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211OpenAI will give 100,000 academic researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027Artificial IntelligenceJul 29, 2026

OpenAI will give 100,000 academic researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027

212Anthropic's Claude spent $100,000 and 60 hours finding new cryptographic attacks, but only after humans convinced it not to give upScience & FrontierJul 29, 2026

Anthropic's Claude spent $100,000 and 60 hours finding new cryptographic attacks, but only after humans convinced it not to give up

213FTC and three states sue Hims & Hers for sharing patients' health data with Meta and Snap despite privacy promisesPolicy & DefenseJul 29, 2026

FTC and three states sue Hims & Hers for sharing patients' health data with Meta and Snap despite privacy promises

214Leaked Microsoft recordings show Claude is finding critical bugs faster than engineers can patch themSecurityJul 29, 2026

Leaked Microsoft recordings show Claude is finding critical bugs faster than engineers can patch them

215X settles with the World Federation of Advertisers, permanently killing the ad industry's brand-safety coalitionBusiness & IndustryJul 29, 2026

X settles with the World Federation of Advertisers, permanently killing the ad industry's brand-safety coalition

216A lone developer's custom runtime runs a 26-billion-parameter model in 2 GB of RAM on an 8 GB MacBook AirHardware & DevicesJul 29, 2026

A lone developer's custom runtime runs a 26-billion-parameter model in 2 GB of RAM on an 8 GB MacBook Air

217A self-propagating AI worm in Microsoft Copilot for Word still has no fix after 144 days of disclosureSecurityJul 29, 2026

A self-propagating AI worm in Microsoft Copilot for Word still has no fix after 144 days of disclosure

218As consumer AI browsers collapse, a Perplexity veteran bets the next wave belongs to knowledge workBusiness & IndustryJul 29, 2026

As consumer AI browsers collapse, a Perplexity veteran bets the next wave belongs to knowledge work

219DoorDash builds its own drones and an operating system to route burritos between humans, robots, and aircraftBusiness & IndustryJul 29, 2026

DoorDash builds its own drones and an operating system to route burritos between humans, robots, and aircraft

220Elon Musk's X Money payments app launches with no New York license and 180-day fund freeze riskBusiness & IndustryJul 29, 2026

Elon Musk's X Money payments app launches with no New York license and 180-day fund freeze risk

221Writers are deliberately adding typos and killing em dashes to prove they are not AIArtificial IntelligenceJul 29, 2026

Writers are deliberately adding typos and killing em dashes to prove they are not AI

222Pangram's $9M bet: AI detection without watermarks, and Substack and Quora are already buying itBusiness & IndustryJul 29, 2026

Pangram's $9M bet: AI detection without watermarks, and Substack and Quora are already buying it

223Google's SynthID watermark survived 300 rounds of compression in testing, but adoption is the real bottleneckSecurityJul 29, 2026

Google's SynthID watermark survived 300 rounds of compression in testing, but adoption is the real bottleneck

224Spotify won't mandate AI music labels, so third-party trackers are now detecting AI-generated songs themselvesBusiness & IndustryJul 29, 2026

Spotify won't mandate AI music labels, so third-party trackers are now detecting AI-generated songs themselves

225China's AI microdrama boom created a face-rental marketplace where ordinary people license their likenesses for as little as $19Artificial IntelligenceJul 29, 2026

China's AI microdrama boom created a face-rental marketplace where ordinary people license their likenesses for as little as $19

226npm will scan every package for malware before publication, introducing the first mandatory delay in the registry's historySecurityJul 29, 2026

npm will scan every package for malware before publication, introducing the first mandatory delay in the registry's history

227Andrew Ng launches LearnVector with $100M from Coursera to build AI tutors that replace classrooms, not teachersBusiness & IndustryJul 29, 2026

Andrew Ng launches LearnVector with $100M from Coursera to build AI tutors that replace classrooms, not teachers

228Bot detection startup Spur lands $200M as AI-driven automated traffic outpaces human visitors on the webSecurityJul 29, 2026

Bot detection startup Spur lands $200M as AI-driven automated traffic outpaces human visitors on the web

229Autonomous AI security agent found three critical remote-code-execution flaws in Bing Images exploitable with a single crafted SVG fileSecurityJul 29, 2026

Autonomous AI security agent found three critical remote-code-execution flaws in Bing Images exploitable with a single crafted SVG file

230Apple kills its 11-year-old iPhone Upgrade Program for a Klarna-backed lease spanning every device it sellsHardware & DevicesJul 29, 2026

Apple kills its 11-year-old iPhone Upgrade Program for a Klarna-backed lease spanning every device it sells

231A missing underscore in a Kik username sent an innocent gamer to prison for 18 monthsSecurityJul 29, 2026

A missing underscore in a Kik username sent an innocent gamer to prison for 18 months

232Cyera's $1 billion Oasis acquisition bets that securing AI agent identities is the next cybersecurity frontierBusiness & IndustryJul 29, 2026

Cyera's $1 billion Oasis acquisition bets that securing AI agent identities is the next cybersecurity frontier

233OpenAI releases open-source CLI and SDK for Codex Security, its AI-powered vulnerability scannerSecurityJul 29, 2026

OpenAI releases open-source CLI and SDK for Codex Security, its AI-powered vulnerability scanner

234Anatomy of an autonomous AI attack: Hugging Face's detailed timeline shows how an OpenAI agent broke free and ran wild for five daysSecurityJul 29, 2026

Anatomy of an autonomous AI attack: Hugging Face's detailed timeline shows how an OpenAI agent broke free and ran wild for five days

235Altman reverses on AI slowdown, calls autonomous agent hack a personal wake-up callPolicy & DefenseJul 29, 2026

Altman reverses on AI slowdown, calls autonomous agent hack a personal wake-up call

236FCC bans foreign-made robots and power inverters, sweeping from humanoid machines to robot vacuumsPolicy & DefenseJul 29, 2026

FCC bans foreign-made robots and power inverters, sweeping from humanoid machines to robot vacuums

237Grok 4.5 arrives in GitHub Copilot, extending a model-agnostic strategy across all four frontier labsArtificial IntelligenceJul 28, 2026

Grok 4.5 arrives in GitHub Copilot, extending a model-agnostic strategy across all four frontier labs

238Google's $205 billion AI spending shock crystallizes Wall Street's fear that the boom may be outrunning revenueBusiness & IndustryJul 28, 2026

Google's $205 billion AI spending shock crystallizes Wall Street's fear that the boom may be outrunning revenue

239Largest US power grid will cut electricity to data centers during shortages, forcing AI builders to find their own powerBusiness & IndustryJul 28, 2026

Largest US power grid will cut electricity to data centers during shortages, forcing AI builders to find their own power

240Over 1,100 AI lab employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta urge US government to slow automated AI developmentPolicy & DefenseJul 28, 2026

Over 1,100 AI lab employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta urge US government to slow automated AI development