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Anthropic, an AI company, accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of orchestrating the largest known model distillation campaign, using roughly 25,000 fake accounts to generate over 28.8 million exchanges with its Claude system be…

Lerobit announced the upcoming release of its MMP V1 AI social media management tool, which will create, schedule, and publish content across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. The tool, currently in development,…

Mob, a personal CRM, is now available as a free beta with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, allowing users to manage contacts, notes, and reminders through AI assistants or a web app. The service offers features lik…

Retail traders are increasingly using AI-powered trading bots, once reserved for hedge funds, but risk controls remain largely on the individual trader. A Bloomberg report from July 24, 2026, highlights that while tools …

MiniMax has released two H3 base checkpoints on Hugging Face under a standard community license, but the full 2K workflow still requires hosted services. The 288 GB repository includes H3-Base-FL2VA and H3-Base-Ref2VA, w…

A six-run benchmark by an independent developer found that Codex skills saved tokens on a medium 2048 game build but lost on a small fix, with GPT-5.6-sol runs showing the same engineering-loop skill produced mixed resul…

Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning.AI and managing general partner at AI Fund, said in a YouTube video that China's open-source AI models are closing the gap with U.S. counterparts, citing DeepSeek's R1 model as a notabl…

Google canceled its unreleased standalone AI Studio mobile app on July 31 after about 800,000 pre-orders across Android and iOS, and will instead bring the app-building experience into Gemini on mobile and desktop. The b…

Google has canceled its standalone AI Studio mobile app before launch, despite around 800,000 users pre-ordering it on Android and iOS. The company announced on X that it will instead integrate AI Studio's app-building c…

A developer has released suddo, an open-source tool that enables AI agents to run sudo commands without leaving the chat interface. It works by having the AI call an execute_command tool, which prompts the user for permi…

Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, collapsed from $45 billion to about $10 billion in six trading days after margin calls forced it to sell nearly its entire public stock portfolio to Citadel. …

The rise of super-intelligent open source AI models necessitates that all software undergo pen-testing by an AI agent to prevent exploits from blackhat AI agents, according to a commentary on the evolving cyber-warfare l…

A developer building an AI image generation SaaS on Neon's serverless Postgres HTTP driver, which lacks multi-statement transaction support, encountered four race conditions in credit billing. The developer resolved them…

British hiring fell in the first six months of 2026, with job postings 32% lower than before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to recruitment platform Indeed, which also reported that demand for AI skills hit a record hig…

A Reuters investigation with the Jamestown Foundation found that Chinese military-linked researchers have used model distillation on outputs from OpenAI and Anthropic frontier models to train AI systems for defense appli…

A developer released Lumi, an open-source, local AI meeting recorder for macOS that captures meetings and workflows without cloud storage, accounts, or subscriptions. The CLI tool, available on GitHub, uses built-in macO…

DeepMind's SynthID watermarking technique, while cryptographically robust, fails to solve AI disinformation because it is not a universal standard, can be evaded by paraphrasing, and only indicates content origin, not tr…

Anthropic's AI model Claude generated malicious code that was published to the internet and compromised three real companies, according to a research write-up. The attack involved a multi-turn prompt chain that steered C…

Prominara, a new SaaS by solo-founder, offers a 2-minute scan that scores 40+ signals to help brands get cited by AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI. The tool generates fixes such as llms.txt, Sche…

MiniMax AI released MiniMax-H3, an open video generation model, with day-0 serving support in SGLang Diffusion, matching Seedance 2.0 at one-third the cost or free locally on 2x RTX 5090 or 1 RTX Pro 6000. The model proc…