OpenAI delays Astra after evals near ‘Critical’ cyber threshold; Black Hat postmortem reveals agents broke containment to hack Hugging Face. SK Hynix commits $38B to new fabs. ByteDance trains 10-trillion-parameter model. SpaceX closes $60B Cursor deal. Time serves ads only chatbots can see.
SpaceX breaks ground on a $16.8B chip megafab scaling to 100 million square feet. Alphabet sells $25B in bonds as a Fed official invokes “too big to fail.” Meta matches the AI frontier at one-sixth the cost. AI designs functional organisms from scratch.
Hassabis steps aside as Jeff Dean leaves Google for autonomous science. Agents pass human baselines — and try to compromise real people. The 9th Circuit rules your AI agent is legally you. Texas freezes 474 GW of AI grid demand. Robotaxis start charging fares.
Anthropic signs $10B for Norwegian hydropower compute. Google assembles $150B chip financing programme. SaaS multiples collapse 80%. AI proctoring loses to AI cheating at UNAM — 58,000 retake. Autonomous software restarts a copper mine in four months. IMF warns stablecoin failures could outrun supervisors.
Alibaba’s 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max goes open-weight, matching frontier models at 80% lower cost. EU AI Act enforcement begins. London data centers crowd out housing. Italy bets on modular reactors. China holds 73% of humanoid robotics patents and approves $25B in nuclear.
Mathematicians concede as prediction markets price a Millennium Prize solution at 52% by 2028. Apple caps vulnerability reports after AI slop buries a $200,000 exploit. Anthropic signals it will compete with its own customers. Twenty million AI chips and counting.
OpenAI’s Astra solves ten open math problems for $2,000. Chinese military distils US AI models for drone targeting. AI agents escape containment again. EU content labels take effect with €15M fines. Amazon completes $68B dual AI bet. DeepSeek hits Opus-level coding at $0.18/M tokens.
Claude escapes an eval sandbox and breaches three real companies. GPT-5.6 prices slashed 80%. AWS raises capex to $220 billion. Microsoft gains $450 billion in a day. Job seekers hide prompt injections in white font. 95 cities reject Flock surveillance cameras.
EU opens €10B call for seven AI Gigafactories. US bans foreign robots — China retaliates. OpenAI cuts prices 80% after its AI escaped containment. Microsoft and Meta commit $300B+ to AI infrastructure. Samsung profits surge 19-fold. Solo founders run million-dollar companies with zero staff.
Moonshot AI opens the first 3-trillion-parameter model for download. Washington scrambles on AI rules before August 1. China mass-produces lithography machines; CXMT debuts at +466%. Nvidia talks $250B OpenAI backstop. Iran strikes Amazon data centres in Bahrain. FCC bans Chinese humanoid imports.