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Stories covered on 2026-07-12
- AI’s Biggest Bottleneck Isn’t GPUs Anymore
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
The recent analysis from Towards AI suggests that the primary constraint on AI development has shifted from hardware availability, specifically NVIDIA's H100 GPUs
- How to Make Your Website Usable by AI Agents with WebMCP
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
I built a hotel booking demo to show how a LLM can discover website tools, call application actions, and update the interface through…
- DPO Fine-Tuning from First Principles in Python
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
Fine-tuning a Large Language Model (LLM) with human preferences used to require Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF): collect…
- Unisound U2: The 266B Model That Scored 87.9% on PhD-Level Science for $0.15/M
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
On 7 , a Chinese speech-AI company that most people outside China have never heard of released a large language model that scored…
- One Line, Any Model: Multi-Provider Agents in Google ADK via LiteLLM
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
All Code Examples:: GitHub RepositoryContinue reading on Towards AI »
- Apple Is Suing OpenAI. The Real Story Is What OpenAI Can’t Build.
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
Apple's 2026 lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the real AI moat: not the model but the decades-deep hardware supply chain you can't buy or…
- What are your plans for AI Appreciation Day?
Engadget · 2026-07-12
The best way to celebrate AI Appreciation Day is to not.
- Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
The Verge · 2026-07-12
Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses.
- Guide to Loop Engineering: How ‘autoresearch’ and ‘Bilevel Autoresearch’ Turn AI Agents Into Autonomous Machine Learning ML Research Loops
MarkTechPost · 2026-07-12
Most people still use AI like a 2015 search box. You type, you read, you type again. A newer pattern replaces that manual back-and-forth with a loop.
- AI Agent Production Deployment Best Practices
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
A new guide outlines practical strategies for deploying AI agents into production environments, focusing on reliability, scalability, and security.
- GitHub Spec Kit vs Kiro vs Claude Code — SDD Workflows
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
Developers comparing Spec-Driven Development setups in 2026 are usually not asking which model is smartest. They are asking which workflow…
- I Put a Free Local AI Model on My Mac to Cut My API Bill. Here’s the Honest Verdict.
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
It beat my expectations on some tasks and fell short on others — and where the line falls is the actually useful part.
- Stop Using Claude Projects Like a Folder
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
Anthropic's Claude is now offering a new project-based organization system for users, moving beyond simple folder structures.
- Prompt Caching Is the Cheapest Way to Cut Your AI Bill, and Most People Still Do Not Use It
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
A recent piece highlights prompt caching as an underutilized technique for reducing inference costs in large language models, akin to memoization in traditional programming.
- AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery
Hacker News · 2026-07-12
AI tools are accelerating the pace at which researchers can publish papers, but this efficiency might be leading to a decrease in truly novel scientific breakthroughs.
- Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips
The Verge · 2026-07-12
Apple's self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company's chips the powerful AI performers they are.
- Agent Protocols for Building Enterprise AI Assistants
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
AI Engineer Interview PreparationContinue reading on Towards AI »
- LinkedIn is the undisputed king of long-form AI slop, according to a study spanning five platforms
The Decoder · 2026-07-12
One in four longer social media posts is entirely AI-generated, according to a Pangram analysis. LinkedIn leads with 41 percent of long-form posts flagged as AI-written.
- I Gave Three AI Agents One Shared Toolbox — Here’s What MCP Actually Fixes
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
Building a working multi-agent research assistant with the Model Context Protocol — tested, running, and ready to forkContinue reading on Towards AI »
- Building a Multi-Agent Support Ticket Triage With LangGraph
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
Route tickets and draft replies locally with Ollama or
- Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI read, click, and type on external websites
The Decoder · 2026-07-12
Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI open, read, and interact with web pages directly inside the development environment.
- RAG vs Fine-Tuning Explained: What They Actually Do and When to Use Each
Towards Data Science · 2026-07-12
Two techniques, two different problems, and why the question is not really "which one wins"
- HTTP Has a New Method Now (After 16 Years!), and it lands where AI agents were bleeding
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) has gained a new method, `SEARCH`, for the first time since 2007.
- Yes, Your Browser Can Run Its Own Tiny AI. Here’s How
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
A new browser extension allows users to run smaller, on-device AI models directly within their web browser, eliminating the need for cloud processing for certain tasks.
- I Built an AI Agent Team That Fixes Its Own Mistakes — Here’s the Full, Tested Code
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
Most agent tutorials show you the happy path. This one shows you what happens when an agent fails — and how to make the system heal itself…
- No-code SaaS is the Highest-Leverage Passive Income AI Business of the Decade
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
The rise of no-code platforms has enabled individuals to build and monetize AI-powered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications without extensive programming knowledge
- ‘These are some of the most complex structures ever created’: how tech reporting moved into the physical world
The Guardian AI · 2026-07-12
The Guardian’s global tech reporting team are investigating the impact of the vast datacentres being built to power the AI revolution.
- OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI Compete for More Cost-Efficient AI Models
Bloomberg · 2026-07-12
Three prominent artificial intelligence developers released new models over the past week.
- Apple’s M6, M7 and M8 Chips Show How AI Is Reshaping the Company
Bloomberg · 2026-07-12
Apple's latest M-series chip roadmap, codenamed M6, M7, and M8, indicates a significant internal prioritization of on-device AI processing power.
- Paper Walkthrough — Geometrically-Constrained Agent for Spatial Reasoning
Towards AI · 2026-07-12
A new paper introduces a geometrically-constrained agent capable of performing complex spatial reasoning tasks