Updates on AI Development

Every AI story we track on AI Development: 40 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 125 sources

This week

Society & Culture3 min read

Dario Amodei spent 2,000 words laying out to a critic on X why Anthropic must persist in the AI ‘race to the top’

Business Insider

This month

AI Research4 min read

Sergey Brin says Google's AI models are reaching a critical moment of self-improvement

Business Insider

What Alexandr Wang says he learned from Mark Zuckerberg's 'really long' WhatsApp DMs

Business Insider
Society & Culture1 min read

Dialogue with Eliezer Yudkowsky on FOOM

LessWrong

Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear

The Next Web
Public Sector2 min read

Lee, ADB chief agree to boost cooperation on critical minerals, AI

Yonhap News Agency

Opinion | The Great AI Slowdown?

The Wall Street Journal
AI Research5 min read

Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini

The Next Web
Chips & Compute2 min read

AMD Jumps from ROCm 7.14 to ROCm 10.0 with Rocm.ai

Hacker News
Cybersecurity6 min read

Amazon Kiro Prompt Injection Can Exfiltrate Sensitive Data Through Kiro Powers

The Hacker News
AI Research1 min read

Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x

Dwarkesh Podcast
AI Research1 min read

We need to RL less

LessWrong
AI Research1 min read

July 2026 newsletter

Simon Willison's Weblog
AI Research3 min read

Quote of the day by The Odyssey director Chris Nolan: 'AI researchers refer to the present moment as an 'Oppenheimer moment'' — putting into perspective the scale of change AI will bring

TechRadar
AI Research1 min read

Parallelization constraints could delay a technological singularity [Linkpost]

LessWrong
Dev6 min read

The Python Ecosystem That Changed AI Development

Towards Data Science
AI Research1 min read

Is a pause enforceable? New paper out!

LessWrong

Everyone Wants to Build AI Using Someone Else’s Work

Gizmodo

ByteDance seeks a record $20bn offshore loan to fund its AI build-out

The Next Web

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

TechCrunch

Andrew Hastie compares AI to Cold War nuclear arms race and warns Australia may fall behind

The Guardian

Microsoft’s AI chief says the company wants to “eliminate” what it pays Anthropic

The Next Web

If Australia is home to an AI gold rush, let’s not squander it. Let’s fjord a different path | Peter Lewis

The Guardian

Microsoft and Meta announce large staff reductions as they spend big on AI

Covered by 2 sources

I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee

TechCrunch

I have always seen myself as ‘progressive’ – but with AI it’s time to hit the brakes | Peter Lewis

The Guardian

Broken Nvidia CEO Says He Can’t Stand AI Slop Either

Futurism

As Mass Layoffs Loom, OpenAI Looks to Double Headcount in Desperate Bid to Catch Up With Anthropic

Futurism

The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom

TechCrunch

Is it possible to develop AI without the US?

The Guardian
That's everything we have on AI Development right now