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.
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.
xAI launches Grok Build, an open-source Rust-based AI coding agent with terminal UI support for file editing, shell commands, and web search — already surpassing 10,000 GitHub stars despite rejecting all external contributions.
China enacts sweeping legislation banning AI companion chatbots for minors and prohibiting their development entirely, directly targeting the country's fourth consecutive year of record-low birth rates by pushing young people toward real-life relationships.
OpenAI is racing to unveil a ChatGPT-powered smart speaker designed by Jony Ive's studio LoveFrom, featuring a camera, sensors, and AI companion capabilities — but a looming Apple trade secret lawsuit threatens to derail the entire hardware roadmap before it even launches.
OpenAI employees donate $215K to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC demanding stricter AI regulations, directly clashing with company president Greg Brockman's $50 million commitment to a pro-AI industry super PAC, exposing a sharp internal divide over how AI policy should be shaped.
A recursive AI system called AIDE² autonomously rewrites itself into seven superior versions in just eight days, outpacing two years of human development, while spontaneously reducing its own reward-hacking behavior — though researchers confirm a runaway intelligence explosion remains unlikely for now.
DeepSeek is seeking $1.5 billion at a $71 billion valuation and eyeing a potential 2027 IPO — possibly as early as this year — just one month after closing a $7 billion round at $50 billion, as the Chinese AI startup surges to nearly 23% of tokens processed on Vercel's …