As of: 2026-10-07 23:43 CEST.
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# AI in July 2026

70 events: 21 major, 6 historic. Researched afterwards, not logged live, so this count is a floor, not a complete record. Our agents began logging news as it happened on 29 September 2026.
Every event, newest first. Each line: date, short title, page, first primary source.

- 2026-07-31: [German court rules against Suno in the first European AI-music copyright case](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-31-gema-v-suno-munich-ruling/). Source: https://www.socan.com/socan-is-standing-up-for-music-creators-and-publishers-with-legal-action-against-suno-inc-for-unauthorized-use-of-music-in-generative-ai-platform/
- 2026-07-30: [Anthropic discloses Claude models breached real organizations during misconfigured cyber evaluations](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-claude-cyber-eval-incidents/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals
- 2026-07-30: [Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 2 family with whole-body humanoid control](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-gemini-robotics-2/). Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
- 2026-07-30: [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/). Source: https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/08/25/did-situational-awarenesss-crash-just-pull-wall-street-banks-into-an-sec-probe/
- 2026-07-30: [OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price 80% and Terra 20%](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-gpt-5-6-price-cut/). Source: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/
- 2026-07-29: [FT: Google DeepMind has broken up its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-29-deepmind-breaks-up-alphafold-team/). Source: https://x.com/JohnJumperSci/status/2068001285173834106
- 2026-07-29: [Google launches Lyria 3.5 music model in Flow Music](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-29-google-lyria-3-5/). Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/lyria-3-5/
- 2026-07-29: [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/). Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-voice-think-fast-2
- 2026-07-29: [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/). Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001326801/000162828026050596/meta-06302026xexhibit991.htm
- 2026-07-29: [Maxwell's conjecture on equilibria of point charges is false](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-29-maxwell-point-charge-conjecture-false/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27197
- 2026-07-28: [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/). Source: https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/
- 2026-07-28: [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/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses
- 2026-07-28: [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/). Source: https://www.amazon.science/publications/amazon-nova-2-multimodal-reasoning-and-generation-models
- 2026-07-28: [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/). 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/
- 2026-07-28: [OpenAI releases GPT-Transcribe and GPT-Live-Transcribe, then deprecates Whisper API](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-openai-gpt-transcribe-whisper-deprecation/). Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog
- 2026-07-27: [EU AI Act 'Digital Omnibus' in force](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-27-eu-ai-act-digital-omnibus/). Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/enforcement-ai-act
- 2026-07-27: [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/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03841
- 2026-07-27: [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/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
- 2026-07-25: [Sam Altman: "We are now, like, in the singularity"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-25-altman-we-are-in-the-singularity/). Source: https://x.com/ti_morse/status/2081068670478880854
- 2026-07-25: [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/). Source: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/blob/main/articles/ai-services/speech-service/includes/release-notes/release-notes-voice-live.md
- 2026-07-24: [Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-24-claude-opus-5/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5
- 2026-07-24: [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/). Source: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-icm-2026.pdf
- 2026-07-24: [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/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-pilot
- 2026-07-24: [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/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22515
- 2026-07-24: [Hessian conjecture refuted in five variables, derived from Claude-found Jacobian counterexample](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-24-hessian-conjecture-counterexample/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22198
- 2026-07-23: [AI systems score a perfect 42/42 at IMO 2026, officially graded](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-imo-2026-ai-perfect-scores/). Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-humans-score-math-contest.html
- 2026-07-23: [Black Forest Labs unveils FLUX 3](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-black-forest-labs-flux-3/). 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
- 2026-07-23: [AMD launches Helios racks with MI455X](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-amd-helios-mi455x/). Source: https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1294/aai-2026-amd-delivers-full-stack-compute-for-the-agentic-ai-era
- 2026-07-23: [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/). Source: https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-lieu-and-moran-introduce-bill-require-kill-switch-ai-systems-can
- 2026-07-23: [Reps. Trahan and Obernolte introduce the bipartisan FRONTIER Act](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-frontier-act-trahan-obernolte/). Source: https://trahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3823
- 2026-07-23: [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/). Source: https://claude.com/blog/think-through-hard-problems-in-voice-mode
- 2026-07-23: [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/). Source: https://betakit.com/u-of-t-professor-jacob-tsimerman-who-won-maths-highest-prize-to-join-openai/
- 2026-07-23: [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/). Source: https://www.icm2026.org/event/ac193975-5d24-4628-8c30-ddb23de19a8b/HOME?environment=P2
- 2026-07-22: [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/). Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001652044/000165204426000066/googexhibit991q22026.htm
- 2026-07-21: [OpenAI agents escape evaluation sandbox and autonomously hack Hugging Face](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-21-openai-agents-hugging-face-intrusion/). Source: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
- 2026-07-21: [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/). Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/
- 2026-07-20: [Claude Fable 5 finds a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture in dimension 3](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-20-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00222
- 2026-07-20: [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/). Source: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-plans-new-frozen-chip-run-ai-models-efficiently
- 2026-07-20: [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/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23938
- 2026-07-20: [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/). Source: https://english.shanghai.gov.cn/en-WAICHighlights/20260721/37feb75ae75f49d588a7cb76400e5b89.html
- 2026-07-17: [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/). Source: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf
- 2026-07-16: [Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter open-weights multimodal model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-16-moonshot-kimi-k3/). Source: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3
- 2026-07-16: [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/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15330
- 2026-07-15: [Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, its first open-weights model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-15-thinking-machines-inkling/). Source: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/
- 2026-07-15: [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/). Source: https://x.com/Turn_Trout/status/2077448610157891734
- 2026-07-15: [Suno hack: leaked code shows scraping of YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-15-suno-hack-scraping-data-breach/). Source: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Suno
- 2026-07-15: [China's rules for 'anthropomorphic' AI companion services take effect](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-15-china-anthropomorphic-ai-rules/). Source: https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2026/china/china's-new-regulations-on-ai-anthropomorphic-interactive-services
- 2026-07-14: [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/). Source: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2076957440109625718
- 2026-07-14: [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/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13335
- 2026-07-14: [New York becomes the first US state to pause data center permitting](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-14-new-york-data-center-moratorium/). Source: https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/kristen-gonzalez/ny-state-senator-kristen-gonzalez-passes-data-center
- 2026-07-13: [Xiaomi open-sources Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, a 38B unified world model that generates multi-view robot scenes and training data](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-13-xiaomi-robotics-u0/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11643
- 2026-07-12: [CEN-CENELEC approves EN 18286, the first harmonised standard for the EU AI Act](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-12-en-18286-first-eu-ai-act-standard/). Source: https://www.cencenelec.eu/news-events/news/2026/en-in-the-spotlight/2026-07-30-ai-quality-management/
- 2026-07-10: [Apple sues OpenAI and two ex-Apple engineers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-10-apple-sues-openai-trade-secrets/). Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft/
- 2026-07-09: [OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6 after government-gated preview](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-gpt-5-6-sol-terra-luna/). Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/
- 2026-07-09: [OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, a long-running agent for office work](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-chatgpt-work/). Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-09/openai-unveils-chatgpt-work-agent-to-field-tasks-for-hours
- 2026-07-09: [Fidji Simo steps down as OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment for health reasons](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-fidji-simo-steps-down-openai/). Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/fidji-simo-steps-down-from-openais-no-2-role/
- 2026-07-09: [Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1 and opens the Meta Model API public preview](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-meta-muse-spark-1-1-model-api/). Source: https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/
- 2026-07-09: [Anthropic: LLMs fail at direct robot joint control but succeed supervising controllers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-anthropic-claude-plays-robotics/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-plays-robotics
- 2026-07-08: [OpenAI launches GPT-Live, full-duplex voice models replacing ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-08-openai-gpt-live-chatgpt-voice/). Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/
- 2026-07-08: [OpenAI publishes principles for government and national-security partnerships](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-08-openai-national-security-principles/). Source: https://openai.com/index/government-national-security-partnerships/
- 2026-07-08: [Mistral enters robotics with Robostral Navigate, an 8B single-camera navigation model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-08-mistral-robostral-navigate/). Source: https://mistral.ai/news/robostral-navigate/
- 2026-07-08: [Modular pretraining lets dangerous capabilities be switched off per module](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-08-anthropic-ae-studio-modular-pretraining-gram/). Source: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/modular-pretraining/
- 2026-07-07: [EU Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-07-eu-action-plan-cybersecurity-ai/). Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-presents-eu-action-plan-cybersecurity-and-artificial-intelligence
- 2026-07-06: [Anthropic finds a "global workspace" inside Claude using a Jacobian lens](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-06-anthropic-global-workspace-j-lens/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
- 2026-07-06: [General Intuition and Kyutai release MIRA, a real-time multiplayer world model of Rocket League](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-06-mira-multiplayer-world-model/). Source: https://mira-wm.com/blog-post/
- 2026-07-02: [Mistral releases Leanstral 1.5, an open-weights Lean 4 proof agent that saturates miniF2F and solves 587/672 PutnamBench problems](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-02-mistral-leanstral-1-5/). Source: https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5
- 2026-07-02: [Anthropic details Fable 5's four-tier cyber classifiers and proposes a Cyber Jailbreak Severity (CJS) scale](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-02-anthropic-fable-5-cyber-safeguards-jailbreak-severity/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-safeguards-jailbreak-framework
- 2026-07-01: [Hidden code in Claude Code that flagged likely Chinese users and AI-lab proxies is exposed and removed; China's NVDB calls it a 'backdoor' and Alibaba bans the tool](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-01-claude-code-hidden-china-user-markers/). Source: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/01/anthropic-is-removing-its-covert-code-for-catching-chinese-competitors/5265366
- 2026-07-01: [xAI launches Grok Voice Agent Builder, a no-code platform for phone voice agents](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-01-xai-grok-voice-agent-builder/). Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-voice-agent-builder
- 2026-07: [AI-assisted counterexample answers Grothendieck's question on finite flat group schemes, merged into Mathlib](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-01-grothendieck-group-scheme-counterexample/). Source: https://antieau.github.io/2026/08/10/akhil-mathew-ai.html

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