The White House and the US administration's Commerce Department disagree on the approach to Chinese AI models. The White House wants strict controls against distillation attacks (training models based on US systems), while the Commerce Department considers this impracticable. The reason is concern about the model…
Hyundai rejects claims that deployment of the Atlas humanoid robot (developed by Boston Dynamics) is being negotiated with a union in South Korea. The group plans to deploy the robot at its Metaplant America factory in Georgia from 2028; meanwhile, the union is demanding job protection from…
Monday.com is laying off 630 employees (20% of its workforce) and restructuring operations around the AI Work Platform. The new strategy focuses on a no-code app builder, AI agents and workflow automation. The move is part of a broader trend — more than 122 000 tech roles have already been cut in 2026, while 78 % of companies…
Claude Services experienced an outage affecting claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Code Web and Cowork Remote. The issue was identified and the incident is resolved.
Arcee CTO Lucas Atkins says Chinese open-weight models (Qwen, Kimi K3) are no more dangerous than other open-source software. It is technically impossible for their creator to retain control after they are run locally. Security risks are theoretically possible but very difficult in practice.
Substack launched a tool for detecting AI content in posts and newsletters through an integration with Pangram. It lets users see the estimated proportions of AI and human writing. Authors can add a note about their use of AI.
GitHub released a new dashboard for enterprise administrators to visualize Copilot adoption in organizations. It shows users in three adoption stages, with metrics including average merged pull requests per month, merge speed and lines of code per day. It helps identify inactive users and provides recommendations for…
OpenAI announced a 25% increase in planned infrastructure spending to $750 billion by 2030. The first major project is the Project Camellia data center in Georgia (1400 acres), requiring 3.2 GW of electricity from Georgia Power, fully financed by OpenAI. Capacity will be available in 2028–2032. Regulatory filings suggest that the energy will come mainly from solar power, batteries and natural gas.
Google is introducing Gemini Live in the Gemini app, letting users point their camera at a problem and ask AI for help. It can be used for device repairs, organizing spaces, shopping, brainstorming or navigating apps in real time.
monday.com runs Sphera, an internal agent system with Atlas, an agent that takes tickets, writes PRs and deploys features. Agents have stable identities, are part of teams and deliver a 50% increase in output per engineer. The architecture uses AWS services (Bedrock, SQS, EKS, RDS).
A partnership between Microsoft and French AI startup Mistral AI, announced on 21 July, will expand AI infrastructure in Europe. Mistral Medium 3.4 and OCR 4 will be available in Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio; Microsoft will use Mistral data centers with Nvidia Rubin GPUs. The partnership strengthens Mistral's position as a leading European AI vendor and gives European companies more sovereign solution options.
Google Cloud and Nvidia launched a partnership with German startup Microagi (founded in 2025) to develop task-oriented AI models for robots. Microagi will gain access to Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and GB300 infrastructure through Google Cloud. Its Atlas platform is already used by robotics companies Unitree and UBTECH.
The EU is launching FLOODS & DROUGHTS, EUNOMIA.AI and EuropAI, projects funded by the Digital Europe Programme. They aim to help public administrations develop, procure and deploy generative AI solutions in line with European legal and safety standards. The kick-off is scheduled for 14 September 2026.
European Commission — Shaping Europe's digital future (AI Act, EU regulation)
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An Interconnects podcast in which Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand discuss open-source AI model development. Topics include Kimi K3, Qwen's announcement that its next model will be open, Xi Jinping's speech on openness as a strategy, benchmarking, distillation and the gap between open and closed models.
Verona, Wisconsin, tried to remove three Flock automated license plate readers after deciding not to renew its contract. However, Flock did not remove the cameras despite repeated requests. The city was unsure whether it had legal authority to remove them itself, so it covered them with black…
The podcast features stories about police surveillance of people using Flock, secret sales of books to AI companies for training and the hacking of Suno. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube, with a bonus for subscribers.
The US Army exhausted its annual token budget on the Ask Sage AI platform just a few weeks after announcing it as unlimited in May 2026. The service supports Gemini, Llama and ChatGPT models. It is unclear whether the budget will be renewed after 1 October.
Browser competition is shifting from search engines to AI agents. New tools: Perplexity Comet (since July 2025, $200/month), The Browser Company Dia (free), Opera Neon (May 2025, $19.90/month). OpenAI Atlas (discontinued in July 2026) will merge into ChatGPT.
Berlin startup Passionfroot is raising $15 million in a Series A led by Insight Partners. It is developing Zest, an AI agent for managing creator campaigns, and expanding operations to the USA and Brazil. Over a year, it increased revenue 13× and paid creators $10 million.
At a conference in Shanghai, Chinese company Agibot introduced four new products: the A3 Ultra humanoid (5 kg payload per arm, up to 8 hours of operation), the X2 EDU research platform, the G2 Max industrial robot for handling heavier loads and the OmniHand 3 Ultra-M dexterous hand with 20 degrees of freedom. The aim is…
In July, Meta introduced Content Seal — an invisible watermark for images generated by its Muse model. An authority criticizes the decision: established solutions such as C2PA Content Credentials should be a better choice for detecting AI content.
Nearly 200 organizations, including NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, Equinix and Digital Realty, signed Trump's "rate payer protection pledge" to protect consumers from rising electricity prices caused by data centers. According to the White House, these companies distribute approximately 80 % of US electricity. The addendum is…
Startup Glow raised $180 M in a Series A from Sequoia at a $1.2 B valuation. Its endpoint security uses AI agents to monitor software on devices. It uses Anthropic and Google Gemini. The company says it has customers in healthcare, retail and finance.
Meta is piloting StoryKit for AI-generated children's stories. Users create characters from photos and choose settings and values (kindness, courage). It has no social features and is accessible only to adults.
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