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Introducing the OpenAI Economic Research Exchange

OpenAI launches the Economic Research Exchange to study AI’s impact on jobs, productivity, and the economy. Applications are now open for selected research proj…

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Manufacturing Jobs Flock to the U.S. Thanks to President Trump’s America First Economic Agenda

With President Trump’s economic agenda taking effect, the United States is seeing an economic revival across our manufacturing industry. July saw the strongest …

SpaceX has more neocloud revenue

SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to provide compute to other A…

AMD’s datacenter business is booming while gaming takes a backseat

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up fro…

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.…

Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful …

Author Talks: One size does not fit all

From sneakers to crash test dummies, many everyday designs were developed based on the male body. Nike’s former global creative director explains why better des…

Introducing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock for foundation model grounding

Today, we are introducing the general availability of Web Search on Amazon Bedrock. It is a server-side built-in tool that grounds model responses in current we…

Retiring the Copilot Billing Preview app

We’ve retired the GitHub Copilot Billing Preview app, and it’s no longer available. You can review and manage your Copilot spend directly in your Gi…

How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired

The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It's a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with…

Build Production-Ready Agents with the GitHub Copilot Harness and Agent Framework

Developers increasingly want to build agents that can reason about code, modify files, execute commands, interact with developer tools, and work across entire r…

‘Not healthy’ LLM use is more common than you think

Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his…

New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex

Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.…

Upcoming deprecation of GitHub Spark on github.com

Beginning August 4, 2026, GitHub Spark no longer accepts new users or allows the creation of new apps. Existing users can continue to access GitHub Spark until …

Adapting for America’s next chapter: An interview with CQ Brown

The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff describes the value of challenging the status quo, strengthening institutions, and inspiring the next generatio…

How Deutsche Bank unlocked agility with an API-ready ecosystem

When people think about digital transformation in banking, they often focus on the visible results: mobile apps and new digital services. But there's an invisib…

How Target is enhancing retail discovery and cutting database maintenance by 50% with Spanner Graph

In today’s retail environment, shoppers expect highly personalized product discovery experiences and conversational assistance that feels genuine, natural, and …

Automated web insight extraction with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Extracting insights from dozens of websites by hand quickly becomes overwhelming. This post shows how to build an automated web insight extraction solution with…

NVIDIA Joins NSF State and Regional AI Hubs Program to Expand AI Research and Education Across the US

NVIDIA is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, an effort launch…

Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid

Texas announced new a audit on data centers that could slow approval for new facilities seeking to connect to the state energy grid. Governor Greg Abbott (R) on…

As AI Increases Demands on Memory, Storage Steps Up

Surging AI demands are driving the need for massive datasets and context windows that burst past the confines of system memory. But rising needs aren’t met by s…

NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, the Frontier Open Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Vehicles, Now Available for Commercial Use

For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren’t the everyday scenarios. They’re the rare, complex situations that are difficult t…

Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course

Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of AI.…

Introducing Shieldstral.

Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.…

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The latest AI news we announced in July 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026…

AI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency

Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance — now more than 120 organizations strong — are developing new guidelines to strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity as the an…