Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
The foundry behind Nvidia's GPUs and Apple's silicon posted an all-time record quarter — NT$1.27 trillion (~$39.6B), up 36% — with June sales rising when they usually dip. The AI buildout no longer follows the consumer calendar.
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Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Snowflake agreed to back ARD — a shared standard for wiring AI agents into business software — framed as "complementary" to Anthropic's MCP, but plainly a bid to stop building on a competitor's foundation.
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Apple filed a blockbuster suit in federal court claiming OpenAI systematically stole its hardware secrets — 400+ ex-Apple employees, "show and tell" interviews with real parts, and an engineer who allegedly kept his Apple laptop and kept downloading.
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Nvidia's most important memory supplier began trading on Nasdaq as SKHY, raising about $28 billion — the largest ADR offering in Wall Street history — with the proceeds earmarked for fabs, EUV machines, and the HBM4 that feeds Vera Rubin.
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GPT-Live replaces ChatGPT's turn-based voice with a full-duplex model that listens and speaks at once — it says "mhmm," handles interruptions, stays quiet when you think, and quietly hands hard questions to a frontier model in the background.
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OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 on July 9 as a three-tier family — Sol, Terra, Luna — after a US-government delay. Sol tops TerminalBench 2.1 at 91.9% and is ~54% more token-efficient on agentic coding, though Anthropic's Fable 5 still leads SWE-Bench Pro.
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The ITU's AI for Good Global Summit takes over Geneva this week, and its Centre Stage opens July 8 with the inaugural meeting of a new 40+ member Global Commission — co-chaired by Rwanda's president and Salesforce's Marc Benioff.
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A former Bitcoin miner just became an AI landlord: TeraWulf signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic for up to 401 MW at its Kentucky campus, worth about $19 billion — as Anthropic races to lock up compute ahead of its October IPO.
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From July 6, Tesla limits employees to $200 a week on AI tools after engineers burned thousands in tokens — but the cap conveniently exempts Musk's own xAI products, Grok and Composer.
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Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an AI workbench with 60+ preconfigured tools for genomics, proteomics and chemistry — and is starting its own in-house drug-discovery program aimed at neglected diseases.
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Read more →U.S. employers added just 57,000 jobs in June — about half of forecasts — as unemployment slipped to 4.2%. With AI now cited in some 102,000 layoff announcements this year, the report sharpens the debate over how much of the hiring stall is artificial intelligence and how much is cover for restructuring.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Read more →Crusoe, the data-center builder behind AI compute for Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI and Meta, is reportedly in talks to raise about $3 billion — a round that could value it near $30 billion, nearly triple its October mark and a fresh signal of how hard capital is chasing AI infrastructure.
Bloomberg
Read more →Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0 on June 30 — a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts coding model trained and served end to end on more than 50,000 Chinese-made chips, with no Nvidia hardware in the loop. After two months quietly topping OpenRouter under the alias “Owl Alpha,” the MIT-licensed model claims 59.5% on SWE-bench Pro at a fraction of GPT-5.5’s price.
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Read more →Higharc, which turns new homes into structured 3D spatial databases, raised a $95M Series C led by Insight Partners, pushing total funding past $170M. It also launched AI Estimating for materials distributors with US LBM as the first partner — extending its platform from design into the supply chain.
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Read more →Together AI, the cloud platform for training and serving open-source models, closed an $800M Series C at an $8.3B valuation — more than double its early-2025 mark. Aramco Ventures led, with Nvidia joining, as the company posts $1.15B in annual bookings serving customers like Cursor and Cognition.
Tech Startups
Read more →Venice AI, a privacy-first platform that routes prompts through 200+ models without storing any data, raised a $65M Series A at a $1B valuation led by Dragonfly — its first outside funding. The two-year-old startup is already profitable, with 3M users and $70M+ in annualized revenue.
TechCrunch
Read more →Cloudflare will sort AI bots into three behaviors — Search, Agent, and Training — and from September 15 block Training and Agent crawlers by default on ad-supported pages. Multi-purpose crawlers like Googlebot get judged by all their behaviors, forcing operators to separate indexing from ingestion.
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Read more →Anthropic launched Claude Science on June 30 — a beta research workbench that unifies literature review, HPC compute, and reproducible, publication-ready figures. It ships with 60+ scientific skills, connectors to databases like PDB and UniProt, an NVIDIA BioNeMo integration, and a reviewer agent that checks its own citations.
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Read more →The Commerce Department has lifted the export controls that forced Anthropic to pull Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline worldwide, ending an 18-day standoff. Anthropic began restoring access on July 1 — the first reversal of a U.S. national-security shutdown of a frontier AI model, and it comes with new reporting obligations attached.
CNBC
Read more →Google let its self-imposed June deadline for Gemini 3.5 Pro pass without a launch, and now says the frontier model will reach general availability in July. The company points to token-efficiency and long-horizon agentic tuning — even as a wave of senior DeepMind researchers heads for the exits.
TechTimes
Read more →Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 — its most agentic mid-tier model yet, scoring 63.2% on SWE-bench Pro and matching Opus 4.8 on some knowledge work, with introductory pricing of $2/$10 per million tokens. It is now the default model on Claude’s Free and Pro plans.
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Read more →Chamath Palihapitiya’s 8090 Labs landed a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures — and the famed investor named himself chief executive, betting enterprises in regulated industries want a governed “Software Factory,” not another coding co-pilot.
TechCrunch
Read more →DeepReinforce has open-sourced Ornith-1.0, an MIT-licensed family of coding models (9B to 397B) that learn to write their own agent scaffolds during reinforcement training. The 397B flagship resolves 82.4% of SWE-Bench Verified issues — second only to Claude Opus 4.8 — while the 9B model runs on a single 80GB GPU, putting frontier-class agentic coding within reach of self-hosters.
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Read more →Meta has restricted its engineers from using Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex — and temporarily halted some work with them — over fears that rival model outputs could leak into its own training data. Internal memos reported by The Information warn of “serious escalations” with partner companies, as Meta builds its own coding assistant and the industry’s distillation disputes escalate.
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