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Every major AI company now wants its agents talking to your tools, your data, and each other. What’s unusual is that the plumbing making that possible isn’t a competitive battleground the way most foundational tech infrastructure has been it’s converging into a shared, jointly governed standards stack faster than almost any comparable technology shift in…
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On February 28, 2026, the first day of U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran, a missile strike destroyed the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, in Iran’s Hormozgan province. Amnesty International and Iranian officials say at least 120 schoolchildren were among roughly 150 to 156 people killed, making it the deadliest single strike of…
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The world’s largest AI companies have weakened key safety commitments even as their models grow more powerful, according to a new report from the Future of Life Institute, an independent nonprofit that has published a semi annual scorecard of AI lab safety practices since 2025. The finding matters less as an isolated critique of any…
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More than 9,000 attendees packed into the Carrousel du Louvre on July 8 and 9 for the RAISE Summit, and the conversations inside skipped past the demo and hype phase that’s defined so many AI conferences over the past two years. The event opened with a video address from French President Emmanuel Macron, followed by…
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AI assistants have gotten very good at answering questions. Handling an entire project pulling data from five different tools, building a spreadsheet, turning it into a deck, and keeping all of it updated as new information comes in has stayed stubbornly manual, even for people who use ChatGPT every day. ChatGPT Work, which OpenAI launched…
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Paris based Mistral AI unveiled its first robotics model on July 8, marking Europe’s leading AI startup’s formal entry into what the industry has started calling “physical AI” AI systems built to perceive and act in the real world rather than just generate text. The move follows deals with major European industrial customers including Airbus…
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OpenAI has posted a job listing for a San Francisco-based product manager dedicated specifically to building AI experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a listing spotted by TechCrunch. It’s worth being precise about what this is and isn’t: there’s no new ChatGPT feature set shipping yet, and OpenAI didn’t respond to requests…
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xAI shipped Grok 4.5 on July 8, describing it as the company’s first model trained specifically for coding and agentic work, positioned as a workhorse capable of frontier-level performance at a fraction of the cost of rivals. Independent testing over the following two days has largely confirmed the cost claim and complicated almost everything else.…
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Google will launch Africa’s first applied artificial intelligence laboratory in Accra, aiming to help African startups build AI-powered products and scale them into globally competitive businesses. The company announced the initiative on July 1 in Johannesburg during its first Google Cloud Summit in Africa, where it also confirmed it had exceeded its goal of investing…
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Nigeria has emerged as Africa’s highest-ranked country in the 2026 Global Index on Responsible AI, placing 38th out of 135 countries with an overall score of 45.93 out of 100. The ranking, published by the Global Center on AI Governance, is the second edition of an index that measures not just whether countries have adopted…