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POLICY

China launches World AI Cooperation Organization with 29 nations

CNBC

Twenty-nine countries, including Russia, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan, formally established the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization in Shanghai, a Beijing-headquartered body meant to set global AI governance rules. Xi Jinping pitched China as an AI partner to the developing world, pledging 5,000 training opportunities over five years, while UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attended the signing.

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INDUSTRY

Apple Intelligence approved for China, powered by Alibaba Qwen

China's Cyberspace Administration cleared Apple Intelligence for the mainland after Apple agreed to integrate Alibaba's Qwen model into iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. Apple had evaluated Baidu, DeepSeek, and ByteDance before settling on Alibaba, contributing to a two-year delay since the feature launched elsewhere.

TechCrunch

RELEASE

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-weight model yet

The 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model uses a new Kimi Delta Attention mechanism and a 1-million-token context window, scoring third overall on the GDPval-AA v2 benchmark behind only Claude Fable 5 Max and GPT-5.6 Sol Max. Full weights are due July 27, and the model is compatible with the OpenAI SDK.

VentureBeat

RELEASE

Nvidia and ServiceNow launch Project Arc autonomous desktop agent

The companies unveiled Project Arc, a self-evolving desktop agent for knowledge workers that runs inside Nvidia's OpenShell sandboxed runtime with governance from ServiceNow's AI Control Tower. It is available now as an early preview, expanding the two companies' partnership from data-center compute into governed enterprise agent software.

NVIDIA Blog

FUNDING

Sable raises $45 million to build an AI employee that runs demos

Sequoia Capital and 8VC led the round for the year-old startup, whose AI agent Aiden runs live product walkthroughs and handles sales, demo, and onboarding roles on customer websites. Notion and Decagon are already running Aiden in production.

Fortune

POLICY

Meta employees sue over claims AI was used to target leave-takers in layoffs

Twenty-six current and former Meta employees allege the company used an AI system to help select roughly 8,000 layoffs, disproportionately affecting workers on medical, parental, or family leave. Separations are set to begin July 22, and the suit adds to scrutiny of AI-assisted employment decisions.

Fortune