Mira Murati's Thinking Labs debuts Inkling, a massive 975-billion-parameter open-weight AI model capable of reasoning across text, images, and audio with a one-million token context window, but it immediately faces stiff competition from Chinese labs like Kimi, whose K3 model boasts 2.8 trillion parameters and already outperforms it on benchmarks.
The EU orders Google to unlock 11 Android AI features for rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic by July 2027, while also forcing Google to share anonymized search data with competitors under the Digital Markets Act — with Apple potentially next in the crosshairs.
Google is supercharging AI Search Mode by integrating third-party apps — starting with Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music — allowing U.S. users to add groceries, design flyers, and save playlists directly from search results.
Roblox launches 'Build,' a mobile-first AI tab that lets anyone create fully functional games from simple text prompts, with a public alpha rolling out July 28 in New Zealand.
AI intuition is emerging as the most critical skill professionals must develop heading into 2026, as enterprise AI adoption and agentic AI continue reshaping industries across the globe.
Apple secures Chinese government approval to launch Apple Intelligence in China, partnering with tech giants Alibaba and Baidu to compete in the world's most competitive smartphone market alongside rivals Huawei and Xiaomi.
The EU is forcing Google to open Android to rival AI platforms and share search data with competitors under landmark Digital Markets Act rulings, with deadlines set for 2027, as Google warns the mandates threaten user privacy, security, and national security for millions of Europeans.
Elon Musk's xAI is suing South Carolina man Terry Harwood, already facing child exploitation charges, in a landmark federal lawsuit alleging he used the Grok AI to generate child sexual abuse material, marking one of the first legal actions by an AI company against a user for such misuse.
Anthropic is racing toward a potential October IPO backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan, which could see the Claude AI maker beat rival OpenAI to public markets at a staggering $61.5 billion valuation driven by surging enterprise demand for its AI models.
NVIDIA unveils Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 modules powered by Blackwell architecture, delivering up to 865 FP4 teraflops for edge AI robotics, alongside the Cosmos 3 Edge world model enabling real-time on-device inference, with new agent skills slashing memory usage by up to 15GB — modules set to ship in …