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Also: U.S. charges two Chinese nationals for illegally shipping Nvidia AI chips to China, and OpenAI-backed Chai raises $70 million for AI-driven drug discovery. Every story links to its primary source.
Curated by Gaurav · August 6, 2025
OpenAI is providing access to its ChatGPT product to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 a year as part of a push to get its AI chatbot more widely adopted.
Two Chinese nationals in California have been charged with the illegal shipment of tens of millions of dollars' worth of AI chips, including those from Nvidia.
Chai Discovery, an AI-driven drug discovery startup, raised $70 million in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and Anthropic's co-investment vehicle, with participation from Yuri Milner's DST Global Partners, valuing it at about $550 million.
US President Donald Trump met Wednesday with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang at the White House, as he readies sweeping new tariffs on semiconductor imports.
After adding $65 billion in market value over the past four months, the fate of SoftBank Group Corp. shares is more firmly attached to the global artificial intelligence boom than ever before.
OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight language models in more than five years, under the Apache 2.0 license. The models deliver strong reasoning and tool-use capabilities and can be deployed privately on consumer hardware without sending data to the cloud.
Nvidia warns that government-mandated kill switches or backdoors in AI chips would fracture trust in US technology and undermine the semiconductor industry, while denying Chinese accusations that its chips already contain such mechanisms.
Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code while developers focus on other tasks.
Canadian AI firm Cohere aims to alleviate data privacy concerns with its new AI agent platform, North, which can be deployed privately so that enterprises and governments can keep their, and their customers', data safe behind their own firewalls.
Anthropic Claude 4.1 is an upgrade to the Claude Opus 4 model with improved coding, reasoning, memory, and context handling. It scored 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified, supports up to 32,000 output tokens, and is available via Anthropic's API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Claude Code.
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