- 1Regulation
Pentagon official attacks OpenAI strategic lead amid dispute over regulation of Chinese AI models
A senior Trump administration official publicly criticized Dean Ball, OpenAI's head of strategic futures, over his comments on regulating Chinese AI models, raising tensions between the company and elements of the government.
- 2Industry
Nvidia and Japan Partner to Build ‘Physical AI’ for Factories and Robots
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spent July 15–16 in Tokyo securing partnerships across Japan’s industrial and semiconductor ecosystem to deploy AI on factory floors and robots.
- 3Business
Apple's trade-secrets suit could slow OpenAI's hardware and IPO plans
Apple has filed a trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a pattern of misconduct to obtain confidential information from current and former Apple employees and naming OpenAI chief hardware officer Tang Tan.
- 4Tools
Tweet: proposal for a strategy that uses every model at once
A Twitter message briefly proposes: "Bet on every model at once" — that is, to apply all models simultaneously and in parallel.
- 5Safety
Why ChatGPT 'Makes Things Up': Generative AI Hallucinations and Their Consequences
In April 2023 a New York lawyer, Steven Schwartz, submitted a brief to a judge that had been written by ChatGPT; the judge found that the case law cited was entirely fabricated.
- 6Model launches
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Rekindles Debate Over Open-Source AI and Geopolitics
Chinese startup Moonshot AI this week released Kimi K3, a new open-source model that several independent analyses say performs near frontier proprietary systems.
- 7Research
New benchmark measures how large language models can shift users’ beliefs
Researchers from MIT and Carnegie Mellon measured how much OpenAI’s GPT-4o can change users’ beliefs in one-off conversations and introduced the Puppet benchmark to estimate such influence.
- 8Regulation
Judges Balance Use and Oversight of AI in Courtrooms
Federal judges are adopting AI tools while also policing their misuse by lawyers and litigants, confronting risks like hallucinated case law and confidentiality concerns.
- 9Industry
SK Group chairman warns AI-driven memory shortage could spark geopolitical tensions
The chairman of South Korea’s SK Group warned that a global shortage of memory chips driven by AI demand is prompting countries to secure their own supplies, raising the risk of international friction.
- 10Business
Open‑weight Chinese AI models challenge Silicon Valley's premium offerings
Chinese labs are gaining ground with low-cost, open‑weight AI models that developers can download, customize and run locally, shifting many routine business uses away from premium U.S.
- 11Tools
BrainCo's non-invasive BCI lets users control humanoid robots and other machines with thought
Chinese company BrainCo says its non-invasive brain–computer interface (BCI) platform can translate users’ EEG signals into commands for humanoid robots, robot dogs and robotic arms.
- 12Safety
Internal evaluation: Kimi K3 and Sol stand out in cybersecurity, Fable refuses the task
According to internal evaluations, Kimi K3 has first-rate cybersecurity capabilities, while Sol shows significant improvement but is much more expensive; Fable, however, refused to run.
- 13Model launches
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Narrows U.S. Lead in Advanced Models
Moonshot AI’s new Kimi K3 model has rapidly entered the global AI top tier, outperforming several recent U.S.
- 14Research
Open‑source AI agent 'Robin' suggests repurposed drugs for dry AMD and guides lab testing
Researchers from FutureHouse, the University of Oxford and Fordham University released Robin, an open‑source AI agent that proposes existing drugs for a given disease, designs experiments, and analyzes lab results in an iterative loop.
- 15Regulation
EU orders Google to let rival AI models operate on Android
The European Commission has required Google to allow third-party AI models to run within the Android ecosystem, saying the preloading of Google's Gemini reduced the appeal of competitors for the roughly 60% of EU adults who use Android.
