Hackaday Links: July 26, 2026
Amazon will require third-party sellers to label AI-generated images in product listings, following a New York law mandating disclosure of AI-generated people in advertisements. The law targets synthe…
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Amazon will require third-party sellers to label AI-generated images in product listings, following a New York law mandating disclosure of AI-generated people in advertisements. The law targets synthe…
OpenAI and other AI chatbots, including Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok, have fielded user requests about pathogens, poisons and biological threats, according to a Wall Street Journ…
Google has released an official Chrome build for Arm64 Linux, now available for download on devices including the Raspberry Pi and Snapdragon laptops. The build, promised for Q2 2026, has been added t…
Major tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta are investing billions in nuclear power to supply their AI data centers, with Microsoft signing a 20-year, $16 billion contract to re…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed the company is training Gemini 4, its most ambitious pre-training run yet, requiring a larger base model to compete at the frontier of AI development. Pichai express…
A U.S. district court has dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpApi, which scraped Google search results to train AI models, ruling that Google failed to show copyright holders authorized it to act. …
Alphabet has locked down leases covering roughly 2.4 gigawatts of capacity across ten projects, partnering with former Bitcoin miners to secure power for AI data centers. In September 2025, Google agr…
A debate over whether AI agents should be built with simple loops or structured graphs has resurfaced, fueled by DeepLearning.AI's free Agentic Knowledge Graph Construction course. The course, taught …
A developer known as Lux created the 'delegate pattern' to bypass AI rate limits by running Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI in parallel, using Obsidian Markdown files as an asynchronous communi…
Publicly shared conversations from Anthropic's Claude chatbot containing API keys, cryptocurrency wallet details, CVs and other personal data have appeared in search engine results, sparking fresh pri…
Google's Go Agent Development Kit (ADK) v1.5.1 has been updated with production hardening, dependency upgrades, and multi-agent delegation support via the A2A protocol. The toolkit enables developers …
OpenAI President Greg Brockman said the company is exploring bringing ChatGPT to wearable devices such as smart glasses, using its API for integration. The move comes as OpenAI faces scrutiny over an …
Google spent $490 million a day on AI and burned $5.9 billion in cash in its first negative quarter since going public, according to the company's latest earnings report.…
Linus Torvalds told Linux kernel mailing list participants on July 15 that Linux is not an anti-AI project and that those who object to AI-assisted work can fork the kernel or walk away, according to …
Cloudflare launched granular AI traffic controls this month, replacing its single 'block AI bots' toggle with three independently configurable categories—Search, Agent, and Training—available to all c…
Google has released the Agent Development Kit (ADK), an open-source framework for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents. The framework supports creating autonomous agents that can reason, use …
A University of Washington study published on July 16, 2026, as arXiv:2607.14611 found that AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI can correctly refuse malicious instructions but still store them in pers…
A Chinese forum reveals a thriving token reseller market where relays offer access to U.S. AI models like Anthropic's at discounts of up to 97.8%, with operators using open-source gateways one-api or …
Nvidia has posted a 15,333% total return over the past decade, the highest in the S&P 500, driven by its dominance in AI infrastructure with GPUs for training and inference. In 2025 alone, Nvidia acco…
AI companies have signed enough nuclear power purchase agreements to supply the equivalent of 7 million homes, driving uranium stocks higher. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have each inked deals …