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A flurry of AI developments over the past 10 days has intensified the debate over open versus closed models, with Chinese company Moonshot AI releasing the Kimi K3 model that rivals frontier U.S. syst…

Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported Q2 2026 earnings that showed a 35% surge in capital expenditures to $13.2 billion, driven by heavy investment in AI infrastructure, sparking investor concerns abou…

Britain's National Cyber Security Centre expects AI to increase the frequency and intensity of cyber threats by improving existing attack methods, with Google and Microsoft documenting threat actors u…

Google's Pixel 11 will cost more due to a RAM shortage and AI data center boom, according to Shakil Barkat, Google's Vice President of Devices and Services, who confirmed price hikes for the Pixel lin…

Alphabet's Q2 earnings revealed capital expenditures of over $78 billion in the first half of the year, with total 2026 spending expected between $195 billion and $205 billion, mostly on data centers …

Google has confirmed that its upcoming Pixel 11 phones will cost more due to a sixfold surge in RAM costs driven by AI data centre demand, with VP Shakil Barkat saying the entire Pixel family will see…

Roughly 600 Claude conversations surfaced in Google search results before Anthropic moved to remove them, and more than 143,000 AI chatbot chats across Claude, Copilot, and ChatGPT are sitting in publ…

Punjab has become the first Indian state to mandate Artificial Intelligence as a core subject across all government schools from Class 1 to Class 12, effective immediately, covering over 25,000 school…

Users can now view shared Claude conversations via Google, as Anthropic's AI assistant conversations become indexable by search engines. The change allows public Claude chat links to appear in Google …

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…

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 …

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…

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…