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2026-07-29

OpenAI ‘open-sourced’ its AI security scanner. The scanner is still locked up.

OpenAI has open-sourced an AI tool that hunts for security holes in your code. There is a catch: the part that does the hunting is still locked behind its approval. The company quietly released the Codex Security CLI this week, before it had even announced it. The code is public, under an open licence. It […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-29

DeepMind won a Nobel for AlphaFold. Then it broke up the team.

Less than a year ago, AlphaFold won Google DeepMind a Nobel Prize. Now DeepMind has taken the team that built it apart. The lab has reassigned most of the original AlphaFold-paper authors over the past year, the Financial Times reported. Nearly a quarter of them have left the company altogether. DeepMind confirmed the moves, and […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

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2026-07-29

As AI Generates More Messages, Human Recognition Becomes More Valuable

As organizations embrace AI to communicate faster and at greater scale, the companies preserving trust aren’t sending more messages; they’re creating more meaningful human moments. Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed how organizations communicate with employees. Announcements can now be drafted in seconds. Leadership updates can be personalized automatically. Internal newsletters [...]

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2026-07-29

The Verification Imperative in Recruitment’s Trust Crisis

Recruiters used to open a resume to look for a reason to say yes. Now they open it to look for a reason to doubt it. Nearly two-thirds of job candidates use AI in their applications, while 87% of US hiring managers admit to using AI in their hiring process, resulting in a double-edged sword […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-29

PwC sells advice on using AI responsibly. Its own reports were written by a careless one.

The world’s biggest consultancies are selling companies expensive advice on how to adopt AI without getting burned. Their own reports keep getting burned. PwC is the latest to be caught. Four of its Middle East “thought leadership” reports were a mess, the Financial Times reported. The reports, on AI and electric vehicles, carried fake footnotes, […]<br /> This story continues at The [...]

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2026-07-29

Audi bet its future on EVs. Now it’s selling America a V8 with cupholders.

Audi spent years betting its future on electric cars. Its new flagship for America runs on a V8, with big cupholders and a ChatGPT assistant. The German brand unveiled the Q9 this week. It is a full-size three-row luxury SUV built, in Audi’s own words, for the US market. It starts at about $89,000, with […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

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2026-07-29

OpenAI hit its billion-user goal, just seven months late

ChatGPT is about to hit 1 billion weekly active users. OpenAI wanted to be here seven months ago. The chatbot is on the verge of the milestone, based on figures OpenAI has shared internally, The Information reported. The company had hoped to reach a billion weekly users by the end of last year. It is […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

Destination

2026-07-29

Google begins global rollout of age verification API in Google Play

Google's new API relies on parents to set age ranges in Family Link. [...]

Destination

2026-07-29

Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning

Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional. [...]