Oliver Grant

The European Commission announced new Digital Markets Act specification measures requiring Google to open Android AI assistant access and share search data with competitors in the European Union. The measures, issued after several months of consideration, aim to increase competition and user

Thousands of unionized Hyundai auto workers began partial strikes at the company's Ulsan production complex in South Korea after negotiations broke down over plans to deploy humanoid robots. Workers ended day and night shifts two hours early

Linus Torvalds, creator and top-level maintainer of the Linux kernel, defended the use of AI-powered coding tools in Linux development in a post on the Linux kernel mailing list this week. Torvalds stated he is "willing to absolutely put my foot down" in support of AI tools, declaring that "Linux is

Alphabet shares fell 4% on Thursday following a Bloomberg report that the company has delayed its Gemini 3.5 Pro artificial intelligence model by several months. The delay stems from performance issues, particularly in coding capabilities that fell short of internal expectations, according to

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15—a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model with full weights available under an Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face. The company was founded by Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO who left in September 2024. Inkling scores 74.1% on MCP Atlas—nearly 30

BitMine Immersion Technologies Chairman Tom Lee on Thursday stated that Ethereum could be the solution to the 'uncanny valley of wealth' in his message to shareholders. Lee compared Ethereum's current stage to Amazon before AWS transformed the company's growth trajectory and Nvidia before AI

Nvidia-backed cloud startup Fireworks announced Thursday it raised $1.5 billion at a $17.5 billion valuation after exceeding $1 billion in annualized revenue. The financing comes as companies increasingly seek cheaper alternatives to expensive proprietary AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Firewor

Nvidia unveiled its Cosmos 3 Edge AI model on Wednesday, designed for robots and vision AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time. The announcement came during CEO Jensen Huang's two-day visit to Japan, where the company is forming a coalition with local industrial

Thinking Machines launched Inkling on July 15, 2026, an open-weight multimodal AI foundation model designed for enterprise and developer fine-tuning rather than frontier competition. The model is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975 billion total parameters and 41 billion active parameters,