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LWiAI Podcast #253 (July 29 2026) covers a roundup of recent AI developments: Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5 with Fable‑like capabilities; Google released Gemini 3.6/3.5 “Flash” variants and a cyb

To make informed decisions, businesses often need to connect their internal data with public reference data, to create a knowledge graph that connects real-world things and their relationships. Howeve

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to th

A group of tech workers today published an open letter that calls for a new approach to regulating automated artificial intelligence development initiatives. All the document’s 1,134 signatories work

Bloomberg: China warns it will take “all necessary measures” if the US sanctions Chinese AI companies over allegations they improperly used US models to train their models — China warned it would take

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: In their letter defending open-weight AI, tech companies urge lawmakers to avoid “premature restrictions” that “stifle competition or drive innovation overseas” — Nvidia, Microso

Last Week in AI #250 is the podcast’s 250th episode, summarizing recent frontier‑AI policy developments. It reports that the U.S. government has granted Anthropic permission to release Mythos‑5 to a l

LWiAI Podcast #252 (July 11, 2026) reviewed major AI releases: OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5.6 and relaunched its agentic coding product as ChatGPT Work, amid disputes over U.S. governmental oversight and jai

How should your security team manage shadow AI? Workloads deployed by developers without formal registration can often evade traditional security scanners, because organizations are reluctant to slow

Release: llm 0.31.1 Fix for a bug with OpenAI Chat Completion endpoints where a tool call with empty arguments could result in a JSON error from some providers. #1521 This bug came up when I was testi

Bloomberg: Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October — Crusoe, the data center upstart wi

Significant contributors to this article include Sneha Aradhey, Software Engineer, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Michael MacDonald, Sr Software Engineer, Google Cloud Managed Lustre. Enterprise produc

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active “predictors” aged 18-34 — Mr. Zucker

Google LLC-owned YouTube today reached a settlement with a Florida-based minor in a social media addiction case, one of many trials that will take place as social media platforms face growing scrutiny

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: Instagram is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, plans to experiment with longer-form storytelling and episodic series, and launches on Samsung TV —

Given how badly burned anyone who took Apple's 2024 WWDC Apple Intelligence announcements at face value was, I'm holding to a strict 'I'll believe it when I see it' policy for everything they announce

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple delays iPhone-connected smart glasses to late 2027, aiming to disrupt the mid-tier 200-500 eyewear market the way it disrupted the watch market — Also: The late

Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company. He's a former engineer at Met

Deedy / @deedydas: SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth — The vibes in SF fee

ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has 'incontrovertible evidence that the author

Kenza Bryan / Financial Times: Sources: climate watchdog SBTi drops proposed rules that would limit tech companies' claims that gas-fueled data centers are covered by clean energy investments — Corpor

Cade Metz / New York Times: Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised 650M+ from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a 4B valuation to pursue “recursive self-improvement” — Recursive S

Simon Sharwood / The Register: Arm expects the AGI CPU, its own AI chip for data centers, to drive 2B in sales in FY2027 and FY2028, doubling its March 2026 sales guidance for the period — Someone oth

Jen Judson / Bloomberg: Scale AI wins a 500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a 100M deal in 2025 — The Pentagon aw

This newsletter entry discusses advancements in automating AI research and development processes, exploring how artificial intelligence systems are becoming capable of autonomously designing and impro

If anyone thought artificial intelligence was running into a slow patch, let alone running into any fundamental technical or financial hurdles, this week quieted the doubters — at least for now. In a

Boaz Sobrado / Forbes: A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized “clipping” for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake — Anthony Fujiwara is

The cost to build natural gas power plants has spiked 66% in the last two years, with prices rising from less than 1,500 per kilowatt in 2023 to 2,157 in 2025 , driven by surging demand from data cent

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are “unwarranted intervention” — Google was targeted

Russell Contreras / Axios: How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more — The Vatica

Sasha Rogelberg / Fortune: Survey of 1,050 Australian teens: ~60% said they retained access to social media accounts after ban; two-thirds say platforms took no action to remove accounts — If teenager

Terje Solsvik / Reuters: Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 — Norway said on Friday

@themidasproj: The Wire by Acutus, an AI-generated site with articles attacking AI industry critics, appears to be funded by the OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future — The reporters at this news

Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Anthropic's valuation has hit 1T on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, surpassing OpenAI's valuation on the platform of 880B — - Anthropic's valuatio

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: India's mobile app IAP revenue crossed 300M in Q1, up 33% YoY, with non-gaming apps generating 200M+, much of it captured by global platforms — India's mobile

Connor Stringer / Telegraph: Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies — President tells The

Molly Taft / Wired: Air permit docs: new gas projects linked to just 11 US data center campuses could emit 129M+ tons of greenhouse gases per year, more than some small countries — A WIRED review of p

Washington Post: A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from “fanatical” donors since early 2025 — Summary — Kristine Kasu

Expo, the developer of a popular open-source tool for building cross-platform applications, today announced that it has raised 45 million in funding. Developers often implement web application interfa

George Winslow / TV Tech: IAB and PwC: digital ad revenue hit 294.6B in 2025, up 13.9% YoY; social media advertising hit 117.7B, up 32.6%, and digital video hit 78B, up 25.4% — The 13.9% pop was drive

Bill Bradley / Adweek: Netflix says its 2026 ad revenue remains on track to reach 3B, doubling from 2025, and it now works with over 4,000 advertising clients, up 70% YoY — Netflix reveals ad sales pr

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes — All YouTub

Pew Research Center: A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep — Teens largely turn

A mid-2026 outlook piece from the Interconnects AI newsletter in which the author makes specific predictions about the trajectory of open-weight language models, likely covering expected capability mi

I think we will see some people employed (though perhaps not explicitly) as meat shields: people who are accountable for ML systems under their supervision. The accountability may be purely internal,