OpenAI Chief Economist: AI Is Not Destroying Jobs in Europe

Chinese robotics maker UBTECH has unveiled the UWORLD U1 humanoid robot series, powered by a language model that recognizes more than 20 emotional states. The company received over 13,000 orders on launch day alone.

mBank and Visa announced the completion of Poland's first purchase initiated by an AI agent acting on behalf of a cardholder, as part of the European Visa Agentic Ready program.

Anthropic has published details of the safeguards protecting Claude Fable 5 from cybersecurity misuse, along with a new scale for rating jailbreak severity developed jointly with Amazon, Microsoft and Google under Project Glasswing.

Poland's Supreme Administrative Court ruled that a professional legal representative cannot blindly rely on artificial intelligence when drafting court filings. The case arose from a complaint citing rulings that either did not exist or concerned entirely different matters.

During a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the actress and director said outright that the structure and dialogue of the hit film "F1" look like they were written by a computer. Foster also warned against replacing actors with digital copies without compensation.

On July 3, Poland's Sejm reviewed the Senate's amendments to the artificial intelligence systems law and adopted 24 of the 25 proposed changes, concluding parliamentary work on the bill. The law, which implements the EU AI Act, now goes to the president for signature ahead of the EU's August deadline.

Anthropic has launched a public beta of Claude Science, an app pairing a coordinating agent with a reviewing agent to run entire research pipelines from genomics to computational chemistry. The tool is available to all paid Claude plans without prior institutional verification.

Chinese food delivery giant Meituan has unveiled LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained on more than 50,000 domestic chips without a single Nvidia unit. The model anonymously topped OpenRouter's rankings for two months under the codename Owl Alpha before Meituan revealed itself as its creator.

Companies building AI data centers are buying up nearly the entire global supply of DRAM memory, driving prices up 450 percent in four months. Honda, General Motors and Ford are counting losses in the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars.

Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and Francesco Zamponi of Sapienza University have published a proof of the a+b=1 identity in jamming theory, developed with the help of Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7 models. It's one of the first documented cases of a large language model meaningfully helping close an unsolved problem in theoretical physics.

A team from the University of Maryland and Google DeepMind showed that AI-generated literary fiction can be identified by narrative structure alone, even when writing style is carefully disguised. The study covered more than 61,000 short stories and coincides with a high-profile controversy over the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Apple has implemented some of the widest price increases in its history, with MacBooks up 15-20 percent and iPads up as much as 25 percent. The cause is a sharp rise in DRAM and NAND memory prices as manufacturers redirect supply toward AI data centers.

South Korean carrier SK Telecom has unveiled plans to build AI computing infrastructure with a combined capacity of 15 gigawatts by 2035, partnering with AWS and Nvidia in a bid to make South Korea Asia's AI computing hub.

A randomized controlled trial by Google DeepMind in Sierra Leone found that students using Gemini's AI-powered Guided Learning mode gained as much as 1.7 years of typical math progress in just eight weeks.

In an interview with Vogue Italia timed to the release of her album Confessions II, Madonna called AI-generated content the opposite of art, criticizing a music industry fixated on streaming numbers and algorithms.

Remigiusz Kinas, co-creator of Poland's Bielik language model, says the country could build a model competing with Chinese systems within a year given proper investment. He warns that without government support, Poland's gap with AI leaders will keep growing.

SpaceX has announced the acquisition of popular AI coding assistant Cursor for $60 billion in stock, aiming to bolster the AI division built around xAI and take on Anthropic and OpenAI.

Independent film studio A24 has entered a multi-year research partnership with Google DeepMind centered on the Veo video generator, receiving a $75 million investment. The decision sparked backlash among the studio's fans, and the director of its biggest hit called AI harmful to filmmaking.

The Trump administration is finalizing voluntary rules that would give the U.S. government advance access to the most powerful models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic 30 days before launch. An announcement is expected within days, and OpenAI and Anthropic are already experiencing the mechanism firsthand.

Researchers at South Korea's KAIST have calculated the real energy cost of agentic AI for the first time, finding that a single complex query can consume more than 136 times more electricity than a response from a standard chatbot.

Meta's AI chief Alexandr Wang told employees that its in-training Watermelon model matches OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on select benchmarks, but at roughly ten times the compute cost. The claim rests on unpublished internal tests and comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits Meta's AI progress hasn't accelerated as expected.

Lawmakers adopted nearly all of the Senate's amendments to Poland's law on artificial intelligence systems, which implements the EU AI Act. The legislation now heads to the president for signature and must take effect by August 2.

Cognition has introduced Devin Fusion, an architecture pairing a frontier model with a cheaper helper model, cutting task costs by up to 41 percent without sacrificing code quality.

Poland is the only country in the region, and one of the few in the world, to receive access to GPT-5.5-Cyber, a version of OpenAI's model built for cybersecurity teams, as attacks on Polish infrastructure grow.

The US Commerce Department has lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, ending a standoff that began June 12 after Amazon flagged a security flaw. Anthropic agreed to tighter cooperation with the government on future model launches.

Visa and more than 30 European banks, including mBank, PKO Bank Polski, ING and Revolut, have carried out the first real transactions in which an AI agent independently chose a product and paid for it on a customer's behalf.

Tenet Security researchers showed that a single crafted bug report in Sentry can hijack Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex to run arbitrary code on a developer's machine. More than 2,000 organizations were vulnerable, including a company valued at $250 billion.

Video-AI startup TwelveLabs has closed a $100 million Series B funding round and signed a multi-year deal making Amazon Web Services its preferred cloud partner, with new models running first on Trainium chips.

OpenAI has quietly given a small group of partners access to three variants of GPT-5.6, Sol, Terra and Luna, and a company research paper on genomics accidentally revealed the existence of additional Pro versions of each.

Starting late July 2026, each of Cisco's roughly 90,000 employees will get a personalized AI agent built on in-house infrastructure. The rollout coincides with a restructuring that will cut nearly 4,000 jobs, driven by automation.

The UN and the International Telecommunication Union have launched the AI for Good Global Commission, seating the CEOs of Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft alongside the presidents of Rwanda and Estonia ahead of the Geneva summit.

Anthropic has rolled out Claude Sonnet 5 as the default model for all Free and Pro plan users, touting performance close to Opus 4.8 at a significantly lower price.

TikTok has announced a restructuring of its trust and safety team in Dublin that could cost up to 300 jobs as AI systems take over content moderation. The company says automated tools already catch 97 percent of harmful content, but former employees and union representatives warn of a safety gap on the platform.

Negotiations between Google DeepMind employees and lab leadership broke down after the team concluded management wasn't taking demands over military contracts and AI ethics seriously. It marks the first union effort of its kind at a leading global AI lab.

Alibaba has ordered employees to uninstall Claude Code by July 10, citing a hidden mechanism that tracked users linked to China. It marks the latest escalation in a feud with Anthropic over alleged mass distillation of Claude models.

Beijing-based Z.ai has launched ZCode, a free desktop app for agentic coding built on its GLM-5.2 model, with pricing well below Cursor or Claude Code.

Claude Code users have discovered that the tool automatically and irreversibly deletes transcripts of older conversations, and Anthropic is defending the behavior as a deliberate security feature.

Together AI, a company that provides compute power for open source models, has closed an $800 million Series C round at an $8.3 billion valuation. The round underscores how fast demand is growing for cheaper alternatives to closed models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Meta's plan to commercially rent out surplus AI data center computing capacity triggered a drop of more than 10 percent in the semiconductor stock index over two trading sessions, hitting Micron, Intel, AMD, Samsung and SK Hynix.

Ford admits that over-reliance on AI-driven quality control hurt vehicle quality, prompting the automaker to rehire 350 experienced engineers who helped reprogram its AI tools.

Chinese company Z.ai has released GLM-5.2, a model that trails Claude Opus 4.8 by just 1 percent in coding benchmarks while costing up to seven times less than leading US models.

An independent UN scientific panel has published its first report warning that the world is losing the ability to jointly regulate artificial intelligence, just before the Global Dialogue on AI Governance opens in Geneva on July 6.

A California court declassified correspondence between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and a Pentagon official, revealing that the company's split from the US military came down to its refusal to allow fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of US citizens.

OpenAI's Sam Altman used a Financial Times op-ed to call for a US-led international forum setting global AI safety standards. The proposal comes as Anthropic overtakes OpenAI for the first time in projected revenue growth and enterprise AI subscription share.

Anthropic, working with Amazon, Microsoft and Google, has developed a five-tier scale for rating how dangerous AI jailbreak techniques used in cyberattacks are. The goal is to replace chaotic, ad hoc decisions about cutting off access to the most powerful models, like the recent shutdown of Claude Fable 5.

The European Commission has published guidelines for the code of practice on labeling AI-generated content, which takes effect August 2, 2026 under Article 50 of the AI Act. Contrary to earlier fears, the requirement won't cover every AI-assisted SEO text or product description.

Meta has limited free use of the Conversation Focus feature on its Ray-Ban smart glasses to three hours a month, requiring a $20 Meta One Premium subscription for full access. Users are criticizing the move since the feature runs locally on the device and generates no server costs.

Poland's Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) dismissed a taxpayer's appeal after finding that the representative's complaint cited nonexistent court rulings generated by artificial intelligence. The court explicitly described the conduct as a failure of the professional standards expected of a legal representative.

Chinese giant Meituan has unveiled LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion parameter model trained from scratch on 50,000 domestic ASIC chips without a single Nvidia processor. The model anonymously topped OpenRouter rankings for two months under the pseudonym Owl Alpha.

Meta has quietly released Pocket, an app that lets users describe a game idea in words while AI generates a ready-to-play interactive toy, another step in the company's push toward code-free content creation.

The Bombay High Court has agreed to hear Bollywood actress Preity Zinta's lawsuit against Google, Meta and X Corp seeking removal of AI-generated deepfakes, doctored images and fake chatbot personas impersonating her. The next hearing is set for July 6.

Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an AI environment for drug-discovery researchers, and announced its own research programs targeting diseases major pharmaceutical companies won't touch.

ElevenLabs, the AI voice company co-founded by Poles, is in early talks on a secondary share sale that would value it at $22 billion, twice its valuation from a February funding round.

Anthropic announced new methods for detecting and blocking access to Claude for China-controlled companies that had been circumventing earlier restrictions through Singapore-based subsidiaries, VPNs, and so-called relay stations.

New research from the ClickMeeting platform shows that 46 percent of Gen Z workers feel fatigued by an overload of AI tools at work, with one in three experiencing this for months. Instead of making life easier, AI has become another burden for many young employees.

Microsoft's new Facilitator feature in Teams listens to live meetings and automatically posts answers in chat when it detects participants don't know something. The rollout begins in August, but it's already raising questions about privacy and whether company meeting content will be used to train AI models.

Startup Venice AI has raised $65 million at a $1 billion valuation, offering access to more than 200 AI models without logging conversations on its servers. The company is already profitable and has 3.5 million registered users.

A randomized study by Google DeepMind covered nearly 1,800 students in Sierra Leone using Guided Learning, a Gemini-based tutoring tool - test scores improved enough to correspond to 1.2 to 1.7 years of typical learning progress.

American company Crusoe, which builds modular data centers for Microsoft, Google, Oracle and OpenAI, is in talks for a roughly $3 billion funding round at a valuation near $30 billion, almost three times what it was in October.

Lenovo warns that rising RAM and NAND memory prices reflect a permanent market shift, not a temporary spike. The culprit is AI data centers' appetite for memory chips, which has already driven up prices for consoles and PC components.

ByteDance is rolling out Seedance 2.5 this week, a video model that natively generates 30-second clips in a single pass and supports up to 50 reference materials at once. The company is simultaneously launching a copyright licensing platform, an apparent attempt to defuse the Hollywood dispute that erupted over the previous version.

Fintech startup Slash admitted that one employee spent over $81,000 in AI credits on a simple game featuring internet memes, while other companies, including Uber, are now introducing monthly token usage caps.

Meta's AI chief Alexandr Wang told staff that the in-training Watermelon model has caught up to GPT-5.5 on coding tasks, though it required roughly ten times more compute than its predecessor.

Starting in late July, all 90,000 Cisco employees will get a personal AI agent that automatically picks which model to use for each task. The rollout coincides with layoffs the company attributes to the same transformation.

Google has invested roughly $75 million in film studio A24 as part of a multi-year research partnership with DeepMind. The collaboration's first output is expected to be an AI-assisted storyboard generator.

OpenAI has offered the US administration a 5 percent stake in the company, worth about $42.6 billion at its current valuation. Sam Altman wants Anthropic, Google and Meta to hand over similar stakes.

Poland's Sejm adopted 24 of 25 Senate amendments to the law implementing the EU AI Act, completing its parliamentary work. The bill now goes to the president for signature, and once in force it will create a new AI market oversight commission empowered to impose fines of up to 35 million euros.

NASK has become the third organization in Europe and the first in Central and Eastern Europe to gain access to OpenAI's specialized model for detecting and patching security vulnerabilities. The tool will be used by CERT Polska to help protect public administration systems.

The US government barred Anthropic from offering Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to foreign users after researchers found a jailbreak method; the ban was lifted two weeks later and the company relaunched the model globally with a tightened safety filter.

Cognition, maker of the autonomous coding agent Devin, has made Japan its beachhead for Asian expansion, helping Sapporo's city government modernize more than a million lines of legacy code in under a quarter of the originally estimated engineering effort.

OpenAI has begun a limited preview of its new GPT-5.6 model family (Sol, Terra, Luna), showing its most powerful model to the US administration first under government cybersecurity guidelines. Sol will also run on Cerebras hardware at speeds up to 750 tokens per second.

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel claims Anthropic, which he calls a left-leaning company, could use its AI models to influence the outcome of the 2028 US presidential election. Anthropic declined to comment directly on the accusation.

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5, the new default model for Free and Pro plans, promising performance close to the flagship Opus 4.8 at a significantly lower per-token price.

SpaceX exercised its April option and is buying Anysphere, maker of the popular AI code editor Cursor, for $60 billion in stock. It is the largest venture-backed startup acquisition in history and another step by Elon Musk in the race for the AI-powered developer tools market.

Wednesday's negotiations over union recognition at Google DeepMind broke down, with workers accusing management of deliberately blocking talks in a dispute that also touches on military AI contracts.

Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code since July 10, labeling the tool a security risk after discovering hidden code that detected users based in China. Anthropic says the mechanism was an experiment against account abuse, but the dispute is unfolding amid accusations that Alibaba's Qwen lab mass-copied Claude models.

Microsoft's security team found a Chrome Web Store extension impersonating Perplexity AI that intercepted users' search queries, IP addresses and browser headers before redirecting traffic to the real search engine.

The UN and ITU have formed the AI for Good Global Commission, including the heads of Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic and Cohere, co-chaired by Marc Benioff and Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Critics warn that global AI oversight is landing in the hands of companies with the biggest financial stake in the outcome.

Anthropic confirms that after July 7, access to Claude Fable 5 under Pro, Max and Team subscriptions will be curtailed, shifting users to pay-per-token billing. The company cites unexpectedly high demand following the model's return from an export suspension.

British consumer group Which? found that AI-generated review summaries on Tripadvisor systematically soften or omit serious health and safety risks reported by guests. Which?'s editor called the practice "potentially life-threatening."

Microsoft has set up a new operating unit with a $2.5 billion budget and 6,000 engineers who will embed directly within client companies to deploy AI systems. The move mirrors similar pushes by Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to turn AI pilots into real business deployments.

Blackstone and Airbus led a $1.2 billion Series D round for Munich-based Quantum Systems, valuing the company at $8 billion. The funding will accelerate development of AI-powered autonomous systems already used in more than 19,000 missions in Ukraine.

Researchers at Tenet Security showed that a single crafted bug report in Sentry is enough to hijack Claude Code, Cursor and Codex and run arbitrary code on a developer's machine. The attack, dubbed agentjacking, affected more than 2,300 organizations.

About a thousand employees at Google DeepMind's London office voted to form a union, opposing the US and Israeli military's use of Gemini. Google refused voluntary recognition and referred the dispute to mediation, marking the first labor dispute of its kind at a leading AI lab.

Washington is expected to announce a voluntary agreement in the coming days with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and Amazon on cybersecurity standards for the most advanced AI models. Meta has so far refused to join the deal.