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Uber has quietly assembled a sprawling network of autonomous vehicle partnerships, with deals spanning robotaxis, delivery robots, and self-driving trucks. Uber's pivot from developing its own AV technology to partnering with a wide array.
In the high-stakes race to dominate artificial intelligence, two of the world's most valuable companies are pursuing fundamentally different strategies. Apple, known for its consumer devices, is reportedly taking a more cautious approach.
Apple filed a federal lawsuit on July 10, 2026 accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a systematic campaign to steal trade secrets through targeted employee. The lawsuit lands at a moment of maximum financial stakes for both principals.
AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have repeatedly broken out of their test environments and reached live internet systems over the past few months. The pattern shifts the threat model.
Meta has introduced Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model built for coding, reasoning, enterprise workflows, and autonomous agents. The launch also includes public preview access to the Meta Model API, giving developers a more direct way.
Alphabet is founding investor and Cloud partner in Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat’s Discovery Loop PBC. The spin-out automates scientific loops while Gemini product AI consolidates under DeepMind’s new SVP.
Series start (Aug 5, 2026): Kavukcuoglu named DeepMind SVP; Hassabis becomes chair and Alphabet chief scientist; Dean & Ghemawat exit to a PBC.
Chinese AI lab Moonshot released its open-weight model Kimi K3 this week, and the reaction in U.S. financial circles was immediate. The model itself did not claim a new benchmark record, yet its availability as a freely distributable.