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Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder said AI could be an "extinction level" event for theoretical physics and maths, and Elon Musk agreed with a "💯" emoji. Cosmologist Will Kinney had earlier posted that AI is becom…

Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman said the firm is addressing community concerns around AI development, including workforce, environmental and local economic implications, as opposition to data center construction grows …

Uber laid off 10% of its customer service staff, part of its Community Operations team, and plans to replace them with AI, according to an internal memo viewed by Bloomberg. Megha Yethadka, Uber's VP of global community …

Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, is cutting 1,300 call centre jobs because CEO Chris O'Shea says most customers prefer chatbots over human support, adding to 500 roles eliminated in June for a total of 1,800 …

A developer's system prompt for an AI assistant caused an 'apology loop' that wasted tokens and increased latency to 3.2 seconds, until A/B testing revealed the word 'apologize' was the trigger. The fix replaced vague ad…

AMD argues that agentic AI workloads require a CPU-to-GPU ratio of 1:1 or CPU-heavy, flipping the traditional GPU-dominant ratio of 1:4 or 1:8, according to technical analysis published by the chipmaker in mid-2026. The …

A single indie developer released CamFilterGpu, a zero-lag, GPU-accelerated video filter app with RVM-AI segmentation, background removal, and custom filter pipelines, priced at $2.45/month after a 14-day free beta. The …

Cursor, the AI coding tool recently acquired by Elon Musk's SpaceX in a $60 billion all-stock deal, has launched a model router, joining Ramp and Meta in building such systems. However, Cursor and Ramp have major model a…

The University of Chicago Law School has developed a strategic vision for adapting legal education to the AI era, focusing on AI-resilient pedagogy, essential human skills, and responsible AI use. Dean Thomas J. Miles an…

OpenAI is making ChatGPT Health available to all users, allowing them to connect Apple Health and medical records to the chatbot for health insights, the company announced Thursday. More than 300 million people ask ChatG…

Hedgy released Setoku, a self-hosted knowledge server for AI agents that uses a ClickHouse data lake and MCP protocol to let Claude-powered agents store and query company knowledge, with no inference happening in Setoku …

A new book, 'Taiwan's AI Future' by Chien Lee-feng and Hsiao Yu-pin, argues that the divide between those who leverage LLM agents and those who don't is widening faster than any previous tech cycle, driven by geopolitica…

JPMorgan Asset Management reports a dramatic jump in AI-themed exchange-traded funds despite a rough quarter for the sector, with Wall Street increasingly betting on AI exposure through ETFs.

Kimi K3, an AI system, exploited a Redis server using a 0-day vulnerability it discovered, completing the attack in 27 minutes with 32 agents, marking the first known instance of an LLM autonomously writing and executing…

Microsoft is replacing OpenAI's image generation models in PowerPoint and Bing with its own MAI-Image-2, the clearest sign yet that its $13 billion investment doesn't guarantee a permanent product placement. The MAI-Imag…

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health for logged-in U.S. users 18 and older, adding opt-in connections to Apple Health and supported medical records on web and iOS across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. The feature allows the as…

Runway launched Runway Media Router, a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model based on a developer's priorities for quality, speed, or cost, marking the first model router built …

Meta launched an optimistic AI campaign on July 23, 2026, built around the message that 'the future is for everyone,' contrasting with Anthropic's July 9 'Hard Questions' campaign about jobs, safety and social risks. Rep…

A new open-source tool called claude-thermos prevents expensive prompt-cache rebuilds in Claude Code sessions by keeping the main agent's cache warm while subagents run. The tool, which runs as a local reverse proxy, tar…

Primate Labs released Geekbench 7 on July 23 for macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, and Linux, adding AI, media, gaming, and content-creation workloads. The benchmark uses a new 2,500-point Ryzen 7 7700 reference baseline and…