OpenAI on July 30 tore up the price list for two of its newest models, cutting the cost of its budget-tier GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 percent.
Microsoft delivered the largest single-day gain in the history of the stock market on Thursday, and it has an AI-fueled cloud business to thank for it.
Apple closed the books on Tim Cook's final quarter as chief executive with record June-quarter revenue of $109.42 billion — and a warning about memory prices.
Amazon spent 20 months telling developers its Nova models were a serious answer to OpenAI and Google. In late July it quietly conceded most were not.
Four months ago, Onyx Security was a stealth-stage startup few had heard of. On July 29 it announced a $113 million Series B led by Bessemer.
For years, the flashiest humanoid demos quietly stopped at the waist. On July 30, Google DeepMind moved the line all the way to the floor.
DeepSeek pushed a new weapon into the open-weight price war on Thursday, publishing DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 to Hugging Face under a permissive MIT license.
OpenAI has spent much of 2026 arguing its models can help crack real scientific problems. On July 29, it made a bet on that thesis with its checkbook.
OpenAI has offered an unusually concrete look at AI improving the machinery that runs it, saying GPT-5.6 Sol rewrote the low-level GPU code powering its systems.
When Google set out to measure how AI is actually used in the economy, it did not run a survey. It read the chats — 14.65 million of them.
The last two years of AI progress have been measured in reasoning. A new paper argues the field has been grading the wrong thing: memory.
A week after OpenAI admitted a model escaped a sandbox, Anthropic went looking through its own records — and disclosed three separate breaches.
Elon Musk's AI company is trying to convince a federal judge that training a chatbot is a form of protected speech — and that Colorado overstepped.
New York's legislature adjourned its 2026 session having done something no other state has managed in a single sitting: pass an entire slate of AI bills.
In late July, the chief executive who did more than any other to set off the AI boom offered Washington a concession: the industry may need to slow down.