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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics —James O’Donnel

Sam Sabin / Axios: The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July — The U.K. AI Security

ChatGPT Work was launched by OpenAI on July 9, 2026 as an agent‑oriented knowledge‑work platform that combines chat, Codex tools and cloud agents across fourteen model configurations. Within three wee

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervisi

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today debuted a new addition to its Qwen series of open-source large language models. Qwen3.8-Max is the Chinese e-commerce giant’s most capable LLM to date. It features 2.4

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs 0.14/1M input and 0.28/1M output tokens, or 0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's 0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 — A version of Ch

Amazon Bedrock now supports automatic Automated Reasoning policy refinement. The refinement engine diagnoses failing tests and proposes formal-logic fixes for rule issues and language issues, and you

AI agents are only as good as the instructions and context you give them. When we launched Google Agent Skills, our goal was simple: encode Google Cloud domain knowledge into structured, open-source i

Networking and security company Cato Networks Ltd. today introduced Cato Agentic Threat Prevention, a capability that uses autonomous agents to predict the route an attacker is likely to take through

Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and 'most capable AI model to date,' claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well

Businesses want to quickly and safely deploy AI agents to drive revenue, mitigate risk, and optimize capital, all without disrupting mission-critical ERP systems. And to power AI agents, you need more

Artificial intelligence has become a target for attackers rather than only a tool they use, according to CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s “2026 Threat Hunting Report,” released today. The annual report dra

My comment on Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) — Hacker News.One of the arguments for open source software for end-users has always been the freedom to examine and modify how that software works

Don't be a meat proxy Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their peers. By all means, prompt AI. But don't just rel

Formula 1® partnered with AWS to build the Data Accelerator, using agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to transform its MarTech data platform. Learn how F1 cut data source onboarding from up to 8 w

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI model

A combined architecture using KAI Scheduler and vCluster enables multiple teams to run fully isolated Kubernetes tenant clusters on a shared GPU node, each with its own control plane, RBAC, CRDs, and

Irina Anghel / Bloomberg: Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere — UK employers

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: London-based AI chip startup Olix raised 312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a 3.3B valuation, up from 1B+ after raising 220M in February — British ent

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

Artificial intelligence hardware startup Olix Computing Ltd. today announced that it has raised 312 million in funding. The Series C round included contributions from Arm Holding plc, Netflix Inc. co-

NVIDIA’s Vera BlueField‑4 STX Storage Processor combines an 88‑core Armv9.2 design with spatial multithreading, a scalable coherency fabric and LPDDR5X memory to deliver high‑throughput storage proces

Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabl

Set up a nightly cron job that executes the prompt: fetch upstream changes to the <software> and rebase all local changes on top of upstream. Check that the software works as intended and replace the

For too long, enterprises with legacy mainframe estates have been faced with a high-stakes dilemma: continue maintaining their mainframes, essentially kicking the modernization can down the road (they

An exclusive report by Reuters today has surfaced evidence that suggests Chinese artificial intelligence firms have been leveraging the outputs of American frontier models developed by OpenAI Group PB

Axios: Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent — Top AI researchers continue to

The Information: Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework — The Trump administra

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals When t

The article discusses the launch of a revamped Monday Morning Report powered by generative AI, designed to automatically aggregate, analyze, and present key business metrics to executives. By leveragi

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stum

Preference alignment has become a crucial component in enhancing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its impact in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains comparatively under

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

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash

Cybersecurity chiefs at the White House have reportedly finalized the outline of a forthcoming framework that will enable artificial intelligence companies to voluntarily submit their latest frontier

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” — Hank Green, a

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety — Jacob Tsim

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week — Alibaba Group Ho

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors — Mana

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions — Both major A

Illustrators have spent years sounding the alarm about generative artificial intelligence startups training their models on artists' work without permission. They've pointed out how the practice is ta

The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Accidental cyberattacks by OpenAl and Anthr

Open letters about AI development I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of my sponsors-only newsletter but I've decided to share it here as well. Open Weights and Ame

New York Times: A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months — The milestones for artif

Release: datasette-apps 0.2a0 Changes that improve Datasette Apps when created and edited using Datasette Agent: New app_debug() tool allowing agent to open an app (invisibly) and test it using JavaSc

New York Times: Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI — the first full day of the se