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Portugal Released Amália — the First National AI Model for European Portuguese
Portugal presented Amália — the first state language AI model for European Portuguese, released as open-access along with training data.
DeepSeek introduces double tariff during peak hours — first in China's AI price war
DeepSeek announced double pricing during peak load hours for V4 model API clients — an unexpected move from the company that itself sparked the AI price war.
LayerX: BioShocking technique convinced six AI browsers to voluntarily surrender passwords
LayerX researchers convinced six AI-browser agents that a gaming session was underway — and all six surrendered user passwords. The BioShocking method worked on every tested agent.
Taiwan court detains two Super Micro managers in Nvidia server China export case
Keelung District Court has detained two managers of Super Micro's Taiwan subsidiary in an investigation into the illegal supply of AI servers with Nvidia chips to China.
SoftBank Revives $10 Billion Loan Deal Against OpenAI Stock with Personal Corporate Guarantee
SoftBank has resumed negotiations for a $10 billion loan secured by OpenAI shares and offered lenders a personal corporate guarantee — a new incentive designed to convince banks to close the deal.
Raja Koduri Raises $35M to License OxCore GPU Architecture
Oxmiq Labs closed a Series A funding round of $35M to scale OxCore — a licensable GPU architecture that allows chipmakers to create AI accelerators without years-long development programs.
Submarine Cable I-2SEA for AI: Microsoft Joins Lightstorm Consortium
Microsoft joined the Lightstorm consortium to build the 3,600-kilometer I-2SEA system, which will connect India with Singapore and Malaysia for AI and cloud workloads.
Chinese model GLM-5.2 from Z.ai enters global top-4 and costs less than Claude and GPT
Beijing startup Z.ai released GLM-5.2 — the model ranked fourth in a key AI rating for coding and agentic tasks at a price lower than Anthropic and OpenAI.
AI avatars learn to see and hear: the next frontier of generative video
The AI-video race has been on a single track for years — resolution, physics, clip length. Now the industry is pivoting to interactivity: avatars that perceive and respond.
Cloudflare set a deadline for AI crawlers: from September 2026 — pay publishers or face blocking
Cloudflare announced that from September 2026 it will block AI crawlers on ad-supported pages if publishers don't give explicit consent — the company controls a significant share of global web traffic.
Anthropic and Trump Administration Deny Negotiations Over Government Stake in Company
Reuters reports: neither Anthropic nor the White House discussed transferring a stake in the AI company to the U.S. government — contrary to rumors sparked by OpenAI's proposal.
Meta wants to rent out AI computing power and challenge AWS and Google Cloud
Meta is considering selling spare AI computing power to companies — which would directly pit it against Amazon, Google and Microsoft in the cloud computing market.
AI in Finance: What Central Banks Worldwide Were Discussing
At the ECB's annual forum in Sintra, AI displaced inflation from the center of discussion for the first time—and none of the participants could offer answers about its impact on the economy.
UiPath posts first profit and rises 15% after betting on AI agents
Romanian automation company UiPath turned a profit for the first time and announced a shift to AI agents — its shares rose 15% in five days, recouping 2026 losses.
Palantir released a manifesto on AI sovereignty and attacked the token-based AI monetization model
Palantir published a nine-point manifesto urging organizations to retain their own data, control model weights, and abandon “tokenmaxxing.”
Queue emerges from stealth with $12.6 million and a robotic pharmacy without a pharmacist
California startup Queue unveiled an autonomous pharmacy machine: it takes in vials and dispenses filled prescriptions in 1 minute without a single employee. The seed round totaled $12.6 million.
Together AI raised $800 million in Series C: Aramco and Nvidia valued the company at $8 billion
Together AI closed a $800 million Series C round led by Aramco Ventures at a $8 billion valuation — Nvidia, Vista Equity and six other strategic investors participated in the round.
Sysdig Documents First Ransomware Attack Conducted by AI Agent Without Human Involvement
Sysdig researchers documented the first fully autonomous ransomware attack in history: AI agent JADEPUFFER conducted the entire operation from reconnaissance to impact without a single human at the keyboard.
Spotify Deletes Half a Million Streams After Suspicious Kalshi Bet
Spotify acknowledged approximately 500,000 streams of the track 'Earrings' as artificially inflated — its rise to the top of the US charts timed precisely with the appearance of a bet on the predictive market Kalshi.
Amazon Leo has enough satellites to launch a Starlink rival
After the overnight launch on July 2, 2026, Amazon said the Leo constellation had reached the minimum threshold — the service will go live by the end of 2026.
AI Agents Running a Company: The Case of Argentina
Argentina's Congress will consider a bill on non-human corporations: companies run by AI agents that can sign contracts and own assets without a human director.
Ubisoft appoints former Amazon Games vice president to lead Tom Clancy studio
Christoph Hartmann has taken over Creative House 2, the Ubisoft division behind The Division, Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell.
Samsung to invest $90 billion in chips and displays in South Korea's Chungcheong region
Samsung Group will invest 140 trillion won ($90 billion) over ten years in the production of memory chips, displays, batteries, and packaging materials in the Chungcheong regions.
Alibaba bans employees from Claude Code starting July 10 over backdoor suspicions
Alibaba bans Claude Code use in corporate environments effective July 10, 2026 — following Anthropic's accusations against the Qwen team of large-scale model distillation.
Zuckerberg admits to Meta staff: AI-agent progress lags behind plan
Four months after a restructuring intended to accelerate AI development, Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Meta's agents have not gained the momentum he expected. *Meta is recognized as an extremist organization and banned i
Anthropic vs Pentagon: Amodei's correspondence revealed dispute over military AI control
Court documents showed: Anthropic is suing the Pentagon not over access to Claude, but over the right to decide how AI is used in military operations.
Kling AI raises $2 billion as Kuaishou spins off video generation as separate business
Kuaishou spins off AI video generator Kling AI into an independent company: first tranche of the funding round closed at $2 billion, with total volume potentially reaching $3 billion while Kuaishou retains 68%.
Wisk Aero employee sues: fired after challenging autonomous taxi software testing cuts
Bryana O'Neil claims Boeing subsidiary Wisk Aero fired her after she questioned reductions in software safety testing.
Anthropic in talks with Samsung to develop its own AI chip
Anthropic is exploring the possibility of producing a custom AI chip jointly with Samsung — the project is at an early stage, and the chip's purpose and specifications have not yet been determined.
Oracle investors sue over concealment of risks in $300 billion OpenAI deal
Oracle shareholders allege the company concealed instability in its $300 billion partnership with OpenAI — the class action was filed in a Tennessee court on July 2, 2026.