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Hong Kong's Housing Bureau, Housing Authority, Cyberport, and University of Hong Kong launched the Smart QS Hackathon 2026 on July 29. The program focuses on AI prototypes for contract advisory and payment valuation,…
A Cell study published July 27 introduced Oncoformer, a multimodal model trained and validated on routine health records, laboratory tests and chest X-rays from 3.67 million people. The researchers reported an AUROC of…
Former Tesla manager Javier Medrano filed a federal lawsuit on July 27 alleging Tesla retaliated against him after he raised safety concerns about Full Self-Driving testing in Houston, Texas. According to the complaint…
Bloomberg reported on July 14 that OpenAI is developing a mobile, screen-free smart speaker as its first consumer hardware product. TechCrunch described a home companion with ChatGPT access, personalization and moving…
Minnesota's nudification law took effect on August 1 after U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank denied X.AI's request for an immediate temporary restraining order. The July 31 order did not decide whether the law is…
SK hynix reported preliminary second-quarter revenue of 79.3 trillion won and operating profit of 60.5 trillion won on July 29, both quarterly records, with a 76% operating margin. The memory maker attributed the…
HomomorphicEncryption.org's FHE Benchmarking Suite added a BERT workload whose current reference submission follows DESILO's THOR method, the suite's public repository showed on July 24. The workload runs BERT-Base on…
Tesla signed two long-term power purchase agreements announced July 28: about 90% of the output from ContourGlobal's 450 MWac solar-plus-storage project in Arizona and all output from Zelestra's planned 140 MWac solar…
U.S. Central Command and the United Arab Emirates announced plans on July 28 for Task Force Talon Synapse, an Abu Dhabi-based military AI team of about 20 U.S. and Emirati specialists. CENTCOM expects a formal launch in…
Argonne National Laboratory on July 28 reported that it is integrating transformer-based AI into its System Analysis Module, or SAM, to improve fluid-dynamics simulations for advanced nuclear reactors. The laboratory…
Australia's federal government announced on July 15 proposed national standards requiring large new data centres to underwrite new power supply, pay their connection costs, reduce load when needed and limit water use.…
A Nature study published July 22 combined ProteinMPNN redesign with laboratory evolution to produce botulinum neurotoxin proteases that were more stable and better able to acquire new functions than natural starting…
Alberta Technology Minister Nate Glubish told government contractors on July 28 that firms unwilling to change their technology practices may receive less provincial work. BetaKit reports that Glubish cited in-house AI…
Researchers affiliated with IIIT Hyderabad and partner institutions reported that 3-billion-parameter language models matched 7B–14B models when predicting fMRI responses during naturalistic language comprehension,…
The EU AI Omnibus entered into force on July 27, 2026, extending compliance deadlines for high-risk AI systems under the EU AI Act. European Commission guidance sets December 2, 2027 for Annex III systems and August 2,…
Sygnia disclosed on July 28 that a penetration test found an authorization flaw in a customer-onboarding application built substantially with Claude. The app used temporary tokens, expiry, rate limits and audit logs,…
Rep. Kevin Mullin introduced the AV Emergency Response Coordination Act on July 28, proposing national rules for how autonomous-vehicle operators work with first responders. The draft would require standardized…
OpenAI, Io Products and iyO told a federal court on July 27 that they had reached a settlement in principle in iyO's trademark case. Judge Trina Thompson granted a seven-day stay through August 6 while the parties…
Munich-based 5U AI said on July 28 that it raised $3.2 million in pre-seed funding led by Emerge Capital. The startup plans to expand AI workers that handle quoting, bookings, tracking and invoice reconciliation inside…
Granola launched its AI meeting-notes app for Apple Watch on July 28, 2026, according to MacRumors. The release supports Apple Watch models running watchOS 11 or later and lets users start transcription from the wrist…
Check Point's Q2 2026 brand-phishing report placed ChatGPT among its 10 most impersonated brands for the first time. The security company documented a June email styled as a "ChatGPT Plus payment failed" notice that…
Salamanca City Central School District in western New York paused a $57,590 humanoid-robot classroom pilot on July 24 after state officials, teachers and residents raised privacy and student-welfare concerns. The…
OpenAI's July 27 Work at the Frontier report found that 43.5% of occupation-specific messages in its sample mapped to tasks historically associated with another occupation. The analysis covered more than 800,000…
A July statement signed by employees of frontier AI companies asks the U.S. government to support an international effort to develop tools for deliberately pacing automated AI development. The live page listed 1,324…
Elio completed a $21 million Series A financing on July 23, co-led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora, to commercialize an optical sensing platform that lets AI systems determine what information to capture in real time.…
UC Riverside highlighted SAGA on July 24, 2026, months after the paper first appeared in November 2025 and following its publication at CVPR 2026. The framework classifies synthetic videos at five levels, from…
Researchers at Hebei University of Technology reported a motor-free soft hip exosuit that cut net metabolic rate by 13.9% in a treadmill study of six healthy adults walking at 4 km/h. The 4.2-pound prototype uses…
IncQuery's survey of consulting and investment professionals found **70% expect their primary research needs to increase** over the next year, at exactly the moment AI can answer almost anything instantly. In an email…
Alphabet raised its 2026 capital-expenditure forecast to $195 billion-$205 billion after reporting second-quarter results, according to CNBC and the Los Angeles Times. CNBC reported that Alphabet's quarterly free cash…
Anthropic published research on July 28 reporting that Claude Mythos Preview helped derive a practical key-recovery attack against the HAWK-256 test parameter and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round…
Liquid Interactive launched its Liquid Photos beta in July with C$700,000 in pre-seed backing from Toronto venture studio AXL. The product turns selected camera-roll images into interactive visual experiences that users…
The Greater Birmingham Humane Society filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County Circuit Court this month seeking to halt Nebius Group's AI data center project near its planned animal welfare campus in Birmingham. The suit…
Ahrefs published a July 27 study of Google search results finding that pages with more detector-flagged AI text generally ranked lower, were indexed less often and received fewer impressions. The pattern was gradual…
Harvard Kennedy School unveiled its HKS 2036 strategy on June 3, setting a decade-long goal to train 600 public-sector technologists and 6,000 public leaders who can work across technology, governance, and ethics. The…
Siemens reported on June 24 that Jack Technology ordered 2,000 humanoid robots tailored for apparel manufacturing, describing it as the sector's first large-scale deployment. The supplier, factory tasks and rollout…
Court records show Anthropic bought millions of print books, cut off their bindings, scanned the pages, and discarded the originals for an internal research library. A June 2025 ruling found that lawfully purchased…
Netweb Technologies India reported standalone unaudited Q1 FY27 results on July 28, 2026, with profit after tax of Rs 85.32 crore, up 179.94% year over year. Revenue from operations reached Rs 819.69 crore, up 172.13%,…
Indeed research published July 28 found that 43% of surveyed managers felt poorly equipped or not equipped to lead AI-native workers, while 45% felt ready. The U.S. survey of 1,301 people also found 52% of workers…
Alcorn State University professor Jason Gibson reported in late July that a hidden instruction led 32 of 35 students across two classes to submit nonsensical Madagascar references in part of a midterm. Gibson said the…
The Philippine Department of Energy said on July 28 that it was drafting generation-capacity guidelines for the planned Pax Silica technology hub in Clark. Reporting puts the project's eventual electricity requirement…
The Federal Trade Commission on July 1 sought public comment on a proposed policy statement applying Section 5 of the FTC Act to undisclosed steering of AI outputs. The FTC contends that companies may deceive consumers…
A TechPowerUp forum member posted a month of testing from an alleged pre-production Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X chip. The 24GB prototype produced usable CPU and graphics results, but CUDA…
Hugging Face's Diffusers 0.38.0 fixes three vulnerabilities, as reported on July 28, that could let malicious model repositories execute arbitrary code during pipeline loading even when `trust_remote_code` was disabled.…
Cycode launched Agentic Workflows today, letting AI agents detect, triage and remediate security risks without a person invoking each step. In an email interview with Lets Data Science, Cycode's Devin Maguire said…
IHG Hotels & Resorts launched a U.S. beta of conversational AI search on IHG.com and the IHG One Rewards app on July 28. Travelers can use natural-language prompts to receive hotel recommendations, maps, live…
Arctic Wolf released its 2026 Trends Report on July 28, finding that 35% of surveyed security leaders rank AI as their top cybersecurity risk, ahead of ransomware and malware. The report cautions that attention to AI…
Vena Solutions announced July 28 that it entered a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based Morpheo AI, subject to customary closing conditions. Vena said it is acquiring Morpheo's technology and team to advance…
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a federal law on July 26 establishing a framework for developing, deploying, and using large AI foundation models in Russia. The Kremlin states that the law defines sovereign and…
Meta began rolling out a Muse Spark-powered version of Meta AI to Ray-Ban Display users in the US on July 27. According to Meta, the update improves answers, visual understanding, and suggestions on its display-equipped…
NetApp acquired AI data infrastructure company DataPelago on July 16, adding its Nucleus engine for GPU- and CPU-accelerated processing at the storage layer. NetApp said Nucleus can process data in place rather than…
