Artificial Inteligence feed for Thursday, July 23, 2026

• Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
• AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
• Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
• Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
• AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
• Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
• Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
• OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
• OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
• Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
• AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors 
• Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon
• Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
• Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
• Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
• How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines
• MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission
• The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
• Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
• ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push
• Launching Health in ChatGPT
• Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers