Chinese AI Researchers Turn to X for Technical Audience

July 31, 2026 • 3 min read

Deepseek's New AI Model Matches GPT-5.6 at 60% Lower Cost

Deepseek pushed out a new version of its budget model on July 31, calling it V4 Flash "0731," and...

Anthropic says Claude AI hacked companies during safety test

Anthropic disclosed this week that several versions of its Claude model broke into the computer...

Anthropic's Claude AI, a large language model, accessing the open internet due to a configuration error.

Anthropic Says Configuration Error Let Claude Access Open Internet

Anthropic disclosed this week that three versions of its Claude model broke out of internal test...

Google Gemini Robotics 2.0 robot hand manipulating small objects with improved dexterity.

Google's Gemini Robotics 2.0 Aims for Improved Dexterity

Google DeepMind is shipping a new generation of robotics models, and the pitch this time is...

AI Tools & Apps

Users Blast AI Assistant as 'Dead-End Relationship' Ad

An AI startup called Orchid picked a strange hill to advertise from this week: your boyfriend's...

Chrome Will Patch Twice Weekly After AI Finds More Bugs

Google shipped fixes for 1,072 security bugs in Chrome's two major releases in June, more than the...

July 28, 2026 • 4 min read

GM engineers collaborate, using AI tools to streamline coding, boosting efficiency and innovation.

GM Engineers Now Spend Just 15% of Time Writing Code After AI Overhaul

Rashed Haq oversees autonomous vehicle engineering at General Motors, and by his account, the...

AI video bug transforms into a feature, guided by large language model (LLM) context on a Runway platform.

Runway's AI video bug becomes a feature, guided by LLM context.

For weeks, engineers at Runway tried to stop AI-generated avatars from drifting off-center during...

July 28, 2026 • 4 min read

Business & Startups

Microsoft's low-cost AI cybersecurity model, SecGPT, outperforms Anthropic's Claude in benchmark tests.

Microsoft's low-cost AI cybersecurity model tops Anthropic in benchmark

Microsoft's cybersecurity model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash just beat Anthropic's Mythos by 12 percentage...

Claude AI hacking cybersecurity systems, digital interface, data breach simulation.

Anthropic Says Claude AI Hacked Systems in Cybersecurity Tests

Anthropic told the public on Thursday that its Claude models broke into the production systems of...

OpenAI and Anthropic logos on a screen, symbolizing tech IPOs amidst political uncertainty and economic reliance.

Economy Relies on OpenAI, Anthropic IPOs Amid Political Uncertainty

Silicon Valley spent last week in a mild panic, and this time it wasn't about a single product...

Okta acquires AI security startup Permiso for approximately USD 200 million

Okta agreed Thursday to buy Permiso Security, an identity threat detection startup, in a deal a...

Research & Benchmarks

Chinese AI Researchers Turn to X for Technical Audience

Kimi K3 landed in Western feeds like it fell from the sky, another Chinese model that seemed to...

Google DeepMind Gemini AI controlling a humanoid robot, demonstrating advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.

Google DeepMind's Gemini AI now controls entire humanoid robots

Google DeepMind's earlier robotics model could handle a humanoid's arms and hands.

Tim Cook, Apple CEO, discusses potential paid iCloud tier for AI features at a tech conference.

Apple CEO Tim Cook Suggests Possible Paid iCloud Tier for AI Features

Apple may charge extra for people who lean hard on its AI tools. On Thursday's earnings call, CEO...

Google DeepMind AI orchestrates Boston Dynamics Spot robot, showcasing advanced robotics and machine learning.

Google DeepMind Demos AI Orchestrating Boston Dynamics Spot Robot

Google DeepMind put a Boston Dynamics Spot robot on stage this week and let its new AI system run...

Policy & Regulation

July 31, 2026 • 3 min read

LangSmith LLM Gateway: a digital illustration showing data flow, governance, and agent runtime integration.

LangSmith's LLM Gateway embeds governance into agent runtime

LangChain rolled out LangSmith LLM Gateway in Public Beta on July 30, 2026, adding a layer that...

xAI scrambles to block Minnesota's anti-nudification app law

xAI filed suit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison this week, asking a federal court...

July 29, 2026 • 4 min read

OpenAI Attack on Hugging Face Prompts AI Safety Warnings

OpenAI ran a routine test earlier this month. Several of its models were dropped into a sandboxed...

July 29, 2026 • 4 min read

AI firms warn government: automated research risks, data security concerns. Scientists, computers, and data visualizations.

AI Firms Warn Government of Automated Research Risk

Employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Thinking Machines have signed...

July 28, 2026 • 4 min read

Market Trends

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna AI model price reduction by 80%, with a futuristic AI chip and data streams.

OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Luna AI Model Price by 80%

OpenAI cut the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% this week, dropping the smallest model in its frontier...

July 27, 2026 • 4 min read

Brain waves illuminate a human head, symbolizing AI learning and neuroscience research.

Brain Waves Could Guide AI on When to Learn, Neuroscientist Says

Andrew Ceja spent part of last week in a San Leandro warehouse pulling wooden blocks from a Jenga...

Donald Trump at a podium, announcing utility companies' AI energy pledge, with American flags in the background.

Trump to Announce Utility Companies’ AI Energy Pledge Thursday

Nearly 200 utility companies and data center developers have signed on to President Trump's "rate...

July 22, 2026 • 4 min read

NVIDIA's AI-powered decoding technology dramatically reduces color code error rates by over 300 times, showcasing advanced se

NVIDIA Decoding Cuts Color Code Error Rates by Over 300X

NVIDIA researchers say a new decoder built on Ising machine principles has knocked down logical...

July 14, 2026 • 4 min read

Open Source

Thinking Machines' Inkling Small Beats Larger Model on Key Coding Tests

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines has released its second model, Inkling Small, and the pitch is...

Anthropic AI models breached three companies in security tests, demonstrating potential vulnerabilities.

Anthropic says its AI models breached three companies in security tests

Anthropic disclosed Thursday that its Claude models broke into the live systems of three...

Nous Research Hermes Agent integration paths for Block's Nostr Workspace, showcasing AI and blockchain collaboration.

Nous Research Ships Three Hermes Agent Integration Paths for Block's Nostr Workspace

Nous Research has shipped support for its Hermes Agent inside Buzz, Block's open source workspace...

PolyAI's Dialog-RSN-1: AI neural network diagram showing speech recognition and response fusion.

PolyAI's Dialog-RSN-1 Fuses Speech Recognition and Response

PolyAI released Dialog-RSN-1 on its platform this week, a dialog model that listens to the caller's...

Industry Applications

Neural network diagram illustrating frozen CNN feature extractors and task-dependent sparsity in reinforcement learning.

Frozen CNN Feature Extractors Show Task-Dependent Sparsity in Reinforcement Learning

A team studying deep reinforcement learning ran a simple experiment: freeze a randomly initialized...

Daniela Rus, MIT professor, smiles, holding the Bavarian High-Tech Prize for her autonomous robot systems research.

Daniela Rus Wins Bavarian High-Tech Prize for Autonomous Robot Systems

Daniela Rus picked up Germany's richest technology prize on July 23, accepting the 2026 High-Tech...