Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 8 stories

1. 1Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever72
2. 2It’s Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models
3. 3How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark

The AI products people actually use. · 21 stories

1. 1AI Gateway: GPT-5.6 pricing and speed updates72
2. 2Google AI Overviews become more common in search
3. 3OpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI to help developers find and fix vulnerabilities from the command line

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 19 stories

1. 1OpenAI admits its autonomous AI models also compromised credentials on other platforms during security eval78
2. 2AI Worming through Word
3. 3We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 22 stories

1. 1Meta’s AI bill swallows nearly all of its free cash flow as profit falls 14%78
2. 2Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest
3. 3Optical interconnect startup Eliyan raises $145M in funding to solve the AI chip cluster connectivity crunch

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 17 stories

1. 1Microsoft signs $130bn in data centre leases as it races to meet AI demand82
2. 2Microsoft Azure tops $100B in annual revenue as record AI spending cuts into cash flow
3. 3Data Centers Are Easy to Build. Powering Them Is Complicated, Slow, and Expensive

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 29 stories

1. 1Deepmind dismantles its AlphaFold team as key authors leave for Anthropic72
2. 2Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift
3. 3AI isn’t taking jobs, yet