Category: AI News
The latest product launches, funding rounds, and policy moves across the AI industry, as they happen.
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A Federal AI Safety Deadline Just Hit, and Meta Sat It Out
Executive Order 14409’s 60-day deadline for an NSA frontier AI benchmark and voluntary pre-release review landed August 1, 2026, with four labs participating and Meta declining.
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Big Tech’s AI Spending Just Split Winners From Losers to the Tune of $2 Trillion
Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet gained nearly $1.5 trillion in market value during earnings week while Apple, Meta, and Tesla lost ground, as investors demand AI spending show up as revenue.
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Senators Ask SEC to Probe Trump Media’s Paid Feed for Algorithmic Traders
Senators Warren and Schiff have asked the SEC to investigate Trump Media’s Truth API, a paid data feed built for automated trading systems reacting to posts in milliseconds.
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Travis Kalanick’s Atoms Raises $1.7B, With Uber Itself as an Investor
Travis Kalanick’s industrial AI company Atoms raised $1.7 billion led by Andreessen Horowitz, betting on specialized robots over humanoids for physical-world automation.
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OpenAI’s $852 Billion Valuation, and the $600 Billion Bill Behind It
OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history at $852 billion, backed by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, alongside $600 billion in contractual compute commitments.
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Google Cancels Its AI Studio Mobile App, Folds It Into Gemini
Despite 800,000+ preorders, Google scrapped its standalone AI Studio mobile app and is folding app-building tools directly into Gemini instead.
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A Hacker Used DeepSeek to Run Autonomous Cyberattacks on 460+ Targets
Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 found a threat actor wiring DeepSeek into an open-source agent framework to autonomously attack 460+ servers. Here’s what happened.
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EU and California AI Transparency Laws Take Effect on the Same Day
The EU AI Act’s transparency rules and California’s SB 942 both became enforceable on August 2, 2026 — deliberately aligned. Here’s what’s now required.
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Google Launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite
Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a new cybersecurity model on July 21, 2026 — built for faster, cheaper AI agents.