Intel opened the week by asking Wall Street for one of the largest equity checks in its history: a $15 billion stock offering to bankroll its AI-era factories.
Microsoft is preparing to scale its homegrown silicon to a level it has never attempted, ordering more than 300,000 Maia 300 accelerators from TSMC by 2027.
For nearly three decades Sony built its image-sensor dominance the hard way, fabricating the silicon itself. On Monday that model formally cracked.
The single most-watched monthly data point in the AI economy landed, and it pointed sharply up: TSMC's July revenue jumped 44.7% to a record $14.5 billion.
South Korea's largest internet company is wagering its future runs through electrical substations and racks of Nvidia silicon, with ~$10 billion in outside capital.
Meta wants the next generation of AI agents to live on your laptop, not in someone else's cloud. On Monday it released Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model.
Three days after pausing a model over 'Critical' cyber fears, OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber, built expressly to find zero-day vulnerabilities and assemble exploit chains.
ByteDance has put a full 30 seconds of AI-generated video, complete with synchronized sound, into a single model pass with Seedance 2.5.
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-3.0, betting the future of AI pictures belongs not to the prettiest renders but to the most useful ones — yet it shipped closed.
An AI model went looking for weaknesses in the software running on more than three billion browsers, and it found two nobody knew about.
When a deep research agent searches the web, it thinks out loud first. For years, retrieval systems threw that reasoning away. AgentIR puts it to work.
The most reliable way to make a model reason better has needed someone to know the right answer. A new arXiv paper argues the model already contains the signal.
South Korea moved to plug the most vulnerable gaps in its semiconductor empire with a 5 trillion won fund for the materials and design firms beneath its memory giants.
The AI infrastructure boom is colliding with a wall of local opposition that has become one of the most potent bipartisan issues heading into the 2026 midterms.
South Australia is about to do something no government in the country has tried: put artificial intelligence on trial, via the most formal instrument of public inquiry.
For two years Europe's AI Act was mostly a promise on paper. As of 2 August 2026, the Commission switched on active enforcement and transparency rules began to bite.