AI News — Saturday, July 18, 2026

Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out

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

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

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

Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada

TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool

Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

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

The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap

A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War

There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it.

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis

It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.

The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs

The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials

Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster

New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state

The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix

The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway

How to Make an Invisible Drone

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US

Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia

Newer Models, Same Advantage

Security incident disclosure — July 2026

What building Shippy taught us about building agents

The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities

This AI Folds DNA Into Mini Masterpieces