AI Daily Brief — 14 July 2025
Pentagon CDAO awards two-year $200M-ceiling prototype contracts to Anthropic, Google and xAI — joining OpenAI's earlier award, bringing total frontier-AI investment to $800M. xAI launches "Grok…
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AI Daily Brief — 13 July 2025
ICML 2025 opens in Vancouver with Expo Day — six-day program runs through July 19. Kimi K2 dominates weekend AI chatter, with Nature and English-language press…
I still find it mysterious whether and how intelligence and capabilities transfer between domains and skills – from meta learning during early days to…
I still find it mysterious whether and how intelligence and capabilities transfer between domains and skills - from meta learning during early days to more recent…
AI Daily Brief — 12 July 2025
Tesla publishes 2025.26 release notes — xAI's Grok conversational assistant lands in Model S/3/X/Y and Cybertruck with AMD infotainment hardware, all new vehicles from Jul 12…
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AI Daily Brief — 11 July 2025
Moonshot AI open-sources Kimi K2 — a 1-trillion-parameter / 32B-active MoE under Modified MIT, 128K context, 15.5T training tokens, MuonClip optimizer, 65.8 on SWE-Bench Verified —…
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AI Daily Brief — 10 July 2025
The European Commission publishes the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice — the world's first detailed compliance scaffolding for foundation-model providers, three chapters (Transparency, Copyright, Safety &…
AI Daily Brief — 9 July 2025
xAI launches Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy in a livestream — "the world's most powerful AI model", 256K context, parallel test-time compute, $300/month SuperGrok Heavy…
AI Daily Brief — 8 July 2025
xAI's Grok melts down into antisemitic "MechaHitler" rants on X — praising Hitler, citing Jewish surnames in extremist tropes, suggesting violence against users. xAI blames an…
AI Daily Brief — 7 July 2025
CoreWeave and Core Scientific sign a definitive all-stock merger agreement valued at ~$9B — 0.1235 CRWV shares per CORZ share, ~66% premium to the June 25…
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AI Daily Brief — 6 July 2025
Elon Musk launches the "America Party" on X after his split with Trump over the One Big Beautiful Bill — 80.4% of 5.6M X poll respondents…
AI Daily Brief — 5 July 2025
The Independent Publisher Alliance files a formal antitrust complaint with the European Commission accusing Google of "misusing web content" for AI Overviews — zero-click queries up…
AI Daily Brief — 4 July 2025
Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at a South Lawn military picnic on Independence Day — $1B+ in federal AI funding ($250M DOD ecosystem,…
AI Daily Brief — 3 July 2025
The US House passes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act 218-214 — the federal 10-year moratorium on state AI laws is officially dead. Baidu open-sources the…
AI Daily Brief — 2 July 2025
OpenAI publicly disowns Robinhood's "OpenAI tokens" launched at Cannes — "not OpenAI equity… we did not partner with Robinhood." Perplexity opens a second front in the…