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- Higher Airfares Loom on Busy Routes as AI Squeezes Out Bargains
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Globetrotters hunting for airfare bargains are in for a rude awakening: the days of stumbling across a cheap seat on a popular flight could soon disappear.
- AI & Software’s Next Economic Model
Towards AI · 2026-07-29
A recent analysis proposes a fundamental shift in how software is valued and distributed, moving from perpetual licenses and subscription fees towards a model where AI models
- Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.
- Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the
- How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark
OpenAI Blog · 2026-07-29
How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.
- Meta Bets Its Next Revenue Line on Personal AI Agents
Unite.AI · 2026-07-29
Meta put consumer AI agents at the center of its revenue plan on July 29, 2026, when it reported second-quarter results and then used much of the earnings call to lay out a
- Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year
The Verge · 2026-07-29
Microsoft is working on an AI "super app" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities.
- Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute
- Mythos uncovers crypto weaknesses that went unknown for years
Ars Technica · 2026-07-29
Separating the chaff from the wheat in Anthropic results is hard. We take a stab anyway.
- ChatGPT, Roblox to Fall Under Strictest EU Rules for Platforms
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and video game company Roblox Corp. will be subject to stricter scrutiny and monitoring requirements under the European Union’s content moderation rules after
- Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents
The Verge · 2026-07-29
Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf.
- Meta Gives Lackluster Quarterly Sales Forecast
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Meta Platforms Inc. gave a disappointing revenue forecast for the current quarter, intensifying investor concerns about the social media giant’s spending on artificial
- OpenAI will provide free AI models to select researchers
Engadget · 2026-07-29
The program, ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, will start with 10,000 participants this summer.
- Meta misses earnings forecasts after Zuckerberg media push to promote AI
The Guardian AI · 2026-07-29
Stock tumbles nearly 8% after weaker-than-expected results, despite CEO’s blitz to tout positive effects of AI Mark Zuckerberg’s media spree touting the positive effects of
- Microsoft’s Cloud Accelerates to Fastest Growth Since 2022
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Microsoft cloud unit grew at the fastest pace in four years, suggesting that the company’s computing infrastructure and artificial intelligence services continue to make inroads
- Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
- Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.
- Meta’s Free Cash Flow Dwindles to Lowest in Nearly Four Years
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Meta Platforms Inc.’s free cash flow has fallen to the lowest level since the third quarter of 2022, a result of its transformation from a social media app maker into an AI
- Microsoft Reports Over $130 Billion in New Data Center Leases
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Microsoft Corp. reported more than $130 billion in new data center leases in the past quarter, signaling an accelerating pace of spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure.
- Goldman Pitches $5.4 Billion Debt for Microsoft-Tied Data Center
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is gauging investor appetite for a potential $5.4 billion debt offering to help fund a Blackstone-backed QTS data center tied to Microsoft Corp.
- Stonepeak CEO Warns Capital Markets Hold Risk for AI Buildout
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Banks, private equity and capital markets show very little sign of slowing down on financing the massive artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out that is thriving in the
- Meta’s Zuckerberg Defends AI Bets to Skeptical Investors
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Meta Platforms Inc. gave a disappointing quarterly revenue forecast, stepping up pressure on Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to allay investor concerns that the company
- Microsoft’s Cloud Accelerates to Fastest Growth Since 2022
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Microsoft Corp.’s cloud unit grew at the fastest clip in four years and the pace is accelerating, suggesting the company’s AI and computing services are making inroads with
- Claude Code’s Secret Weapon: A Complete Guide to CLAUDE.md
Towards AI · 2026-07-29
Anthropic has detailed the methodologies behind Claude Code, its specialized large language model for software development
- Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?
Ars Technica · 2026-07-29
Government ban on foreign-made robots may hinder instead of help US robotics.
- The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)
- Here's how to switch from ChatGPT to Claude without losing any information
Engadget · 2026-07-29
Moving your data to Claude is easier than you might think. This step-by-step guide will get you switched over right away.
- Prompt Engineering vs Loop Engineering vs Graph Engineering: What Changes at Each Layer
MarkTechPost · 2026-07-29
Three terms now compete for the same line in AI engineering job descriptions. Prompt engineering is the established one.
- OpenAI’s ‘Rogue AI’ Was a Bad Firewall
Towards AI · 2026-07-29
The Hugging Face breach wasn’t sentience. It was a misconfigured proxy and disabled guardrails.
- I Cut 3 Hours of Weekly SRE Toil to 20 Minutes With Claude Code
Towards AI · 2026-07-29
A software engineer significantly reduced their weekly Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) tasks, previously consuming three hours
- SoFi Doubles Down on AI Despite Market Pullback
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
SoFi posted record quarterly revenue and raised its full-year sales outlook. SoFi CEO Anthony Noto discusses why the company is keeping its earnings guidance unchanged
- Creator of Test That OpenAI Models Tried to Cheat Sounds Alarm
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
A group of university researchers that developed benchmarks to test the cybersecurity capabilities of AI systems have unexpectedly landed themselves at the center of OpenAI’s
- Why Moonshot's Kimi K3 Matters Beyond China
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Moonshot's Kimi K3 has reignited debate over China's role in the AI race, but Beringea Chief Investment Officer Karen McCormick says the bigger story is the growing availability of
- Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
- AI Workers Call for US to Pace Tech's Growth
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
More than 1,100 workers from top AI firms have signed a petition calling on the US government to help "deliberately pace" AI development.
- It’s Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models
WIRED · 2026-07-29
I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.
- Long-Output LLM Architecture: How Developers Should Handle Huge AI Responses
Towards AI · 2026-07-29
A new architectural approach promises to significantly extend the output length of large language models, addressing a key limitation in their current capabilities.
- OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots
The Verge · 2026-07-29
In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a "family of devices" for interacting with its AI
- AI Model Escape, Then Target Tools to Help Themselves Improve
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Goal-driven behavior, not malicious intent, is a key problem, according to security experts.
- PwC has allegedly published AI-generated reports containing false or fabricated sources
The Decoder · 2026-07-29
Following KPMG, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young, GPTZero has now found fabricated sources and false claims in four PwC Middle East reports.
- Stonepeak's Dorrell on AI, Data Centers, Infrastructure
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Stonepeak Chairman, CEO and co-founder Michael Dorrell talks about opportunities in markets, the growth of artificial intelligence
- 12 Months of Trendvesting: The Real Unit Economics of a Production AI Side Project
Towards AI · 2026-07-29
Everyone shipping AI side projects publishes the demo. Almost nobody publishes the ledger. Here’s mine.
- Pangram says its new AI text detector makes only one mistake per 24,000 documents
The Decoder · 2026-07-29
Pangram 4 detects 99.66 percent of AI-generated text with just one false positive per 24,000 documents, the company claims.
- Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
OpenAI Blog · 2026-07-29
OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.
- Major labels call for AI slop songs to be banned from entering charts around the world
Engadget · 2026-07-29
Tens of thousands of AI-generated songs are uploaded to music streaming platforms every day.
- Altman Discusses ‘Need to Pace’ AI Development With White House
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said he supports slowing the pace of artificial intelligence development
- OpenAI admits its autonomous AI models also compromised credentials on other platforms during security eval
The Decoder · 2026-07-29
During a security evaluation, OpenAI's autonomous hacking models broke into Hugging Face and used exposed credentials on four other services.
- I Gave Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 the Exact Same Build Task. The Results Surprised Me.
Towards AI · 2026-07-29
A recent comparison revealed Fable 5, an open-source large language model, performed comparably to a hypothetical GPT-5.6 on a specific software development task
- Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them
Ars Technica · 2026-07-29
Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.
- Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents
- A new benchmark for evaluating patient-facing health AI agents
Amazon Science · 2026-07-29
PatientAgentBench generates a synthetic patient health record, a realistic clinical vignette, and a patient agent that converses with the AI system under evaluation
- Atlassian tightens tracking of staff AI use as other technology firms encourage ‘tokenmaxxing’
The Guardian AI · 2026-07-29
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- Google will let Mac users talk to Gemini simply by pressing the 'fn' key
Engadget · 2026-07-29
Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac.
- Enterprise AI's Biggest Opportunity
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Battery Ventures General Partner Dharmesh Thakker joins Bloomberg Open Interest to make the case for investing beyond AI hype.
- ChipAgents Expands Series A to $134 Million as AI Agents Move Deeper Into Semiconductor Design
Unite.AI · 2026-07-29
ChipAgents has secured an additional $60 million in Series A2 financing, expanding its Series A round to $134 million as semiconductor companies explore how autonomous AI agents
- groundcover Raises $100 Million Series C to Scale AI-Era Observability Platform
Unite.AI · 2026-07-29
Cloud observability company groundcover has raised $100 million in Series C funding as it looks to expand a platform designed to help engineering teams and AI agents understand
- Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
- Deepmind dismantles its AlphaFold team as key authors leave for Anthropic
The Decoder · 2026-07-29
The majority of the researchers behind AlphaFold are now working on other projects, and almost a quarter have left Google Deepmind altogether.
- Will AI Consume Investors' Risk Budget?
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Jason Thomas, head of global research and investment strategy at Carlyle, discusses whether AI investment is crowding out other opportunities as capital flows into AI
- AI Spending In Focus for Meta, Microsoft Earnings
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Gil Luria of DA Davidson says Microsoft will be the key company to watch during this earnings season and it all has to do with spending on artificial intelligence and capex.