AI and Intelligence

Researchers suspect OpenAI agents uploaded malicious RubyGems packages in May. OpenAI describes the activity as benign and says it is investigating.

Situational Awareness’s filings show a shift in disclosed holdings and heavy SanDisk–Micron concentration. They do not reveal the fund’s full net exposure.

Palantir’s Q2 2026 results show explosive commercial growth and higher guidance, but investors must weigh AIP momentum against valuation risk.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hits human-level computer use (72.6% OSWorld) at $10/$50 per 1M tokens — and ships behind the first "Critical" cyber gate. What it means.

Reports of DeepMind coding research moving to California raise questions about London’s AI cluster. TECHi examines the evidence and Google’s response.

AMD fell 3.7% and Intel 4% while Nvidia held near flat. The market is separating chipmakers that can pass on rising input costs from those that cannot.

Tesla's Cybercab is heading into robotaxi service this month on hardware no customer car has. The fleet that finally drives itself is the one Tesla kept.

ByteDance and Tencent each received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips. US licences permit 75,000 per customer. The gap says more than the approval did.

Samsung's foundry share fell to 7.3% from 11.5% in a year, yet it raised advanced chip prices up to 15%, sooner and steeper than TSMC. What that signals.

King’s Cross shows how AI labs turn proximity into economic infrastructure, tightening demand for talent and offices while remote hiring limits the premium.

OpenAI says Astra may reach its Critical cyber threshold, but key test results remain private. Here is what the disclosure proves—and what it does not.

Firebird opened its Armenia AI factory, but the 70,000-GPU, 300 MW vision still depends on power, financing and customers. Here is what is actually live today.

Kalanick's Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with no valuation disclosed — a bet that physical-AI profit belongs to whoever owns the kitchens, mines and trucks.

Alphabet posted record Q2 2026 net income and its first negative free cash flow together. Why $44.9B of AI capex — not the profit — is the real story.

Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 puts image, video, audio and robot-action prediction in one model — and holds the open weights back. Here's the market read.

Upper90 will lend General Compute up to $400 million secured by SambaNova inference chips, not Nvidia GPUs. Why inference silicon as loan collateral is an untested bet.

Fireworks AI raised $1.505B at a $17.5B valuation. The number that matters is 95%: nearly all its tokens come from customer-specialized models, not raw open weights.

Tesla fell 14.5% to an 11-month low after Q2 margins hit 1.4%. Post-earnings analyst price targets now split from $130 to $600 — here's what it means for TSLA.

Tesla's Q2 2026 revenue rose 26% to a record $28.24B, but operating income fell 57% and margin sank to 1.4% as robotaxi and AI capex hit $5.79B. What it means for TSLA.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, the largest open-weight model ever, opens July 27. It's cheap per token but needs ~1.4TB resident — here's who can really run it.

OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA/ServiceNow, and Google shipped enterprise agent platforms in a month — and disagree on what the product is. The market-structure read for buyers.

Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a restricted 3.5 Flash Cyber model. Why the gated cybersecurity variant is the real signal in the release.

Palantir stock fell about 6% on July 22 as NHS scrutiny, an open-source tool, and valuation nerves converged. Why the real test is the August 3 earnings print.

From August 2, 2026 the EU's AI Office can audit GPAI models, demand fixes and fine up to 3% of turnover. Who is exposed — and what to verify now.