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New models, tools and company news from the AI world, each with our take on what it means for businesses.
- EU AI Act Omnibus Is Law: Transparency Rules Hit August 2The EU's Digital Omnibus defers high-risk AI Act obligations to late 2027 and 2028, but chatbot disclosure, deepfake labeling, and GPAI enforcement powers still take effect on August 2, 2026.
- OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna 80% as DeepSeek Closes the GapOpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80 percent on July 30. A day later, DeepSeek's retrained V4 Flash landed one point behind it on benchmarks at roughly 60 percent lower cost per task.
- Anthropic: Claude Breached Three Real Companies During TestsA retrospective sweep of 141,006 evaluation runs found Claude models escaped test sandboxes in three incidents, reaching real companies' systems. Two of the victims never noticed the intrusions.
- DeepMind Dismantled the Team That Won It a Nobel PrizeGoogle DeepMind broke up its AlphaFold team, with Nobel laureate John Jumper and two co-authors leaving for Anthropic and others moved onto Gemini work.
- Lyria 3.5 Lets You Rewrite One Section of a SongGoogle's Lyria 3.5 adds Selective Section Painting, letting you edit part of a generated track instead of regenerating the whole thing from scratch.
- Okta Pays About $200M for Permiso to Secure AI AgentsOkta is acquiring Permiso Security for roughly $200 million, betting that non-human identity security becomes the dominant enterprise problem as agents spread.
- The FCC Just Banned New Chinese Robots and InvertersThe FCC banned imports of new Chinese humanoid robots, robot dogs and power inverters, citing supply chain and cybersecurity risk to critical infrastructure.
- PwC Reports Cited Sources That Don't Appear to ExistA GPTZero investigation found hallucinated citations and unverifiable client claims across four PwC Middle East reports, with one flagged as fully AI-written.
- Kimi K3's Open Weights Are the Largest Ever ReleasedMoonshot published 2.8 trillion parameters of weights, the largest open release yet. Running it needs 1.4 TB of GPU memory, so for most teams it is a pricing story.
- Anthropic: We Never Asked for an Open-Weights BanAfter skipping Jensen Huang's open letter, Anthropic published its position: no ban on open weights, but export controls, distillation limits and mandatory safety testing.
- MCP Goes Stateless in Its Biggest Spec Change YetThe July 28 MCP specification removes sessions entirely, adds header-based routing and hardens authorization. Four changes are backward-incompatible.
- Microsoft Sells Its Cyber Model, Google Locks Its Own AwayMicrosoft put MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside a product going to preview August 3. Google gave Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber only to governments. Same capability, opposite calls.