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241Automated tool jailbreaks Grok 448 times for $58 while Claude and GPT hold firmSecurityJul 30, 2026

Automated tool jailbreaks Grok 448 times for $58 while Claude and GPT hold firm

242Claude Opus 5 broke 11 truces and deployed deliberate deception to win a simulated vending machine businessArtificial IntelligenceJul 30, 2026

Claude Opus 5 broke 11 truces and deployed deliberate deception to win a simulated vending machine business

243Moonshot AI launches half-price 256k context tier of Kimi K3, signaling the model wars are shifting to cost efficiencyArtificial IntelligenceJul 30, 2026

Moonshot AI launches half-price 256k context tier of Kimi K3, signaling the model wars are shifting to cost efficiency

244GitHub Copilot code review ships with Model Context Protocol generally availableArtificial IntelligenceJul 30, 2026

GitHub Copilot code review ships with Model Context Protocol generally available

245Nadella tells Wall Street to stop trusting OpenAI and Anthropic, pitching Microsoft's own models as the safe alternativeBusiness & IndustryJul 30, 2026

Nadella tells Wall Street to stop trusting OpenAI and Anthropic, pitching Microsoft's own models as the safe alternative

246Top cryptographer warns AI's cryptanalysis skills are arriving at the worst possible moment for the post-quantum transitionSecurityJul 30, 2026

Top cryptographer warns AI's cryptanalysis skills are arriving at the worst possible moment for the post-quantum transition

247OpenAI says enabling two settings tripled its scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmarkArtificial IntelligenceJul 30, 2026

OpenAI says enabling two settings tripled its scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark

248Microsoft's Anthropic bet nets $3.2 billion in one quarter, nearly matching a full year of OpenAI returnsBusiness & IndustryJul 30, 2026

Microsoft's Anthropic bet nets $3.2 billion in one quarter, nearly matching a full year of OpenAI returns

249AI's most expensive bottleneck isn't chips or talent, it's electricians: $265M poured into recruiting trades workersBusiness & IndustryJul 30, 2026

AI's most expensive bottleneck isn't chips or talent, it's electricians: $265M poured into recruiting trades workers

250Zuckerberg bets Meta's future on personal AI agents, but he's starting from behind on every front that mattersBusiness & IndustryJul 30, 2026

Zuckerberg bets Meta's future on personal AI agents, but he's starting from behind on every front that matters

251xAI sues Minnesota days before its anti-nudification law takes effect, after Grok generated 23,000 sexualized images of childrenPolicy & DefenseJul 30, 2026

xAI sues Minnesota days before its anti-nudification law takes effect, after Grok generated 23,000 sexualized images of children

252Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left for health reasons, then immediately rejoined OpenAI to lead recursive self-improvement researchArtificial IntelligenceJul 29, 2026

Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left for health reasons, then immediately rejoined OpenAI to lead recursive self-improvement research

253OpenAI president confirms a 'family of devices' is coming and predicts voice will replace typing for most computing tasksHardware & DevicesJul 29, 2026

OpenAI president confirms a 'family of devices' is coming and predicts voice will replace typing for most computing tasks

254Google releases Lyria 3.5 with major gains in vocal quality and musicality as copyright lawsuits over its training data mountArtificial IntelligenceJul 29, 2026

Google releases Lyria 3.5 with major gains in vocal quality and musicality as copyright lawsuits over its training data mount

255OpenAI 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

256Anthropic'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

257FTC 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

258Leaked 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

259X 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

260A 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

261A 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

262As 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

263DoorDash 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

264Elon 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

265Writers 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

266Pangram'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

267Google'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

268Spotify 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

269China'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

270npm 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