Meta to Start Making Its Iris AI Chip in September, Memo Shows
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house Iris AI chip in September as it aims to double computing capacity to 14 gigawatts next year and cut its reliance on Nvidia.
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SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.5, a Cheaper Coding Model Built With Cursor
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OpenAI Launches GPT-Live, a Voice AI That Listens While It Talks
OpenAI released GPT-Live, full-duplex voice models that listen and speak at once and hand hard questions to GPT-5.5, replacing ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode globally.
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Meta to Build Its First Canadian Data Center in Alberta
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Olivia Grant
Meta will build its first Canadian data center, a 1-gigawatt AI facility in Alberta costing about C$13 billion, powered largely by a dedicated natural gas plant.
OpenAI to Launch GPT-5.6 Publicly After Government Review
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Maria Konash
OpenAI will release its GPT-5.6 models, Sol, Terra and Luna, to the public on July 9 after clearing US government review far faster than the 30-day window the rules envisioned.
Meta Launches Muse Image AI Amid Instagram Privacy Backlash
Meta released Muse Image, a free AI image generator, but a feature that lets users turn any public Instagram user's photos into AI images, opt-out by default, has sparked backlash.
Nvidia’s Kyber AI Rack Reportedly Delayed to 2028 on Board Snag
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Olivia Grant
Nvidia's Kyber rack for its 2027 Rubin Ultra chips has slipped more than a year to 2028 over a hard-to-manufacture circuit board, SemiAnalysis says, with no proven fallback.
Meta Quietly Launches Pocket, an App for AI-Generated Games
Meta quietly released Pocket, an app that lets people build small interactive games from text prompts and share them in a TikTok-style feed, built on its Gizmo acquisition.
AI Spending Set to Surpass US Defense Budget by 2027
Big Tech's AI capital spending is projected to reach about 3.2% of US GDP by 2027, overtaking national defense spending as a share of the economy for the first time.
Alibaba Internally Bans Claude Code Use Over Alleged Backdoor Concerns
Alibaba will bar employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code from July 10 over alleged security risks, after developers found code that detects China-linked users.
Zuckerberg Admits Meta’s AI Agent Bets Have Not Paid Off Yet
Mark Zuckerberg told employees that Meta's AI agents have progressed slower than expected and its restructuring was "not as clean" as planned, a rare admission amid huge AI spending.
Microsoft is Spending $2.5 Billion to Put Engineers Inside Its Customers’ Companies
Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in Frontier, a new unit that will embed 6,000 engineers with customers to help them adopt AI, joining a wider industry race into hands-on deployment.
Cloudflare Opens Waitlist for a Gateway That Charges AI Agents in Stablecoins
Cloudflare opened a waitlist for its Monetization Gateway, which lets sites charge AI agents in stablecoins for any page, dataset, API or tool, with no accounts or API keys.