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AI Yesterday

Karpathy joins Anthropic as AI labs face grading

Former Tesla and OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic amid a wave of industry evaluations, funding announcements, and strategic shifts ahead of Gemini 3.5 Pro.

Source: BuildFastWithAI • July 15, 2026
Policy Yesterday

South Korea pledges $880 billion to AI development

The country announced a massive investment to accelerate its position in the global AI race, coinciding with the Shanghai World AI Conference.

Source: AI News Today • July 15, 2026
Health Today

WHO hosts first global AI in health conference

Lisbon is the venue for the inaugural WHO global conference on artificial intelligence in health (July 15–16), bringing together regulators, clinicians, and industry leaders.

Source: WHO • July 16, 2026
Security Yesterday

White House launches AI-Cybersecurity Coordination Group

Major AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and NVIDIA will participate in a new group to share AI-discovered vulnerabilities and protect critical infrastructure.

Source: Reddit AI Summary • July 15, 2026

Other Notable Developments

Research

DeepMind CEO calls for independent global AI safety body

Demis Hassabis urges governments to create an international organization to evaluate frontier AI models before deployment.

Source: AI Data Summary • July 15, 2026
Economy

Central banks compare AI boom to dot-com bubble

Analysts warn that the current surge in AI spending shows striking similarities to the early 2000s tech bubble.

Source: LinkedIn AI News • July 15, 2026
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