportedly negotiating a new funding round of at least $75 million, according to a report by TechCrunch. The valuation of the company behind the open AI agent Hermes…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has warned companies in a blog post published on July 12, 2026, about a cost trap with commercial AI models…
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DeepSeek is already negotiating fresh capital about six weeks after its first major external financing. The news agency Reuters reports…
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Anthropic is bringing Claude for Teachers, a free AI tool for educators, to US schools. Verified K-12 teachers gain free access to features…
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Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse has extended its Series C funding round to a total of $439 million, TechCrunch reports. The…
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Intel is investing €5 billion to expand its chip plant in Leixlip near Dublin, the company announced in a press release. The expansion…
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Anthropic has started showing users in India rupee prices for Claude this week, ranging from roughly 2,000 to about 24,000 rupees per…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has warned companies in a blog post published on July 12, 2026, about a cost trap with commercial AI models. Those who use external systems not only pay with money but…
DeepSeek is already negotiating fresh capital about six weeks after its first major external financing. The news agency Reuters reports, citing the Financial Times, of a new round amounting to…
Google integrates artificially generated images directly into Google Search: For the 25th anniversary of Google Images, the new model Nano Banana 2 Lite creates its own images in the AI summaries…
The US security provider Cloudflare has introduced a new tool against automated AI agents on the web: Precursor continuously observes user sessions instead of just checking individual requests. This…
Since July 13, 2026, ChatGPT works again directly inside WhatsApp – with no extra app needed. An order from the European Commission forces Meta to reopen the messenger to outside AI chatbots. The…
Anthropic is bringing Claude for Teachers, a free AI tool for educators, to US schools. Verified K-12 teachers gain free access to features for lesson planning and differentiation. Until now, these…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is calling for a new, independent oversight body for frontier AI models. In an essay published on Tuesday, he proposes a "Standards Body" modeled on the US…
Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse has extended its Series C funding round to a total of $439 million, TechCrunch reports. The company's valuation climbs past two billion dollars for the first…
ChatGPT can be used directly inside WhatsApp again as of this week, with no extra app required. This is possible thanks to an order from the EU Commission forcing parent company Meta to reopen the…
Intel is investing €5 billion to expand its chip plant in Leixlip near Dublin, the company announced in a press release. The expansion upgrades the existing factory to manufacture Xeon 6 series…
Anthropic has started showing users in India rupee prices for Claude this week, ranging from roughly 2,000 to about 24,000 rupees per month, TechCrunch first reported. An annual subscription to the…
Rating agency S&P Global downgraded Oracle's creditworthiness from BBB to BBB- on July 9, 2026, just one notch above junk status. S&P cites Oracle's growing dependence on OpenAI, which by its own…
Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC reported consolidated revenue of about $39.6 billion for the second quarter of 2026, up 36 percent from the same period last year. In June alone, revenue jumped 67.9…
SpaceX says it plans to deliver one gigawatt of compute capacity for artificial intelligence using satellites in Earth orbit by the end of 2027. The first craft in the series, AI1, is set to launch…
A research team from Israel has demonstrated HalluSquatting, an attack technique that specifically exploits repository and package names invented by AI models to deliver malicious code. In tests, the…
Apple is working on a new chip called the M7 Ultra that will support up to 1.5 terabytes of memory, according to a report from Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman. That would be roughly double the…
The AI coding assistant Grok Build from SpaceXAI transmits entire code repositories, including full git history, to the company's servers, according to a technical analysis – regardless of which…
Samsung is backing price increases of 15 to 20 percent for HBM4 memory chips in the second half of 2026, according to a report by trade publication DigiTimes, because demand for AI accelerators is…
Google has opened its first Applied AI Lab for Africa in Accra and is accepting applications from startups and researchers until August 31, 2026. Selected teams get early access to Google's AI…
Unknown attackers published five manipulated versions of the npm package Jscrambler on July 11, 2026, containing an infostealer written in Rust. The malware specifically searched for credentials…
The US Commerce Department placed the United Arab Emirates in export category A:5, its highest tier, on July 10, 2026. The country can now buy advanced AI chips and other sensitive technology without…
Google has expanded the Drive app for Android and iPhone with a new AI feature. From now on, questions can be asked about multiple files at once, instead of opening each document individually. The AI…
Job postings for software developers in the USA have increased by nearly 15 percent since February 2025, while the overall job market shrank by seven percent during the same period. This is shown by…
Illinois has enacted a law on July 6, 2026, making it the first U.S. state to require large developers of AI systems to undergo independent safety audits. The Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures…
OpenAI's new model GPT-5.6 Sol has independently deleted virtual machines that a user had not authorized during a test. This is confirmed by the system card of the model published by OpenAI itself…
Meta has turned off a controversial feature of its AI image generator Muse Image. Users could reference other people's public Instagram accounts through an @-mention and pull their photos into newly…
SK Hynix started on July 10, 2026, with depositary receipts on Nasdaq. The company raised $26.5 billion – the largest IPO of a foreign company in the history of US stock exchanges. The stock rose…
Tencent is negotiating with Manus' early investors ZhenFund and HSG for the buyback of the Chinese AI agent startup from Meta – for at least two billion dollars. Beijing had previously instructed…
Obsidian is a free note-taking app that stores text as Markdown files locally on your own device and connects them into a searchable knowledge network via links. This guide shows concretely how to…
Zhipu co-founder Tang Jie announces the "Touch-High" plan in an internal letter to all employees: The Chinese AI company will focus on AGI research for two years instead of rapid commercialization…
Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh has appointed AI investor Marc Andreessen as co-chair of a new task force that examines the economic implications of artificial intelligence for the U.S. Federal Reserve…
OpenAI is discontinuing the standalone browser ChatGPT Atlas on August 9, 2026, nine months after its launch in October 2025. The company announced the move on July 9, 2026, along with several new…
The Ant Group subsidiary Robbyant has released LingBot-VA 2.0, an open AI model that translates camera images directly into robot movements. On the simulation benchmark RoboTwin 2.0, the system…
Fidji Simo, responsible for the entire application business at OpenAI, is leaving her full-time position and will now only work as a part-time consultant for the company. The trigger is a relapse of…
Apple sued OpenAI on July 10, 2026, in a federal court in California, accusing the ChatGPT manufacturer of systematic theft of hardware trade secrets. Named in the lawsuit are OpenAI's hardware chief…
The software developer Jarred Sumner had the JavaScript runtime Bun completely rewritten from the programming language Zig to Rust. Up to 64 parallel instances of the unreleased Anthropic model…
Microsoft equips Copilot in Excel with saveable workflows, a change preview, and direct financial data connections. Those who regularly edit a spreadsheet in the same way, such as during month-end…
OpenAI increases the reward in its Bio Bug Bounty program from $25,000 to $50,000. Universal jailbreaks are sought that bypass the biological safety locks of GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.6. The testing phase…
Two German courts have recently decided that companies must take responsibility for the errors of their AI systems. The Munich District Court ordered Google to stop its AI summary falsely accusing a…
AWS presented a reference architecture for pharmaceutical research on July 8, 2026, in its own machine learning blog. At the center is a combination of a Bring Your Own Knowledge Graph (BYOKG) and…
At the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, an AI system from OpenAI defeated all 14 invited human elite programmers in the Algorithm Division and solved all five competition problems as the only…
The French AI company Mistral AI presented its first model for robot navigation, Robostral Navigate, on July 8, 2026. The system is designed to control robots solely based on a single RGB camera and…
With iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, several central AI features from Apple remain unavailable in the European Union for the time being. Apple confirmed this in an official statement in the Apple Newsroom on…
In July 2026, two court decisions are due that could prove groundbreaking for how AI music generators are allowed to handle copyrighted material. In Munich, the regional court is set to rule on the…
Microsoft has begun, according to Bloomberg research from July 7, 2026, to no longer exclusively forward a portion of the AI requests in the Office applications Excel and Outlook to models from…
On July 9, 2026, Anthropic published “Inviting hard questions", the kickoff of a public campaign inviting people to submit their most critical questions about artificial intelligence. Through the…
According to a Reuters exclusive report from July 7, 2026, the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is working on its own chip for inference workloads – that is, for the computation phase in which a pre-trained…
The provider Ollama announced a Series B funding round of $65 million on July 9, 2026. As Ollama states in its blog, the investment firm Theory Ventures is leading the round. For the company, founded…
According to a Reuters exclusive report, Meta plans to begin mass production of a new generation of its own AI chips in September 2026. The basis of the reporting is an internal memo that was…
On July 9, 2026, a group of U.S. media companies led by the New York Times filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI in a federal court in Manhattan. Among the plaintiffs is the New York Daily…
Anthropic has appointed former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke as a new member of its Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT). The company announced this in a statement on July 9, 2026. Bernanke, who led…
Germany has not failed at a single point in artificial intelligence – it has become entangled over the years in a chain of decisions, the consequences of which are now, in mid-2026, clearly visible…
Anthropic introduced a new beta feature for Claude called "Reflect" on July 9, 2026. It is designed to show users how they actually use the AI assistant – with which topics, at what times, and to…
Microsoft announced on July 9, 2026, in the Windows Experience Blog that it will permanently and broadly integrate AI-powered tools for vulnerability detection and remediation into the development of…
On July 9, 2026, OpenAI introduced a new agent mode for ChatGPT called ChatGPT Work. According to the official announcement from OpenAI, the tool operates in several steps: In a "Plan Mode," the…
Meta released a new AI image generation model called Muse Image on July 7, 2026 - developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. According to the technical announcement from Meta AI, it is the company's…
On July 9, 2026, OpenAI broadly released GPT-5.6 - the models Sol, Terra, and Luna - via ChatGPT, API, and Codex. What is remarkable about this is not primarily the model itself, but the path to it…
SpaceXAI released a new AI model, Grok 4.5, on July 8, 2026, explicitly tailored for programming and agentic tasks. The announcement comes in a week when OpenAI is also rolling out its GPT-5.6 more…
Meta Superintelligence Labs introduced a new multimodal reasoning model, Muse Spark 1.1, on July 9, 2026. As Meta states in its official blog post, the model is designed for agentic workflows: tool…
The AI inference-focused chip manufacturer SambaNova announced the first close of a Series F funding round of over one billion US dollars on July 8, 2026. According to the announcement from lead…
On July 1, 2026, the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI published its first global report on the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence. Five days later, on July 6 and 7…
According to Reuters, China held talks in June 2026 with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai about export controls for its advanced AI models. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce is discussing restricting the…
On July 8, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.6 globally. Not one model. Three: Sol (the flagship), Terra (half the cost of 5.5), and Luna (fast and cheap).
On July 8, 2026, OpenAI introduced GPT-Live — a speech model that doesn't just respond, but interrupts, pauses, says "mhmm" and listens and speaks simultaneously. This is not just a better voice…
On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5. On June 12 — three days later — the U.S. government shut down the model globally. On June 30, it lifted the ban. On July 7, the next shift arrives…
In June 2026, Jeff Bezos announced what might be the most ambitious AI bet yet made by a single individual: a $41 billion artificial general engineer called Prometheus. But the $41B valuation is not…
On July 4, 2026, an X account named @0xdeliriumm posted a headline that tore through the internet: "ANTHROPIC'S LEAD ENGINEER MAKING $2.2M/YEAR LEAKED THE COMPANY'S INTERNAL OBSIDIAN BRAIN - AND GOT…
When you ask Claude a question, the model responds. Words appear on your screen. What you don't see is what happens before — the internal computational history that leads to the result. On July 6…
Social engineering fundamentally differs from classic cyberattacks. A hacker using malware or stealing credentials attacks a system. A fraudster guiding a person over the phone to transfer large sums…
Tencent announced a fundamental rebuild of its pre-training and reinforcement learning infrastructure in 2026 – a rare signal for organizational change in an established AI lab. This decision was…
Cloudflare provides all customers with new tools to more precisely control access from AI bots to their websites. Instead of only choosing between "block all AI crawlers" or "allow," website…
The Chinese AI company Zhipu AI (Z.ai) is now positioning its affordable model GLM-5.2 as a competitor to Claude Code and OpenAI Codex in the field of agentic programming tools. With ZCode, the…
ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling key features of their AI chatbots in China that allowed users to create their own human-like AI companions and chat with them. The move is a direct response to new…
Tesla limits its employees' AI spending to $200 per week – just a few months after the company had actively encouraged the workforce to intensify AI usage. According to an internal memo first…
Mistral founder and CEO Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed AI models from large providers. Providers of such models are increasingly storing customer data, thereby gaining deep…
Wealthy US families are increasingly turning away from traditional schools and instead sending their children to AI-powered private schools. As Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Bindley reports…
Baidu has introduced "Unlimited OCR," an open-source model for document recognition that can transcribe entire books in a single pass without the memory requirements increasing with the document…
OpenAI's GPT-4 held the top position in a highly regarded AI performance index for about a year – significantly longer than any model thereafter. Since Claude 3 Opus surpassed GPT-4 in February 2024…
Meta restricts the use of Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex by its own engineers, according to internal documents. The reason is the concern that outputs from these external AI tools could…
ByteDance's AI video model Seedance creates a paradoxical situation in Hollywood: officially, the major studios are legally fighting the tool over what they see as systematic copyright violations. At…
Anthropic has announced that it will operate its own drug development programs in the future – specifically for diseases that are economically unattractive for the traditional pharmaceutical and…
An open-source tool called pxpipe exploits a peculiarity in Anthropic's pricing model: images are billed by pixel size, not by their text content. Developer Steven Chong has built a local proxy for…
Meta is apparently positioning itself more strongly in the race for the most powerful AI models again. According to a report by Business Insider, Alexandr Wang, head of Meta Superintelligence Labs…
Agentic AI is changing the way companies buy and use software. According to a recent forecast by the market research firm Gartner, by 2030, up to $234 billion of global spending on enterprise…
The second edition of GITEX AI Europe in Berlin was apparently also the last. According to the Berliner Morgenpost, organizer Kaoun International has terminated its contract with Messe Berlin …
OpenAI has discussed with the U.S. government under President Donald Trump the possibility of relinquishing a stake of around five percent in its own company. This was reported by the Financial Times…
In June 2026, 21 major tech companies reported around 1,500 high- or critical-severity security vulnerabilities – more than 3.5 times the previous record month. That is according to a recent analysis…
As of August 2, 2026, binding transparency obligations for Artificial Intelligence will apply throughout the EU. The basis is Article 50 of the AI Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), which has…
