Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching July 12-18. Weekend AI News Briefs Apple Sues OpenAI
Insider Brief A Rice University and NASA Johnson Space Center project has produced an open-source simulator for developing robots that could work inside spacecraft and
Insider Brief Chinese humanoid robot maker X Square Robot launched a software-and-hardware platform designed to help collect, process and use data for embodied AI models.
Insider Brief Australia’s Emesent raised $25 million AUD to expand its autonomous mapping and robotics business and speed up development of its AI and cloud
Every AI headline in 2026, from frontier model launches to boardroom debates about agentic workflows, gets filed under the same catch-all word: AI. That flattening
Google is introducing a new feature designed to help users identify when an advertisement has been created or edited using AI technology. The tool will
OpenAI had one of its most consequential weeks yet, marked by a major model launch, a senior leadership departure, mounting legal pressure, and a strategic
Meta is on track to begin production of its latest AI chips in September as part of an effort to reduce GPU costs amid ongoing
Nvidia’s stock has fallen 15% since its May peak, even as projected revenue continues to grow, leaving the company trading cheaper relative to earnings than
Anthropic introduced a new feature called Reflect, a dashboard allowing Claude users to track and visualize their AI usage patterns, topics discussed, and task types.
A new NVCA-Pitchbook Venture Monitor report released this week found that the combined value generated by the pending initial public offerings of Anthropic and OpenAI, alongside the
Insider Brief Teleoperated humanoid robots completed two surgeries in a preclinical trial, a first step toward using more mobile and flexible robots in operating rooms
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