FRI · AUG 07 · 2026

OpenAI offers unlimited free ChatGPT text chats starting next week.

Google DeepMind WeatherNext AI model achieves breakthrough in cyclone forecasting.

OpenAI developing Ive-designed puck-sized AI speaker for 2027 launch.

Moonshot AI Kimi K3 open-weight model launches on GitHub Copilot

Meta ordered to pay $567M in New Mexico child safety ruling

AI and drones feature in Japan defense white paper amid China tensions

SpaceX Terafab manufacturing complex will be 50x the size of the Pentagon

xAI Grok Imagine ships video generation alongside image generation.

xAI releases Grok Build V1.0

OpenAI team presents Black Hat talk on Hugging Face incident timeline

Meta AI wins gold medals across five STEM Olympiad competitions.

OpenAI Codex can now review every GitHub pull request for security issues

NVIDIA ships Vera Rubin NVL72 Compute Tray with fully automated assembly

Nous Research Hermes Agent gains traction with open-source community

ByteDance training 10 trillion parameter AI model to rival Anthropic

Cloudflare open-sources AI agent workspace for vibe-coding.

Independent developer launches reflective AI chatbot ChatTJB

Cambricon revenue surges 108% on China's AI chip demand

Chinese chip toolmaker Hwatsing achieves wafer polishing breakthrough

Unitree Robotics IPO values humanoid robotics firm at $9B with DeepSeek backing

Naive raises $28.5M to automate business setup and operations.

Gen Z dating apps pivot to AI matchmaking as swipe fatigue grows.

Anthropic designs custom silicon to power Claude, reduce Nvidia dependency.

AMD acquires Taalas to strengthen AI inference portfolio

Philippines reopens Manila for outsourcing to compete for AI services work

Inside vLLM: anatomy of a high-throughput LLM inference system

Why normal people aren't using AI agents

Webflow ships MCP server for one-click Figma design imports.

Pixar cofounder Ed Catmull takes AI animation role, reigniting industry debate

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

Hollywood confronts AI adoption as creators push back against industry shift

OpenAI positions itself as underdog in Apple legal dispute

Researchers use AI to create 16 viruses, raising biosecurity concerns

Simon Willison releases Datasette 1.0 with SQL injection fix