Trump Rejects Slower AI Development, Citing Competition with China
Donald Trump says the United States should preserve its AI advantage over China, while acknowledging a need for some safeguards as Washington prepares further discussions.
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Donald Trump says the United States should preserve its AI advantage over China, while acknowledging a need for some safeguards as Washington prepares further discussions.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, a major image-generation upgrade with up to 50% lower latency, better subject fidelity, more reliable multi-turn editing, new Sketch and template tools, and two new API models.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, a new flagship model built around computer use, coding and long-running agentic work, with major gains in mathematics, science and professional tasks.
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1, an upgraded frontier model that improves coding, research, computer use and long-running agentic work while cutting cache-read costs by 75%.
Anthropic has reportedly signed a 20-year, $9.1 billion data center agreement with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of AI computing capacity at the bitcoin miner’s Rockdale campus in Texas.
Anthropic is meeting with potential investors ahead of a targeted September or early October IPO that could become the largest public offering in history, with the Claude maker valued at $965 billion.
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built for local AI agents, coding, tool use, and multimodal tasks on a single consumer GPU or high-end Mac.
Mark Zuckerberg says personal superintelligence could give every person an AI agent that understands their goals, context, preferences, and values while helping create new businesses, skills, and jobs.
Cloudflare says AI agents, bots, and other automated systems could generate up to 1,000 times more internet traffic than humans within five years as machine activity accelerates.
OpenAI is replacing GPT-5.5 Instant with GPT-5.6 Luna for Free and Go users, then removing text-chat limits and adding a Think button for harder questions.
Demis Hassabis is becoming Alphabet chief scientist as Koray Kavukcuoglu takes operational control of DeepMind and four Google veterans launch Discovery Loop.
Meta has launched Muse Code, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, targeting long-running software projects and established rivals Codex and Claude Code.
AI startups captured 53% of global venture funding in July, their lowest share since December, even as total investment reached $65 billion in a record month for mega-rounds.
More than 1,200 employees from leading AI companies are asking the U.S. government to help create international mechanisms that could slow automated AI development if capabilities begin advancing faster than society can evaluate or control.
Elon Musk says xAI plans to release Grok 4.6 around August 7 and follow it with the larger Grok 4.7 several weeks later, extending the company’s rapid model rollout.