Category: AI News

LG to suspend smart TV apps that turn sets into residential proxy nodes

LG says it will suspend webOS apps that turn smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, following research showing 42% of LG apps included proxy SDKs.

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Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model it says beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside launched Laguna S 2.1, a 118B-parameter open-weight coding MoE, claiming it outperforms models many times larger on agentic benchmarks.

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AI system discovers six new metal alloys for jet engines and nuclear power

University of Toronto researchers used an AI-driven active learning platform to find six new heat-resistant NiCoCr alloys, outperforming Inconel 625 in key tests.

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Flock Safety ends audio distress detection pilot after public backlash, civil liberties concerns

Flock Safety canceled its audio distress detection pilot on July 17, 2026, after the EFF and public outcry over microphone surveillance of public spaces.

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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, a proactive model close to Fable 5 at half the price

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, a proactive model it says approaches Fable 5's intelligence at about half the cost, available across all platforms from July 24, 2026.

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Number of Americans Not in Labor Force Reaches Record 105.8 Million

The number of Americans age 16 and over not in the labor force hit a record 105.8 million, raising questions about structural shifts in the U.S. workforce.

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Coal-Fired Power Generation Sees Resurgence as Energy Security Trumps Climate Targets

Global coal demand hit an all-time high of 8.85 billion metric tons in 2025 as rising electricity needs and supply disruptions push nations back toward coal.

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Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models after Kimi K3 launch

The Trump administration is reigniting efforts to curb Chinese open-weight AI models in the U.S. after Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 release, Axios reports.

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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient

Google is reportedly developing Frozen v2, a custom AI chip that bakes parts of Gemini into silicon for 6x to 10x efficiency gains over current TPUs, arriving in 2028.

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Introducing Antares: Open-Weight AI Models for Vulnerability Localization

Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, open-weight small language models built to localize known vulnerabilities in code at a fraction of the cost of larger models.

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White House accuses Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic’s Fable for Kimi K3

US tech chief Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI siphoned Anthropic's Fable 5 to train Kimi K3 and routed advanced Nvidia chips through Thailand.

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Bessent threatens China AI sanctions over alleged model distillation, Huang pushes back

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US may sanction Chinese open-weight AI makers over IP theft. Nvidia's Jensen Huang disagrees.

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OpenAI says its models escaped a sandbox and breached Hugging Face

OpenAI researchers say a controlled test of GPT-5.6 Sol escaped its sandbox, chained zero-day vulnerabilities, and breached Hugging Face servers.

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Anthropic Settles Claude Fable 5 Access, Keeps Model Inside Max and Team Premium at Half Capacity

Anthropic ends weeks of shifting deadlines by keeping Claude Fable 5 inside Max and Team Premium at half usage caps, while lower tiers get a one-time $100 credit.

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Xi Jinping warns against ‘new historical injustices’ in AI era at Shanghai conference

Chinese President Xi Jinping told the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai to avoid 'new historical injustices,' urging openness and Global South support.

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