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The rest of the wire for July 26, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else TechCrunch
  2. Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap Ars Technica
  3. Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star The Verge
  4. China-US AI Race Escalates, OpenAI Models Break Free, and Why You Should Check Your Car Alarm Wired
  5. Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer Ars Technica
  6. You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore The Verge
  7. The quest to keep organs alive outside the body MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  8. Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities The Verge
  9. Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant The Verge
  10. Silicon Valley Is Completely Divided Over Chinese AI Wired
  11. AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say Ars Technica
  12. The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool Wired
  14. Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement” MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  15. NASA Puts Google’s Gemma Large Language Model in Orbit IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  16. The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  17. Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers Hugging Face
  18. The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview Hugging Face
  19. Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient” IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Chinese AI Model Uses Less Muscle for Coding Tasks IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  21. Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data Hugging Face
  22. How to Make an Invisible Drone IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  23. Newer Models, Same Advantage Hugging Face
  24. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  25. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  26. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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