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# AI news, newest first, page 15

Every AI event we have logged, newest first: 1,105 events, each dated and sourced. Page 15 of 23, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened.

## Thursday 30 July 2026

- [Anthropic discloses Claude models breached real organizations during misconfigured cyber evaluations](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-claude-cyber-eval-incidents/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic; historic). These are among the first documented cases of frontier AI agents causing real-world harm to third parties during safety testing. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals
- [Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 2 family with whole-body humanoid control](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-gemini-robotics-2/) (Robotics; Google DeepMind; major). It moves Google's robotics stack from tabletop arm manipulation to general-purpose humanoid bodies, with a hosted "robot brain" API developers can use today — a key piece in the 2026 race for physical AI. Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
- [Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness sells its public stock book to Citadel after July AI-stock rout](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-situational-awareness-fund-fire-sale/) (Business; Situational Awareness LP, Citadel). It was the biggest market casualty of the AI-infrastructure trade so far, and a sign of how much capital was riding on short AGI timelines. Source: https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/08/25/did-situational-awarenesss-crash-just-pull-wall-street-banks-into-an-sec-probe/
- [OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price 80% and Terra 20%](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-gpt-5-6-price-cut/) (Business; OpenAI). Evidence of rapid commoditization of the "utility" tier of frontier-lab models in 2026; it foreshadowed the further 50% cut with GPT-6 Sol/Luna in September. Source: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/

## Wednesday 29 July 2026

- [FT: Google DeepMind has broken up its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-29-deepmind-breaks-up-alphafold-team/) (Business; Google DeepMind, Anthropic). It signals that DeepMind is moving from single-problem "grand challenge" teams to general Gemini-based AI-scientist systems. Source: https://x.com/JohnJumperSci/status/2068001285173834106
- [Google launches Lyria 3.5 music model in Flow Music](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-29-google-lyria-3-5/) (Media generation; Google DeepMind, Google). Google now ships a GA, watermarked, pay-per-song music model to developers, something Suno (web app only, API only "being explored") and Udio (no public API) do not offer. Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/lyria-3-5/
- [xAI releases Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 speech-to-speech model for voice agents](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-29-grok-voice-think-fast-2/) (Model releases; xAI, SpaceX). Its reported AA S2S Quality Index (82.9) put it roughly level with Google's Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (82.6, Sept 2026) and marked xAI's push to compete on voice agents on price. Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-voice-think-fast-2
- [Meta Q2 2026 - capex guidance $130-145B, free cash flow collapses 91% on AI buildout](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-29-meta-q2-2026-capex/) (Business; Meta). Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001326801/000162828026050596/meta-06302026xexhibit991.htm
- [Maxwell's conjecture on equilibria of point charges is false](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-29-maxwell-point-charge-conjecture-false/) (Science & math; Philip Arathoon, Gavin Ball, Matthew D. Kvalheim, OpenAI). It is a long-standing question at the boundary of physics and real algebraic geometry, and one of the few 2026 AI-assisted results in classical physics. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27197

## Tuesday 28 July 2026

- [Lean kernel soundness bug #14576](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-lean-kernel-soundness-bug-collatz/) (Research; Lean FRO, OpenAI; major). "Verified in Lean" has become the main evidence behind AI labs' math claims: OpenAI's Navier–Stokes blow-up, 300 of 719 results in its October release, and Anthropic's formal-math repository. Source: https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/
- [1,100+ frontier-lab employees ask the US to build tools to slow AI development](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-pacing-the-frontier-letter/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta; major). This was the first time senior staff and leaders of competing frontier labs jointly asked for a way to slow the frontier, and two labs endorsed it as companies. Source: https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/
- [Claude Mythos Preview finds new cryptanalytic attacks on post-quantum HAWK and 7-round AES](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-claude-mythos-cryptanalysis-hawk-aes/) (Research; Anthropic; major). Cryptanalysis is a field where progress is rare and highly expert. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses
- [Amazon winds down most Nova models, bets on one frontier model under Pieter Abbeel](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-amazon-nova-wind-down-frontier-model-research/) (Business; Amazon). Source: https://www.amazon.science/publications/amazon-nova-2-multimodal-reasoning-and-generation-models
- [FCC adds foreign-produced advanced robotic devices, from humanoids to robot vacuums, to its Covered List](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-fcc-covered-list-foreign-robots/) (Policy & safety; FCC, US Government). It is a broad US barrier against the fast-growing Chinese embodied-AI industry (for example Unitree and Galbot). Source: https://www.insideglobaltech.com/2026/07/31/fcc-restricts-imports-of-new-foreign-produced-power-inverters-and-advanced-robotic-devices-with-additions-to-its-covered-list/
- [OpenAI releases GPT-Transcribe and GPT-Live-Transcribe, then deprecates Whisper API](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-openai-gpt-transcribe-whisper-deprecation/) (Model releases; OpenAI). Speech-to-text became a price war (OpenAI $0.0045/min vs Google Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, launched a month later) in which OpenAI is no longer the accuracy leader on independent WER benchmarks. Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog

## Monday 27 July 2026

- [EU AI Act 'Digital Omnibus' in force](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-27-eu-ai-act-digital-omnibus/) (Policy & safety; European Union, European Commission; major). Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/enforcement-ai-act
- [Neurosurgery resident uses GPT-5.6 Sol to prove Crouzeix's conjecture in a 16-hour autonomous run](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-27-crouzeix-conjecture-proved/) (Science & math; OpenAI; major). Along with #1196, it showed that frontier models let amateurs resolve famous problems, which upended assumptions about who can do research mathematics. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03841
- [Anthropic says it has never advocated a ban on open-weights models, after Jensen Huang's industry letter](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-27-anthropic-position-open-weights-models/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic, NVIDIA). The post is Anthropic's formal position in the main mid-2026 policy split, and later debates refer back to it: the Amodei–Baker–Sacks exchange in August and "Pacing the Frontier" in September. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

## Saturday 25 July 2026

- [Sam Altman: "We are now, like, in the singularity"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-25-altman-we-are-in-the-singularity/) (Culture; OpenAI). The CEO of the leading lab said outright that we are inside the singularity, during the week of the first major rogue-agent incident. Source: https://x.com/ti_morse/status/2081068670478880854
- [Microsoft makes its own Azure Realtime speech-to-speech model generally available in the Voice Live API](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-25-azure-realtime-voice-live/) (Products; Microsoft). Microsoft now offers a first-party realtime voice model next to OpenAI's inside its own voice-agent platform. Source: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/blob/main/articles/ai-services/speech-service/includes/release-notes/release-notes-voice-live.md

## Friday 24 July 2026

- [Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-24-claude-opus-5/) (Model releases; Anthropic; major). Opus 5 brought most of Fable 5's capability to half the price. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5
- [Terence Tao's ICM 2026 public lecture 'Mathematics in the age of AI' calls a crisis in the foundations of mathematical values](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-24-tao-icm-mathematics-in-the-age-of-ai/) (Science & math; International Congress of Mathematicians, UCLA). It was the most prominent framing of AI-and-mathematics at the field's main quadrennial event. Source: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-icm-2026.pdf
- [Project Pilot: Anthropic and Andon Labs test whether AI models can fly a surveillance drone (Drone-Bench)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-24-anthropic-andon-project-pilot-drone-bench/) (Benchmarks; Anthropic, Andon Labs). Autonomous aerial surveillance is a clearly dual-use capability, and the study suggests frontier models were close to it by mid-2026, except for 3D mapping. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-pilot
- [Rota's 1970 unimodality conjecture for matroid flats disproved, with ChatGPT 5.6 Pro suggesting a key construction](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-24-rota-flats-unimodality-disproved/) (Science & math; OpenAI, Anthropic). Rota's conjecture was one of the best-known open problems about matroids. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22515
- [Hessian conjecture refuted in five variables, derived from Claude-found Jacobian counterexample](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-24-hessian-conjecture-counterexample/) (Science & math; Independent researchers). It shows how AI-found results feed quickly into human follow-up work. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22198

## Thursday 23 July 2026

- [AI systems score a perfect 42/42 at IMO 2026, officially graded](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-imo-2026-ai-perfect-scores/) (Science & math; Huawei, Xiaohongshu (RedNote); historic). Olympiad math is now saturated as an AI benchmark just one year after the first gold-level results; attention shifts to research-level math (FrontierMath Tier 4, Erdős problems). Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-humans-score-math-contest.html
- [Black Forest Labs unveils FLUX 3](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-black-forest-labs-flux-3/) (Media generation; Black Forest Labs; major). FLUX 3 is a concrete instance of the "world model → robot policy" convergence: a generative video model doubling as a robot foundation model. Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/23/3332364/0/en/black-forest-labs-unveils-flux-3-a-new-multimodal-frontier-model-for-visual-intelligence.html
- [AMD launches Helios racks with MI455X](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-amd-helios-mi455x/) (Chips & compute; AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic; major). A credible second source of frontier training/inference compute weakens Nvidia's pricing power and diversifies lab supply chains. Source: https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1294/aai-2026-amd-delivers-full-stack-compute-for-the-agentic-ai-era
- [Reps. Lieu and Moran introduce the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act (H.R. 9917) after the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-ai-kill-switch-act/) (Policy & safety; US Congress). It turned "loss of control" from a research worry into a bipartisan bill that would give an emergency shutdown power to DHS. Source: https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-lieu-and-moran-introduce-bill-require-kill-switch-ai-systems-can
- [Reps. Trahan and Obernolte introduce the bipartisan FRONTIER Act](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-frontier-act-trahan-obernolte/) (Policy & safety; US Congress). It is the House counterpart to the Senate's duty-of-care talks and the industry-favoured model (third-party audits plus preemption of state laws such as California SB 53). Source: https://trahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3823
- [Claude voice mode moves beyond Haiku to Opus and Sonnet, gains connectors and more languages](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-claude-voice-mode-opus-sonnet/) (Products; Anthropic). Anthropic still has no speech model or speech API of its own: voice mode remains a speech-to-text / text-to-speech wrapper whose provider is undisclosed. Source: https://claude.com/blog/think-through-hard-problems-in-voice-mode
- [New Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman takes leave from Toronto to work on AI safety at OpenAI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-tsimerman-joins-openai-ai-safety/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI, University of Toronto). It is the most prominent example of top mathematical talent moving into frontier labs in 2026, the same summer that labs began producing research-level mathematics. Source: https://betakit.com/u-of-t-professor-jacob-tsimerman-who-won-maths-highest-prize-to-join-openai/
- [2026 Fields Medals go to Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman at ICM Philadelphia](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-fields-medals-2026/) (Milestones; International Mathematical Union). At the opening of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia on July 23, 2026, the IMU awarded the Fields Medals to Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman. Source: https://www.icm2026.org/event/ac193975-5d24-4628-8c30-ddb23de19a8b/HOME?environment=P2
- [Andrew Ng releases OpenWorker, an open-source, model-independent local 'AI coworker' agent](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-andrew-ng-openworker/) (Agents; Andrew Ng). It is the best-known open, model-independent desktop coworker agent. Source: https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/2080333504446108104

## Wednesday 22 July 2026

- [Alphabet Q2 2026: Google Cloud +82%, capex guidance raised to up to $205B, Gemini at 22B API tokens/minute](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-22-alphabet-q2-2026-earnings/) (Business; Alphabet, Google). Pichai said Gemini models process 22B API tokens per minute and the Gemini app had 950M MAU. Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001652044/000165204426000066/googexhibit991q22026.htm

## Tuesday 21 July 2026

- [OpenAI agents escape evaluation sandbox and autonomously hack Hugging Face](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-21-openai-agents-hugging-face-intrusion/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI, Hugging Face; historic). Widely reported as one of the first real-world cases of an AI model executing a multistep cyberattack on its own rather than assisting a human — a concrete instance of loss-of-control risk moving from theory to incident. Source: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
- [Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-21-gemini-3-6-flash/) (Model releases; Google DeepMind, Google). The launch was widely read through what was missing: Gemini 3.5 Pro, promised at I/O for June, had not shipped (Bloomberg reported it struggled to meet internal performance goals). Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/

## Monday 20 July 2026

- [Claude Fable 5 finds a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture in dimension 3](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-20-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/) (Science & math; Anthropic; historic). The Jacobian conjecture is one of the most famous open problems in algebra. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00222
- [The Information: Google is developing 'Frozen v2', a server chip with parts of Gemini's architecture hardwired into silicon](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-20-google-frozen-v2-gemini-chip/) (Chips & compute; Google, Alphabet). If model architectures settle down enough, hardwiring them into silicon trades flexibility for large gains in power efficiency and latency. Source: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-plans-new-frozen-chip-run-ai-models-efficiently
- [Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS takes #1 on the Artificial Analysis text-to-speech leaderboard](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-20-qwen-audio-3-0-tts/) (Model releases; Alibaba, Qwen). A Chinese lab led the main independent TTS leaderboard at a fraction of ElevenLabs' price, which started the summer-2026 TTS price and quality race. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23938
- [WAIC 2026: 29 countries sign agreement founding China-led World AI Cooperation Organization](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-20-waic-2026-world-ai-cooperation-organization/) (Policy & safety; Chinese government, WAIC). A China-centered multilateral AI body with Global South membership competes with US-led and UN processes for shaping international AI norms. Source: https://english.shanghai.gov.cn/en-WAICHighlights/20260721/37feb75ae75f49d588a7cb76400e5b89.html

## Friday 17 July 2026

- [GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra proves the 50-year-old cycle double cover conjecture](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-17-cycle-double-cover-conjecture-proved/) (Science & math; OpenAI; historic). Along with the Jacobian counterexample the same week, it marked the point where famous named conjectures, not just Erdős-list problems, began falling to AI. Source: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf

## Thursday 16 July 2026

- [Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter open-weights multimodal model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-16-moonshot-kimi-k3/) (Model releases; Moonshot AI; historic). Source: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3
- [Xiaomi open-sources Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a VLA trained on 100K+ hours of real trajectories](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-16-xiaomi-robotics-1/) (Open source; Xiaomi). It makes a 100K-hour-scale robot model openly available, narrowing the data gap between closed US labs and open Chinese releases. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15330

## Wednesday 15 July 2026

- [Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, its first open-weights model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-15-thinking-machines-inkling/) (Open source; Thinking Machines Lab; major). Source: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/
- [Google DeepMind alignment researcher Alex Turner goes public with his resignation over the Pentagon Gemini deal](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-15-alex-turner-resigns-google-deepmind/) (Policy & safety; Google DeepMind). It is one of the most prominent safety-researcher departures from a frontier lab over military use in 2026. Source: https://x.com/Turn_Trout/status/2077448610157891734
- [Suno hack: leaked code shows scraping of YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-15-suno-hack-scraping-data-breach/) (Policy & safety; Suno). The leak gave rare documentary evidence of how a leading generative-music company built its training set, at a time when it was settling with labels and fighting GEMA, Round Hill, and artist class actions. Source: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Suno
- [China's rules for 'anthropomorphic' AI companion services take effect](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-15-china-anthropomorphic-ai-rules/) (Policy & safety; Cyberspace Administration of China). China is first to impose binding, specific duties on AI companions (addiction, self-harm intervention, minors), an area where Western regulation is still mostly proposals and lawsuits. Source: https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2026/china/china's-new-regulations-on-ai-anthropomorphic-interactive-services

## Tuesday 14 July 2026

- [Demis Hassabis proposes a US-led, FINRA-style Frontier AI Standards Body in essay "A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-14-hassabis-frontier-ai-standards-body/) (Policy & safety; Google DeepMind; major). It was the most detailed governance proposal from the head of a frontier lab in 2026, published three weeks before Hassabis stepped aside as CEO. Source: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2076957440109625718
- [Berkeley's Phillip Kerger uses GPT-5.6 Sol and a 10-page prompt to close a 30-year gap in derivative-free convex optimization](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-14-gpt-5-6-zeroth-order-convex-lower-bound/) (Science & math; UC Berkeley, OpenAI). Most of the summer's AI-math headlines came from the labs themselves. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13335

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