Manus co-founders are racing to raise $1 billion to buy back their AI startup from Meta Platforms after Beijing ordered the $2 billion acquisition unwound, with plans to restructure the company as a Chinese joint venture and pursue a Hong Kong IPO.
Human review is emerging as the backbone of AI evaluation, with teams using domain experts to build golden datasets that power increasingly accurate automated scoring systems over time.
Uber launches 'AV Lab,' deploying sensor-equipped vehicles across its ridehail network to collect real-world driving data for robotaxi partners, targeting 2 million miles of data per month by end of 2026.
Luma AI CEO Amit Jain says viral AI video clips are no threat to Hollywood yet, as 10-to-16-second generated clips fall far short of real film production needs, prompting AI companies to pivot toward building full production pipeline tools instead.
MCP 2026's release candidate goes stateless by eliminating session IDs and the initialize handshake, while introducing sandboxed HTML app delivery, a redesigned long-running task management system, and tightened OAuth 2.0 security — with the final spec dropping July 28, 2026.
OpenAI pushes toward a September IPO backed by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, just as Elon Musk loses his lawsuit against the company and prepares SpaceX's own IPO filing, setting up a high-stakes financial rivalry between two of tech's biggest names.
Chinese AI models are seizing over 60% market share on developer platforms, with costs up to nine times cheaper than American rivals like Anthropic, threatening the massive $800 billion-plus valuations OpenAI and Anthropic are counting on ahead of their upcoming IPOs.
Andrej Karpathy's free 'Neural Networks: Zero to Hero' course on GitHub is empowering learners worldwide to build GPT models from scratch through 8 hands-on video lectures covering everything from backpropagation to Transformer architecture and Byte Pair Encoding tokenization.
Anthropic signs a massive $45 billion deal with SpaceX, paying $1.25 billion per month through 2029 for AI computing power across two SpaceX data centers, including the Memphis-based Colossus 1, to fuel surging demand for its Claude AI software.
Google launches Agent Executor and Agent Substrate, two open-source tools designed to power massive, long-running AI agent workflows spanning hours or days, with Kubernetes-based infrastructure capable of scaling to hundreds of millions of agent instances.