The EU AI Act hits full enforcement on August 2, bringing mandatory AI content labeling and fines up to 35 million euros, with many companies still scrambling to comply.
Sam Altman is pitching Trump officials on giving the US government a 5 percent stake in OpenAI worth roughly $42.6 billion, in a move widely seen as political insurance ahead of the company’s IPO.
A hacker cracked Suno’s systems and found source code showing the AI music company scraped over two million YouTube songs and hid a customer data breach for months.
Microsoft trained salespeople to knock OpenAI and Anthropic while simultaneously replacing their models in Excel and Outlook with cheaper in-house MAI alternatives.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-source model that scores level with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8, marking a new high-water mark for Chinese AI.
Xi Jinping delivered the keynote at the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai, his first personal appearance at the event, pushing to establish a China-led international AI governance body.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Pro on July 17 with a 2 million token context window, rebuilt from scratch after engineers found critical failures in the original architecture.
OpenAI launched the Codex Micro, a $230 keyboard built to manage AI coding agents, co-designed with former Apple engineers — a notable detail given Apple is currently suing OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft used in hardware development.
After retiring from Google, internet co-architect Vint Cerf is now working on DNSid, a proposed open standard that would give AI agents verifiable identities on the internet, addressing a gap in accountability that no one has yet solved.
Bangalore-based Emergent raised $130 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, reaching unicorn status just over a year after launch by letting ordinary people build software through plain language instead of code.