DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, July 18, 2026

The Shanghai Counterweight: China's 29 Nation WAICO Alliance and the Two Futures of Global AI Governance - July 18, 2026

The Shanghai Counterweight: China's 29 Nation WAICO Alliance and the Two Futures of Global AI Governance - July 18, 2026 Chris and Laura go deep on the launch of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, the 29 nation alliance China unveiled in Shanghai with Xi Jinping framing open source models as a public good for the Global South. They unpack the founding membership, the pledge of 5,000 AI training spots for developing countries, and what a world with two competing AI governance frameworks means for everyone else. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #WAICO #AIGovernance #China #GlobalSouth

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, July 18, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, July 18, 2026 China's Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open weight model ever published, as Xi Jinping delivers his first keynote at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. Apple overtakes Nvidia to reclaim the title of world's most valuable company while semiconductor stocks sell off on AI spending concerns. Alphabet extends its slide as Gemini 3.5 Pro misses its rumored launch date, and Netflix reveals generative AI touched roughly 300 titles. Meta hires senior AWS executive Dave Brown for its AI infrastructure push, Microsoft preps its multi model Project Perception security tool, and Apple escalates its trade secrets fight with legal warnings to 40 former employees now at OpenAI. Plus, San Francisco orders Apple and Google to remove AI nudify apps, Huawei showcases its Atlas 950 SuperPoD in Shanghai, and 400 developers gather in Silicon Valley for a voice AI travel hackathon. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. Send us fan mail #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenSourceAI #WAIC #DXToday

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