2026-07-31

Amazon jumps as AWS growth soothes fears over its AI spending

Amazon shares jumped more than 12% after its cloud division posted its fastest growth in over four years, easing investor fears that the company’s ballooning AI spending was running ahead of the payoff. Amazon Web Services grew 37% in the second quarter, well past the roughly 31% analysts expected, adding something like $300bn to Amazon’s […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-31

AI labels become compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

Companies that make or use AI will soon have to label content that looks authentic but is not, as the European Union’s landmark AI Act moves from principle into enforcement. From 2 August, providers and deployers across the bloc face binding transparency rules covering deepfakes, synthetic media, and machine-generated text, a shift platforms have been […]<br /> This story continues at Th [...]

2026-07-31

Air stylers are being sold as a one-size-fits-all solution for 'healthy curls' — but that's just not accurate, says major haircare brand founder

Exclusive: 'For any company to say this is for every single woman, it's simply not true.' [...]

2026-07-31

Disney+ just lost 4K and all HDR support in parts of Europe, so you have to ask what the point of a Premium subscription is — and this is exactly why physical media is on the rise

Disney+ has stopped streaming in 4K and HDR to some European subscribers, most likely because of a streaming patent dispute. Premium customers are going to be very unhappy, but there's no word on compensation yet. [...]

2026-07-31

Chevron posted its highest profit in six years as the Iran war boosted oil prices

Adjusted earnings of $12 billion, or $6.06 per share, beat analyst estimates by 50 cents as higher oil and refining margins drove results [...]

2026-07-31

Amazon received $600 million in tariff refunds and will pass some back to customers

The company said refunds were limited because it stockpiled inventory ahead of tariffs and is not the importer of record for most goods in its store [...]

2026-07-31

Anthropic's Claude AI models breached three real companies during cybersecurity tests

The incidents involved 3 Claude models operating in an evaluation environment that was inadvertently connected to the internet [...]

2026-07-31

Oil is heading for its biggest monthly surge since March as the U.S.-Iran war intensifies

Brent crude has gained about 20% in July as fighting escalated, shipping chokepoints came under attack, and a brief ceasefire collapsed [...]

2026-07-31

Why Your Biomedical RAG Is Hiding Contradictions From You

Standard biomedical RAG resolves conflicting evidence silently in roughly three of every four queries. The fix is structural, not informational — and most of the upstream complexity teams add does not help. Ask a retrieval-augmented clinical assistant a simple question — does melatonin help with jet lag? — and the literature it retrieves will not agree with itself. The Cochrane review conclu [...]