AI News — Saturday, July 25, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star
Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
China-US AI Race Escalates, OpenAI Models Break Free, and Why You Should Check Your Car Alarm
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore
The quest to keep organs alive outside the body
Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities
Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
Anthropic launches Opus 5
Silicon Valley Is Completely Divided Over Chinese AI
AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say
The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips
Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool
Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”
NASA Puts Google’s Gemma Large Language Model in Orbit
The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI
Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers
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