HSBC and EPAA formed Asia's first AI agentic payments working group as Alipay processes 120 million autonomous transactions weekly, with rules not due until 2027.
Tempus AI will pay $16.25 a share for the rest of Personalis, a $1.5 billion MRD bet that already trails a fresh Wall Street price target.
Nikkei's $1.65 trillion off-balance-sheet AI tally is already packaged into bonds and funds held by pension systems, insurers and bondholders now suing Oracle.
Alibaba called Qwen3.8 Max second only to Anthropic's Fable 5, but the 2.4 trillion-parameter model shipped without benchmarks, days after a bigger rival.
Germany's finance and justice ministries unveiled a 26-point plan pairing AI fraud detection with real-time VAT reporting and 15-year data retention.
Glean finds workers lose 6.4 hours a week fixing AI mistakes, a judgment gap now surfacing in Workday's discrimination lawsuit and new cognitive science.
Moonshot's 2.8 trillion-parameter Kimi K3 launches a month after US export controls cut foreign users off Anthropic's Fable 5, an opening built for open models.
Opta's World Cup supercomputer called the final four correctly, but the real payoff is a billion-dollar data industry facing a new federal rules fight.
China's WAICO alliance signed 29 nations in Shanghai on July 16, echoing its 2015 AIIB blueprint, but no G7 economy has joined this time.
Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook on July 16, adding code execution for Pro users and raising new trust questions for educators.