‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech
Stanford students walked out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech to protest Google's military and ICE contracts.
Wired AI·21 Jul 2026
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Stanford students walked out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech to protest Google's military and ICE contracts.
The US Army informed personnel they are quickly depleting their AI tokens and must limit use, indicating a cost management issue with LLM deployment.
Adyen introduced Agentic Commerce Control, a framework designed to manage and authorize payments initiated autonomously by AI agents.
Etsy is experiencing a decline in seller engagement due to an influx of mass-produced goods and AI-generated knockoffs, eroding its unique value proposition.
TSMC is reportedly discussing chip price increases of up to 10% in 2027 with clients due to rising manufacturing costs, per Nikkei.
OpenAI and Hugging Face reported a security incident during AI model evaluation, detailing advanced cyber capabilities leveraged against their systems.
EU tech and justice commissioners are clashing over the implementation of a new online rulebook, indicating potential friction in future AI regulation.
China is consulting companies on potential tighter export controls on advanced AI models and chips to prevent Western access to its technologies.
Dimension Capital raised an $800M fund for AI-designed medicines, indicating sustained investor confidence despite a lack of regulatory approvals.
EU digital chief Henna Virkkunen warns AI is a geopolitical weapon, urging Europe to reduce reliance on Washington for strategic AI capabilities.
NEXTDC, an Australian data center operator, secured new customer contracts, increasing its contracted utilization by 11% in Q2.
China's GigaAI (Jijia Vision) is reportedly planning a Hong Kong IPO by 2026, joining other Chinese AI firms seeking public debuts.
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement is approved, resolving a specific case but leaving broader training data legal issues open.
David Vélez (Nubank CEO) and Robin Vince (BofA, former Goldman Sachs CFO) join the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC boards.
Apple ML Research proposes an environment-free synthetic data generation method for training API-calling LLM agents, using LLMs as digital world models.
Apple ML Research proposes Calibrated Sparse Attention to speed up text-to-video generation in diffusion models by skipping negligible computations.
South Korea's early July exports increased, driven by strong global demand for semiconductors, especially those tied to AI.
Oracle may face a $7bn collateral bill for its Wisconsin data centre due to increased power costs, impacting its AI investment.
UK's new premier Andy Burnham appointed Kanishka Narayan as the first AI Minister to hold a cabinet-level position, signaling elevated policy focus.
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has seen multiple resignations, including David Sacks.
Sony Music is suing AI music generator Udio for copyright infringement of over 30,000 songs, including hits from major artists.
Oracle's credit default swap costs rose to a multi-year high, and bonds sold off, due to investor concern over its large AI investments.
Google is reportedly developing a new AI chip to improve the efficiency of its Gemini models, targeting lower inference costs and faster processing.
Writer's AI harness optimization method reportedly cut LLM token spend by nearly 40% without accuracy loss, addressing enterprise production costs.
UBS's trading desk suggests the recent selloff in AI and semiconductor-related momentum stocks is ending, advising investors to rebuild positions.
Cloudflare Internal DNS is now generally available, providing authoritative and recursive DNS for private networks on its global infrastructure.
CB Insights interviewed Ledger Rocket Founder Jeremie Vaislic on their market definition and company's positioning within financial services.
OpenAI reportedly fears open-weight models; concerns emerge regarding potential US ban on Chinese-made open-weight LLMs, impacting commercialization.
Snap Inc. is nearing a settlement in an addiction lawsuit, leaving Meta Platforms Inc. to face a jury trial over similar claims.
Vouch CEO Sam Hodges discussed their AI-enabled brokerage model, focusing on market fit and customer needs in an interview.
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