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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

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

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Washington Weighs Sanctions on Chinese AI Models as Kimi K3 Rattles US Labs

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US will scrutinize Chinese open-source AI models for IP theft and may impose sanctions, while insisting the administration still supports open source broadly.

HardwareJuly 26, 2026

OpenAI Now Sells a $70 Basketball and a $230 Keyboard, and It's Not a Joke

OpenAI launched a 'Pause. Play. Prompt.' merchandise line featuring a $70 rubber ChatGPT basketball and a $175 'research'-branded quarter-zip.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

OpenAI Built an AI That Hacks Its Own Models, and It's Beating Humans by a Landslide

OpenAI built GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model trained via self-play reinforcement learning to find security flaws in its own AI systems.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Meta Quietly Tests StoryKit, an AI App That Writes Bedtime Stories for Your Kids

Meta confirmed to TechCrunch it is testing StoryKit, an AI app that generates personalized children's bedtime stories, after 9to5Mac spotted it in the App Store.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 Cracks the Top Four, But at a Cost to Chinese AI's Cheap-and-Cheerful Reputation

Kimi K3 scores 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking fourth behind Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, and ahead of Claude Opus 4.8

RoboticsJuly 26, 2026

Munich Startup microagi Taps Google Cloud and Nvidia Blackwell to Train Europe's Industrial Robots

Munich startup microagi partnered with Google Cloud and Nvidia to power Atlas, its data and deployment platform for industrial robotics

HardwareJuly 26, 2026

Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 Trims the Fat, Adds an Ultra Sibling and a Gemini Assist

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 8 at Galaxy Unpacked 2026, running Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy with 256GB to 1TB storage options.

AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

OpenAI Presence Puts a Human Engineer Inside Every Enterprise AI Deployment

OpenAI launched Presence on July 22, a managed enterprise AI agent product built and deployed by its Forward Deployed Engineers and select systems integrators, not a self-serve tool.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Washington's Open-Weight Dilemma: Ban Kimi K3, or Let It Compete?

OpenAI policy adviser Dean W. Ball floated then retracted a call for regulatory action against open-weight AI models after criticism from Yann LeCun and Martin Casado.

AI Video GenerationJuly 26, 2026

neill Blomkamp's New A13-Minute Film Was Built Entirely From Text Prompts

Neill Blomkamp's 13-minute short 'Nightborne' was generated entirely with ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video model, directed frame by frame via text prompts.

AI EthicsJuly 26, 2026

YouTube Draws New Lines on AI Slop as It Tightens Ad Payout Rules

YouTube's updated monetization policy, effective July 16, 2026, blocks ad revenue for three types of 'inauthentic content': generic/repetitive uploads, distressing content, and AI personas discussing health or finance.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS Takes the Top Spot in Text-to-Speech Rankings

Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus tops Artificial Analysis' Text-to-Speech leaderboard with an Elo score of 1,236, beating rival commercial voice models.

EthicsJuly 26, 2026

Anthropic Puts $200 Million Behind Research Into AI's Economic Fallout

Anthropic is funding the Economic Futures Research Fund with $200 million to study AI's impact on labor markets

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