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Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday, marking the first time a Chinese head of state has personally inaugurated the event since its founding in 2018. The shift in protocol Xi previously sent congratulatory letters while Premier Li Qiang handled the opening ceremonies in 2024 and 2025 signals…
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Google has pushed back the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro, its flagship AI model, after internal testing showed the system falling short of the company’s coding benchmarks, according to a Bloomberg report citing roughly ten current and former employees. The delay, which pushes the model months past its original June 2026 target, sent Alphabet shares…
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to unveil a new “Office of AI” in a major address in Sydney today, establishing a coordinating body inside the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to manage AI standards development across the entire federal government. The move, confirmed by Reuters ahead of the speech, marks Australia’s most…
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The White House announced Tuesday the launch of a new coordination group, dubbed GOLD EAGLE, bringing together AI developers, software companies, and operators of critical infrastructure to share information about cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified by advanced AI systems and coordinate how those weaknesses get patched. Reuters confirmed the launch directly from a White House statement, and…
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Overview ChatGPT Work is OpenAI’s bet that the future of its flagship product isn’t answering questions, it’s finishing tasks. Launched July 9 alongside the GPT-5.6 model family, Work turns ChatGPT into an agent that gathers context from your connected apps and files, works through a project independently, sometimes for hours, and hands back a finished…
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SoftBank Corp, Japan’s major telecom operator, announced a strategic partnership this week to expand Sierra’s AI powered customer support across its operations, building on an existing integration already live inside SoftBank’s LINEMO mobile brand. The deal is the latest and most concrete step in a courtship that’s been building for over a year: Sierra, the…
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If you’ve been paying for Claude from India, you already know the annoyance: dollar billing, currency conversion fees on top of the sticker price, and 18% GST added at checkout, all for a subscription priced for a different market. Anthropic has started fixing that. As of this week, Claude’s website and mobile apps are showing…
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Tom Blomfield, one of the best-known names in UK fintech, is leaving Y Combinator to join Anthropic’s compute team, in what several outlets have described as one of the AI industry’s biggest recent talent grabs. Blomfield announced the move on X, saying he is taking a leave of absence from Y Combinator, where he has…
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More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including at least 15 Nobel laureates, released a joint statement Monday warning that artificial intelligence could produce an economic transformation larger than the Industrial Revolution, but compressed into a fraction of the time societies had to adapt to that one. The letter, organized through Stanford University’s Digital Economy…
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Intel announced a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) capital investment at its Leixlip campus outside Dublin on Monday, aimed at expanding production of the data center processors powering the current AI infrastructure boom. The investment represents roughly 30% of Intel’s entire $17 billion capital expenditure budget for 2026, a striking share of the company’s annual spending…