The UN AI for Good Global Commission holds its first meeting July 8 in Geneva, with Jensen Huang, Andy Jassy, Brad Smith, and Marc Benioff at the table — the most senior AI governance body ever assembled under a UN mandate.
Square launched integrations with ChatGPT and Claude that let restaurants accept orders placed within an AI conversation with no additional marketplace fees, a direct threat to Uber Eats and DoorDash’s commission model.
OpenAI is launching GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras wafer-scale hardware at 750 tokens per second, roughly 10 times faster than standard GPU infrastructure, transforming what AI agents can accomplish in real time.
The EU Council gave final approval to delay the AI Act’s high-risk compliance deadline from August 2, 2026 to December 2, 2027, a 16-month extension, after legislators acknowledged the original timeline was too aggressive.
A criminal group deployed the first fully autonomous AI-driven ransomware in history, codenamed JadePuffer, which encrypted 1,400 computers in under 12 minutes with no human operator making decisions. CISA has issued an emergency bulletin designating it a new threat class.
Cloudflare will default to blocking AI crawlers from ad-supported publisher pages starting September 15, and is launching a Pay Per Use system that compensates publishers only when their content is actually used by AI, not just crawled.
xAI’s Grok 4.5, built on a 1.5 trillion parameter model, is now running in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, with a 2 trillion parameter follow-up expected in late July as xAI pursues a monthly model release cadence through December.
AI has been the leading stated reason for US job eliminations for four consecutive months, a streak with no precedent in the outplacement data tracked by Challenger, Gray and Christmas since 2023.
Midjourney is asking a federal judge to compel Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. to reveal their internal AI practices as part of its fair use defense in the copyright infringement cases the studios filed against it.
Meta is eliminating nearly 1,400 roles in Washington state effective July 22, roughly three weeks after CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees he did not expect further companywide layoffs in 2026.