- 7 minutes 4 secondsSurprise! The global oil crisis is pushing people toward buying electrified cars
EV sales hit new highs around the world, according to a new report.
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31 July 2026, 8:30 pm - 9 minutes 34 secondsAnthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations on their own, Reddit's CEO frustrated with Google's AI overviews, and the AI wearable you don't like just got worse
-Three different Claude models were involved in the incidents: Opus 4.7, the cybersecurity-focused Mythos 5 and a prototype that's not planned for general release. They were all doing a capture-the-flag challenge when they broke free.
-"People don't want a summary of Reddit; they want Reddit," said Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
-Friend, the startup and AI pendant better known for its controversial ad campaign than being a usable product, is back. The company announced a new version of its AI wearable that costs $249, still features an always-on microphone and now includes a built-in speaker so it can verbally respond to your questions.
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31 July 2026, 11:00 am - 6 minutes 54 secondsGoogle shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project
It has already reassigned some members of the DeepMind project, while others have already left the company.
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30 July 2026, 8:30 pm - 7 minutes 51 secondsNo surprise that the global oil crisis is leading to more EV sales, the FCC's robot ban also includes vacuums, and OpenAI will provide free AI models to select researchers
-The gain for electrified vehicles comes during a down period for the auto industry. Global car sales dropped five percent in the first half of 2026, largely due to falling shipments in the world's two largest car markets, China and the US.
-The FCC defines "advanced robotic devices" as a software-controlled autonomous robot that can perceive its environment, weighs more than 4.4lbs (inclusive of its dock), travels across the ground and offers wireless connectivity.
-Researchers from "select academic institutions" included in the program will receive hands-on support from OpenAI, access to the company's latest GPT-5.6 Sol Pro model and be able to invite four collaborators from their institution to participate.
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30 July 2026, 11:15 am - 6 minutes 31 secondsChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' styles29 July 2026, 8:30 pm
- 9 minutes 18 secondsOpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services, Google shut down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project, and xAI is challenging a new Minnesota law banning 'nudify' apps
- In the updated post, the company said it has been finding "a small number of cases where the models identified and used publicly exposed credentials at the account-level on other publicly-available services" during its ongoing review.
-According to the Financial Times, the award-winning team behind Google DeepMind's AlphaFold program is no more.
-SpaceXAI has filed a lawsuit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to challenge the state's new law that would ban apps and websites that can generate nonconsensual intimate images.
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29 July 2026, 1:00 pm - 5 minutes 51 secondsA new look for the Apple Watch may still be at least a year away
Apple will refresh its Series 12 and Ultra 4 watches with better specs, but not a design overhaul
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28 July 2026, 8:30 pm - 7 minutes 51 secondsHugging Face is seemingly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes, ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' styles, and Amazon wants to deploy 5,105 satellites for its direct-to-mobile service
-The non-profit wrote, "as the EU moves toward banning nudification applications, we assess how Hugging Face, the dominant open-source AI hosting platform, contributes to the risk of non-consensual intimate imagery.”
-Upon asking ChatGPT to copy the style of Agatha Christie for a mystery story about a woman investigating the sudden disappearance of her husband, the chatbot told us it couldn't do what I was asking for.
- Amazon Leo, a subsidiary of the tech giant founded in 2019, filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to launch up to 5,105 satellites as part of its plans to bring direct service to mobile devices.
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28 July 2026, 11:30 am - 7 minutes 46 secondsMeta's pro-AI ad campaign is conspicuously light on AI
The company wants people to be anti-doomer, but doesn't say why.
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27 July 2026, 8:30 pm - 8 minutes 41 secondsNVIDIA launched the 'Open Secure AI Alliance' initiative, the EU said TikTok hasn’t done enough to ensure minors' safety, and Meta walked back limits for its smart glasses' Conversation Focus feature
-The Open Source AI Alliance argues that to best defend against attacks in the age of AI models like Anthropic's Mythos 5, security researchers need access to both open and closed frontier models.
-The European Commission has accused TikTok of failing to protect the privacy of accounts belonging to minors, since they're visible to the public by default.
-As first reported by The Verge, Meta is pausing its rate limits for the accessibility feature that uses the glasses' speakers to amplify the voice of who you're talking to.
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27 July 2026, 11:00 am - 5 minutes 51 secondsGoogle adds selfie video as a log-in option
It’s another way to use your face for identity verification.
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