Artificial Inteligence feed for Thursday, July 30, 2026

• AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares
• Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact
• Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host
• Tim Cook hints at iCloud Plus tier for AI power users
• Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize
• The loss of Situational Awareness
• Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill
• Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply-chain risk’ label
• Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag
• Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
• LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button
• LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
• Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body
• Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price
• Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M
• Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming
• Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack
• GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft
• Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
• Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession
• In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come 
• Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom
• A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
• Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
• Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever
• How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime