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xAI Sues Its Own User Over AI-Generated Child Abuse Images
Elon Musk's xAI filed a civil lawsuit against a South Carolina man for using Grok to create child sexual abuse images, making it one of the first times an AI company has gone on legal offense against a user, even as xAI itself faces multiple lawsuits over the same platform's design.
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Big Tech Is Cutting Jobs While Spending More on AI
Microsoft's 4,800-person layoff is part of a broad pattern across major tech companies: cut people, pour the savings into AI infrastructure, and the pressure to follow suit is now spreading well beyond tech into finance, manufacturing, and professional services.
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Thinking Machines Launches First AI Model You Can Own
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released its first AI model, Inkling, as a freely downloadable open-weight model that companies can customize on their own infrastructure, directly challenging the subscription-based model sold by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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Whatnot Buys AI Startup to Fix Live Shopping Discovery
Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform processing over 500,000 hours of live video weekly, has acquired Shaped, an AI company that builds real-time product recommendation systems, as the race to personalize online shopping intensifies across every major resale platform.
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US Launches AI Cyber Clearinghouse Gold Eagle
The White House launched Gold Eagle, a government-run hub to coordinate AI-powered software security fixes, arriving just as industry groups had already launched their own competing programs to solve the same problem.
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Apple Looks to Buy AI Chip Companies for Servers
Apple is actively talking to chip startups and investment bankers about potential acquisitions to fix its AI server problem, a significant shift for a company that has almost never spent big on buying other businesses.
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OpenAI Trains an AI to Attack Its Own Models
OpenAI has built GPT-Red, an AI model trained specifically to find and exploit weaknesses in its other AI models, and used it to make GPT-5.6 far harder to manipulate, a development that matters to any business deploying AI agents that touch real data.
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US AI Safety Rules Are Taking Shape, State by State
Three US states covering roughly 40% of the AI market have now passed aligned AI safety laws, creating a de facto national standard before Congress has acted, and that convergence is beginning to shape what a federal law may look like.
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Apple Gets China AI Approval via Alibaba Deal
China's internet regulator approved Apple Intelligence for launch in the country, with Alibaba's AI model Qwen powering the features, giving Apple a path back into AI competition in its second-largest market.
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xAI Grok Build Sent Entire Codebases to Cloud Without Disclosure
A security researcher proved that xAI's Grok Build coding tool silently uploaded entire code repositories, including passwords and API keys, to cloud storage by default, and that the privacy toggle did nothing to stop it.
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Australia Creates AI Office, Protects Creators from Big Tech
Australia's Prime Minister has established a new national AI office and promised to legally protect writers, musicians, and journalists from having their work used to train AI without payment, while also requiring large data centre operators to produce more electricity than they consume.
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Emergent Raises $130M to Build Apps for Non-Coders
Indian AI startup Emergent hit a $1.5 billion valuation just over a year after launch by selling software-building tools to small businesses and entrepreneurs who have never written a line of code, signaling that the real AI gold rush is not inside tech companies but in the millions of ordinary businesses still running on spreadsheets and email.
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Ransomware Hits a New Baseline: 2,500 Attacks Per Quarter
Ransomware attacks rose 20% year over year in the first half of 2026, and a first-ever AI-run attack campaign signals that the cost and skill needed to hit your business is dropping fast.
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Anthropic Launches $1.5B AI Implementation Firm With Blackstone
Anthropic and a consortium of major investors including Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman have launched Ode, a $1.5 billion company that sends specialist AI engineers directly into businesses to build and run AI systems, entering the same market as Deloitte and Accenture.
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Apple Launches New Siri AI with Public Beta
Apple has opened its redesigned Siri to everyday users through a free public beta, turning the long-struggling voice assistant into a proper AI tool that reads your emails, messages, and screen, putting it in direct competition with ChatGPT and Gemini, though EU users are blocked from the iPhone version with no clear timeline for a fix.
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Publishers Sue Google for Training Gemini on Their Books
Major book publishers filed a class action lawsuit accusing Google of using millions of copyrighted books, supplied for services like Google Books and Google Play, to secretly train its Gemini AI without permission or payment, adding pressure to an already expensive legal battle that cost Anthropic $1.5 billion in a similar case.
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IBM Loses a Quarter of Its Value in One Day
IBM's stock collapsed 25% after it warned that big corporate customers rushed to buy computer hardware in June instead of renewing IBM's software, revealing a broader shift in how companies are spending their technology budgets that could affect software vendors globally.
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Anthropic Launches Free AI Tool for US K-12 Teachers
Anthropic is giving verified US K-12 teachers free access to premium Claude capabilities, including lesson planning, student data analysis, and curriculum-aligned tools, with a clear pledge not to use any school data to train its AI models.
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DeepSeek Raising Again at $71B, Plans IPO
Just weeks after closing its first-ever outside funding round at a $52 billion valuation, DeepSeek is already in talks for a second round at $71 billion, while simultaneously preparing for a stock market listing, revealing that its rock-bottom AI pricing strategy demands far more capital than its self-funded origins ever required.
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US Puts $2 Billion Into Quantum Computing Manufacturing
The US government has committed $2 billion to nine quantum computing companies, including a $375 million award to chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries, marking a serious industrial push to make quantum computers large and reliable enough for real business use by around 2030.
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