Samsung Health will delete your data if you refuse AI training consent
Samsung Health updated its policy and users who refuse AI training consent face deletion of cloud health data including sleep, medications, and cycle tracking.
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Utorok 14. júla 2026
DeepSeek Mulls New Funding Round at $71 Billion Valuation
Chinese AI leader DeepSeek is exploring a new funding round at a $71 billion pre-money valuation — just weeks after closing its $7.4 billion June 2026 round. The 42% valuation jump reflects surging global demand for its models.
Satya Nadella warns companies using AI: Proprietary AI models are Trojan horses
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that enterprises using proprietary AI models unknowingly pay twice — once for tokens and once by surrendering proprietary know-how — and calls for distillation rights.
TSMC Posts Record Q2 2026 Revenue Up 36% Year-on-Year Driven by AI Chips
TSMC posted record Q2 2026 revenue of $39.6 billion, up 36% year-over-year. AI chips account for roughly a quarter of annual revenue, with 3nm capacity fully booked through Q1 2027.
Google, Microsoft, Salesforce back rival AI agent standard to challenge Anthropic's MCP
Five major tech companies agreed on a shared standard for connecting AI agents to business software, directly challenging Anthropic's MCP which has become the de facto industry standard over the past 18 months.
Finland's NestAI Builds Sovereign AI Tools for European Militaries
Finnish startup NestAI has launched an AI engine for Finnish and Estonian armed forces covering operational planning and drone management. The system runs offline on sovereign servers and integrates with Nokia for resilient battlefield connectivity.
Goldman Sachs picks its favorite Chinese AI models — DeepSeek and ByteDance top the list
Goldman Sachs published a report on China's AI ecosystem naming DeepSeek and Zhipu (GLM) as the best positioned and projecting API and subscription revenue growth from ¥35B in 2026 to ¥879B in 2030.
DeepSeek Founder Liang Wenfeng Tops Amodei and Brockman as World's Richest AI Founder
Following the latest valuation jump, Liang Wenfeng's net worth reached $36 billion, surpassing Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Greg Brockman of OpenAI.
AI Is Changing Older Workers' Careers — Many Are Choosing Early Retirement
CNBC published research on July 13 showing that after ChatGPT's release, the share of white-collar workers aged 55+ leaving the workforce surged — AI is accelerating involuntary exits in the tech sector.
Masayoshi Son: Nuclear Fusion Is the Future of AI Power — World Needs 3 Terawatts by 2040
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son predicts the world will need 3 terawatts of data center capacity by 2040 and identifies nuclear fusion as the long-term energy solution for AI, with natural gas dominant in the near term.
India's TCS plans up to 8,900 AI deployment engineers, seeks AI acquisitions
Tata Consultancy Services plans to convert 1–1.5% of its 593,000 employees into AI forward-deployed engineers who implement AI systems directly at clients — mirroring Palantir and OpenAI's Northslope strategy.
Nathan Lambert: Open Frontier Models Have '6 Months to Live' as US Executive Order Looms
Allen AI researcher Nathan Lambert predicts the White House will issue an executive order restricting open-weight models above GPT-5.5 levels within six months, and criticizes Anthropic for regulatory capture against Chinese open-source AI.
Waze adds AI-powered features: personalized routes, Gemini conversational search, and Motorcycle mode
Google on July 13, 2026 launched a major Waze AI update with personalized routes based on driving history, Gemini-powered conversational search, and a new Motorcycle mode for seven countries.
xAI Appeals Dismissal of Trade Secret Lawsuit Against OpenAI
xAI has appealed to the 9th Circuit after a federal judge dismissed its trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI in June 2026. OpenAI is seeking over $1 million in legal fees.
China Posts Record $412 Billion June Exports as AI Supercycle Drives Chip Demand
China's exports hit a record $412 billion in June 2026, up 27% year-over-year. The AI investment supercycle is a key driver — chip imports from South Korea rose 85% and from Taiwan 41%.
Pondelok 13. júla 2026
Helsing raises $1.8 billion in Europe's biggest defense-startup round
European defense AI company Helsing closed a $1.8B Series E at an $18B valuation — the largest-ever funding round for a European defense tech startup. Investors include Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Dragoneer, Lightspeed, and JPMorgan.
DeepSeek cut prices 75%. The 100x problem remains
Despite DeepSeek's permanent 75% V4-Pro price cut, enterprise AI vendors still face negative gross margins because agentic systems consume tokens 700x faster than single-query pricing models assumed.
Automation Without Understanding: AI proves math while US cuts human mathematician funding
A new arXiv paper warns that as AI systems produce legitimate mathematics, the US is simultaneously cutting support for human mathematicians — creating a critical verification gap that cannot be quickly rebuilt.
OpenAI IPO confidential S-1 progresses — public prospectus potentially arriving late July 2026
Reuters signals that OpenAI's public prospectus could arrive by late July 2026, with a potential September debut. The company targets a $730B–$1T valuation despite projecting $14B in 2026 losses.
Can we understand how large language models reason? Mechanistic interpretability meets causality theory
Communications of the ACM published a survey of mechanistic interpretability, explaining how researchers apply formal causality theory to uncover reasoning pathways inside transformer weights.
Researchers raise concerns that heavy AI use may atrophy human critical thinking skills
A Microsoft/Carnegie Mellon study of 319 knowledge workers found that heavier AI use correlates with measurable declines in critical thinking and independent problem-solving. Researchers coined 'cognitive debt' for skills eroded by AI delegation.
Irish data centers now consume 23% of the country's electricity
Irish data centers now account for 23% of national electricity consumption, driven by AI infrastructure concentration in Dublin, straining the grid and reigniting planning controversies.
Funds fret over $4.4 trillion AI trio's grip on emerging markets
Institutional investors are growing uneasy with the concentration of three AI mega-cap stocks worth $4.4 trillion dominating emerging market indices — funds like JPMorgan AM and GMO are beginning to rotate out.
Nedeľa 12. júla 2026
Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
Mesh LLM lets you pool GPU resources across machines over the iroh P2P network, presenting as a single local OpenAI-compatible endpoint so you can run larger models without larger hardware.
AI Bots Now Generate 57-58% of All Web Traffic
According to Cloudflare Radar and other sources, AI agents and crawlers now generate the majority of web traffic — humans are in the minority.
The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human
Chinese voice actor Shen Anyu discovered that unauthorized AI clones of his voice spread so widely that platforms began flagging his own recordings as synthetic, cutting off his income as clients switched to cheap AI alternatives.
Wall Street: AI Demand Is Driving Chip Stock Volatility
CNBC charts how record AI demand for chips and data centers is creating extreme volatility in tech stocks despite historically high valuations.
Big Tech Carbon Emissions Equal a Third of France's: Data Centers in Crisis
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google together produce CO₂ emissions equivalent to a third of France's annual emissions, with AI workloads accelerating the growth.
New EU rules put a driver-watching AI camera in every new car starting July 7
Starting July 7, 2026, all new EU vehicles must include a camera-based driver distraction warning system analyzing gaze and head position, triggering an alert when attention drifts for more than 3.5 seconds above 50 km/h.
Australia vs. Anthropic: Battle Over AI Training Data Copyright
Australian publishers and artists are pressuring the government to force Anthropic and other AI companies to pay for training data protected by copyright.
FTC Seeks Public Comment on Policy Statement Addressing AI Accuracy and Output Suppression
The FTC proposed a policy statement arguing that AI output suppression or steering for ideological reasons, political pressure, or liability avoidance may constitute deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act. Comments due July 31.
Chinese AI Scientist Calls Out Zhipu: Letter on AGI Responsibility
Tang Jie, a researcher at Zhipu AI, wrote an open letter to colleagues about the need for responsible AGI development, sparking debate in the Chinese AI community.
Fed Chair Warsh Taps a16z's Marc Andreessen to Co-Lead AI and Productivity Task Force
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh appointed a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead the first Fed external task force studying how AI reshapes productivity, jobs, and monetary policy — alongside Stanford economist Charles I. Jones and Microsoft Xbox CEO Asha Sharma.
Terence Tao: How I Used AI Coding Agents for Math Visualization
Fields Medal winner Terence Tao describes practical experiences using AI coding agents for creating mathematical visualizations — what worked and what didn't.
Inviting Hard Questions
Anthropic launched a public campaign asking for the hardest questions about AI that companies typically avoid, committing to answer them transparently by showing full reasoning, not just conclusions.
Mindwalk: Open-Source Tool for 3D Replay of AI Agent Coding Sessions
The Show HN project Mindwalk allows recording and replaying AI agent coding sessions in 3D space, making it easier to debug and review agent decisions.
Nvidia and CoreWeave: Circular GPU Financing Under the Microscope
IO Fund analyzes how Nvidia finances GPU clouds like CoreWeave and Nebius, which then buy Nvidia chips — a circular structure that inflates revenues on both sides.
Sobota 11. júla 2026
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple filed a federal lawsuit in Northern California on July 10, 2026, accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a coordinated campaign to steal confidential information about upcoming AI hardware products. Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan, a 24-year Apple veteran, allegedly directed the scheme.
Big Tech Doubles Debt Load to $350 Billion in AI Spending Spree
The five biggest US data center builders collectively added $350 billion in debt over five years to fund AI infrastructure, fundamentally reshaping big tech economics from high-margin software to capital-intensive infrastructure.
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
The day after Sol Ultra became globally available, OpenAI announced the model used 64 parallel subagents to produce a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture in under an hour. The proof PDF and prompt are publicly available.
Jailbreaks to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 unlock dangerous cyber capabilities, U.K. agency finds
The UK AI Security Institute found universal jailbreaks in GPT-5.6 Sol enabling autonomous vulnerability discovery and system exploitation, characterizing them as potentially more severe than the Fable 5 flaws that triggered US export controls on Anthropic.
EU AI Act Enforcement Is Here: Chatbot Rules Live, High-Risk AI Delay Now Binding Law
From July 10, 2026, the EU AI Act's transparency requirements for chatbots and interactive AI systems are in effect. Frontier models trained above 10^25 FLOP must complete mandatory audits — which is why Grok 4.5 remains unavailable in the EU a week after its global launch.
'HalluSquatting' Turns AI Hallucinations Into Botnet Delivery Mechanism
Researchers uncovered HalluSquatting, which exploits LLMs' tendency to hallucinate package names — attackers pre-register these fake names and embed malicious payloads, achieving 85–100% infection rates through trusted AI coding assistants.
"God has helped us, and so will AI": How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI
The Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy released a report based on interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members. Both factions institutionally use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek for attack planning, weapons troubleshooting, and explosive device design.
Microsoft's 25% emissions spike exposes true AI datacenter energy costs after dropping offset credits
After dropping controversial renewable energy offset credits, Microsoft's sustainability report reveals a 25% emissions jump driven by AI datacenter expansion, exposing the true environmental cost previously masked by accounting.
Meta's new AI chips will begin production in September
An internal Meta memo reviewed by Reuters revealed plans to begin manufacturing its in-house ASIC chip Iris via TSMC in September 2026. Iris was co-developed with Broadcom and cleared bug-testing in six weeks. Meta aims to double compute from 7 GW to 14 GW and reduce NVIDIA dependence.
OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday
OpenAI is shutting down its standalone Atlas browser on August 9, less than a year after launch, merging browser-based agent features into the unified ChatGPT desktop app as the company pivots to ChatGPT Work as its workplace platform.
AI-Powered Entrepreneurs Set to Launch Record Number of New Businesses
A Bloomberg analysis shows AI is helping a record number of people launch businesses in the US by lowering entry barriers. However, analysts warn: the same tools help questionable business plans too, which could lead to a record wave of rapid failures.
Large language models can predict the results of social science experiments
A Nature study found LLMs predict outcomes of 70 preregistered social science experiments involving 119,330 participants with r=.83 correlation, outperforming expert human forecasters for large multi-treatment studies.
Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat's Last Theorem
A team led by Kevin Buzzard at Imperial College London is using AI to encode Fermat's Last Theorem into the Lean proof assistant library Mathlib, with the codebase doubling on the first day of the collaborative effort.
All Rise: Internet Court For AI Agents Is In Session
As AI agents trade and negotiate autonomously on behalf of humans, crypto firms are developing blockchain-based dispute resolution and AI-powered juries for the emerging agentic economy.
Piatok 10. júla 2026
Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust
Nobel laureate and former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke was appointed to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust on July 9, 2026, adding economic crisis expertise to the company's AI governance body.
EU Parliament Extends Chat Control 1.0 Via Procedural Trick — AI Message Scanning Until April 2028
The EU Parliament effectively extended Chat Control 1.0 to April 2028 on July 9: 314 MEPs voted against but fell short of the 361 absolute majority needed to block it, allowing voluntary AI-powered message scanning to continue.
Can AI Answer the $3 Trillion Question? The ROI Debate Returns With Even Bigger Numbers
TechCrunch examines mounting pressure on AI's ROI case: with ~$1.5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending in 2026, the industry must generate roughly $3 trillion in returns to justify committed capital.
Amazon's Secret 'Moonraker' Project: Agentic Alexa Upgrade With $100M+ in Projected GPU Costs
Internal Amazon documents reveal Project Moonraker, a secret plan to make Alexa a true AI agent capable of chaining multi-step tasks, with projected 2026 GPU costs exceeding $100 million and internal doubts about feasibility.
NEvo: AI Generates Videos Optimized to Maximally Drive Specific Brain Regions in Visual Cortex
EPFL researchers published NEvo, a neural-guided evolutionary video synthesis framework that generates video stimuli outperforming handcrafted localizer videos at activating target regions across the visual cortex.
Štvrtok 9. júla 2026
Anthropic Crosses $47 Billion Annualized Revenue Run Rate, Up From $30B Two Months Ago
Anthropic announced it crossed a $47 billion annualized revenue run rate, up from the $30B milestone hit just two months earlier, signaling rapid enterprise adoption ahead of its IPO.
Mistral AI renames Le Chat to Vibe, enters industrial AI with Airbus, BMW, and ASML
Mistral AI announced rebranding Le Chat as Vibe — a unified agent platform for enterprise productivity and software development — while entering industrial AI with Airbus, BMW, and ASML partners, and planning a new data center near Paris.
General Intuition raises $320M to train robots on video game data — ambition to be the 'GPT of physical AI'
Robotics startup General Intuition raised $320M at a $2.3B valuation. CEO Pim de Witte believes robotics is undergoing a similar inflection point as NLP after GPT-3, with video game data being the key instead of real-world robot telemetry.
European Systemic Risk Board warns: frontier AI models pose systemic cyber risks to the financial sector
The ESRB issued a warning on July 7, 2026 that frontier AI models enable attackers to conduct cyberattacks at unprecedented speed and scale. European banking regulators (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA) backed the warning.