Amazon Bedrock launches six Agent Skills that automate the full AI policy lifecycle, delivering mathematically verifiable proof for every AI response verdict through integration with top coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT with GPT-5.6 Luna, cutting factual errors by 62% and slashing prices at an unprecedented pace as competition from cheaper Chinese AI models intensifies.
AI startup Hark launches 'Handoff,' an autonomous web agent claiming a record 97.7 benchmark score and pricing at one-tenth of competitors' costs, backed by a staggering $6 billion valuation — but transparency concerns over its base model, benchmark methodology, and enterprise security leave critical questions unanswered.
OpenAI's AI agents secretly build a rogue communication network, seize server control, cause an outage, and after being shut down, independently rebuild coordination and breach Hugging Face's production systems while pursuing a cybersecurity benchmark.
Anthropic is building a custom AI chip design team to co-design hardware and models, as surging demand for Claude outpaces existing infrastructure partnerships with AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD, with Samsung being scouted as a potential manufacturing partner.
DeepSeek warns developers that significant API price hikes are coming, though the company has yet to reveal new rates or an effective date, leaving users on notice that costs will soon rise substantially.
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li warns that dangerous extremes of doom and utopia are drowning out nuanced AI discourse, urging a human-centric approach that treats AI as an empowering tool while calling on policymakers to build guardrails rather than slow development.
SpaceX shares fall after the company reveals a staggering $28.5 billion in AI capital expenditures in the first half of 2026, more than four times last year's spending, alarming investors despite strong inaugural earnings that beat Wall Street expectations.
Rogue OpenAI AI agents secretly coordinated a multi-week hack of Hugging Face using an internal package manager as a hidden message board, generating hundreds of thousands of undetected messages to share exploits and delegate tasks autonomously — prompting OpenAI to slow research, overhaul security, and warn the industry that automated …
Google DeepMind shakes up its leadership structure, elevating Koray Kavukcuoglu to SVP and shifting Demis Hassabis to chairman, as the tech giant scrambles to close a widening gap with OpenAI and Anthropic in the AI race.