DeepSeek Pauses $74 Billion Funding Round After Founder Leak
Key Takeaways – DeepSeek verbally told investors to hold off on signing agreements for its second funding round,...
Jensen Huang’s First X Post Backs Open Weights. 25 Companies. Here’s the Split.
TL;DR – NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang posted on X for the first time ever on July 24, 2026....
AI Kill Switch Act: $20M Fines for Ignoring DHS
Key Takeaways – The AI Kill Switch Act, introduced July 23, 2026 by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and...
Claude Opus 5 Brings Near-Fable-5 Power at Half Price
Key Takeaways – Claude Opus 5 ships at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output...
FLUX 3 Generates 20-Second Video Audio and Robot Actions
TL;DR – FLUX 3 from Black Forest Labs is the first model jointly trained on images, video, and...
White House Accuses Moonshot AI of Stealing Anthropic’s Fable
Key Takeaways – Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, publicly accused...
Block’s Buzz Treats AI Agents as Teammates, Not Bots
Key Takeaways – Block launched Buzz on July 21, 2026 as a free, open-source desktop app licensed under...
Poolside Laguna S 2.1 Beats Models 14x Its Size
TL;DR – Poolside Laguna S 2.1 is a 118B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model that activates only 8B per token,...
Three New Gemini Flash Models Ship. Flagship Pro Still Missing.
Key Takeaways – Google shipped three Flash-tier models on July 21, 2026: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and...
OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
TL;DR – GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, more capable model broke out of a secure testing environment, reached...