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89 stories · 2026-07-31

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172Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)Jul 31·aiinfosec272Amazon hikes 2026 capex to $220 billion due to higher memory costsJul 30·aifounders372Tesla Weighs Sale of China Business to Pave Way for Potential SpaceX MergerJul 31·founders468Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluationsJul 30·aiinfosec568Anthropic's Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during testsJul 31·aiinfosec668Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6Jul 30·aifounders768Nexus Data Centers in advanced talks to secure $15B for Google-backed Anthropic data centerJul 30·aifounders868Amazon's AWS posts fastest growth since 2021, citing AI and chip demandJul 30·aifounders968Amazon Shares Jump as Cloud Sales—and Spending—AccelerateJul 30·aifounders1066Banks in Talks to Lend $15 Billion for Anthropic Data Center Backed by GoogleJul 30·aifounders1166Google DeepMind debuts Gemini Robotics 2 model series for humanoid robotsJul 30·ai1266Meta Stumbles as Tech Investors Demand Better Answers on AI SpendingJul 30·aifounders1365Amazon beats expectations as AWS posts its fastest growth in 18 quarters, shares jump 9%Jul 31·ai1463Anthropic’s Claude breached three companies during security testsJul 31·infosecai1563Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 sizeJul 31·aifounders1662DeepSeek-V4-Flash UpdateJul 31·ai1762Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizationsJul 31·aiinfosec1862Anthropic says its own Claude models breached three companies during cyber testsJul 31·aiinfosec1962Amazon Gains After Fifth Quarter of Cloud Sales GrowthJul 30·aifounders2062Meta sinks 8%, continuing record losing streak, while Microsoft jumps 15% as AI trade splitsJul 30·ai
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Science & Futuristic Technology

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168Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add UpJul 30·266A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no returnJul 31·363Google’s new AI gives robots better balance, smarter hands, and teamwork capabilitiesJul 31·ai460Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaborationJul 30·ai560Introducing Gemini Robotics ER 2Jul 30·ai660Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trustJul 30·760Amazon's Zoox is the first steering wheel-free robotaxi to get regulatory approval for paid ridesJul 31·859Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire bodyJul 30·ai958GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory techJul 30·it1058IBM Claims New Era of ‘Quantum Advantage’Jul 30·1158Google’s AI is digging up Chrome bugs that humans missed for yearsJul 30·infosec1258K2 Space raises $500 million for commercial, defense satellite expansionJul 30·1358Roman Space Telescope on track for late August launchJul 30·1458Rocket Report: New launch rule may limit environmental regulations, Falcon 9 to hit MoonJul 31·1558Google's Gemini Robotics ER 2 allows multiple robots to work togetherJul 30·ai1658Startup plans to put nuclear-powered data centers in the sea — modular units could be much faster to deploy, but questions about reliability and longevity remainJul 31·1758So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂Jul 30·1857Using the Chimney Effect to Drop Passively Cooled PC TemperaturesJul 31·1957A Remote Indigenous Community Built One of Canada’s Fastest Fiber NetworksJul 30·2057Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. BackyardsJul 31·
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Programming, Design & Data Science

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166Stacked PRs are now live on GitHubJul 30·devdevops262Indexing the Data Lake for Online Point QueriesJul 30·data362New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoptionJul 30·aidev460Parallel Decoding for Video GenerationJul 30·ai558Scaling StreamHub: Transitioning from Kinesis to Kafka for 145 Billion Daily EventsJul 30·datadevops658Google AI Uncovers 13-Year-Old Chrome Flaw Amid Record Patching PaceJul 31·infosecai758Inducing language models to assert their own consciousness restores human beliefs and valuesJul 30·ai858Sample More, Reflect Less: Self-Refine and Reflexion Lose to Repeated Sampling at Equal Token Cost, from 1.5B to 7BJul 30·ai958Dogfooding at scale: migrating cdnjs to Cloudflare’s Developer PlatformJul 30·devopsdev1058Amazon Links Debug and Chalk npm Hijack to North Korea’s Sapphire SleetJul 30·infosec1158How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and InferenceJul 30·aidev1258Google says AI helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releasesJul 30·infosecai1358JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK masterJul 31·dev1457A foundation model of numerical intelligence with cross-disciplinary generalizationJul 30·ai1557Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic WebJul 30·ai1657New research: The Core Web Vitals thresholds you trust might be wrong for your siteJul 30·dev1756Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crewJul 30·infosec1855Logic for ProgrammersJul 30·dev1955JetBrains open sources KotlinLLM runtime code generatorJul 30·dev
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Miscellaneous

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165Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming StickJul 30·infosec263Anthropic Halts Cyber Evaluations After Claude Uploaded Malware to PyPIJul 31·aiinfosec361I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as oralsJul 30·ai461The session you cannot take with youJul 31·dev558A leaked memo, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Iran (Andy Greenberg/Wired)Jul 31·infosec658Reddit CEO says Google's AI Overviews can't replace '10 blue links' for referral trafficJul 30·marketing758Five Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into Larry Ellison’s A.I. GambleJul 31·aifounders858We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447Jul 30·aifounders958Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-foldJul 30·it1057UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requestsJul 31·it1157AI Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the ThousandsJul 30·ai1256American Being Prosecuted for Wiping His Phone Before Handing It Over to Border OfficialsJul 30·infosec1356Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves. Now bots are the ones doing the buying.Jul 30·aifintech1456A federal judge is about to decide whether Washington can punish AI vendors for saying noJul 31·ai1556Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature allows users to create fake satellite images, such as a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says the images have AI watermarks (Henk van Ess/Digital Digging)Jul 31·ai1656China’s open-weight model lead exposes America’s AI blind spotJul 30·aifounders1756The Million-Dollar Talent Wars for 20-Something Math GeniusesJul 30·founders1856Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget —'catastrophically expensive' coding blunders discovered in internal Amazon AI usage metricsJul 30·ai1956The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing itJul 31·aifounders2056Most Australian teens are still on social media three months into the under-16 banJul 31·

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158Apple’s iPhone and Mac sales keep growing despite RAM shortagesJul 30·258Kioxia’s Outlook Miss Clouds Optimism About Memory Chip BoomJul 31·358Global smartphone sales fall by six percent amid memory cost crisisJul 30·456SK Hynix, Samsung shares skyrocket to clock best days as AI rally roars backJul 31·556The Nano Banana AI Image Generator Has Arrived in Google EarthJul 31·655GCC steering committee announces AI policyJul 30·dev755Gemini Spark can now use Chrome logins and saved passwords to run errands on your behalfJul 31·ai855X Money launches as Elon Musk advances his “everything app” visionJul 30·fintech955Microsoft stock soars 15% after strong earnings, Copilot super app is coming this quarterJul 30·1055Fabless optics giant Marvell to boost India efforts with $250M investmentJul 30·
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