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The multi-agent software-development system adds orchestration across the SDLC and dashboards for measuring agent productivity — IBM's bid for the highest-ROI agent use case in consulting pipelines.

The 8B vision-language-action model steers robots from one RGB camera and plain-language commands, reporting 76.6% on simulated R2R-CE — but ships neither weights nor API at launch.

NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison sent AV developers a letter citing "a clear pattern of driverless AVs interfering with law enforcement and other first responders" — vehicles entering active emergency scenes, blocking ambulances/fire t

Noma Security showed an unauthenticated attacker can submit a crafted public GitHub issue; GitHub's preview Agentic Workflows agent treats it as instructions, retrieves content from private repositories in the same org, and publishes it in

In "Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations," OpenAI audited Scale AI's SWE-Bench Pro (731-task public split) — the benchmark it had recommended in February as a replacement for SWE-bench Verified — and formally retracted the rec

OXMIQ, new GPU startup from ex-Intel GPU chief Raja Koduri, emerged with $20M seed funding and a RISC-V-adjacent GPU IP strategy.

Hand-written Metal kernels for sparse attention, native safetensors loading and a memory-saving fused cross-entropy loss headline a release aimed partly at local model development on Macs.

The 269-page Obernolte/Trahan discussion draft (4 June) would require large frontier developers (>$500M revenue) to publish risk frameworks, undergo semi-annual third-party audits by NIST/CAISI-licensed Independent Verification Organization

Waymo opened fully driverless robotaxi service in four new cities on Jul 8, 2026 (its largest single-day expansion).

Zhipu AI (2513.HK, GLM models) priced an accelerated bookbuild of ~19.8M new H-shares at HK$1,588 — a 7–13% discount to the July 8 close of HK$1,825 — raising approximately $4B for R&D, expansion and potential acquisitions.

The new mid-market division targets companies with $300M–$3B revenue across six domains, promising deployment 'in weeks' on the Gemini Enterprise stack.

Robbyant (Ant Group) upgraded and open-sourced LingBot-VLA 2.0, a 6B cross-embodiment VLA model pre-trained on 60,000 hours of real-world physical data (50k robot + 10k first-person human), spanning 20 morphologies from 17 manufacturers; ou

The Commission adopted the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence (COM(2026) 577 final; press release IP/26/1544): strengthen EU capacity to evaluate advanced AI models before market placement (per the AI Act), an ENISA "E

The Commission proposed the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA, COM(2026) 502 final; 2026/0138(COD)) under the AI Continent Action Plan: tripling EU data-centre capacity in 5–7 years, simplified permitting for qualifying projects, secure EU

DeepSeek is building its own AI accelerator to reduce dependence on Nvidia/Huawei hardware; US chip names (Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Micron, Sandisk) fell up to 14% on the report.

At its plenary, the EDPB adopted draft Guidelines 03/2026 (Version 1.0): GDPR applies to scraping whenever personal data is collected/stored/organized/retrieved; legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) is the primary candidate basis but requires

The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (HB 149), in force since 1 Jan 2026, requires the AG to post TRAIGA information and an online complaint mechanism by 1 Sept 2026 (HB 149 §8 / Bus. & Com.

FLI's semiannual index graded 9 frontier developers on 37 indicators across 6 domains (panel: Russell, Krueger, Li, Maharaj, Revanur, Trager, Yi Zeng; evidence through June 3). Anthropic C+ (2.66, leads 5 of 6 domains), OpenAI C (2.28, lead

Microsoft's official lifecycle doc confirms the July 7 realtime-voice GA pair — and a hard July 23 retirement for the October 2025 mini build that forces an in-window migration.

The open-source robotics toolkit now standardizes the full predict-evaluate-correct-retrain loop, landing the same week a wave of open robot foundation models hit Hugging Face.

Insilico Medicine initiated a Phase III trial of rentosertib, its AI-discovered TNIK inhibitor, for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis — the first Phase III for a generative-AI-discovered drug.

Final Token Preference Optimization retrains only the token that starts a repetition loop — cutting doom-loop rates from 22.9% to 1% on one test model with a one-GPU training run.

Meta's July 7 image model shipped with default-on AI remixing of public Instagram accounts; after backlash from SAG-AFTRA and CAA, Meta pulled the feature July 10 saying it 'missed the mark.'

Announced July 7 alongside Muse Image, Meta's video model generates synchronized audio but ships with no public product, pricing, or API — and its Arena ranking is Meta's own citation.