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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 · 2d 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 · 2d 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 · 2d 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 · 2d 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 · 3d ago

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LAST UPDATED: JUL 17, 2026 — 05:27 IST

Investing in multi-agent AI safety research DeepMind CEO to Lobby Washington on Plan for Group to Vet AI Models DeepMind CEO Rallies Support for International Group to Vet AI Models Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’ Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4. New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule& Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning Investing in multi-agent AI safety research DeepMind CEO to Lobby Washington on Plan for Group to Vet AI Models DeepMind CEO Rallies Support for International Group to Vet AI Models Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’ Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4. New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule& Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning

🔴 Breaking

Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emer

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🔴 Breaking

Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

🔴 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

🟡 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

How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in

🟡 Notable

Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans.

🟢 Interesting

Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.

🟢 Interesting

DeepMind CEO to Lobby Washington on Plan for Group to Vet AI

Earlier this week, Google DeepMind Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis unveiled a proposal for a new international watchdog that would do “rigorous” tests and reviews of cutting-edge AI models before release.

🟢 Interesting