Artificial Inteligence feed for Friday, July 17, 2026

• Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs
• Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
• The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
• Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard
• AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market
• TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool
• How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans
• Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI
• Following the questions where they lead
• Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and Diffusers
• Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
• Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
• Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAI
• Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal
• A scorecard for the AI age
• The risk of weather data sabotage is rising