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English-language AI news, collected automatically every day. Click a headline to read the original article. (Last updated: July 20, 2026)

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The Verge

The apps, gadgets, and tools every reader needs

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 136, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here…

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Ars Technica

Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?

The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.

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WIRED

Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You

Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach expo…

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WIRED

How Google’s New Gemini Rates Work and How to Track Your Usage

Now that Google has changed how its usage quotas are tallied, you might not get as many AI responses as you did before.

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WIRED

Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

“Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

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TechCrunch

Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out

Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silic…

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TechCrunch

Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs

From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every…

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TechCrunch

Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI mode…

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TechCrunch

The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’

If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?

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TechCrunch

Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard

Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.

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TechCrunch

AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market

India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to cor…

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Ars Technica

Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada

The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.

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The Verge

TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool

TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as…

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TechCrunch

How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pat…

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The Verge

Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to thi…

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Ars Technica

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.

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July 17, 2026

WIRED

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 1…

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OpenAI News

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…

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WIRED

A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War

The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the president’s son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED it’…

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MIT Technology Review

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:…

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WIRED

Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis

On today’s Uncanny Valley, we unpack OpenAI’s ongoing drama, both legal and reputational, and whether these developments…

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Ars Technica

It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

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Ars Technica

xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.

Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.

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Ars Technica

Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory

Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.

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Ars Technica

Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."

Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.

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VentureBeat

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…

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VentureBeat

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…

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WIRED

Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster

The company endorsed landmark AI transparency laws in California and New York last year, but its head of US state and lo…

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The Verge

New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not ag…

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VentureBeat

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…

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VentureBeat

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…

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The Verge

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini…

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OpenAI News

Why teens deserve access to safe AI

Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls,…

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Google AI Blog

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.

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Google AI Blog

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.

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Ars Technica

Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom

Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.

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July 16, 2026

The Verge

Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you

1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security…

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The Verge

Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe

Google must give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search after t…

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The Verge

Computer cops

I stood before a hulking glass and brick structure in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. Thousands gathered inside to see w…

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WIRED

Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI

I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the defa…

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MIT News (Machine Learning)

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.

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SiliconANGLE

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…

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OpenAI News

How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI

Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads,…

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SiliconANGLE

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…

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VentureBeat

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…

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The Verge

xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child…

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SiliconANGLE

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…

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MIT News (Machine Learning)

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…

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The Verge

AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs

This weekend, cinephiles across the world will march to their local theaters to feast their eyes on Christopher Nolan's…

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WIRED

AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet

Babies are tremendous learning machines, and key advances for AI may soon be found in the architecture of their little b…

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WIRED

Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model

Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Ma…

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MIT Technology Review

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…

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SiliconANGLE

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…

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Ars Technica

OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?

The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.

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SiliconANGLE

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…

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July 15, 2026

OpenAI News

The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action

OpenAI outlines a “reverse federalism” approach to AI governance, where state laws help build a national framework for s…

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WIRED

An Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI

Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parki…

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OpenAI News

GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness

Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt i…

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WIRED

My Ebike Delivery Went Missing. When I Tried to Recover It, I Ended Up in Chatbot Hell

Companies’ increasing reliance on AI chatbots isn’t making the customer service experience smarter. It’s just making it…

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SiliconANGLE

Construction automation startup TerraFirma raises $115M

TerraFirma Inc., a startup with a platform that enables construction teams to remotely operate heavy machinery, has rais…

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SiliconANGLE

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…

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SiliconANGLE

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…

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Ars Technica

Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans

Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.

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Ars Technica

US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time

US military’s drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again.

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MIT News (Machine Learning)

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…

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Ars Technica

Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI

The new Google image search will use your "unique interests" to create an always-updated gallery.

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SiliconANGLE

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…

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Google AI Blog

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…

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SiliconANGLE

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…

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July 14, 2026

SiliconANGLE

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…

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SiliconANGLE

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…

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OpenAI News

How to manage AI investments in the agentic era

Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving effici…

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OpenAI News

How sales teams use ChatGPT Work

See how sales teams can use ChatGPT Work to create pipeline briefs, meeting prep packets, forecast reviews, account plan…

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OpenAI News

How data science teams use ChatGPT Work

See how data science teams can use ChatGPT Work to build root-cause briefs, impact readouts, KPI memos, scoped analyses,…

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MIT News (Machine Learning)

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…

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MIT Technology Review

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…

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