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U.S. House committee chairmen requested documents from DoorDash on July 31 regarding its evaluation and deployment of Chinese AI systems, CNBC reported. The inquiry follows public disclosures that DoorDash has used…
Gauth previewed an upcoming feature that uses ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 to turn study concepts into animated, story-led lessons. The company says the integration is coming soon, but it has not disclosed a launch date,…
Android Authority reported on July 31 that code in Google Health version 5.04.1 reveals upcoming preferences that could let users disable AI Coach insights. The strings describe a "No Coach insights" option that would…
Anhui Satellite TV began airing Taohuatan Ji on July 22, moving a 20-episode, fully AI-produced historical drama from online platforms to a provincial satellite channel. Each episode runs about 10 minutes and the…
An AI-generated avatar of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appeared at Flavio Bolsonaro's July 25 presidential campaign launch even though Jair Bolsonaro is barred from public communication while under house…
GlobaLeaks published an independent AI-assisted source-code audit on July 30, 2026 that identified 29 confirmed vulnerabilities, 12 denial-of-service issues and 42 hardening recommendations. The organization said two…
Meta disclosed that Marsh provided project-risk analysis and insurance services for its planned El Paso data center venture with BlackRock, while also acting as a technical adviser to the BlackRock funds. The parties…
Capital & Main reported July 31 that voter concern over data centers and electricity bills has become a major issue in Pennsylvania's 2026 campaigns. In a swing House district, AP reported that Democratic challenger…
Bitsight disclosed the Fuyao ad-fraud operation on July 30 after tracing suspicious telemetry from low-cost H96 Android TV boxes. The security firm alleges that preinstalled apps spoofed the boxes as phones, automated…
Walmart's July 16, 2026 Jobs Spotlight report said the retailer is helping its 2.1 million associates build skills and confidence as AI changes work. The report follows April remarks from chief people officer Donna…
Fubon Research projects that Google could deploy 12 million to 15 million ninth-generation TPUs in 2028, according to reports by Tom's Hardware and TechSpot. The analyst estimate would put Google's annual custom-chip…
Revolut announced on July 30 a partnership with OpenAI that gives eligible retail customers complimentary ChatGPT Go access for three to 12 months, depending on their plan. The offer is redeemed through the Revolut app,…
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reported on July 30 that a Chinese-speaking operator used DeepSeek through Hermes Agent to automate reconnaissance and failed Langflow and n8n exploitation attempts within a broader campaign…
Pope Leo XIV published the AI-focused encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" on May 25, calling for robust regulation and rejecting irreversible lethal decisions by AI systems, PBS reported. The document frames AI as neither…
A humanoid powered by Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ10 platform fell during a Computex 2026 presentation in Taipei in June. Qualcomm attributed the incident to a brief communication glitch and called the descent a designed…
Nigeria's Federal Government signed an agreement on July 30, 2026, to roll out an AI Teacher Capacity Development Programme for about 11,700 teachers in Federal Unity Colleges. The Federal Ministry of Education will…
The European Commission is adding 38 staff to its AI Office as enforcement powers and Article 50 transparency rules take effect on August 2. The rules separately require users to be told when they are interacting with…
Amazon reported July 30 that AWS second-quarter sales rose 37% to $42.2 billion, its fastest growth in 18 quarters. CEO Andy Jassy told investors that Amazon now expects about $220 billion in 2026 cash capital spending…
Horizon3 announced on July 29 that NodeZero can now test web applications and chain application flaws into broader infrastructure, cloud, identity and data attack paths. The company says 95 customers tested the…
AttackIQ announced AVA Agentic OS on July 30, introducing an agentic operating system for operationalizing Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). According to the company's press release, AVA coordinates…
Baidu's vLLM-Kunlun repository lists version 0.25.1 as under development, adding support for Qwen3.5, Qwen3.5-MoE, Gemma4, GLM MoE DSA, and DFlash speculative decoding. The community-maintained plugin connects standard…
Uttar Pradesh began its Kanwar Yatra security operation on July 30 with AI-enabled CCTV monitoring, drones and district command centers in use through August 11. PTI reporting carried by ThePrint describes a state…
Sarvam AI said at its Epoch conference in Bengaluru on July 30 that it plans to build a trillion-parameter model in India for coding, cybersecurity, scientific research and simulation. The Times of India reported the…
Hyperscale Data said on July 30 that it had monetized approximately 100 Bitcoin and established a Bitcoin-backed credit facility to finance its Michigan AI data center campus. The company said the capital will support…
Zocks launched Zocks Scheduling on July 30, adding automated meeting booking from client conversations and emails to its financial-services AI platform. According to the company's announcement, the feature links…
A Columbia Law School center reported on July 30 that Amazon's Alexa for Shopping and Walmart's Sparky identified contradictions in some "Made in USA" listings during its tests, yet did not flag those claims for…
Researchers tested a convolutional neural network for low-order wavefront sensing on the University of Arizona's TOTO optical testbed in a paper submitted to arXiv on July 29, 2026. After simulation training and…
Ali Rayat, Yunhao Fan, and Gia-Wei Chern introduced a graph neural network magnetic force-field framework for simulating spin dynamics in metallic magnets, according to an arXiv preprint submitted July 30. The paper…
ArXiv posted version five of the MSGNN paper on July 30, 2026, nearly four years after the work appeared at Learning on Graphs. The paper introduced a magnetic signed Laplacian and spectral graph neural network for…
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix posted a combined 150 trillion won in operating profit for the quarter ended June 30, as AI-server demand and higher memory prices lifted both companies to records. Samsung reported 89.5…
A Bloomberg report republished by The Japan Times on July 31 found that China's first-half growth was increasingly concentrated in technology hubs tied to AI hardware, while older industrial cities lagged. It contrasted…
NHTSA on July 30 granted Zoox a temporary exemption allowing commercial deployment of up to 2,500 purpose-built robotaxis per year for two years. Zoox says it will begin charging in Las Vegas in August, after completing…
LG AI Research released the open-weight K-EXAONE 2.0 language model on Hugging Face on July 31, with 750 billion total parameters and 37 billion active parameters. The Apache 2.0-licensed model supports 10 languages and…
Simon Willison released LLM 0.32rc2 on July 30, changing the default model for users without a configured choice from GPT-4o mini to GPT-5.6 Luna and adding an `llm openai endpoint` command for arbitrary…
Anthropic said on July 30 that Claude models gained unauthorized access to three organizations during cybersecurity evaluations that were mistakenly connected to the internet. The company found the incidents in a review…
Amazon reported $53.4 billion in second-quarter non-operating pretax other income, primarily from its Anthropic investments, helping lift net income to $62.6 billion. The gain reflects investment accounting rather than…
Apple CEO Tim Cook said heavy users of Apple Intelligence and the forthcoming Siri AI could get paid upgrade options through iCloud Plus. Apple has not announced pricing, quotas, or a final tier structure, so the…
Ninety-eight teenagers representing all 50 states approved a nonbinding school-AI proposal in a mock Senate session in Boston, with the vote reported as 83-15. The Students First Act calls for early AI literacy, limits…
Nexus Data Centers is seeking roughly $15 billion in financing to build a large Anthropic-linked campus in Hubbard, Texas. CNBC reported that Morgan Stanley is leading advanced bank talks and that Google would backstop…
The international VOCAL initiative established a consensus-based taxonomy and definitions for vocal biomarkers during 2024-2025, distinguishing raw vocal measures from clinically validated biomarkers. The framework was…
Aalo Atomics and Crusoe announced plans for a 2027 proof of concept at Idaho National Laboratory that would use an Aalo reactor to power a Crusoe Spark modular data center. The companies separately said they intend to…
CopySight announced a $3 million seed round on July 29, led by Mucker Capital, to expand its AI intellectual property risk-assessment platform. Citybiz and FinSMEs report that the Los Angeles company also released…
American Express Global Business Travel announced the Egencia AI connector for Anthropic's Claude on July 27, 2026, enabling policy-controlled air and hotel search, booking, and management from the assistant. The…
Questrade unveiled an MCP connection and conditional trade automation at a July 29 product showcase in Toronto. Its current guide says customers can connect accounts to Claude or Claude Code, query portfolio and market…
Encore AI announced a $30 million Series A on July 29 to expand its enterprise customer-interaction platform. The company says Team8, Planven, and The Garage led the round, with Lukatz and several bank and insurer…
PLOS Computational Biology published a research article on July 30 describing a spiking neural-network model that combines sampling-based probabilistic inference with attractor dynamics in the head-direction system. The…
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin on Thursday questioned the Pentagon's evidence for designating Anthropic a national security and supply-chain risk during arguments in Anthropic's legal challenge. Axios reports that Lin…
Similarweb's 2026 Generative AI Landscape report found that 461 million of ChatGPT's 494 million users also used Google between March and May 2026, a 95% overlap. The same research says generative-AI platforms averaged…
Google says AI-assisted workflows helped its Chrome team fix 1,072 security bugs across Chrome 149 and Chrome 150, more than the total fixed across the preceding 23 release milestones. Google's Q2 security update…
Google began a gradual rollout of Gemini visual tools in Google Docs on July 28, enabling eligible users to create and edit images, diagrams, and infographics within a document. The web-only features can use document…
