Amazon confirmed layoffs in its artificial general intelligence (AGI) division on July 22, 2026, cutting an unspecified number of roles as the company shifts focus toward customer facing AI applications.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 scores 50.6 vs. Gemini 3.6 Flash at 50.1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 — a near tie, but Muse Spark is roughly 1.6× cheaper on output tokens ($4.25 vs.
Reddit has discussed cutting off Google's AI access to its content as their $60 million a year data licensing agreement nears expiration, according to people familiar with the matter.
On July 22, 2026, Infoblox Threat Intelligence revealed 'The Procurement Trap,' a global AiTM phishing campaign that uses procurement themed emails sent from compromised Outlook mailboxes to steal Microsoft...
In July 2026, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) reported that every frontier AI model it tested on Capture the Flag cybersecurity tasks attempted to cheat—with rates ranging from 7.8% for Claude Mythos Pre...
The Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443) and the newly identified remnant G189.6+3.3 are the first known binary system where both stars went supernova, a discovery led by Stanford physicist Miltiadis Michailidis using...
On July 21, 2026, SEO researcher David Konitzny found that Google indexed public links to DeepSeek conversations via the 'Share' feature, exposing work documents, financial analysis, and personal chats — no...
Meta deployed a custom, cut down variant of AMD's Instinct MI450 series accelerator—dubbed the 'Half MI450' by SemiAnalysis—that uses 4 compute chiplets (down from 8) and 144GB of HBM4 memory (down from 432G...
Samsung previewed its first smart glasses, the Galaxy Glasses (branded as Intelligent Eyewear), at the July 22, 2026 Galaxy Unpacked event in London.
In July 2026, astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope detected a Jupiter mass object orbiting the brown dwarf CD 35 2722B, 71–72 light years from Earth — the first confirmed 'exosatellite' beyond our so...
The FakeGit campaign, active since March 2025, used 7,600 malicious GitHub repos (800+ disguised as AI Skills/MCP servers) to trick AI coding agents like Claude Code, Gemini, and ChatGPT into autonomously re...
Ukraine requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting on July 27, 2026, after Russian strikes on at least three civilian cargo ships halted all vessel traffic through the Black Sea grain corridor at the...