AI News — Wednesday, July 29, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea
Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away
Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale
LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU
Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents
The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off
Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget
Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them
Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.
Why AI-Driven Cognitive Systems Are Redefining Radar and Electronic Warfare
NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly
NASA Puts Google’s Gemma Large Language Model in Orbit
Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
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