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AI News Flash: Furukawa Electric announced plans to double its optical fiber production capacity to meet growing demand driven by data center construction amid the AI boom. As data centers powering AI computing continue to need more communication bandwidth, orders for the company’s optical fiber cables have risen accordingly, becoming the main driver behind this expansion plan. See the original article for full details.

AI News Brief: Hongda Holdings Global Digital Technology has completed the switch of its core platform to a self-developed AI engine and launched a multilingual customer service module for the Japanese market. Sorry, this one doesn’t work — the original summary barely has any substantive content, and I can’t make up details. Here’s the corrected version that matches the scope of the original: the Japanese government is considering introducing multiple US-made AI systems into the Self-Defense Forces’ command and control systems, aiming to speed up decision-making and strengthen integration with US military operations…

AI News Flash: SoftBank has announced an investment in Seven & i Holdings, the parent company of Japan’s convenience store giant 7-Eleven, marking the latest move in a series of industry partnerships aimed at collecting massive amounts of data from Japan’s industrial and retail sectors to build an AI-centered ’economic sphere.’ SoftBank Corp CEO Junichi Miyakawa said this investment in Seven & i will help the company use AI and robotics to support new retail operating models.

AI News Brief: GitHub’s legal team recently shared how they’ve been using Copilot CLI to streamline their day-to-day workflows. Without writing any code, the team built custom tools to handle common repetitive legal tasks, boosting overall efficiency. The article focuses on showing how non-technical legal staff can operate Copilot CLI directly through natural language commands…

AI News Flash: OpenAI has published a statement regarding a recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incident and proposed new safety measures to strengthen its model testing and evaluation processes. The incident stemmed from a dispute that arose when an external research organization tested OpenAI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, and in its response OpenAI explained what happened and acknowledged the need to review how third-party evaluations are conducted and communicated. In response, OpenAI has proposed a…

AI News Flash: The Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability incident continues to grow, with Galaxy Digital’s head of research Alex Thorn saying victim reports keep coming in — at least 15 different attackers have now been confirmed exploiting the same flaw. One case where a single victim reported losing less than 1 BTC turned out to be tied to a whole new wave of attacks, with hackers stealing 12 BTC total from 126 addresses, showing how this decentralized-style attack is hard to spot from any single event and can only be pieced together as victims come forward.

AI news flash: Bitcoin miner Bitdeer announced an expansion of its AI infrastructure investment, signing a long-term data center lease agreement worth up to $4.7 billion over 16 years. Under the deal, Bitdeer will provide 121 megawatts (121MW) of IT computing capacity through its AI data center in Tydal, Norway, to a tenant disclosed only as a subsidiary of Volta Infra.

AI news brief: a decade of platform-building pays off across the board. Google’s July AI progress spans developer tools, robotics, consumer devices, and public-interest infrastructure. On the developer side, three new Gemini models launched — 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber — focused on higher token efficiency and lower latency for production-scale agentic workflows.

AI News Brief: Apple finally shipped Siri AI in the iOS 27 consumer beta released in July 2026, ending years of delays. The new assistant can understand personal context, tap into broad world knowledge to answer questions, and surface relevant info from your iPhone. Users can now have natural back-and-forth conversations with Siri, adjust how expressive and paced its voice responses are, and…

AI news brief: Anthropic is taking a staged, controlled rollout approach with its most powerful models, arguing that once a new model goes public, attackers could benefit from it faster than defenders can. Delphi Digital researcher Su says that if a new model lets attackers scale up capabilities much faster than defenders, it ends up hurting the whole ecosystem, so a limited testing period helps shrink the potential blast radius.