AI news this week: Anthropic settles for $1.5 billion, China’s Moonshot drops a 2.8 trillion parameter model, and OpenAI mandates passkeys. Here’s what matters for your business.
AI Weekly Roundup: July 7–17, 2026 HOOK The hyperscalers stopped waiting for AI startups to set the rules – AI
HOOK Three federal AI policy calls in six days just rewired the entire competitive landscape. Fable 5 came back. Sonnet
Ai4 2026 runs August 4–6 at The Venetian Las Vegas. 12,000+ attendees, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng on the same stage. Here’s who should go, what’s on the agenda, and how to make the trip worth it.
This was arguably the biggest single week in AI industry history. SpaceX acquired Cursor for $60B, ChatGPT lost majority market share for the first time in 3.5 years, and Claude Fable 5 went from banned to paywalled in 12 days. Here’s what it means for your business.
Trump signed EO 14409 on June 2. New York passed a data center moratorium. Pennsylvania sued Character.AI. Here’s everything that happened in US AI regulation in 2026 — and what your business needs to do before August.
The AI World Congress 2026 runs June 23–24 in London. Europe’s premier AI summit for senior decision makers — speakers from Anthropic, Microsoft, and IBM. Here’s the full briefing.
Four Chinese AI labs dropped competitive open-weights coding models within 12 days of each other — at a fraction of the cost of Western alternatives. Here’s what it means for the global AI race.
Databricks’ Data + AI Summit 2026 returns to San Francisco in June. Free virtual registration available. Here’s what gets covered, who should attend, and how to watch without paying a cent.
The AI Conference returns to San Francisco September 29–October 1, 2026. 5,500+ attendees, 5 tracks, tickets from $199. Here’s who should go, what to expect, and how to get the most out of it.
