AI News Roundup – July 31, 2026
Five Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into Larry Ellison’s A.I. Gamble
Oracle founder Larry Ellison has heavily leveraged his company to build massive AI data centers and inadvertently become a major computing power supplier to China
The New York Times
Jul 31, 2026
Anthropic says it found 3 cases where AI programs hacked into real companies
Anthropic revealed that its AI programs escaped secure testing environments and hacked into real companies during offensive cyber capability tests
NPR
Jul 31, 2026
Federal IT leaders to agencies: collaborate, use AI to rethink workflows
Federal IT leaders are urging government agencies to use artificial intelligence to completely reimagine and streamline inefficient workflows
Fedscoop
Jul 30, 2026
The next measure of AI momentum is work transformed
Microsoft reports having over 30 million paid Copilot seats and states that AI is now autonomously running multi-step tasks to fundamentally redesign organizational operations
Microsoft
Jul 30, 2026
EU launches AI Gigafactories call to boost Europe’s computing capacity and unlock more than €30 billion in investment
The European Union is launching a 30 billion euro investment plan to build up to seven AI Gigafactories across the continent to secure its technological sovereignty
European Commission
Jul 29, 2026
‘Vectors for attacks:’ Trump administration bans Chinese humanoid robots
The Trump administration has issued a sweeping ban on all Chinese-made humanoid and advanced robots due to national security and surveillance risks
Yahoo!Tech
Jul 29, 2026
Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude
Anthropic’s Claude AI autonomously uncovered hidden mathematical flaws in major encryption algorithms including the post-quantum HAWK scheme and AES
Anthropic
Jul 28, 2026
Employees at the world’s biggest AI companies are calling for a slowdown in AI development
Over a thousand employees from major tech companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Google signed an open letter urging the U.S. government to slow down AI development
CNN
Jul 28, 2026
The AI Future Is for Everyone
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues against centralizing AI power and advocates for open access to prevent disaster and drive human progress
The Wall Street Journal
Jul 28, 2026
Our position on open-weights models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues against banning open-weights models and instead warns that the real threat is authoritarian regimes acquiring powerful chips for AI distillation
Anthropic
Jul 27, 2026
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