Altman Declares AI Has Reached ‘Singularity’ as OpenAI Agent Attack Stirs Alarm
Sam Altman used a long essay on July 28 to declare that artificial intelligence has entered what he called the singularity, a state in which systems begin improving themselves. The…
EU Fines Google About $1 Billion Under Digital Markets Act
The European Union fined Google approximately $1 billion on July 28 for violating the Digital Markets Act, the bloc’s flagship competition law, in its Google Play app store and search…
Microsoft Unveils Cyber-Security AI Model as Nadella Warns on Single-Vendor Bets
Microsoft released its first dedicated cyber-security AI model on July 28, entering a corner of the AI market that has been dominated by startups and defense contractors. The model, called…
Meta and BlackRock Team Up on El Paso Data Center Campus
Meta said July 28 that it will develop a data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with funds managed by BlackRock, a structure that lets the social media giant build…
Amazon to Cut 16,000 Corporate Jobs as AI Automation Takes Over More Work
Amazon plans to cut 16,000 corporate positions, its largest workforce reduction of 2026, according to people familiar with the matter. The layoffs will hit a range of corporate functions rather…
NVIDIA Shares Slide 5% as China Chip Anxiety and Big Capital Moves Converge
NVIDIA shares fell 5% on July 28, their steepest one-day drop in six months, erasing roughly $250 billion in market value. The selloff had a trigger, a backdrop and a…
Apple Retakes Global Value Crown From NVIDIA, Adds Device Rental Plan
The title of world’s most valuable company changed hands on July 28 without a product launch, an earnings report or a single keynote. Apple’s market capitalization moved past NVIDIA’s during…
AI Tools Drive Software Vulnerability Disclosures to Record Levels
Oracle’s July security update fixed 1,449 vulnerabilities. A year earlier, the same quarterly update addressed 309. Microsoft disclosed 642 vulnerabilities in July, nearly five times the total for the same…
Hugging Face Demands $100 Million in Compute From OpenAI After Agent Breach
The chief executive of Hugging Face spent the weekend with engineers pulling logs from an intrusion that most of the AI industry had hoped to treat as an internal testing…
SpaceX Stock Has Fallen 51% From Its Post-IPO Peak. Not Even Starship Helped
The launch went almost perfectly. Starship’s thirteenth test flight executed its profile with what observers called a near-flawless performance — booster recovery, stage separation, all the drama that usually moves…
