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The U.S. government is weighing whether AI distillation — a standard technique for training one model using another's outputs — constitutes model theft when done without authorization, as a House bill…

An industry campaign against broad restrictions on downloadable AI models has doubled to 50 signatories, adding Google and OpenAI to a coalition hosted by Nvidia that includes Microsoft, Meta, IBM, AM…

Google's Big Sleep AI agent found a live memory-safety bug in SQLite (CVE-2025-6965) and got it patched before exploitation, marking the first time an AI has foiled a real exploit pre-deployment. A ho…

Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash picks the first web page it reads 92.4% of the time, and pages rewritten to 31 measured text preferences win 15.2% from the second slot, while ordinary pages win 0%, accordin…

A developer created actlint, a tool that checks whether MCP servers' safety labels match their actual capabilities. Scanning 541 tools across 31 popular servers—including official ones from Stripe, Gi…

A digest of 22 AI stories for July 26 includes coverage of the DOE Genesis Mission using AI for scientific discovery, an AI tax potentially increasing phone costs, and comparisons between GLM 5.2 and …

Anthropic announced it cut Claude Code's system prompt by more than 80% for the Claude 5 generation with no measurable regression on coding evals, urging developers to rely less on prompt engineering.…

A federal judge ruled that Google cannot use copyright law to block a lawsuit from former NPR host David Greene, who alleges that Google's NotebookLM AI podcasting product used his voice without permi…

Cloudflare announced new crawler rules on July 1 that classify all automated traffic into Search, Agent, or Training behaviors, with mixed-use crawlers subject to the most restrictive rule, directly t…

Anthropic is the most prominent frontier AI lab that has not signed an open letter urging Washington not to restrict open-weight AI models, a coalition that now includes Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, OpenA…

Mark Cuban predicted on X on July 24 that AI-powered job simulators, driven by open source or open weights, could become the next major AI application for employee training, comparing the concept to p…

Moonshot AI released Kimi Code CLI, an MIT-licensed terminal coding agent that reads and edits code, runs shell commands, and loops on results, as a ground-up TypeScript rewrite of its predecessor. Th…

Oleksii Trekhleb built Yes-Brainer, a web app that sends one question to multiple large language models simultaneously and offers three deliberation modes — Parallel, Trial, and Consensus — to surface…

Nvidia's open weights letter has grown from 25 to 50 signatories, but Amazon and Anthropic have not signed. The letter, initiated by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, calls for open AI development and has attr…

Samsung Electronics is betting on a lighter design and all-day comfort to challenge Meta in the smart eyewear market, with its first Galaxy AI glasses featuring split computing that distributes tasks …

A developer known as slvDev has run a 28.9-million-parameter language model on an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, an $8 chip with 512KB of SRAM, achieving 9.5 tokens per second for offline text generation. …

Nvidia and Google are converging their flagship AI chips on TSMC's N3 node, which TSMC says will remain tight for multiple years, creating an opening for Intel's 18A and 14A processes. TSMC's N3 capac…

AliothPress, a CMS, now embeds YouTube and Vimeo videos with a two-click facade that makes zero third-party requests on page load, eliminating the need for cookie banners under GDPR. The engine fetche…

Nvidia commands up to 81% of AI accelerator revenue in the first half of 2026, with data center sales projected to exceed $150 billion for the year, but its stock gained only 15% while AMD surged roug…

The Google Pixel Watch 4 is available with a 22% discount on Amazon, priced at $349.99 instead of $449.99. The smartwatch features a built-in Gemini AI assistant, LTE connectivity, health tracking, an…