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AI News
Jul 16, 2026 93

Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

Research
Jul 16, 2026 229

Security incident disclosure — July 2026

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AI News
Jul 15, 2026 125

Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.

AI News
Jul 15, 2026 93

xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse mat...

AI News
Jul 15, 2026 87

AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs

This weekend, cinephiles across the world will march to their local theaters to feast their eyes on Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of...

AI News
Jul 15, 2026 150

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard desi...

Research
Jul 15, 2026 96

Towards demystifying the creativity of diffusion models

Algorithms & Theory

AI News
Jul 15, 2026 122

SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made...

AI News
Jul 15, 2026 115

Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

AI News
Jul 15, 2026 79

Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer

Suno data obtained in a hacking incident has exposed that the AI music generator was trained by scraping millions of songs and lyrics fro...

Research
Jul 15, 2026 66

What building Shippy taught us about building agents

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Research
Jul 15, 2026 112

Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t.

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