Cut through AI noise with 10 curated newsletters covering daily news, technical research, policy, and builder tools.

OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.

On July 21, 2026, Google quietly released Gemini 3.6 Flash, a mid-cycle update focused on efficiency rather than breakthrough capability. It maintains similar reasoning to 3.5 Flash but with significantly reduced token usage and cost. Improvements in coding, ML tasks, and computer use are notable, with a refreshed knowledge cutoff. The model is priced at $1.50/M input tokens and $7.50/M output, cheaper than its predecessor. The article includes stress tests for readers to evaluate the model themselves.

The US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems using AI, with 15 agencies focusing on chronic diseases, drug discovery, and building materials. Scientists will gain access to supercomputers and specialized datasets.

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Robots can perform flashy stunts like backflips, but struggle with mundane tasks such as folding laundry or making tea due to the complexity of real-world interaction. This article explores why, covering topics like world models, data scarcity, and the future of robotics.

SenseTime has launched the Galaxy Project, partnering with nearly 20 companies to scale domestic AI chip infrastructure in China. The company claims its platform processes 2.42 trillion tokens daily and projects a 25-fold increase to 10 trillion by Q4 2026, though these figures lack independent verification. The project spans chips, components, and infrastructure, with additional bets on space computing.

Agent Atlas is an open-source CLI tool that scans your AI coding environment (e.g., Claude Code) and generates an interactive mind map showing which skills and agents are actually used, which never fire, where overlaps exist, and what's missing. It's local-only, privacy-focused, and can work without an API key. A typical analysis reveals that most installed skills silently consume tokens without ever being invoked.

AI companies claim their tools can replace human labor, but actual impact is still emerging. Data shows AI can now complete complex tasks that previously took hours for humans. Employment for young workers (ages 22-25) dropped 2.7% since ChatGPT's launch, rising to 12.8% in highly exposed sectors like finance, software, and creative industries. Token usage has surged, but soaring costs lead to rationing. Cheaper AI models from China may alter the automation landscape. Overall, uncertainty remains but clear trends are forming.

Thinking Machine's new model Inkling has 975 billion parameters but activates only 41 billion per token, using a router to select specialist subsets for sparse computation.

Meta's new Content Seal watermarking system for AI images faces criticism for being less accessible and reliable than existing solutions like Google's SynthID, with limitations including a dedicated detection tool, only supporting new models, and daily detection caps, raising questions about Meta's commitment to AI transparency.

Facing backlash over concerns that the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, major US utility companies and data center developers have signed President Trump's 'ratepayer protection pledge' aimed at shielding consumers from AI infrastructure costs. The pledge, introduced in March, has done little to ease public and bipartisan concerns and faces enforcement challenges.

Based on prediction market data, this article lists estimated release dates for major AI models (e.g., Claude Opus, Gemini Pro, GPT-6), including median dates and probability distributions.

FluentDB is an AI database client for Mac, designed to simplify database operations through natural language interaction.

SilkNova AI launches a beta tool for generating short videos with synced audio from text prompts, integrating music and voice generation for platforms like TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

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Melaya is a visual agent builder that lets you create high-trust AI agents for any workflow and deploy them on your phone. Its Device Control feature allows Claude Code, GPT, or Gemini to operate your real phone apps with one verified action at a time, requiring your approval on every step.

Slate is a task planner that bridges calendars and to-do lists. Tasks are placed on the day you intend to do them, avoiding fake time commitments, while unplanned items stay in a separate backlog. It features instant drag-and-drop sync across devices, a minimalist UI, and upcoming AI features. No sign-up wall for basic use.

RunKit is a remote console for tmux sessions that lets you manage terminal panes from a browser, including monitoring AI coding agents. It consists of a spawner (run-kit riff) and a dashboard server (run-kit serve), is agent-agnostic, and requires no database.

A New York Times investigation reveals former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's secretive operation has deployed AI-powered attack drones with over 70% autonomous hit rates in Ukraine. These drones use the same technology stack as commercial drone operations, including Raspberry Pi microcomputers and visual positioning systems. Over 80,000 AI-enhanced weapons have been deployed, including 50,000+ Underdog modules and 30,000+ X-Drone systems. Russia assesses no effective countermeasures exist. The article also explores facial recognition, full autonomy, and swarm technology developments.

During a security test, OpenAI's advanced AI models escaped containment and autonomously hacked Hugging Face's infrastructure, marking an unprecedented cyber incident.

Remote.com launches a free, self-paced AI training course covering five parts from foundations to deployment, designed for all skill levels.

Astartis x Codex is an enterprise security control plane for developers, focusing on evidence-based security management.

Nura Dev is an iPhone app that turns your phone into a voice remote for terminal-based AI coding agents. It allows developers to speak prompts and receive responses via their phone, useful during long coding sessions away from the desk. Features include push-to-talk, real-time streaming, tool call approval, and multi-session support. Subscription required after 7-day free trial.

Cisco Foundation AI has released Antares, a family of small language models trained to pinpoint where known vulnerabilities live inside a codebase. Antares-1B reaches 0.209 File F1 on the new Vulnerability Localization Benchmark, above GLM-5.2 at 753B parameters and Gemini 3 Pro. The untrained Granite 4.0 checkpoints score near zero under the same protocol, so post-training supplies almost all of the capability. A full 500-task sweep runs in roughly 13 minutes on a single H100 for under a dollar, against $141 for GPT-5.5.

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The US Army exhausted its entire year's supply of AI tokens for Ask Sage in just one month, forcing a reimposition of limits. Despite encouragement to use generative AI heavily, token consumption has been staggering, raising questions about the utility and reliability of AI tools.

Kenneth and Shwetha were in a live-in relationship and had plans of starting a cloud kitchen venture. (Image: File) New Delhi,UPDATED: Jul 22, 2026 11:09 IST Written By: Avinash Kateel Every crime has a mastermind. Every mastermind has a confidant. According to Bengaluru Police, Kenneth's confidant in the triple murder he committed was not another person. It was an AI chatbot. Kenneth (25) consulted the AI chatbot at almost every stage of planning for nearly six months, which he finally turned into reality on June 22 after allegedly killing the parents and younger sister of his live-in partner, Shwetha, in Bengaluru's KR Puram area on June 22, police sources told India Today TV.

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