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The German AI lab behind the FLUX image generation architecture launched FLUX 3, a unified multimodal model that generates 20-second video clips with native audio from a single prompt. Limited early access is now open.
The European Commission sent TikTok preliminary findings on July 24 concluding that default settings on minors' public accounts expose their content too broadly, in violation of the Digital Services Act — a finding that could lead to a fine of up to 6% of TikTok's global turnover.
AI image generator Midjourney announced its first acquisition since founding in 2021, acquiring astrology app Co-Star and its 4.3 million monthly users as it expands beyond generative art into standalone consumer apps.
A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Alibaba's Fastjson 1.x library, tracked as CVE-2026-16723, is being actively exploited against Spring Boot applications, and no official patch exists for the affected 1.x branch as of July 25, 2026.
SK Group and NVIDIA announced a partnership worth more than $500 billion covering a 2-gigawatt AI factory in South Korea and a long-term deal that gives SK Hynix roughly 70% of NVIDIA's HBM4 allocation for its Vera Rubin platform.
Samsung Electronics and Broadcom signed a memorandum of understanding at San Francisco's AI Summit covering HBM memory supply and 2-nanometer foundry manufacturing through 2030, as both companies race to meet surging AI accelerator demand.
Microchip Technology has agreed to buy Israeli edge AI chip maker Hailo, adding processors purpose-built for robotics, drones, and intelligent cameras to its embedded solutions lineup.
Anthropic's new Claude Opus 5 tops every major coding and reasoning benchmark while costing the same per token as its predecessor — and beats Fable 5 on OSWorld computer-use tasks at one-third the per-task cost.
Rivian filed suit in the US Court of International Trade seeking tens of millions in tariff refunds with interest, arguing the Supreme Court's February ruling striking down the tariffs hasn't guaranteed importers will actually get their money back.
Google's CEO confirmed Gemini 4 has begun its most ambitious pretraining run yet, but pointedly flagged coding and agentic coding as gaps the model still needs to close against OpenAI and Anthropic.
Tesla's unsupervised Robotaxi fleet shrank from 25 to 17 cars and paid miles dropped sharply, even as NHTSA logged 22 crashes since launch. Musk says the Cybercab still lacks enough of its own driving data to scale.
Alphabet posted record second-quarter revenue driven by an 82% explosion in Google Cloud — powered almost entirely by demand for AI infrastructure and Gemini enterprise services.