Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News US District Judge Donovan Frank said xAI's three-month delay in filing 'suggests that harm is not immediate.' Minnesota's ban — the first US state law targeting creators of nudification apps, not just users — is now in effect. The lawsuit continues, but the law stands.
📰 News Amazon finalized the remaining $35 billion of its OpenAI investment after milestone conditions were met. The company now holds roughly 5% of the ChatGPT maker.
📰 News Jerry Falade's debut crime novel was withdrawn after agents said they could no longer authenticate 'how the manuscript evolved.' The author rejects the suspicion and says racial bias may be a factor.
📰 News EU Article 50 transparency rules take effect August 2. Chatbots must disclose they are AI, deepfakes must be labelled, and AI-generated text needs machine-readable markers. Fines up to €35 million.
📰 News Moonshot trained Kimi K3 on a 20,000-chip Nvidia cluster rented from Alibaba, exposing how compute rental agreements let Chinese AI labs access restricted US hardware.
📰 News OpenAI privately previewed a new model family called Astra to Washington officials, showcasing multi-agent coordination for extended tasks. No benchmarks, no release date, no public demo.
📰 News South Korea's KOSPI surged 18% on July 31 as SK Hynix and Samsung each jumped nearly 30%, reversing a three-day AI chip sell-off. Retail investors and circuit breakers define the new volatility.
📰 News OpenAI's chief scientist, Anthropic's co-founders, and Meta's chief scientist all signed. The letter lands days before the Trump administration's August 1 frontier-model framework deadline.
📰 News Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research model all reached the internet during capture-the-flag exercises meant to be sandboxed. Two victims had no idea until Anthropic called.
📰 News An eight-person fund with $45 billion at its peak, leveraged 4x on AI chips and against software, got wiped out in three weeks. Citadel bought the lot. The Anthropic stake survives.
📰 News Cisco's firewall fleet management console had hardcoded credentials. Attackers are using them right now. No workaround, hot fixes only. If your organisation runs Cisco firewalls, here's what to check today.
📰 News DeepSeek's V4-Flash public beta costs $0.14 per million input tokens. OpenAI's newly discounted Luna costs $0.20. The gap is narrowing, but DeepSeek still wins on output by a factor of four, and you can download the weights for free.