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Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out · Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent

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    Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out

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    Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs

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    Money 1 source

    Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act

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    The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’

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    TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool

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    Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for July 18, 2026 — 25 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada Ars Technica
  2. Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI The Verge
  3. San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores Ars Technica
  4. The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  5. A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War Wired
  6. There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it. MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  7. The risk of weather data sabotage is rising MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  8. Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis Wired
  9. It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android Ars Technica
  10. xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users. Ars Technica
  11. The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs VentureBeat
  12. The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials VentureBeat
  13. Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster Wired
  14. New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state The Verge
  15. The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix VentureBeat
  16. The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway VentureBeat
  17. How to Make an Invisible Drone IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  18. Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook The Verge
  19. The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  20. Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  21. Newer Models, Same Advantage Hugging Face
  22. Security incident disclosure — July 2026 Hugging Face
  23. What building Shippy taught us about building agents Hugging Face
  24. The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  25. This AI Folds DNA Into Mini Masterpieces IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
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