2026-07-30

Mark Zuckerberg says billions will have a personal AI agent within five years

Mark Zuckerberg thinks almost everyone will soon have an AI that works for them. On Meta’s second-quarter earnings call on 29 July, he predicted that within five years “billions of people” will each have “a personal agent that understands your goals,” handling their finances, health, relationships, and homes. It was the boldest version yet of […]<br /> This story continues at The [...]

2026-07-30

OpenAI is building ‘a family of devices,’ Greg Brockman confirms

The president says voice will replace typing and the hardware is coming ‘soon,’ while brushing off Apple’s lawsuit: “we have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets.” OpenAI is not building one gadget but several, its president Greg Brockman has confirmed, describing “a family of devices” in an interview that put the company’s long-rumoured hardware […]<br /> This s [...]

2026-07-30

The spacecraft NASA sent to rescue the falling Swift observatory is in trouble

NASA sent a spacecraft called LINK to rescue a falling telescope, but it's now unclear if it can accomplish its mission. [...]

2026-07-30

Meta's stock sank after legal charges and AI spending eroded its profit

The social media company's net income fell 14% year over year as expenses surged 55%, and its free cash flow shrank to $784 million [...]

2026-07-30

Microsoft stock surged after Azure cleared $100 billion for the first time

The software company beat Wall Street expectations on revenue and earnings as Azure growth accelerated to 43% in the fourth quarter [...]

2026-07-30

Starbucks posted its best same-store sales growth in years and raised its outlook

The coffee chain posted its fourth straight quarter of comparable sales growth and now expects adjusted EPS of $2.55 to $2.65 for fiscal 2026 [...]

2026-07-30

Autonomous Agents Are IT’s Next Painkiller

In the AI gold rush, I see two distinct categories of solutions: vitamins and painkillers. A vitamin is something that helps you write better copy or polish a slide deck, which only boosts your productivity so much. A painkiller, however, is a matter of systemic survival. It can help you fix an issue before it gets out of hand or deal with a global outage, like when one CrowdStrike change crashed [...]

2026-07-30

Check Point Moves AI Prompt Inspection Into Its Firewalls

Check Point announced the AI Network Firewall on July 30, 2026, putting prompt- and agent-level inspection inside its firewall software release R82.20 and running it from the gateways customers already operate. The capability is available now. The gap it targets is one enterprise security teams have lived with since generative AI reached the workplace. A conventional firewall can establish that an [...]

2026-07-30

The great scramble to build AI compute you can actually own

As AI gives compute a physical address, companies and governments are discovering that where a model runs—and who can legally reach it—is now a strategic decision. [...]