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China's cyberspace regulator has banned AI companion chatbots for minors, prompting ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to disable features amid demographic concerns.
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Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business, a package of connectors and ready-to-run workflows that put Claude inside tools like QuickBooks, PayPal, and HubSpot.
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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 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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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 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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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