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AI News
Jul 29, 2026 72

Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents

Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behal...

AI News
Jul 29, 2026 69

Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented ...

AI News
Jul 29, 2026 184

Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

AI News
Jul 29, 2026 95

xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law

xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming th...

AI News
Jul 29, 2026 79

The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)

AI News
Jul 29, 2026 71

Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine

Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.

AI News
Jul 29, 2026 72

OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots

In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a "fam...

We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with adva...
Research
Jul 29, 2026 83

We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control

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AI News
Jul 29, 2026 117

Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners

AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, mainten...

AI News
Jul 29, 2026 107

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.

AI News
Jul 29, 2026 108

Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his n...

AI News
Jul 29, 2026 84

OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tue...