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xAI sues man for using Grok to generate CSAM 'deepfakes'
Elon Musk's xAI is suing South Carolina man Terry Wayne Harwood, who allegedly used the Grok AI chatbot to circumvent safeguards and generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The lawsuit claims Harwood knowingly altered nonconsensual images and distributed CSAM, breaching xAI's terms of service.
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Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer for AI training
A hacking incident has exposed that AI music generator Suno trained its models by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from platforms including YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. The breach, reported by 404 Media, offers a rare glimpse into Suno's closely guarded training data practices, which the company has consistently refused to disclose.
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Microsoft training salespeople to pitch its AI models over OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is reportedly coaching its sales teams to position its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective alternatives to those from OpenAI and Anthropic. The move signals a growing strategic push by Microsoft to differentiate and monetize its own AI offerings independently of its high-profile partners.
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Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba's Qwen AI
Apple has received approval to launch its Apple Intelligence features in China, partnering with Alibaba's Qwen AI model to power the service. The deal marks a significant milestone for Apple's AI ambitions in one of its most important markets.
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Thinking Machines releases first open model, Inkling, in bet against one-size-fits-all AI
Thinking Machines has launched Inkling, its first publicly available open model, after 18 months of building AI infrastructure largely out of the spotlight. The release represents the company's first concrete proof point in its argument that specialized AI outperforms general-purpose models for enterprise use cases.
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OpenAI releases $230 Codex Micro keyboard amid hardware legal battle
OpenAI has launched its first hardware product, the Codex Micro — a square-shaped block of light-up buttons priced at $230, designed to pair with its agentic coding platform Codex. The release comes as OpenAI is embroiled in a legal dispute with Apple over allegations of hardware trade secret theft, unrelated to its previously rumored Jony Ive collaboration.
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Microsoft patches record 570 security vulnerabilities using AI
Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday resolved a record-breaking 570 security vulnerabilities across its product lineup, with the company crediting AI-assisted discovery for the unprecedented scale of fixes. The milestone underscores how AI is increasingly being integrated into cybersecurity workflows.
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Reelful's AI turns your camera roll into short-form social media videos
Reelful is a new app that uses AI to automatically transform photos and videos from a user's camera roll into polished short-form content for social media. It targets users who want to create social content without dealing with the complexity of traditional video editing tools.
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Anthropic and Blackstone launch Ode, betting AI implementation is the next trillion-dollar business
Anthropic, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman have backed a new joint venture called Ode, which embeds forward-deployed engineers inside enterprise firms to accelerate AI adoption. The startup, led by the founders of Fractional AI, argues that hands-on implementation — not just model development — will define the next wave of enterprise AI value.
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Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes unicorn with $130M Series C
Emergent, an Indian AI coding startup, has achieved unicorn status just over a year after launch, closing a $130 million Series C funding round. The company has reached $120 million in annualized revenue and surpassed 200,000 paying customers.
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Nokia launches AI-RAN platform built on NVIDIA Aerial
Nokia has unveiled its AI-RAN platform on July 15, claiming it is the industry's first of its kind, built on its anyRAN software and NVIDIA's Aerial system. The platform promises to help telecom operators extract significantly more capacity from their existing spectrum holdings.
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Rime picks up $24M Series A to handle enterprise customer calls with AI
AI voice startup Rime has raised a $24 million Series A to scale its platform, which already handles over 100 million customer calls per month for enterprise clients. The funding will support expansion as demand for AI-powered call handling continues to grow.
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Whatnot acquires AI startup Shaped for real-time live shopping recommendations
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired Shaped, a machine learning startup specializing in real-time recommendations and search. The acquisition is aimed at enhancing personalization and discovery as Whatnot expands into new product categories.
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AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs
A wave of low-budget, AI-generated films is emerging as a modern equivalent of direct-to-video productions, capitalizing on audience interest in AI-created content. As Christopher Nolan's big-budget Odyssey adaptation targets $80–100 million at the box office, a parallel market of cheap AI films is quietly proliferating.
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SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch
SpaceX's stock has steadily declined from its post-IPO peak, falling back to its $135 IPO price as markets temper expectations around promises made by CEO Elon Musk. The drop comes ahead of an anticipated Starship launch, signaling investor caution.
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Vint Cerf working on standard to identify AI agents on the open internet
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP, is developing a new standard for identifying and tracking AI agents as they operate across the open web. The initiative aims to bring accountability and structure to the growing ecosystem of autonomous AI systems acting online.
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