AI News Archive: July 20, 2026 — Part 18
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- Could AI chip boom make ASML Europe's first trillion-dollar firm?
RPT-ANALYSIS-Could AI chip boom make ASML Europe's first trillion-dollar firm?
- Gartner: AI Platforms and Models Spending to Surge 63% to $64B in 2026
Worldwide end-user spending on AI models and platforms is projected to total $64 billion in 2026, up 63.4% from $39 billion in 2025, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. Spending on GenAI models is forecast to grow 117%, while AI platform spending will rise 36.9% in 2026. “Enterprise AI budgets are coming under greater […] The post Gartner: AI Platforms and Models Spending to Surge 63% to $64B in 2026 appeared first on CXOToday.com .
- 🎙️ How I AI: How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
- Fact check: Do AI data centers need more energy than the country produces now?
Fact check: Do AI data centers need more energy than the country produces now? Houston Chronicle
- Blackstone invests in South Korean robotics supplier Futronic
Blackstone has invested in Futronic, a supplier of high-precision actuators serving automotive and industrial robotics sectors, the world's largest alternative asset manager said on Monday. The deal values the South Korean firm at about 1 trillion won ($676.04 million), according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Blackstone and Futronic did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Here are a few details: * Blackstone said that private equity funds affiliated with the alt
- Blackstone’s Futronic Deal Puts a $676 Mn Value on South Korea’s Robotics Supply Chain
Blackstone’s Futronic Deal Puts a $676 Mn Value on South Korea’s Robotics Supply Chain apac.entrepreneur.com
- LG AI Research launches global AI ethics course with UNESCO
LG AI Research on Monday launched a global artificial intelligence ethics massive open online course, or MOOC, in partnership with the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, to promote responsible AI development and use worldwide. The program, unveiled at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO in Myeong-dong, central Seoul, comes two years after the two organizations formed a partnership following the AI Seoul Summit in May 2024. Designed for AI developers, researchers and policymakers, the c
- Florida GOP lawmaker and governor candidate says AI data center legislation keeps utility costs down
Florida GOP lawmaker and governor candidate says AI data center legislation keeps utility costs down Toronto Star
- Florida GOP lawmaker and governor candidate says AI data center legislation keeps utility costs down
Florida GOP lawmaker and governor candidate says AI data center legislation keeps utility costs down San Francisco Chronicle
- Florida GOP lawmaker and governor candidate says AI data center legislation keeps utility costs down
Florida GOP lawmaker and governor candidate says AI data center legislation keeps utility costs down Houston Chronicle
- Wall Street drifts as AI stocks hold steadier after last week’s losses
Wall Street drifts as AI stocks hold steadier after last week’s losses Toronto Star
- Wall Street steadies as AI stocks recover some of last week's sharp losses
Wall Street steadies as AI stocks recover some of last week's sharp losses San Francisco Chronicle
- Wall Street drifts as AI stocks hold steadier after last week’s losses
Wall Street drifts as AI stocks hold steadier after last week’s losses Houston Chronicle
- Apple Reportedly Tests AI Tool to Record, Transcribe Genius Bar Interactions
Apple Reportedly Tests AI Tool to Record, Transcribe Genius Bar Interactions PCMag Australia
- OpenAI: AI Trained for Long-Running Tasks Can Drift Into Rogue Behavior
OpenAI: AI Trained for Long-Running Tasks Can Drift Into Rogue Behavior PCMag Australia
- OpenAI: AI Trained for Long-Running Tasks Can Drift Into Rogue Behavior
OpenAI: AI Trained for Long-Running Tasks Can Drift Into Rogue Behavior PCMag UK
- Acer Swift 16 AI (2026) Review: A Great Big-Screen Laptop With One Giant Hurdle
Acer Swift 16 AI (2026) Review: A Great Big-Screen Laptop With One Giant Hurdle PCMag Australia
- GAPVelocity AI launches VELO for PowerBuilder modernisation
GAPVelocity AI launches VELO for PowerBuilder modernisation verdict.co.uk
- ReliaQuest, OpenAI partner to expedite enterprise AI cyber defence
ReliaQuest, OpenAI partner to expedite enterprise AI cyber defence verdict.co.uk
- Bank of Ireland appoints new Chief AI Officer
Bank of Ireland has appointed Prag Sharma as the bank's Chief AI Officer.
- 7 Consequences of America Finally Losing Its AI Edge to China
Moonshot, DeepSeek, Zhipu, etc., will cause huge trouble
- China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled frontier models they claim rival OpenAI and Anthropic.
- China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies. David Sacks, the president’s AI and crypto “czar” until…
- China’s Top AI Event Delivers Message to the U.S.: We’re Coming for You
Any hopes the U.S. held for building an impregnable lead in the technology were dashed by the progress seen at a convention in Shanghai.
- China is closing the AI gap
China is closing the AI gap
- Your Tesla Will Remember How You Drive
Your Tesla Will Remember How You Drive Barron's
- Persistent uncertainty is reshaping how businesses operate, from continuous planning to AI adoption
Persistent uncertainty is reshaping how businesses operate, from continuous planning to AI adoption uk.entrepreneur.com
- Weak AI regulation may be worse than none at all, researchers say
A new modeling study finds that weak AI regulation may be worse than no regulation at all when it comes to the safety of AI products and services.
- AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, "stateless" approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already work.
- YouTube Cracks Down on ‘Off-Putting Content’ and AI Slop
Do AI thumbnails next, please.
- F1 in Belgium: Machine learning algorithms are ruining the sport
Many will say Spa is the best racetrack on earth, but not for these F1 cars.
- Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness
Augment Code's Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.
- Oracle under pressure after ratings downgrade over AI expansion
Oracle under pressure after ratings downgrade over AI expansion Computing UK
- A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside
For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu, has started partially operating the site, Bloomberg reported, citing a person […] This story continues at The Next Web
- US judge approves Anthropic’s $1.9 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit
US judge approves Anthropic’s $1.9 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit The Straits Times
- Google Plans New ‘Frozen’ AI Chip, Preventing Scams in the AI Era, 160 Software Startups For Sale — TITV [Video]
Google Plans New ‘Frozen’ AI Chip, Preventing Scams in the AI Era, 160 Software Startups For Sale — TITV [Video] The Information
- Google Frozen V2 Product News & Analysis
Google Frozen V2 Product News & Analysis The Information
- Firefighters Had to Move a Waymo Themselves After It Blocked an Emergency Call
The robotaxi company is facing a number of safety-related concerns in California.
- Inquiet des usages de l’IA par les députés, le Parlement européen a une solution
L’institution ouvre ses portes aux modèles développés par OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic et Mistral, dans le but de maîtriser l’utilisation croissante de cette technologie par les parlementaires et leurs assistants.
- India unveils its first air taxi prototype: Here's how eVTOLs work
The unveiling of India's first electric air taxi prototype has brought a technology that has long been under development into the spotlight
- District 9 director Neill Blomkamp releases first short film made entirely with AI video generation
"District 9" director Neill Blomkamp has released "Nightborne," a 13-minute sci-fi horror short generated entirely with the Seedance 2.0 video model. Blomkamp directed frame by frame through text prompts and founded a new AI film studio, Barley Studios, to produce a full-length feature next. The article District 9 director Neill Blomkamp releases first short film made entirely with AI video generation appeared first on The Decoder .
- Shares unsettled as oil climbs, earnings loom for AI
Shares unsettled as oil climbs, earnings loom for AI The Straits Times
- Jadepuffer: Agentic attack evolves to destroy AI models
Jadepuffer: Agentic attack evolves to destroy AI models Computing UK
- Tempus buys out cancer genomics partner Personalis in $1.5 billion deal
Tempus is boosting its cancer offerings with a deal to buy out Personalis three years after the pair first teamed up in oncology.
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- Tempus AI Buys Personalis for $1.5 Billion, and Both Stocks Sink
Tempus AI Buys Personalis for $1.5 Billion, and Both Stocks Sink Barron's
- Tempus AI to acquire Personalis for $1.5B
Personalis shareholders will receive $16.25 per share. The deal is expected to close in late 2026 or early 2027.
- Expecting Massive Test Growth in Cancer & More, Tempus AI Strikes $1.5B Deal to Buy Personalis
Expecting Massive Test Growth in Cancer & More, Tempus AI Strikes $1.5B Deal to Buy Personalis MedCity News
- UK government, Bezos back CuspAI's $450 million round as startup seeks to discover new materials
UK government, Bezos back CuspAI's $450 million round as startup seeks to discover new materials Reuters
- Jeff Bezos and Sovereign AI back CuspAI in $450M raise
Jeff Bezos and the UK government-backed VC fund backing domestic AI startups have invested in a UK startup developing AI systems to discover and design new materials for clean energy and chipmaking in...