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Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI · Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will…

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    Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for July 30, 2026 — 23 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year The Verge
  2. xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law The Verge
  3. It’s Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models Wired
  4. OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots The Verge
  5. How an overlooked geothermal plant got a second chance MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning Ars Technica
  7. Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  8. The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  9. AI Is Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  10. More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’ Wired
  11. Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books Wired
  12. The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale Hugging Face
  14. LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU Hugging Face
  15. The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  16. Why AI-Driven Cognitive Systems Are Redefining Radar and Electronic Warfare IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  17. NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics Hugging Face
  18. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Hugging Face
  19. Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  21. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  22. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  23. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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