AI Daily: Thursday, July 23, 2026
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AMD pledges up to $5 billion to Anthropic and will supply next-gen MI450 GPUs, mounting the biggest direct challenge yet to Nvidia's dominance in frontier AI compute. • Alphabet reported record profits and booming cloud revenue, providing the first hard proof that massive AI infrastructure spending is generating real returns. • The U.S. Treasury threatened sanctions against Chinese lab Moonshot AI, alleging its Kimi K3 model was built by distilling Anthropic's Fable — a move that would set a dramatic national-security precedent. • Leading AI researchers disputed the distillation theory, warning that if Kimi K3 was built organically, China is closing the frontier capability gap faster than assumed. • Fields Medalist Terence Tao publicly shared a ChatGPT-assisted session exploring the Jacobian Conjecture, marking a milestone in AI's acceptance as a genuine frontier math research tool.