Microsoft Blog for PostgreSQL introduces AI-powered retrieval capabilities using Azure HorizonDB, published July 28, 2026.

Google's increased capital spending estimate to up to $205 billion has spooked investors, who worry about cost forecasting and profitability in the AI sector. Broader signals from SpaceX, Oracle, and Nvidia suggest growing nervousness about the AI buildout, with concerns about overbuilding and competition from Chinese AI.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026-07-28 specification, the largest revision since launch: MCP is now stateless, with a governed extensions system and hardened authorization. Learn what changed and how to enable the new version on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway with a single UpdateGateway call.

Media finance teams must accurately quantify audience value, optimize subscription and advertising pricing, and ensure content investment ROI. With rising complexity from automation and agents, Databricks Genie offers a data-smart AI coworker that leverages ontology and governance to provide trustworthy answers, helping finance teams protect margins.

The agreement marks another significant step for the South Korean AI sector.

Frontier LLMs frequently overlook subtle visual artifacts in data plots, such as aligned points from imputed values, according to a new evaluation. This underscores the need for caution in deploying fully autonomous data analysis agents.

This article explores the challenges of gaining organic traction for new projects in an era overwhelmed by AI-generated content. The author argues that traditional SEO and emerging AIO (AI Optimization) have turned into a slop arms race, while human-crafted content can stand out through authenticity and trust.

The article explores how AI-generated synthesized answers are replacing search engines as the primary information gateway, creating a new industry: influencing the default AI answer. The author argues that as society converges on a few trusted AI systems, the ability to shape the first answer most people see may become the most valuable service, surpassing intelligence itself.

In a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed AI security, model distillation, and the future of intelligence. He emphasized that scale and usage are more important than high margins, and while security incidents like the Hugging Face event were concerning, model distillation is not a top worry. Altman believes cheap models will exist, and OpenAI must be both the best and cheapest. He also noted the need for better safeguards and credential management, and sees open source models continuing to have a place.

Microsoft unveils its first dedicated cybersecurity AI model and agentic security capabilities, enabling proactive threat analysis, prioritization, and response. This marks a shift from automation to autonomous AI in security and intensifies competition among tech giants.

Anybody is an open-source platform for building AI applications.

This article demonstrates how to build a production-grade multi-agent AI system using LangGraph and Strands on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, with a market surveillance example covering state-driven orchestration, checkpoint-based recovery, and AgentCore memory and observability.

Jess Asato’s particulars of claim states Grok added explicit sexual material users had not asked for. A Labour MP who is taking legal action against Elon Musk’s xAI company over fake sexualised images created by Grok says the AI tool was instructed to operate with 'no restrictions on adult sexual content or offensive content'.

A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.

Share price rally driven by strong product demand as well as decision to sit out AI spending race, amid wider tech sell-off

Databricks AI Search now supports high-QPS scaling, enabling standard endpoints to reach thousands of queries per second with a single parameter, without managing replicas or load balancers. Ideal for search bars, recommendation systems, and real-time entity resolution, with built-in production observability.

NoClick is a platform that lets you build always-on background AI agents using your existing subscriptions (Claude Code, Codex, etc.). Choose agent tools, set triggers, and the platform handles infrastructure automatically.

The author asked Claude to review his WinReg C++ library. Claude reported bugs in string getters that would crash on zero-length values, but investigation revealed the code was correct. The supposed bug was a false positive, illustrating the need to verify AI suggestions.

Intent Lab launches the first autonomous fleet that converts user intents directly into production-ready systems, streamlining development workflows.

A college professor tired of reading AI-generated essay responses hid a white-text instruction in an essay prompt, telling AI to insert 'Madagascar' nonsensically. All 35 students fell for it, submitting bizarre answers. The incident highlights concerns about AI's impact on critical thinking and academic integrity.

An AI personal assistant that lives in your texts.

Managed Agents in Gemini API now default to Gemini 3.6 Flash, with new environment hooks, budget controls, scheduled triggers, and free tier access to help developers build reliable, production-ready agents.

The dedicated Copilot key on newer Windows laptops can be remapped to other functions using Microsoft's PowerToys, as an alternative to waiting for a future Windows update that will allow remapping to Right Ctrl or Context menu key.

Residents of Dowagiac, Michigan have filed a lawsuit against a data center owned by Alliance Cloud Services (Hyperscale Data) for continuous high-pitched noise pollution since 2022. The facility, formerly a cryptocurrency mining center, is transitioning to AI computing. Despite noise ordinance fines and an offer to buy homes, residents are concerned about long-term community ties and health impacts.

A fictional story reveals how AI systems in military targeting can cascade into deadly errors, misidentifying civilians as combatants and failing to detect non-combatants, leading to tragic civilian casualties. The article dissects six stages of an AI kill chain, explaining the technologies and their limitations.

Databricks governs AI spend at scale by routing every coding agent through Unity AI Gateway, enforcing budgets, visibility, and policies across all models and tools. They balance innovation with cost control using separate daily and monthly budgets: daily limits for runaway protection with self-service raises, and monthly limits for extraordinary spend with manager approval and time-limited overrides.

LG cracks down on apps that secretly turn smart TVs into residential proxies. Spur finds nearly half of LG apps and over a quarter of Samsung Tizen apps contain proxy code, potentially used for malicious activities. LG will suspend non-compliant apps and improve vetting.

OpenAI's core product engineering lead Akshay Nathan shares insights on building ChatGPT Work to make AGI accessible to everyone. He discusses the explosion in Codex usage, its transition from a coding tool to a knowledge work tool, and how agents are changing workflows. The article covers the shared agent harness, memory, sub-agents, Sites, and the impact of AI on product development and roles.

The NVIDIA Jetson platform brings powerful edge AI and robotics compute to a palm-sized module that fits in a handbag. Venture capitalist Sarah Guo showcases the Jetson Orin Nano Super developer kit, offering 67 TOPS AI performance for students, researchers, and developers to build AI robots, autonomous machines, and more. The article highlights Jetson series models and several innovative project examples.

The article examines the gap between AI adoption and data governance, noting that 88% of organizations use AI but only 35% have full visibility into unstructured data. It presents four insights from experts: real-time mapping of sensitive data flows, unified governance, pre-development accountability frameworks, and data-level security controls.