AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic the same week Brussels lands its first Digital Markets Act fine on Google. Plus new Gemini models, hands-free coding agents, and a wildcard from a Mars orbiter.

CNBC · Jul 22

AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, which will deploy 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs.

CNBC · Jul 23

The European Commission issued its first Digital Markets Act fine against Google, covering search and Play Store practices.

Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch · Jul 21

Google DeepMind shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, while still withholding Gemini 3.5 Pro.

TerDawn DeBoe, Forbes · Jul 21

Column on the spending controls and governance businesses need now that AI agents can transact autonomously.

Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer · Jul 23

Newsletter on engineering leaders' growing concern that AI-generated code is overwhelming review capacity.

VentureBeat · Jul 23

OpenAI added voice control for directing multiple Codex and ChatGPT agents in the desktop app.

Tech Times · Jul 23

Anthropic fixed a bug where message-normalization cost grew quadratically during long Claude Code sessions.

Anthropic · Jul 22

Anthropic launched a Claude connector letting users query Economic Index data on AI's labor-market effects in chat.

Business Wire · Jul 23

Design-tool startup Paper raised a $34 million Series A to build a design platform for AI coding agents.