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Nvidia bets $5 billion on Ilya Sutskever's safety-first AI lab
RegulationJul 27, 2026

Nvidia bets $5 billion on Ilya Sutskever's safety-first AI lab

SSI gets Vera Rubin chips and a tenfold compute jump without building a product first

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CXMT closes up 466% on Shanghai debut, passing Intel in market value
RegulationJul 27, 2026

CXMT closes up 466% on Shanghai debut, passing Intel in market value

China's largest memory chipmaker ends its first trading day worth roughly $487 billion, overtaking every other mainland-listed company

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Nvidia in talks to guarantee $250 billion of OpenAI's Ohio data center lease
RegulationJul 27, 2026

Nvidia in talks to guarantee $250 billion of OpenAI's Ohio data center lease

Backing the deal would lock in chip demand while deepening Nvidia's exposure to a single customer's infrastructure bet

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AI Kill Switch Act would give DHS power to shut down rogue AI models
RegulationJul 27, 2026

AI Kill Switch Act would give DHS power to shut down rogue AI models

A bipartisan bill born from an OpenAI incident would move federal oversight from disclosure to direct control

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Israel requires AI labeling on election campaign ads
RegulationJul 27, 2026

Israel requires AI labeling on election campaign ads

A court order pulling a finance minister's video forced the question of what counts as adequate disclosure.

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Big Tech signs open letter urging Washington to protect open-weight AI
RegulationJul 26, 2026

Big Tech signs open letter urging Washington to protect open-weight AI

Five major companies want open models treated as a national asset

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Samsung and Broadcom sign $200 billion AI chip pact through 2030
RegulationJul 25, 2026

Samsung and Broadcom sign $200 billion AI chip pact through 2030

A five-year MoU spanning memory, foundry, and packaging gives Samsung a marquee client and Broadcom a hedge against TSMC dependence.

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Amazon's Project Lighthouse would replace Prime Video's grid with an AI feed
TechnologyJul 25, 2026

Amazon's Project Lighthouse would replace Prime Video's grid with an AI feed

Jeff Bezos is personally driving a real-time recommendation overhaul that would retire the familiar browse grid

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Amazon requires AI-image labels for sellers under New York law
RegulationJul 25, 2026

Amazon requires AI-image labels for sellers under New York law

A New York disclosure rule is now changing how products look on the world's largest marketplace.

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Big Tech and startups push back on US limits for open-weight AI
RegulationJul 25, 2026

Big Tech and startups push back on US limits for open-weight AI

Two lobbying efforts converge on Washington as Congress weighs new AI oversight powers

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UC Riverside tool traces fake videos to their AI source
RegulationJul 25, 2026

UC Riverside tool traces fake videos to their AI source

A new forensics framework moves past asking whether a video is fake to identifying which system made it.

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Lawmakers propose AI kill switch after OpenAI test model hacks Hugging Face
RegulationJul 24, 2026

Lawmakers propose AI kill switch after OpenAI test model hacks Hugging Face

A bipartisan bill would give Homeland Security power to shut down rogue models, and the thresholds it sets will determine whether it has teeth

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