Alibaba launches Token Hub, a new AI business unit under CEO Eddie Wu, and unveils Wukong, an enterprise-focused agentic AI service built on its Qwen model, in a major push to monetize artificial intelligence amid widespread consumer reluctance to pay for software in China.
NVIDIA launches OpenShell, a sandboxed runtime securing autonomous AI agents through four-layer defense-in-depth protection, blocking unauthorized file access, data exfiltration, and uncontrolled network activity via declarative YAML policies with GPU passthrough support and integration with top AI agents like Claude and Codex.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declares robotics' ChatGPT moment has arrived, unveiling autonomous vehicle software, a major Uber robotaxi partnership spanning 28 markets by 2028, and AI tools designed to power the entire robotics ecosystem at the company's annual GTC conference.
OpenAI is nearing a $10 billion joint venture with major private equity firms TPG, Bain, Brookfield, and Advent, offering equity stakes, board seats, and early enterprise tool access in exchange for $4 billion as it aggressively scales its enterprise AI deployment strategy.
Meta commits up to $27 billion to cloud provider Nebius Group over five years, securing massive AI infrastructure capacity as it races to compete in the frontier AI model race.
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping nearly 100,000 articles without authorization to train its AI models, while also accusing the company of trademark violations and revenue harm through AI-generated responses that replace their original content.
NVIDIA launches DLSS 5, a groundbreaking AI-powered neural rendering technology delivering photoreal 4K graphics, with major titles like Starfield, Hogwarts Legacy, and Resident Evil Requiem set to support it this Fall.
Physical Superintelligence PBC launches 'Get Physics Done,' the first open-source agentic AI physicist, featuring 61 commands, a four-stage research workflow, and support for four major AI runtimes, now available on GitHub and installable with a single command.
Andrej Karpathy releases an open-source tool on GitHub that scores 342 US occupations on AI exposure risk using an interactive treemap and an LLM-powered pipeline, empowering anyone to fork and customize the analysis for insights beyond just digital disruption.
ByteDance halts the global launch of its AI video tool Seedance 2.0 after Hollywood studios, including Disney, fire off cease-and-desist letters over viral AI-generated clips depicting celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, forcing the TikTok parent company to overhaul its intellectual property safeguards before proceeding.