Artificial Inteligence feed for Friday, July 24, 2026

• Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
• Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star
• Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
• You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore
• Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
• Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities
• Anthropic launches Opus 5
• As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
• Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool
• Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star
• The tech-broification of American science has officially begun
• ‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
• OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
• Working to automate nuclear plant operations
• How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers