Anthropic is in early talks with Samsung to develop a custom AI chip, a move that puts the Claude maker directly into the hardware race and signals that every major AI lab is now trying to escape dependence on Nvidia.
Google and Amazon both released their annual sustainability reports this week, and the numbers confirm what critics have said for years: the AI boom is making the tech industry’s already broken climate promises completely impossible to keep.
At an internal town hall on July 2, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that the company’s push to replace human workers with AI agents has not accelerated the way executives expected, and that the benefits of Meta’s AI-focused restructuring have not yet materialized.
Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are back online globally after a 19-day shutdown triggered when Amazon researchers discovered a jailbreak that made the models identify software vulnerabilities and generate exploit code.
OpenAI has launched its most powerful model family yet, GPT-5.6, but the Trump administration is controlling who gets access and when, marking an unprecedented level of government intervention in commercial AI deployment.
Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft jointly unveiled the first industry-wide standard for scoring AI jailbreak severity on July 1, filling a gap that had left AI companies unable to coordinate security responses or compare findings across labs.
The CREATE AI Act, which would permanently fund the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource at the NSF, is advancing through Congress with genuine bipartisan support — backed by Republicans and Democrats alike after the Trump AI Action Plan explicitly endorsed the program.
SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history on June 12, with shares gaining 19 percent on their first day and the company — which now includes Elon Musk’s xAI as a third major business segment — reaching a $2.1 trillion market cap.
Google launched Gemini Omni Flash, a video AI that both generates and conversationally edits footage, alongside Nano Banana 2 Lite for images, while simultaneously deprecating its entire Imagen product line and giving developers almost no runway to migrate.
Governor Newsom signed a first-of-its-kind deal with Anthropic making Claude available to every California state agency, city, and county, while the state’s homegrown AI assistant Poppy launched statewide to 2,800 employees across 67 departments on July 1.