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🔴 Breaking · Funding

Anthropic and Blackstone Bet AI's Next Trillion Is Implementation

Ode, a $1.5B AI-implementation venture, launches with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman — a wager that services, not models, capture the value.

Suman Guha · 5d ago

Policy

AI Safety Index: Anthropic Tops at C+, Most Labs Fail

The Future of Life Institute's 2026 index grades labs on risk, transparency, and governance — Anthropic leads with a C+, while xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral effectively fail.

recodeai Staff · 5d ago

Chips & Infra

TSMC Posts Record Revenue as Anthropic Eyes Samsung for Custom Chips

TSMC's June revenue rose 68% YoY with N3 sold out through year-end, while Anthropic opens talks with Samsung for custom Claude inference chips to attack a $1.25B monthly compute bill.

Suman Guha · 5d ago

AI Models

Anthropic Adds Karpathy and Monzo's Tom Blomfield

Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI director and OpenAI founding member, and Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield reportedly join Anthropic, with Blomfield on the compute team.

recodeai Staff · 5d ago

Agents

OpenAI Folds Codex and a Browser Into ChatGPT Work

ChatGPT Work is an agent built to run multi-hour jobs with native Google Drive, Slack, and Salesforce connections, launched alongside a full-duplex GPT-Live voice mode.

recodeai Staff · 6d ago

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LAST UPDATED: JUL 20, 2026 — 05:24 IST

Investing in multi-agent AI safety research Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually pe Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule& Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to sha Moonshot Plans IPO in Six Months After China AI Breakthrough Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all Investing in multi-agent AI safety research Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually pe Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule& Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to sha Moonshot Plans IPO in Six Months After China AI Breakthrough Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all

🔴 Breaking

Alibaba’s Qwen Unveils Preview of Flagship AI Model

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. launched a preview version of its flagship Qwen3.8 Max model, which it described as comparable to leading frontier AI models and second only to Anthropic PBC’s Fable 5.

🔴 Breaking

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google first reveal

🔴 Breaking

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record n

HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.

🟡 Notable

New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ̵

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using "AI

🟡 Notable

Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard

Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.

🟡 Notable

Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europ

Google must give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search after the European Union ordered the company to comply with the bloc's digital antitrust rules. The two decisions, handed down Thursday,

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