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A US district judge declined to enjoin Meta's layoffs while allowing the plaintiffs' AI-tool discrimination claim to proceed — moving the case into the discovery phase.
BMS claims "pharma's largest" NVIDIA supercomputer — the third such claim in nine months
Bristol Myers Squibb announced it is building what it calls pharma's largest NVIDIA-based AI supercomputer — the third such claim from a major drugmaker in nine months, STAT News notes.
FCA's Mills Review reframes AI as systemic financial infrastructure
The UK Financial Conduct Authority's Mills Review positions AI as part of the financial system's infrastructure, not a product feature, and asks whether current rules still fit.
Global AI stocks sink as a tech selloff wipes hundreds of billions in market value
Chip and AI names led a synchronized global rout Friday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 down 4% and China's CSI 300 down 3.6% after a weak Thursday session on Wall Street.
Xi Jinping pitches AI "openness" as China moves to shape global AI governance
Xi opened Shanghai's 2026 World AI Conference Friday with a keynote calling AI a global public good and taking aim at what he termed the "overstretching" of national-security concerns.
Apple sends legal preservation letters to about 40 former employees now at OpenAI
Apple has targeted roughly 40 former employees now at OpenAI with personal legal letters, seven days after suing the lab over alleged hardware trade-secret theft.
Google turns AI Mode Search into a task runner with connected third-party apps
Google began rolling out Connected Apps in AI Mode to US users this week, letting Search hand tasks off to Canva, YouTube Music, and Instacart inside the results page.
Moonshot ships Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model
Moonshot released Kimi K3 Friday, claiming 2.8 trillion parameters — making it the world's largest open-source model, versus DeepSeek V4 Pro's 1.6 trillion .
TSMC adds $100B US investment as AI drives Q2 profit up 77%
TSMC pledged another $100B for Arizona, raised its 2026 capex guide, and booked a record quarter — all framed by CEO C.C. Wei as a multi-year AI demand call, not a cycle.
EU AI Office publishes frontier-model expert findings on competitiveness and sovereignty
The European Commission's AI Office published a July 15 report from 100+ experts warning that "the next one to two years could be decisive" for Europe's frontier-AI position.
Gartner tells CFOs to own AI cost governance after OpenAI's pricing shift
Gartner is pushing CFO ownership of AI cost after OpenAI's July 6 shift of Workspace Agents and Excel/Sheets to token-based credit pricing — the pattern behind Uber burning its 2026 AI coding budget by April.
Microsoft trains sales team to pitch its own AI models against OpenAI and Anthropic
Bloomberg reported Microsoft used a Tuesday FY27 kickoff to arm sales with talking points positioning MAI models against Copilot rivals, including a direct Copilot-vs-Claude comparison.