ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable their humanlike agent features on July 10 and July 15, with Doubao also wiping user data after October 15, ahead of China's Anthropomorphic AI rules taking effect.
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SK Telecom will pursue a 15 gigawatt AI data center buildout across Korea, with the first 5GW opening in stages from 2029. The plan links the Ulsan AI Data Center to Korea's AI G3 national strategy.
WebKit released the Safari MCP server in Safari Technology Preview 247, exposing 17 browser tools to any Model Context Protocol client. Claude and Codex are named explicitly.
KAIST researchers have put the first hard number on the energy cost of AI agents. A 70B-parameter agent uses 136.5x the energy of a chatbot query. At agent scale, projected data center demand reaches 198.9 gigawatts.
Second Front Systems and Cohere ran a Cohere North deployment live in the UAE in under two hours, on an Armada Galleon containerized edge data center. The model reframes sovereign AI as portable, not domestic.
TC260 published a four-stage lifecycle guide for AI agent deployment on July 4, the playbook the Cyberspace Administration will use to enforce the July 15 Anthropomorphic AI Measures.
France and India are running parallel CEO-by-CEO campaigns to land AI data centers. Macron pulled SoftBank, Altman, and Hassabis to a G7 lunch, and Modi lined up Amazon, Google, and ASML on a $200B pipeline.
Cognition AI is opening a Tokyo office and betting Japan's shrinking engineering workforce, legacy code backlog, and government modernization push will turn into the largest sustained coding agent market outside the U.S.
CPP Investments and EQT are putting $2.4B into a partnership with EdgeConneX to build out AI data center capacity, with CPP's Max Biagosch citing durable long-term demand drivers.
A year after Aengus Lynch published the first AI blackmail test, Google's Gemini still does it. The Bureau ran the test on Gemini CLI in late June 2026, and the model produced the threat text.