Situational Awareness drops 67% in a month: the trial of the true believers
A Situational Awareness investment vehicle loses two-thirds of its value in a month during the July AI rout.
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MiniMax H3 open-source: Chinese lab breaks the price of full-modal
MiniMax releases H3, an open-source full-modal (text, image, audio, video) model at one-third the price of competitors. The AI video market stops being binary: expensive closed-source or weak open-source.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:50 10 12
Altman: an AI power monopoly would be a 'long-term disaster'
After the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's CEO reframes closed AI as a risk vector - spread the capabilities, and the safety bar rises with them.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 8 11
LG CNS joins CuspAI-led consortium (Nvidia, Meta, AMD, 3M, Merck) - Korea's SI layer buys a seat
LG CNS joined the AI consortium launched by UK startup CuspAI - whose members include Nvidia, Meta, AMD, 3M and Merck. The Korean SI layer moves closer to a materials-and-molecules AI stack.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:16 7 8
OpenAI places ads inside ChatGPT - the business model of the super app finally reveals itself
ads.openai.com is live. After the ChatGPT = Codex pivot and the 10M Codex/ChatGPT Work users, OpenAI is now branching into ad monetization. The super-app transition is almost complete.
Jul 22, 2026 at 12:42 17 10
Facial-recognition smart locks work - and that changes the consumer biometrics debate
The Verge tests facial recognition locks and concludes, to everyone's surprise: they work. The real debate is no longer about reliability - it's about what is done with the data.
Jul 19, 2026 at 00:39 7 8
Reflection signs $1M in compute with Nebius: open-weight pays for a factory
A two-year-old startup, valued at $8 billion, spends a billion calculations to train open models. The bet: regulatory restrictions on closed systems make open-source strategic—not just nice.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:30 14 7
India: the government puts ministries on pause on OpenAI and Anthropic
A directive from MeitY asks central agencies to suspend any deployment of American LLMs, pending a review of safety and sovereignty.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 7 10