AI News — Wednesday, July 15, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B
Lorde says AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move
OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit
OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage
US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time
Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI
YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
The Google Images homepage will recommend photos even before you search
How I Turned AI to the Dark Side
New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry
The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models
This Luddite Puppet Hopes You’re Not Reading This on Your Smartphone
The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT
PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light
What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
The AI Arms Race in Technical Interviews Is Escalating
The Download: a donor conception cap and world models for AI
Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profile
Large Tabular Models Excel Where LLMs Fail
Data for Agents
Native-speed vLLM transformers modeling backend
From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click
Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews