South Korea Commits $518B to Samsung and SK Hynix Fabs
South Korea announced an 800 trillion won chip investment plan to build four new fabs with Samsung and SK Hynix in the country's southwest, targeting AI memory dominance through 2035.
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Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Quality Fails
Ford climbed from No. 15 to No. 1 in JD Power's 2026 quality study - not by deploying more AI, but by admitting it had over-relied on automation and bringing back 350 veteran engineers to fix what the machines got wrong.
DeepMind Maps Four Routes from AGI to Superintelligence
A 57-page DeepMind paper by co-founder Shane Legg identifies four pathways from AGI to superintelligence and six bottlenecks that could block each route.
Apple's Vision Pro Chief Joins OpenAI Hardware Unit
Paul Meade, Apple's VP for the Vision Pro and smart glasses, is joining OpenAI's io hardware division - the most senior hardware engineering defection yet in a two-year talent war that is reshaping who builds the next computing platform.
Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro Past Its I/O Promise
Gemini 3.5 Pro missed its June launch window promised at Google I/O, slipping to July as four senior researchers departed for rivals.
US Clears Anthropic Mythos 5 for 100 Trusted Partners
The Commerce Department partially lifts its two-week export ban on Anthropic's most powerful model, clearing Mythos 5 for ~100 US companies and agencies while keeping Fable 5 blocked.
Ban on Anthropic Models Fuels Asia's AI Race
Two weeks after the US banned Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 globally, Tokyo's Sakana AI and China's 360 Security have moved to fill the vacuum with frontier-class alternatives.
Adobe Acquires Topaz Labs and Its Local AI Engine
Adobe's deal to buy Topaz Labs is less about upscaling filters and more about NeuroStream, the on-device inference engine that runs large AI video models on consumer RTX GPUs.
OpenAI Delays IPO to 2027 as Altman Holds Out for $1T
Sam Altman has rejected any sub-trillion IPO valuation as a nonstarter, pushing the listing to 2027 while SoftBank takes a 13% hit and SpaceX's stumbling debut makes the wait look smarter.
General Intuition Raises $320M to Train AI on Gameplay
General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation on the bet that billions of hours of video game footage - with action labels - can train AI agents that operate in the real world.
Five Eyes Warn: Frontier AI Will Break Defenses in Months
The intelligence agencies of five allied nations issued a joint statement warning that frontier AI will fundamentally transform offensive cybersecurity within months, not years - and that most organizations are not ready.
Anthropic Tells Senate Alibaba Stole Claude's Capabilities
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 28.8 million unauthorized exchanges against Claude through 25,000 fake accounts, and urged Congress to tighten export controls on AI model access.
