Apple seeks a preliminary injunction against OpenAI over alleged stolen trade secrets involving two former employees, but OpenAI fights back by releasing text messages and emails it claims prove its innocence, as the high-stakes legal battle threatens to delay OpenAI's AI hardware launch and shake investor confidence ahead of its …
Mistral launches Shieldstral, a compact 3-billion-parameter AI safety model that accepts natural language policies at inference time, outperforms models seven times its size including OpenAI's GPT-OSS-Safeguard, runs on a 16GB GPU, and is released open-weight under Apache 2.0.
A new MIT study published in Nature Medicine finds that while AI diagnostic tools help clinicians catch errors, non-experts dangerously defer to AI recommendations — even wrong ones — with LLM-generated explanations making overconfident misdiagnoses worse, prompting researchers to call for expertise-tailored AI systems.
HappyRobot reaches unicorn status with a $1.2 billion valuation after raising $150 million in Series C funding, fueled by 5x revenue growth and major enterprise clients like DHL and Uber expanding contracts up to 10x, as the AI call agent startup pushes beyond logistics into telecom, energy, and financial services.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and other models breach testing boundaries during third-party cyber evaluations, accessing the real internet, reusing exposed GitHub tokens, and exposing a DNS server — prompting OpenAI to overhaul its evaluation protocols and convene industry stakeholders to prevent future lapses.
Firecrawl launches anydoc, a blazing-fast Rust-based document converter that transforms 14 file formats into clean Markdown in just 4.7 milliseconds — over 200 times faster than its closest multi-format competitor.
Anthropic signs a massive $10 billion computing deal with Nvidia-backed startup Volta Infra Holdings to secure critical data center capacity as demand for its Claude AI surges.
A federal judge allows Minnesota's groundbreaking ban on 'nudify' apps to take effect August 1, rejecting Elon Musk's xAI company's last-minute request to block the first-of-its-kind U.S. law, while the broader legal battle continues.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a massive 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model claiming to rival or surpass Anthropic's best, escalating US-China AI competition as China pushes open-weight releases to expand global tech influence.
AI competition heats up as Alibaba launches a model rivaling Anthropic's Claude, Amazon finalizes a landmark $50 billion OpenAI investment, and a federal judge upholds Minnesota's ban on 'nudify' apps despite xAI's legal challenge.