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Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.

Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.

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NVIDIA Joins NSF State and Regional AI Hubs Program to Expand AI Research and Education Across the US
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NVIDIA Joins NSF State and Regional AI Hubs Program to Expand AI Research and Education Across the US

NVIDIA is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, an effort launch…

As AI Increases Demands on Memory, Storage Steps Up
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As AI Increases Demands on Memory, Storage Steps Up

Surging AI demands are driving the need for massive datasets and context windows that burst past the confines of system memory. But rising needs aren’t met by s…

NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, the Frontier Open Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Vehicles, Now Available for Commercial Use
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NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, the Frontier Open Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Vehicles, Now Available for Commercial Use

For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren’t the everyday scenarios. They’re the rare, complex situations that are difficult t…

Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course
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Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course

Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of AI.…

Introducing Shieldstral.
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Introducing Shieldstral.

Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.…

The latest AI news we announced in July 2026
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The latest AI news we announced in July 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026…

AI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency
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AI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency

Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance — now more than 120 organizations strong — are developing new guidelines to strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity as the an…

Apple is getting this wrong
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Apple is getting this wrong

OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.…

Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology
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Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology

Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.…

How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months
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How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months

GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.…

ChinAI #369: My Boss Wants Me to Run Kimi K3, What Should I Do?
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ChinAI #369: My Boss Wants Me to Run Kimi K3, What Should I Do?

Greetings from a world where……

Sakana AI、日本語特化のLLM API「Sakana Namazu」を提供開始
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Sakana AI、日本語特化のLLM API「Sakana Namazu」を提供開始

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and comp…

“Data Center Bandwagon” Campaign: US-targeted influence activity
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“Data Center Bandwagon” Campaign: US-targeted influence activity

OpenAI banned a likely PRC-origin cluster using AI to generate social media content criticizing US data centers and AI infrastructure.…

“Tech and Tariffs” Campaign: Influence activity targeting US tech policy
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“Tech and Tariffs” Campaign: Influence activity targeting US tech policy

OpenAI banned likely PRC-origin accounts using AI to create comments and cartoons about US tech policy, tariffs, and trade restrictions.…

Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation
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Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation

OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.…

Building abundant intelligence
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Building abundant intelligence

A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful.…

Sakana AI防衛・インテリジェンスチーム、「DIVER OSINT CTF 2026」で5位入賞 Fuguを活用したOSINTエージェントの可能性
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Sakana AI防衛・インテリジェンスチーム、「DIVER OSINT CTF 2026」で5位入賞 Fuguを活用したOSINTエージェントの可能性

Univé builds an AI-ready workforce
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Univé builds an AI-ready workforce

See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to transform work…

Advancing responsible AI across Europe
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Advancing responsible AI across Europe

OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI …

How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime
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How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime

avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey respon…

From Japan, Products the World Will Use: An Interview with Sakana AI’s Head of Product Development
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From Japan, Products the World Will Use: An Interview with Sakana AI’s Head of Product Development

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.…

Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
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Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and m…

How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark
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How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark

How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.…

How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency
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How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency

GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.…

Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
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Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers

OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.…

Dreaming in Voxels: How AI is Generating Playable Minecraft Worlds
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Dreaming in Voxels: How AI is Generating Playable Minecraft Worlds

Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI
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Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI

A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and …

Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more
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Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more

We’re announcing even more new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.…