Wednesday, 29 July 2026

Lyria 3.5 brings better musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control to Google Flow Music, the AI music tool built into Google's video workflow.

Richard Socher's self-improving-AI startup signed a multi-year, $410M compute agreement with AWS, aiming to ship its first consumer products by October.

A week after the White House accused Moonshot AI of illicitly accessing banned Nvidia GB300 chips via Thailand, it's reportedly seeking more for Kimi K4.

Private Claude conversations shared via public links were found indexed on Google and Bing, exposing the gap between a robots.txt rule and real crawlers.

Runlayer accuses Rippling of copying its MCP gateway after a year of sales-trial collaboration under NDA; Rippling calls the suit a bid to dodge competition.

A new benchmark of 65 realistic enterprise tasks found even frontier LLM agents pass just 36.2% of strict tests for following standing company policy documents.

AWS is folding its Nova lineup into one multimodal frontier model, phasing out Premier, Omni, Canvas, and Reel rather than keeping a model per modality.

Grok's new Build Mode turns a text prompt into a published website, app, or game with a live preview, no coding or toolchain setup required.

A researcher disclosed a document-borne worm in Copilot for Word: hidden white-on-white text that rewrites content and copies itself into every new document.

ProPublica found Claude Mythos surfaced 90 critical and 141 important SharePoint bugs in April alone, faster than Microsoft's teams could patch them.

Meta's CEO used a WSJ op-ed to argue AI access should be widely distributed, not paced, the same week 1,200+ rivals asked government to help slow AI down.

Staff at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta, including Dario Amodei, asked Washington to build tools to deliberately slow frontier AI progress.

Cursor launched a native iPad app with a pinned sidebar, split-screen PR review, and Pencil markup, extending its iOS mobile-agent app to the bigger screen.

Perplexity brought its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, letting it work across local files, Microsoft Office 365, and the web from one interface.

Spur Intelligence raised $200M from Insight Partners to expand tools that separate real human users from bot and AI-agent traffic hidden behind proxies.

Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo Ventures to grow its AI-text and AI-image detection tools, which analyze stylistic patterns rather than watermarks.

Encore AI raised a $30M Series A led by Team8 to train AI voice agents on successful sales and support call patterns, its 'interaction mining' approach.

Fish Audio closed a $52M seed and launched S2.1 Pro, a real-time multilingual voice model supporting 83 languages, for creators and enterprises.

Microsoft open-sourced Mage, a compact multimodal model family with a fixed 4B-parameter budget that stays competitive with much larger systems.

Cohere introduced North Automations, an intelligent workflow-orchestration layer for its North enterprise AI agent platform, on July 27.