Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 7 stories

1. 1Anthropic says its Mythos model found vulnerabilities in cryptographic algorithms that secure the internet78
2. 2Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash cybersecurity AI model - qz.com
3. 3How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency

The AI products people actually use. · 35 stories

1. 1Snowflake debuts Cortex AI Gateway to govern and monitor enterprise AI agents78
2. 2Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI agent to Windows
3. 3Fireworks AI Releases Fireworks Nexus: A Drop-In Routing and Cost-Control Layer That Moves Routine Coding Work to Open-Weight Models

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 1 story

1. 1Token-maxing is an AI cost sink - how to use agents without busting your budget62

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 11 stories

1. 1Act Security raises $60M to take action against agentic access sprawl at the infrastructure layer78
2. 2AI model compression startup Multiverse raises $570M at $1.7B valuation
3. 3Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 11 stories

1. 1Meta to build $14B El Paso data center campus with BlackRock88
2. 2Jeff Bezos says this business is becoming Amazon’s next ‘pillar’
3. 3Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 29 stories

1. 1Taiwan detains Nvidia employee in widening China chip smuggling probe78
2. 2Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children
3. 3AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous