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San Francisco Orders Apple, Google to Remove 13 Nudify Apps
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu has ordered Apple and Google to remove 13 AI "nudify" apps from their stores, accusing the companies of profiting from nonconsensual deepfake pornography and dem
Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, Adds Code Tools
Google is rebranding its AI research tool NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook and rolling out in-notebook code execution for interactive data analysis across multiple data sources.
Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, secured a $400 million loan from Upper90 — potentially the first deal to use inference-specific chips as collateral, a structure that repositions AI inf
Xi Debuts at WAIC With 29-Nation AI Cooperation Pact
Xi Jinping made his first in-person appearance at Shanghai's World Artificial Intelligence Conference, using the platform to champion a new 29-nation World AI Cooperation Organization and frame AI dev
Xi Vows 5,000 AI Training Slots, Forms New Global Body
Xi Jinping used his first appearance at Shanghai's flagship AI conference to unveil a new international AI organization backed by nearly 30 countries and pledge 5,000 training slots for developing nat
Microsoft Plans Project Perception AI Security Tool Release
Microsoft is preparing to release Project Perception, an AI security product that draws on models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft itself, pitched as a lower-cost alternative to Mythos.
UIUC AI Teaching Assistant
A UIUC-built AI Teaching Assistant for ECE 120 orchestrates 11 separate models in parallel with a median 2-second response time, applying a novel semantic-search approach to RLHF trained on data produ
China's open-weight Kimi model stuns AI world with frontier-level results
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI unveiled its Kimi K3 model on Thursday, with early performance suggesting it rivals the best American AI systems at a fraction of the cost and triggering alarm in Silico
EU Orders Google to Open Android to AI Rivals
The European Commission issued two Digital Markets Act decisions requiring Google to grant rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and certain Search data, giving Google ro
Ex-OpenAI VP Beiermeister joins Founders Fund as partner
Former OpenAI VP of Product Policy Ryan Beiermeister has joined Founders Fund as a partner, pivoting from her high-profile February firing over 'adult mode' objections to a venture role focused on AI
Netflix: ~300 Titles Used Generative AI
Netflix disclosed in its Q2 earnings report that approximately 300 titles across its platform used generative AI, with co-CEO Ted Sarandos highlighting dramatic cost and time savings on specific produ
Kimi-K3 is now #1 on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing Claude Fable 5; the model scored 88.3 on Terminal Bench 2.1, only below GPT-5.6 Sol's 88.8 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
Moonshot AI released Kimi-K3, a new AI coding model that has surged to #1 on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark and sits within fractions of a point of the leader on Terminal Bench 2.1.
Moonshot's 2.8T Kimi K3 Drops, Open Weights July 27
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it claims rivals Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5, priced at $3/$15 per million tokens — same as Sonnet 5.
54% of Enterprises Hit by AI Agent Security Incidents
More than half of 107 surveyed enterprises have suffered an AI agent security incident or near-miss, yet most rely on shared credentials and borrowed provider-native guardrails rather than purpose-bui
EU Orders Google to Open Android to Rival AI Assistants
The European Commission issued two binding decisions under the Digital Markets Act ordering Google to give rival AI assistants comparable access to Android and share certain Search data with competing
Anthropic Pushes States for Tougher AI Safety Laws
Anthropic is pushing US states to adopt AI safety rules tougher than the 2025 transparency laws it helped pass, backing third-party audit mandates while facing regulatory-capture accusations from Trum
Google Vids Adds AI Avatars, Gemini Omni Editing
Google Vids is rolling out personalized AI avatars built from a selfie and voice clip, alongside Gemini Omni-powered video generation that blends text prompts with reference images.
57% of Enterprises Hit by Confidently-Wrong AI Agents
A VentureBeat survey of 101 enterprises found 57% have seen AI agents deliver confidently wrong answers traced to flawed business context, while OpenAI and Google native retrieval tools outpace every
Google beats Apple at EU's AI regulation game
The EU Commission ordered Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and gave it until July 2027 to comply — a grace period it denied Apple, which is withholding Siri AI from Europe over the same D
Google AI Mode Adds Instacart, Canva, YouTube Apps
Google on Thursday expanded AI Mode to let users link and interact with third-party apps including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube, shifting its conversational search tool from answering questions to co
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