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PrismML Shrinks 27-Billion-Parameter Model to 3.9 GB for iPhone
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…
- Research
GPT-5.6 Disproves Twenty-Year-Old Statistical Assumption in 90 Minutes
Statistician Edgar Dobriban of the University of Pennsylvania has used the language model GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to disprove an assumption about the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure that had been considered…
- Security
OpenAI Codex Encrypts Messages Between AI Agents
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 change, merged in June, affects…
- Security
OpenAI uses AI attacker GPT-Red against its own models
OpenAI has introduced an internal AI system called GPT-Red, which specifically targets its own language models to identify security vulnerabilities before real attackers can exploit them. According…
- Legal
26 Meta employees sue over AI-assisted layoffs
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 using an internal AI system to…
- AI-Economy
OpenAI develops movable AI speaker without screen
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…
- Legal
Hachette and Elsevier sue Google over Gemini training
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…
- AI-Economy
Anthropic Recruits Monzo Founder Blomfield for Compute Team
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…
- Research
Anthropic Study: Claude Responds Warmer in Hindi Than in Russian
Anthropic has published a study on the values of its AI model Claude, which finds significant differences depending on language and model version. In Hindi and Arabic, the model responds warmer and…
- AI-Economy
Nous Research aims for $1.5 billion valuation for Hermes
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…
- AI-Economy
Microsoft CEO Nadella warns of cost trap in AI usage
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…
- AI-Economy
DeepSeek aims for $70 billion valuation – weeks after record round
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…
- AI in Practice
Google Images will soon create its own AI images in search
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…
- Research
Soofi S: German Consortium Releases Open AI Model
A German research consortium has released Soofi S, an open language model trained specifically for German and English. According to its developers, the 31.6-billion-parameter model surpasses the open…
- Security
Cloudflare Launches Precursor: AI Bot Detection Through Behavior
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…
- AI in Practice
ChatGPT Returns to WhatsApp: Free Access Across the EU
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…
- AI-Economy
Anthropic Launches Claude for Teachers for US Schools
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…
- AI-Policy
DeepMind Chief Hassabis Calls for Independent AI Oversight Body
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…
- AI-Economy
PixVerse Raises $439 Million for AI Video Platform
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…
- AI in Practice
ChatGPT Returns to WhatsApp – No App or Account Needed
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…
- AI-Economy
Intel Invests €5 Billion in AI Chip Plant in Ireland
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…
- AI-Economy
Anthropic Introduces Rupee Pricing for Claude in India
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…
- Research
Google Trains SensorFM on 1 Trillion Minutes of Wearable Data
Google Research has introduced SensorFM, an AI model that learns general patterns of human health from wearable data. It is built on more than a trillion minutes of sensor readings from five million…
- AI-Economy
S&P Downgrades Oracle's Credit Rating Over OpenAI Risk
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…
- Research
Oak Lab: Sutton Builds AI Agents That Learn on the Job
Reinforcement learning pioneer Richard Sutton has founded the startup Oak Lab together with his former doctoral student Khurram Javed. The Canada-based company wants to build AI agents that keep…
- AI-Economy
TSMC Reaches 36 Percent More Revenue Amid AI Demand
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…
- AI-Economy
SpaceX Aims for Data Centers in Orbit – Experts Are Skeptical
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…
- Security
HalluSquatting Turns AI Hallucinations Into Botnet Attacks
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…
- AI-Economy
Apple Plans M7 Ultra With 1.5 Terabytes of Memory for AI
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…
- Security
Grok Build Uploads Entire Repositories to SpaceXAI Servers
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…
- Research
AgenticSTS: New AI Memory System Doubles Win Rate in Card Game
An international research team has introduced AgenticSTS, a new memory system for AI agents, tested in the card game Slay the Spire 2. Five separate memory layers replace the previously common…
- AI-Economy
Samsung Raises AI Memory Prices by Up to 20 Percent
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…
- AI-Economy
Google Opens AI Lab for African Startups in Accra
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…
- Security
Jscrambler Package Injects Infostealer Into AI Coding Tools
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…
- AI-Policy
US Lifts Chip Export Restrictions for the UAE
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…
- AI in Practice
Google Drive now answers questions about multiple files
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…
- Research
Orca: BAAI World Model Matches Robotics Without Action Labels
The Beijing research institute Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) has introduced a novel world model called Orca, which derives text, images, and robot commands from a single internal…
- AI-Economy
Claude Code: US software jobs grow by 15 percent
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…
- Research
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra proves math conjecture – experts still examining
OpenAI published a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture on Friday, a graph theory problem that has remained unsolved for fifty years. The language model GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra generated the…
- Legal
Illinois requires AI companies to conduct independent safety audits
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…
- Security
GPT-5.6 Sol deletes user data unilaterally without permission
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…
- Society
Meta removes Muse feature that referenced other users' photos
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…
- AI-Economy
SK Hynix raises $26.5 billion in its Nasdaq debut
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…
- AI-Economy
Tencent negotiates Manus buyback – after Beijing's Meta intervention
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…
- AI in Practice
What is Obsidian? The complete guide to the note-taking app
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…
- AI-Economy
Zhipu announces new AI research direction despite stock crash
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…
- AI-Policy
Fed appoints investor Andreessen to AI task force for jobs
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…
- AI-Economy
OpenAI shuts down Atlas browser after nine months
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…
- AI-Models
Robbyant releases AI world model LingBot-VA 2.0
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…
- AI-Economy
OpenAI manager Fidji Simo shifts to part-time advisory role
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…
- Legal
Apple sues OpenAI for stolen trade secrets
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…
- AI in Practice
Bun rewrites JavaScript runtime with AI: from Zig to Rust
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…
- AI in Practice
Copilot in Excel now automates the monthly closing
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…
- Research
arXiv:2607.08573 – SHAP-weighted Fusion for Emotion Recognition
Note: This paper describes a current, yet to be peer-reviewed arXiv preprint (as of July 9, 2026). The reported results come from the authors' own publication and have not yet been externally…
- Security
OpenAI doubles bounty for bio jailbreaks to $50,000
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…
- Legal
Google: Court holds company liable for AI errors
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…
- AI-Economy
AWS presents GraphRAG blueprint for pharmaceutical research
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…
- Research
arXiv:2607.08625 – How communication style influences AI triage
Note: This contribution summarizes a current, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed arXiv preprint. The results are preliminary.
- Research
arXiv:2607.08652 – Formal Mechanisms for Stable AI Agent Markets
Note: This article summarizes a current, not-yet-peer-reviewed arXiv preprint. The findings are preliminary and come from a single simulation study.
- AI-Competition
OpenAI system wins AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026
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…
- AI-Models
Mistral introduces Robostral Navigate: Robotics with a camera
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…
- Research
arXiv:2607.08716 – Proactive Memory Agent for Long-Horizon Agents
Note: This is the summary of a current, (not yet) peer-reviewed arXiv preprint. The results described come from a single study and have not yet been independently verified.
- AI-Policy
Apple Intelligence remains blocked in the EU for the time being
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…
- Research
arXiv:2607.08734 – The Illusion of Equivalency in Quantization
Note: The work discussed here is an arXiv preprint. It has not yet undergone a regular peer-review process; the results are not yet independently confirmed.
- Legal
GEMA and Sony Music v. Suno: Two AI Music Rulings in July
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…
- Research
arXiv:2607.08740 – Semantic Memory for LLM Workflows
Note: The work discussed here is an arXiv preprint. It has not yet undergone a regular peer review process; the concepts presented have not been independently verified.
- AI-Economy
Microsoft replaces OpenAI and Anthropic in Excel and Outlook
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…
- Research
arXiv:2607.08745 – VQA-Benchmark for Accident Scenes via Dashcam
A research team led by Siddharth Damodharan, Radhika Gupta, Ali Alshami, Ryan Rabinowitz, and Jugal Kalita has introduced a new benchmark called AUTOPILOT VQA, which tests how well multimodal AI…
- AI-Policy
Anthropic Invites Critical AI Questions With 'Hard Questions'
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…
- Research
arXiv:2607.08758 – Ideas Have Genomes: Idea Trees for AI
Note: The work discussed here is an arXiv preprint. It has not yet undergone a regular peer review process; the reported results are independently unverified.
- Research
arXiv:2607.08748 – AI Learning Assistants in Higher Education
Note: This paper describes a (not yet) peer-reviewed arXiv preprint. The reported results come from the authors themselves and are currently unverified.
- AI-Economy
DeepSeek develops its own AI chip for inference
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…
- AI-Economy
Ollama raises $65 million for open AI models
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…
- AI-Economy
Meta starts series production of its own AI chips in September
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…
- Legal
NYT publisher group calls for court sanctions against OpenAI
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…
- Research
arXiv:2607.07321 – EvoSOP: SOPs for Self-Learning LLM Agents
Note: This post describes a (not yet) peer-reviewed arXiv preprint. The reported results come from the authors themselves and are currently unverified.
- AI-Economy
Bernanke: Former Fed Chair in AI Oversight Committee of Anthropic
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…
- Research
arXiv:2607.08602 – Clinical AI Model for Liver Cancer Therapy
Note: This contribution summarizes a current, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed arXiv preprint. The results are preliminary and stem from a single study conducted by the authors.
- Research
arXiv:2607.08681 – SolarChain-Eval: AI Agents in the Energy Market
This is the summary of a current arXiv preprint (as of July 9, 2026). The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed; the results are preliminary.
- AI
Germany's biggest AI missteps: asleep and scattered
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…
- Research
OpenAI: SWE-Bench Pro is about 30 percent faulty
Two days after the broad rollout of GPT-5.6, OpenAI has retracted its own recommendation: The coding benchmark SWE-Bench Pro, which the company had only proposed in February 2026 as a yardstick for…
- AI
Claude Reflect: Anthropic's new usage dashboard
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…
- Research
arXiv:2606.15943 – Graphical Models for Generative AI Software Systems
Note: This paper describes a (yet) non-peer-reviewed preprint on arXiv. The mentioned contents have not been independently verified by the scientific community so far.
- Security
Microsoft expands AI vulnerability scanning to Windows
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…
- Research
arXiv:2606.15954 – Green SARC: Budget Governance for AI Agents
Note: This post describes a (still) non-peer-reviewed preprint on arXiv. The results mentioned have not yet been independently verified by the scientific community.
- Research
arXiv:2606.15956 – TDV: Self-Supervised Vision Without Assumptions
Note: This post describes a (not yet) peer-reviewed preprint on arXiv. The results mentioned have not yet been independently verified by the scientific community.
- AI-Models
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work: new agent for GPT-5.6
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…
- AI-Models
Meta's Muse Image: AI Image Model Automatically Uses Instagram Photos
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…
- AI-Policy
GPT-5.6 Sol: Washington's voluntary AI gate explained
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…
- Research
arXiv:2606.15963 – PreLort: LoRA for Federated Fine-Tuning
Note: This paper describes a (not yet) peer-reviewed preprint on arXiv. The results mentioned have not been independently verified by the scientific community so far.
- AI-Models
Grok 4.5: SpaceXAI's coding model challenges Opus and GPT-5.6
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…
- Research
arXiv:2606.15959 – Lossy Compression for AI Surrogates
Note: This post describes a current arXiv preprint (arXiv:2606.15959, submitted on June 14, 2026). A preprint has not yet been peer-reviewed by independent experts; the results presented are solely…
- AI-Models
Muse Spark 1.1: Meta Starts Price War in AI Agents
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…
- AI-Economy
SambaNova: 1 Billion Dollars at 11 Billion Valuation
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…
- AI-Policy
Geneva AI Summit: Scientists Warn UN of Growing Loss of Control
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…
- Geopolitics
The Vise Closes: AI Control Becomes an Arms Race
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…
- AI-Competition
GPT-5.6 Sol: The Agent That Thinks Too Much
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).
- Security
GPT-Live: More Human AI, Old Control Problems
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…
- Legal
Fable 5: The End of Free Model Access
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…
- AI-Strategy
Prometheus: Bezos's Conquest of Physical AI Manufacturing
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…
- Misinformation
The Obsidian Hoax: How AI Misinformation Goes Viral
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…
- AI-Interpretability
Anthropic J-Lens: Silent Thoughts in Claude's Workspace
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…
- Security
Apple Trust Insights: Behavior-Based Fraud Detection in iOS 27
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…
- AI-Models
Tencent Hy3: 295B-MoE-Model with 21B Active Parameters
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…
- AI
Cloudflare now allows AI bots to be controlled by purpose
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…
- AI
ZCode: Zhipus GLM-5.2 challenges Claude Code
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…
- AI
China regulates AI companions as the first in the world
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…
- AI
Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200
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…
- AI
Mistral CEO Mensch warns against closed AI models
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…
- AI
AI Private Schools Conquer the US Money Elite
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…
- AI
Baidu's Unlimited OCR transcribes entire books in one go
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…
- AI
Why the AI leadership position now changes every seven weeks
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…
- AI
Meta restricts Claude Code and Codex due to distillation fears
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…
- AI
Seedance: ByteDance's AI tool divides and conquers Hollywood
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…
- AI
Anthropic: AI Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases
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…
- AI
pxpipe: How an Image Trick Lowers Claude Code Costs
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…
- AI
Meta: Watermelon model is said to have caught up to GPT-5.5
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…
- AI
Gartner: $234 Billion SaaS Spending at Risk from Agentic AI
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…
- AI
GITEX AI Europe in Berlin Ends After Just Two Editions
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 …
- AI-Policy
OpenAI apparently offers Trump administration a 5 percent stake
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…
- AI
AI Bug-Hunting Sends Number of Reported CVEs Soaring
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…
- AI
EU AI Act: AI transparency obligations apply from August 2, 2026
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…
