AI News — Friday, July 24, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems
Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”
Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
NASA Puts Google’s Gemma Large Language Model in Orbit
The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI
How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines
Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop
The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags
Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers
The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI
China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers
The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview
Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
Chinese AI Model Uses Less Muscle for Coding Tasks
Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data
How to Make an Invisible Drone
Newer Models, Same Advantage
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