DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, June 28, 2026

Gemini 3.5 Pro Goes Live: Two Million Tokens of Context, Deep Think Reasoning, and Google's Bid to Own AI Memory - July 17, 2026

Gemini 3.5 Pro Goes Live: Two Million Tokens of Context, Deep Think Reasoning, and Google's Bid to Own AI Memory - July 17, 2026 Google DeepMind pushes Gemini 3.5 Pro to general availability with a two million token context window, the largest in production anywhere, plus Deep Think extended reasoning on the Ultra tier and autonomous workflow capabilities that break big jobs into subtasks. Chris and Laura dig into what it means for pricing, the efficiency versus scale battle with OpenAI, and why the launch landing on the opening day of the Shanghai World AI Conference is no accident. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #Google #Gemini #DeepThink #AgenticAI

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, July 17, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, July 17, 2026 The World Artificial Intelligence Conference opens in Shanghai with President Xi Jinping expected to attend in person for the first time since 2018, one day after 29 countries signed the founding agreement for the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization headquartered in Shanghai. TSMC posts a record second quarter with revenue up 36 percent on extremely robust AI chip demand and raises its full year AI growth outlook above 40 percent. Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 Edge in Tokyo and anchors a Japanese physical AI coalition with Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro misses another expected launch window with no official date announced. Netflix forecasts slowing growth and pledges expanded programming plus deeper AI investment. Duos Edge AI signs a 111 million dollar colocation agreement with a hyperscaler in Georgia. Munich robotics startup microagi raises 55 million dollars in the largest seed round in German startup history. Sable lands 45 million dollars from Sequoia and 8VC for its AI employee Aiden. Xenter raises 58.25 million dollars for clinical AI. Qumulo launches NeuralSearch with a Databricks partnership. And Arup and YJK debut AI Designer for structural engineering in Hong Kong. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. Send us fan mail #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #WAIC #TSMC #DXToday

Nobody Gets an A: The Summer 2026 AI Safety Index and the Industry's Retreat From Its Own Red Lines - July 16, 2026

Nobody Gets an A: The Summer 2026 AI Safety Index and the Industry's Retreat From Its Own Red Lines The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index grades nine frontier AI labs across 37 indicators, and the best grade in the entire industry is a C plus. Chris and Laura break down the scorecard, the walk backs on pause commitments, the industry wide military pivot, and why an expert panel judged every lab's existential safety plan entirely inadequate. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #AISafety #Anthropic #OpenAI #TechNews

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, July 16, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, July 16, 2026 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declares the beginning of Japan's AI era in Tokyo with physical AI partnerships spanning Fanuc, Toyota, NEC and Kawasaki plus a SoftBank plan to build Japan's largest AI factory. TSMC posts a fifth straight record quarter with net profit up 77 percent to roughly $22 billion on AI chip demand, while ASML beats second quarter estimates and raises full year guidance to as much as 45 billion euros. Apple Intelligence wins Chinese regulatory approval powered by Alibaba's Qwen models. Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, its first open weight model with 975 billion total parameters. Neko Health closes a $700 million Series C ahead of its US launch, AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with a $130 million round, and identity platform Oak emerges from stealth with a $60 million seed. 3M and Microsoft partner on AI data center infrastructure, President Trump announces nearly $10 billion in defense, AI and robotics investment at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, the EU AI Office publishes expert findings on frontier AI, and internet pioneer Vint Cerf joins an effort to build an open identity standard for AI agents. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. Send us fan mail #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Nvidia #AppleIntelligence #DXToday

Anthropic's Samsung Silicon Bet: A $19 Billion Compute Bill, Custom Inference Chips, and the Road to a Record October IPO - July 15, 2026

Anthropic's Samsung Silicon Bet: A $19 Billion Compute Bill, Custom Inference Chips, and the Road to a Record October IPO Anthropic is reportedly designing its first custom AI inference chip and holding early talks with Samsung about manufacturing it on a two nanometer process, a direct strike at a compute bill approaching $19 billion this year. Chris and Laura unpack the economics behind the move, the OpenAI Jalapeno precedent, the Samsung versus TSMC calculus, and why it all lands just months before a confidentially filed IPO that could raise more than $60 billion. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #Anthropic #Samsung #AIChips #AIIPO