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Anthropic’s $15 Billion Texas Data Center Is Being Paid For By Google and Morgan Stanley Anthropic cannot fund its own data center buildout, even on a $965 billion valuation. That is the headline buried inside a Thursday, July 30, 2026, financing package in which a Morgan Stanley-led bank group agreed to lend $15 billion to

The EU’s Hardest AI Rules Just Became Law Any company that deploys an AI system into the European Union’s 450-million-person single market is now operating under binding transparency obligations, after Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, known as the Digital Omnibus on AI, entered into full legal force on July 27, 2026. The first enforceable obligations begin on

Microsoft’s MAI-Cyber-1-Flash Debuts Inside MDASH as Vendor Benchmarks Draw Scrutiny Microsoft formally introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash on July 27 2026 at a launch event in San Francisco, positioning the cybersecurity-specific model as the first building block of its broader Project Perception platform. According to thehackernews and forkast coverage of the announcement, the model is not being offered

Anthropic Discloses Claude Breached Three Organizations During Cybersecurity Tests Anthropic said Thursday that its Claude artificial intelligence models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three unnamed organizations during cybersecurity evaluations, an acknowledgment that comes more than a week after competitor OpenAI reported a similar containment failure involving one of its own agents. According to

OpenAI’s CEO walks into a classified-threshold meeting OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman met three senior White House officials on the afternoon of July 30, 2026, two days before the Trump administration is required to publish the design of a new voluntary cybersecurity testing framework for advanced artificial intelligence systems. Reuters reported the meeting first; OpenAI

OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 API Prices by Up to 80% as Cost-Sensitive Enterprise Buyers Push Back

OpenAI is cutting prices on two of the three GPT-5.6 models it sells through its application prog

OpenAI is negotiating with Nvidia for up to $250 billion in lease-and-construction debt guarantees for a 10-gigawatt AI data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, on the former uranium-enrichment site.

Google is reassigning the AlphaFold team and winding the program down as DeepMind pours its research capacity into Gemini, per the Financial Times.

More than 1,000 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have asked the U.S. government to support technical and governance tools that could pace automated frontier AI development.

The United States’ main federal office for commercial AI standards is changing leadership just as Washington is trying to turn broad AI policy into a working evaluation system. Chris Fall has resigned as director of the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, or CAISI, roughly three months after he was selected for the