DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, July 2, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, July 2, 2026Claude Fable 5 comes back online worldwide after the Commerce Department lifts export controls, and Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as the new default for Free and Pro users. Together AI closes an 800 million dollar Series C at an 8.3 billion dollar valuation led by Aramco Ventures. TwelveLabs raises 100 million dollars to build video superintelligence. Reflection AI activates its 6.3 billion dollar compute lease at Colossus 2 in Memphis. Applied Digital brings 75 more megawatts online at Polaris Forge 1, lifting the campus to 175 megawatts. The Wall Street Journal reports SpaceX showed investors a handset style AI device prototype, a claim Elon Musk flatly denies. Cloudflare gives AI companies until September 15 to separate search crawlers from AI training crawlers or face default blocking. Federal agencies face today as the 30 day deadline for interim frontier model review guidance as OpenAI targets mid July general availability for GPT 5.6. Microsoft makes its 365 Copilot business bundles permanent. Oxmiq Labs raises 35 million dollars to collapse GPU, CPU, and tensor functions into one chip architecture. Tennessee bans marketing AI as a qualified mental health professional. And global equity issuance hits 729.4 billion dollars in the first half, up 73 percent on the back of the AI boom.DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning.Send us fan mail#AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #ClaudeFable5 #AIFunding #DXToday