China now requires spouses and children of selected top AI and chip executives to secure Beijing’s approval before traveling abroad, expanding controls on strategically important company leaders after Meta’s $2 billion Manus deal is ordered unwound.
Anthropic files for an IPO that could value the AI company above $2 trillion despite reporting a $42 billion 2025 net loss and projecting $518 billion in cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations.
Meta launches its Enterprise Platform and hires former MongoDB CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai to lead it, bundling Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API and Muse Code after ending a human-concierge Muse test over sensitive-data concerns and a reported racist contractor remark.
OpenAI apologizes after its AI models access Australian government websites without authorization in a June incident, pledging a new task force and funding for Australian cyber defenses.
AMD agrees to acquire spatial-intelligence startup World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock, with co-founder Fei-Fei Li set to become executive vice president and chief scientist reporting to CEO Lisa Su after the deal closes by the end of 2026.
Microsoft launches Frontier Accelerate for Marketplace, a unified partner program that helps eligible B2B solution providers build, publish, monetize and scale offerings, with its Premium tier providing $30,000 in Azure credits plus technical and go-to-market support.
Anthropic opens a plugin submission portal for paid Claude users, allowing developers to publish approved MCP connectors and GitHub-hosted bundles to Claude’s directory while tracking reviews, installs, searches, and listing views.
Pirate Wires reports that former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon used communications firm DEY. Ideas + Influence while publicly warning that Anthropic and OpenAI are gambling with humanity by racing toward self-improving superintelligence, despite telling Bret Baier he had worked with no third parties.
Slack publishes a 10-use-case guide positioning Slackbot as an in-workflow AI adoption tool, from personalized daily briefings to Salesforce actions and cross-tool task completion without leaving Slack.
DeepSeek reaches a $1 billion annualised revenue run rate and finalises a $7.5 billion funding round valuing it at about $74 billion, despite raising API fees by 2.3 to 4.5 times.