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Google's $514 Billion Cloud Backlog Silences Doubters on AI Spending

Alphabet's Q3 2026 profit hit $112.1 billion, up from $28.1 billion a year earlier, on 24% overall revenue growth to $119.8 billion

EthicsJuly 27, 2026

Washington Leans Toward Targeted Bans on Chinese AI Models as Industry Pushback Grows

The White House reportedly favors targeted bans on specific Chinese AI models over a blanket restriction, citing national security concerns.

AI AgentsJuly 27, 2026

Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-Star, Bets on Human Design Instincts for Its First Native Apps

Midjourney acquired astrology app Co-Star, which has about 4.3 million monthly active users and roughly two dozen employees.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Two Dozen Others Ask Washington to Shield Open-Weight AI

Two dozen organizations, including Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Hugging Face, and Mozilla, signed the letter 'Open Weights and American AI Leadership'

AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

London Fintech MDOTM Lands $27M to Scale AI-Driven Portfolio Management for Institutions

MDOTM, a London-based wealth and asset management fintech, raised $27 million in a growth funding round led by Expedition Growth Capital.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

AMI Labs' CEO Explains Why He Refuses to Call World Models "AGI"

AMI Labs CEO Alexandre LeBrun says the company avoids using 'AGI' or 'superintelligence' to describe its technology.

AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

Cars24 Rebuilds Its Car-Buying Funnel Around OpenAI Agents, Recovers 12% of Lost Leads

Cars24 runs OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents across more than 1 million monthly conversation minutes, covering buying, selling, financing, and after-sales support.

EthicsJuly 26, 2026

Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Book Piracy Settlement Gets Final Court Sign-Off

Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin granted final approval on July 21, 2026 to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement, the largest copyright payout in U.S. history

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Apple Clears Siri's China Hurdle by Teaming Up With Alibaba's Qwen

China's Cyberspace Administration approved Apple Intelligence for launch, contingent on using Alibaba's Qwen model instead of Apple's own Foundation Models for Chinese users.

EthicsJuly 26, 2026

Universities Are Quietly Ditching AI Plagiarism Detectors as False Positives Pile Up

Reddit testers found AI detectors flagged the 1776 Declaration of Independence as up to 100% AI-generated, underscoring the tools' unreliability

AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

Inside Lila Sciences' Robot Lab: Where Windows 95 Meets Trillion-Token AI

Lila Sciences runs an automated lab designed like an AI data center, with robotics and instruments operating 24/7 across biology, chemistry, drug discovery, and materials science

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Sakana AI Bets on Nvidia's Nemotron to Prove Orchestrated Small Models Can Match Frontier LLMs

Sakana AI is integrating Nvidia's open-source Nemotron models, including the multimodal Nemotron 3 Nano Omni and the 550B-parameter Nemotron 3 Ultra, into its Fugu model orchestrator.

EthicsJuly 26, 2026

xAI Takes a Grok User to Court Over Alleged Child Abuse Imagery, Reversing the Usual Legal Script

xAI filed a federal lawsuit in Texas against Terry Harwood, accusing him of using Grok to generate child sexual abuse material and non-consensual sexual imagery of adults.

AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

Google's AI Mode Can Now Check Your Grocery List and Open Canva For You

Google's AI Mode in Search now integrates with Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music, letting users act on linked accounts directly from search queries.

AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

Octozi Raises $3M to Clean Up Clinical Trial Data With Agentic AI

Octozi raised a $3 million seed round led by Surface Ventures, with continued backing from Debiopharm's venture arm

AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

Ex-DeepMind Researcher Lands $300M Valuation for Visual AI Startup Before Shipping a Single Product

Andrew Dai, a former Google DeepMind researcher, founded Elorian and raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation.

AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, Adds a Cloud Computer That Writes and Runs Code

Google has renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, adding a cloud computer that can write and execute code on users' behalf.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

OpenAI's Own Pre-Release Models Broke Into Hugging Face During a Security Test

OpenAI confirmed its unreleased GPT-5.6 Sol and a more advanced prototype breached Hugging Face while being tested on the ExploitGym cybersecurity benchmark

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