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English-language AI news, collected automatically every day. Click a headline to read the original article. (Last updated: July 24, 2026)
July 24, 2026
Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new way…
Read article →AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this yea…
Read article →AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems
Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.
Read article →Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.
Read article →Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the compa…
Read article →Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”
Read article →AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small an…
Read article →Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to…
Read article →Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request bas…
Read article →OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
Read article →OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical re…
Read article →Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that…
Read article →Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending
Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.
Read article →Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon
If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
Read article →AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI…
Read article →July 23, 2026
Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
Read article →AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.
Read article →Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle th…
Read article →Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit b…
Read article →The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
A person holds signs during a nationwide protest against AI data center expansion outside Peace Hall in New Port Richey,…
Read article →How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines
Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many ye…
Read article →Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expe…
Read article →Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop
With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your fam…
Read article →ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push
ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
Read article →Launching Health in ChatGPT
Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalize…
Read article →After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe
After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate har…
Read article →The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI
There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.
Read article →China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-sour…
Read article →Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers
Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.
Read article →OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.
Read article →Here’s what Samsung’s smart glasses actually look like
With a camera on every pair, Google’s and Samsung’s AI glasses face the same privacy problems as Meta’s. | Photo: Domini…
Read article →July 22, 2026
AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, a…
Read article →Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens.
Read article →Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community
OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community invest…
Read article →How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions
News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI to…
Read article →3 Google updates from Galaxy Unpacked 2026
We shared how Samsung users can boost productivity and get time back on new foldables, watches, and glasses coming soon.
Read article →Advancing the next era of national science
OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national lab…
Read article →Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
Content Seal sounds a lot like a less accessible and reliable version of SynthID. | Image: Meta / The Verge IIn March, M…
Read article →Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill
The pledge was introduced in March, and has done little to quell concerns so far. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Ge…
Read article →Introducing OpenAI Presence
Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and cha…
Read article →NTT DATA Group cuts incident analysis to 30 minutes with Codex
NTT DATA Group uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to help 9,000 employees automate work, cut incident analysis to 30 minu…
Read article →OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gaine…
Read article →Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short tit…
Read article →This Former Intel CEO Wants to Jumpstart Moore’s Law With Light
Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light.
Read article →Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
Read article →Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program
OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow…
Read article →Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4
There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.
Read article →A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots
A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to des…
Read article →Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to p…
Read article →July 21, 2026
Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera
Halliday’s G2 glasses can listen to and summarize your workplace meetings—with no video involved.
Read article →Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrica…
Read article →‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech
Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and d…
Read article →The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens
Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to lim…
Read article →Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing
Once a quirky bastion of amateur vulva jewelry and pet portraits, Etsy is now deluged with mass-produced goods and AI kn…
Read article →OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced…
Read article →David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC
David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing global leadership in…
Read article →Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round
California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.
Read article →China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox fir…
Read article →July 20, 2026
Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness
Augment Code's Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.
Read article →Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models
OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and impro…
Read article →AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s good reason to questi…
Read article →July 18, 2026
Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
Read article →Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
Read article →July 17, 2026
A scorecard for the AI age
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful…
Read article →The risk of weather data sabotage is rising
Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing:…
Read article →The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs
Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economi…
Read article →The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials
Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain th…
Read article →The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix
Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can…
Read article →The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway
Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate…
Read article →Why teens deserve access to safe AI
Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls,…
Read article →Connect more of your apps to Search
You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly in AI Mode.
Read article →Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates
Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.
Read article →July 16, 2026
A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping
Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs more accurately and efficiently.
Read article →QumulusAI’s direct listing: Accelerating the neocloud for enterprise AI
Neocloud provider QumulusAI said today that it will starting trading Thursday as a publicly traded company on Nasdaq und…
Read article →Cadence extends its AI agents beyond chips with AuraStack for circuit boards and packaging
Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced a new artificial i…
Read article →Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by…
Read article →Construction robot startup Monumental reels in $32M
Monumental BV, a Dutch startup that operates a fleet of bricklaying robots, has raised $35 million in funding. Khosla Ve…
Read article →3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design
Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse inside an AI's neural…
Read article →Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost th…
Read article →Atlassian evolves Jira into an orchestration hub for developers and AI agents
Atlassian Corp. today announced it is expanding Jira with updates that will help developers prepare, distribute and trac…
Read article →Perplexity launches secure sandbox to make its AI agents secure and powerful
Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced a new feature that takes its current agentic artificial intelligence service, Comput…
Read article →July 15, 2026
Construction automation startup TerraFirma raises $115M
TerraFirma Inc., a startup with a platform that enables construction teams to remotely operate heavy machinery, has rais…
Read article →Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis calls for creation of AI standards body
Artificial intelligence pioneer Demis Hassabis today called for the creation of a standards body focused on regulating f…
Read article →IBM shares plummet 25% on weak preliminary earnings
Shares of IBM Corp. plunged 25% today after it posted preliminary second-quarter earnings that missed expectations. The…
Read article →Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering
MIT students designed, built, and tested a jet engine with AI copilots, assessing AI’s usefulness in developing high-per…
Read article →Concho AI turns enterprise codebases into a knowledge layer for AI agents
Concho AI today introduced its flagship platform, an artificial intelligence platform that understands software developm…
Read article →Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation
Google Images is turning 25. Here’s a look back at some major milestones — and new ways to explore and create visual con…
Read article →Chai Discovery nabs $400M Series C as AI-designed antibodies reach Big Pharma
Chai Discovery Inc., a company that develops artificial intelligence models to predict interactions between biochemical…
Read article →July 14, 2026
Cribl buys AI-native threat detection engineering startup CardinalOps
Data observability and telemetry management company Cribl Inc. says it’s extending its capabilities into security operat…
Read article →Oracle opens Fusion Agentic Applications to pro-code developers and coding agents
Oracle Corp. today announced a new artificial intelligence-native experience for its Fusion Applications within Oracle A…
Read article →AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data
“SceneSmith” system uses collaborative AI agents to create realistic 3D environments of places like kitchens, hotels, an…
Read article →What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox fir…
Read article →July 13, 2026
July 10, 2026
Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on ins…
Read article →Tiny robot boats build floating structures
MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assemb…
Read article →July 9, 2026
July 7, 2026
The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale
With the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases…
Read article →Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more
We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready age…
Read article →Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox fir…
Read article →July 3, 2026
July 2, 2026
Building the foundation for an autonomous enterprise
Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its…
Read article →The latest AI news we announced in June 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026.
Read article →New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.
Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.
Read article →July 1, 2026
June 30, 2026
Unlocking Britain’s next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers
Google UK shares its latest Economic Impact Report and how to enable more people to unlock the benefits of AI-powered te…
Read article →Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program’s initial students
Associate Professor Anna Huang delivers the keynote address, “In Search of Human-AI Resonance,” to a capacity crowd.
Read article →3 Questions: Beyond data-driven aesthetics
In a new Keller Gallery exhibition, Alexandros Haridis SM ’17, PhD ’22 traces centuries of ideas about aesthetic judgmen…
Read article →Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack?
A Google expert explains what it means to take a full-stack approach to AI and why it’s been the foundation of our AI wo…
Read article →June 26, 2026
LLMs help robots understand vague instructions and focus on key details
To help robots do chores in places like homes and factories, a new approach from MIT uses one language model to clarify…
Read article →Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app
The new Google Finance is coming out of beta and launching a new Android app.
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