Google launches three new Gemini AI models — 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber — bringing improved efficiency, faster speeds, and a specialized cybersecurity tool exclusively available to governments and trusted partners to help defend against critical vulnerabilities.
Poolside emerges from 18 months of silence with its open-source AI model Laguna, which rivals top American and Chinese competitors despite being a fraction of their size, while the startup also holds an unreported stake in Fluidstack now worth roughly $860 million following the neocloud's $830 million raise.
Google launches three lightweight Gemini AI models and a new security agent called CodeMender designed to fix code vulnerabilities in products like Chrome and Android, even as its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro faces delays due to performance issues and struggles to match rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in coding capabilities.
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with 17% better token efficiency and lower API costs, while simultaneously unveiling a restricted cybersecurity AI model for governments and trusted partners, and confirming that next-generation Gemini 4 pre-training is already underway.
Chinese AI giants Moonshot and Alibaba are unveiling powerful new frontier models — Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 — claiming to rival top US systems from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost, with both companies making their advanced models publicly available in a move that signals America's lead …
An OpenAI executive ignites fierce backlash after openly calling for government regulation designed to instill fear around open-weight AI models, claiming they threaten frontier lab investment, before swiftly walking back the remarks amid growing debate over whether restricting Chinese open-source AI could actually accelerate China's global dominance in the field.
OpenAI secretly develops GPT-Red, an AI super-hacker capable of novel prompt injection attacks, while Chinese rivals Moonshot and Alibaba unleash powerful low-cost models challenging U.S. dominance, and Meta negotiates a staggering $10 billion data center deal with Anthropic as the global AI arms race intensifies.
OpenAI's GPT-Red AI is revolutionizing cybersecurity by outperforming human hackers in red-teaming tests, slashing GPT-5 vulnerabilities by over 70% — but the powerful exploit-finding system will remain locked away from the public.
US tech giants have cut 128,000 jobs in the first half of 2026, with nearly half tied to AI restructuring, but experts are warning companies like Microsoft, Oracle, and Meta that replacing workers with AI carries serious risks, as firms like Ford are already rehiring laid-off engineers after discovering AI …
AMD launches Helios, its first rack-scale AI system, securing Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle as customers in a bold challenge to Nvidia's 95% data center GPU market dominance, with analysts predicting AMD could capture up to 25% market share.