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Reports point to Moonshot readying Kimi K3, a ~2.5T-parameter MoE with a 1M-token window, pitched to challenge Claude Opus — but no model card, weights, or benchmarks have shipped.
26 Meta workers sue alleging AI-driven layoff picks targeted protected leave
The first case against a major U.S. company challenging the use of AI in a layoff process, filed Monday in federal court in Oakland.
Blumenthal and Hawley demand AI denial records from UnitedHealth, Humana, and CVS
Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are demanding internal records from the largest Medicare Advantage insurers on their use of AI to block rehabilitative care.
ASML raises 2026 guidance a second time as AI orders extend into 2028
ASML delivered Q2 net sales of €9.33 billion and net income of €2.92 billion, both above guidance, and raised its full-year outlook for the second time this year.
US lifts UAE chip curbs after Emirati airstrikes on Iran
The U.S. loosened export controls on the UAE Friday, easing shipments of Nvidia AI chips, military equipment, commercial satellites and spacecraft as the Gulf ally's role in Iran strategy grows.
SMIC scales its domestic AI-chip stack as Washington eases pressure elsewhere
China's leading foundry SMIC is expanding advanced-node output and consolidating capacity to serve Huawei's Ascend line, even as US export policy loosens for aligned Gulf states.
Nobel-laureate economists demand AI-displacement institutions before the shock lands
Roughly 200 economists, researchers and technology leaders — including Nobel laureates Daron Acemoglu, Ben Bernanke, Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz — signed an open letter demanding institutions be built now for AI-driven economic transformation.
FTC calls undisclosed AI output steering deceptive under Section 5
The Federal Trade Commission published a proposed policy statement applying Section 5's deception ban to companies marketing AI systems, with comments due July 31.
Anthropic finds Claude's values shift measurably across model versions and languages
Anthropic analyzed 309,815 real Claude conversations and found the values Claude expresses shift measurably by model version and by interface language.
TSMC posts a record June as executives insist AI demand isn't slowing
TSMC's June revenue rose 68% year over year to a record NT$442.7B, while AI executives told CNBC demand remains effectively unlimited despite chip-stock volatility.
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna hit GA on Amazon Bedrock
AWS announced OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are generally available on Amazon Bedrock via Bedrock's next-generation inference engine.
Google ships Gemini 3.5 Flash GA and Managed Agents in public preview
Google promoted its agentic Flash tier to general availability and shipped a hosted orchestration layer for building autonomous agents on top of it.