Simon Willison released LLM 0.32rc2 on July 30, changing the default model for users without a configured choice from GPT-4o mini to GPT-5.6 Luna and adding an llm openai endpoint command for arbitrar…
Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company's July 30 earnings call that heavy users of Apple Intelligence and the forthcoming Siri AI may be offered paid upgrade options through iCloud Plus, according to …
Amazon reported $53.4 billion in second-quarter non-operating pretax other income, primarily from its investments in Anthropic, lifting net income to $62.6 billion. The gain reflects an accounting rev…
Aalo Atomics and Crusoe announced plans for a 2027 proof of concept at Idaho National Laboratory that would use an Aalo reactor to power a Crusoe Spark modular data center running Crusoe Cloud, with t…
American Express Global Business Travel launched the Egencia AI connector in Anthropic's Claude on July 28, 2026, enabling travelers and enterprise AI agents to search, book, and manage policy-complia…
Questrade unveiled an MCP connection and conditional trade automation at a July 29 product showcase in Toronto, allowing customers to connect brokerage accounts to Claude or Claude Code for portfolio …
Encore AI announced a $30 million Series A on July 29 led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage, with participation from Lukatz and several bank and insurer customers, to expand its enterprise customer-in…
PLOS Computational Biology published a research article on July 30, 2026, describing a spiking neural-network model that combines sampling-based probabilistic inference with attractor dynamics in the …
Google patched 1,072 security bugs across Chrome 149 and Chrome 150, exceeding the total fixed over the previous 23 Chrome release milestones, according to figures reported by BleepingComputer. Google…
Similarweb's 2026 Generative AI Landscape report found that 461 million of ChatGPT's 494 million users also used Google between March and May 2026, a 95% overlap, indicating AI chat is growing alongsi…
Google began a gradual rollout on July 28 of Gemini visual-generation and editing tools in Google Docs, enabling eligible users to create and edit images, diagrams, and infographics directly within a …
Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, adding whole-body humanoid control to its robotics AI stack. According to DeepMind, the vision-language-action model can translate vision and lan…
Qualcomm completed its acquisition of AI software company Modular on July 29 in an all-stock transaction valued by Axios at $3.9 billion. Qualcomm said Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud will continue as pr…
IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report, released July 29, found that one in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled, costing an average of $6 million, roughly $1 million more than the global average …
Friend relaunched its AI companion pendant on July 30 with a built-in speaker and a $249 price, up from $129, The Verge reported. The device now supports spoken conversations, requires an iPhone, and …
Harness released its 2026 State of AI in FinOps survey on July 29, estimating that enterprises waste 26% of AI spending. The survey of 700 engineering leaders across five countries found that 52% lack…
Cognition announced on July 23 that it acquired The Interaction Company, maker of the texting-based AI assistant Poke, for a low-nine-figure valuation according to TechCrunch. Cognition plans to integ…
Apollo Research published a July 30 white paper estimating that real-wage growth in high-AI-exposure occupations was 6.7 percentage points slower after 2023 than in lower-exposure occupations, with no…
LinkedIn added a 'Seems like AI slop' reporting option on July 30, 2026, allowing users to flag suspected low-effort AI-generated posts, according to 404 Media's testing. Selecting the option hides th…
Google launched Gemini Robotics ER 2 on July 30, making the embodied-reasoning model publicly available through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Google reports 57.4% accuracy on progress classific…