Samsung readies Gaia AI accelerator for PCs — HP and Lenovo are reportedly validating the NPU

Samsung reportedly preps Gaia AI accelerator for client devices that is already being tested by HP and Lenovo.

UN’s digital agency launches an initiative to make AI agents trustworthy
UN’s digital agency launches an initiative to make AI agents trustworthy

The United Nations’ digital agency has decided that AI agents are moving faster than anyone’s ability to trust them, and it wants to do something about it. On 9 July, the International Telecommunication Union used its AI for Good Summit in Geneva to la…

Special delivery: Italy’s postal service joins the AI infrastructure race
Special delivery: Italy’s postal service joins the AI infrastructure race

Italy’s postal service has spent a century and a half moving letters, parcels and pension payments around the country. Now it wants to move data. Poste Italiane, which still hands out state pensions through roughly 12,600 branches, has cast itself as a…

OpenAI is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch
OpenAI is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch

OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered web browser, less than a year after launching it. The company is targeting 9 August for deprecation, The Verge reports. Atlas only arrived in October 2025, pitched as a browser that could carry out …

AI Data Labeler Mercor In Talks To Raise $500 Million At $20 Billion Valuation

If the round closes as expected later this month, the startup’s three 23-year-old cofounders would be worth an estimated $4.3 billion apiece.

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the unnerving. Researchers at the company built a tool called the Jacobian lens (or…

Google will now tell you which ads were made with AI, if the advertiser admits it
Google will now tell you which ads were made with AI, if the advertiser admits it

Google is rolling out a feature that flags when an advertisement was made using AI. The label will indicate if an ad was created or edited with generative tools, TechCrunch reports. The disclosure appears in the “My Ad Center” panel, reachable via the …

OpenAI is killing ChatGPT Atlas browser. I loved it, but it was an uphill race to the top

OpenAI is discontinuing the ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after its debut, as the company shifts focus to ChatGPT Work.

AI’s land rush is reaching Native American reservations
AI’s land rush is reaching Native American reservations

The scramble to build AI data centres is pushing developers toward Native American land. Indigenous-led group Honor the Earth says it is tracking more than 100 proposed projects on or near tribal and rural territory. The appeal for developers is practi…

Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute
Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute

Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloomberg. The confirmation puts the CEO’s name to a plan first reported earlier this month. Meta…