2026

Mistral AI introduced a navigation model for robots and is expanding into physical AI

2026 chronicle: which tech companies officially cited AI as the reason for layoffs

Crypto venture fund Paradigm raises $1.2 billion to bet on AI and robotics

LLM·TechCrunch

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch: 1 trillion tokens a day and the split between AI models and agents

Citi analyst calls infrastructure software the top bet in the AI trade era

AI technically executed the first ransomware attack, but a human selected the target and provided access

LLM·The Verge

Anthropic launched Claude Cowork on mobile devices and in the browser

Anthropic has opened access to the Claude Cowork collaboration platform for iOS, Android, and browsers — it was previously available only in

01Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to smartphones — tasks keep running without a laptopJul 8, 2026·2 min 02Discord admits AI moderation error: hundreds of accounts blocked over harmless photosJul 8, 2026·3 min 03Microsoft bets on in-house AI models to cut costsJul 8, 2026·3 min 04AWS presented two WAF protection patterns for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore RuntimeJul 8, 2026·2 min 05China prepares reciprocal measures: foreigners may lose access to advanced AI modelsJul 8, 2026·2 min

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AI chip startup SambaNova Systems raises $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation

AI chipmaker SambaNova Systems has closed a $1 billion funding round at an $11 billion valuation as investors bet on long-term growth in dem

01Tencent develops AI agent Xiaowei for WeChat's billion usersJul 8, 2026·2 min 02Ant Group open-sources LingBot-Vision: a 1B model for robot spatial perceptionJul 8, 2026·2 min 03Chinese chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX plans to raise $800 million in Hong KongJul 8, 2026·2 min

LLM·Together AI Blog

Together AI launches guaranteed inference for open models with 99% SLA

Together AI introduced Provisioned Throughput — reserved inference capacity for MiniMax M3 and GLM-5.2 with 99% uptime SLA and savings of up

Jul 8, 2026·3 min

LLM·Guardian

Australian government: women and university graduates at highest risk of replacement by AI

Australia's first national report on AI's impact on employment: telemarketers, advertising professionals and accountants are in the highest-

LLM·Guardian

Therapist on ChatGPT in psychotherapy: patients break up on its advice — and I use it too

Psychotherapist Sara Dargut recounts how a patient broke up with her partner on ChatGPT's advice — and admits that she now turns to it herself.

LLM·3DNews AI

Neural networks are bad calculators: why LLMs fail at arithmetic and what to do about it

SkyPilot and Hugging Face launched storage with no egress fees

A 49,000-parameter neural network instead of Playwright tests for a browser strategy game

Meta released an AI image generation model for its chatbot and Instagram

Chinese chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX to raise $850M in Hong Kong after stock surge

Amazon issues $25 billion in bonds to finance AI infrastructure

Samsung disappoints market, Amazon raises $25 billion for AI infrastructure

Jul 8, 2026·3 min

LLM·Meta Corporate News

Meta Superintelligence Labs Introduces Muse Image — Meta's First Proprietary Image Generation Model

Meta launched Muse Image — the first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, available in Meta AI for billions of users.

01Allianz cuts 1,800 call center operators: travel insurance shifts to AIJul 8, 2026·2 min 02Anthropic signed a 20-year lease agreement with TeraWulf to build an AI campus in KentuckyJul 8, 2026·2 min 03China called Anthropic's Claude Code a backdoor and banned it, while the US restricts Chinese modelsJul 8, 2026·2 min 04DeepSeek begins designing own AI chip to bypass U.S. export restrictionsJul 8, 2026·2 min 05Insilico Medicine Advances AI Drug for Pulmonary Fibrosis into Final Trial PhaseJul 8, 2026·2 min

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LLM·Habr AI

Sysdig Describes First Autonomous Ransomware Attack by AI Agent Without Human Involvement

Sysdig researchers documented the first fully autonomous ransomware attack in history: an AI agent without human involvement completed the e

01Sam Altman proposes giving every American family a $300 stake in OpenAIJul 8, 2026·3 min 02American companies switch to Chinese AI — OpenAI and Anthropic have become too expensiveJul 8, 2026·2 min 03AI data centers drove up electricity bills at Ohio's oldest brick factory by 90%Jul 8, 2026·2 min

LLM·TNW

Axos Financial Acquires AI-Fintech Arc Technologies for Technology Startup Banking

American digital bank Axos Financial, with $29B in assets, acquires Arc Technologies — an AI platform for startups offering cash management

DeepSeek develops its own AI chip for its neural networks — Reuters

Chinese startup DeepSeek is designing proprietary semiconductor chips for AI systems — a strategic response to U.S. sanctions against Nvidia

Jul 8, 2026·3 min

LLM·TNW

Beijing discusses restricting foreign access to Alibaba and ByteDance AI models

China's Ministry of Commerce held a series of closed meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, and startup Z.ai, discussing possible restrictions for foreign users of leading Chinese AI models.

Samsung disappoints AI expectations — chipmaker stocks slide worldwide

Chip Maker Stocks Fall Amid Concerns Over AI Investment ROI

Gemma 4 Parses PDFs as Images: Zero-Shot Approach Without OCR and Cloud

SQL, Pandas, or AI Agents: KDnuggets Compared Three Analytics Tools by Eight Criteria

LLM·Apple ML Research

Apple ML Research: One neuron bypasses safety alignment in LLMs from 1.7 to 70 billion parameters

Apple Introduces FlowEval: Evaluating AI Interfaces Through Real Navigation Scenarios

Apple ML Research Presents Weblica — A Scalable Environment for Training Visual Web Agents

LLM·3DNews AI

Chinese Companies Ready to Allocate Up to 46% of AI Chip Budget to Local Suppliers Instead of Nvidia

Bloomberg: Chinese businesses plan to allocate nearly half their budget to AI accelerators from domestic manufacturers over the next 12 months, bypassing blocked Nvidia.