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AI News
Jul 21, 2026 135

America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI

Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The re...

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Jul 21, 2026 95

Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation

The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and h...

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Jul 21, 2026 81

Bristol Myers Squibb buys Nvidia AI system for drug discovery

Bristol Myers Squibb is purchasing an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD built on the chipmaker’s Vera Rubin architecture to support artificial intellig...

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Jul 21, 2026 154

Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else

Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.

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Jul 21, 2026 80

Chinese open-weight models are cheap. Washington is deciding what that costs.

Enterprises evaluating Chinese open-weight models this month face a question that has nothing to do with benchmarks: whether using one wi...

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Jul 21, 2026 74

Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

AI News
Jul 20, 2026 94

Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned

The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position ...

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Jul 20, 2026 241

Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over

Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than...

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Jul 20, 2026 209

Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.

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Jul 20, 2026 250

SpaceX in your index fund, explained

Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet o...

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Jul 20, 2026 90

AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access exte...

AI News
Jul 20, 2026 68

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.