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Date: 2026-07-16
Ars Technica — IT/AIarstechnica.comAdded
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

The agency also fined 21 HP resellers 35.2 million rupees (about $365,335). In a separate order , the CCI said that WhatsApp records showed that HP and 16 of its Tier-2 reseller partners operated “in a collusive arrangement” and that the messages show the companies engaging in “bid rigging, including cover bidding, price fixation, and customer allocation…

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Fortnite is getting a bunch of AI-powered ‘personas’

Get ready for more AI characters in Fortnite . Developer Epic Games is going to let Fortnite creators publish experiences featuring characters with AI-powered voices starting on July 30th, and ahead of that launch, it’s created 36 characters with “consistent voices and personas” that creators can use as NPCs.

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Ars Technica — IT/AIarstechnica.comAdded
Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices

One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices belonging to sensitive organizations in Ukraine, the latter country’s CERT center is warning. Clickfix has emerged as an effective attack technique that attackers, primarily financially motivated criminals, began using in the last year…

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The Verge — AItheverge.comAdded
Netflix says around 300 titles used generative AI

Netflix says roughly 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, most of which occurred in post-production. The streaming service revealed the news in its second-quarter earnings report released on Thursday, saying it’s “increasingly leveraging these tools to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost.” It also provided some examples…

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cq: A Shared Knowledge Commons for AI Agents

Mozilla.ai has introduced cq, an open-source standard and platform designed to facilitate shared learning among AI agents. This promises to eliminate a lot of duplicated effort on the part of AI agents, thereby making savings in terms of cost and resources.

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The Verge — AItheverge.comAdded
Why are people buying so many CDs?

CD sales are apparently going up , reportedly thanks to fans realizing they’re an affordable way to support their favorite artists. According to a new report from research firm Luminate, 16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year.

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The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials

Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss; only about a third give every agent its own scoped identity, and most agents still share credentials; and only three in ten isolate their…

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Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app

Roblox announced Thursday a new feature called “Build,” allowing users to design games from their mobile devices using AI. The Build feature lets anyone turn simple text prompts into a basic game without any programming experience.

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Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

OpenAI’s Sora may have shut down , but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will allow you to create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds like you based on a selfie and a voice recording you upload.

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The Verge — AItheverge.comAdded
Kalshi says it caught Trump’s teleprompter operator insider trading

Kalshi users betting on what President Donald Trump would say during his speeches were reportedly up against tough competition: the president’s teleprompter operator. ABC News reports that federal investigators believe Gabriel Perez — Trump’s teleprompter operator since 2016 — used inside information to make bets on Kalshi, a major prediction market…

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The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs

Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base of hyperscalers and model-provider APIs, yet the next dollar is aimed at specialized compute almost none of them use today; a majority intend to switch or add providers within the…

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The Verge — AItheverge.comAdded
Ecovacs’ self-cleaning Deebot X11 has hit a new low price

Sometimes it feels like keeping your floors clean is one of those never-ending chores, which is why it’s nice to have a versatile robot vacuum take it off your hands. The Ecovacs Deebot X11 robovac / mop hybrid is designed to do just that, and it’s now $699 ($400 off) at Amazon and directly from Ecovacs , which is a new low price.

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New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she’s not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg ’s Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using “AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, [and] policy” to check for outdated legislation.

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The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem - and most are shipping to production anyway | VentureBeat

Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and then failed a customer in production; only one in twenty fully trusts automated evaluation today; and the most-cited weakness is that…

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VentureBeat — AIventurebeat.comAdded
The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem - and most are still building the fix

Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context source, and provider-native retrieval has quietly overtaken the dedicated vector databases that define the category — yet a majority of enterprises have already…

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The Verge — AItheverge.comAdded
Roblox will let people use AI to make games on their phone

Roblox is about to let people make games with AI right inside its mobile app, which could make a platform that’s already filled with content of questionable quality feel even more overloaded. The company has embraced AI with open arms, including a preview of an ambitious take on AI world models similar to Google’s Project Genie , an AI foundation model…

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The Verge — AItheverge.comAdded
Google is better at playing this game

Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating system that powers billions of devices worldwide. The demand is hardly surprising .

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Ars Technica — IT/AIarstechnica.comAdded
Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom

Investor interest in these IPOs comes amid growing concerns over whether hyperscalers, whose shares have soared in recent years, will be able to convert their huge spending into profits. Many traders are instead starting to look at smaller companies or those in other sectors that are likely to benefit from this wave of investment.

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Google's AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

Google announced on Thursday that it now allows users to link and interact with some of their go-to apps right in AI Mode, the tech giant’s conversational search experience. At launch, supported apps include Instacart, Canva, and YouTube.

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval Retrieval is critical in multi-step agentic workflows where poor retrieval can cause agents to fetch irrelevant context, re-query, waste token budget, and carry noise into later reasoning steps. Today, we are releasing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed , a collection of open and…

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The Verge — AItheverge.comAdded
Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash overrode FSD by pressing accelerator ‘100 percent,’ investigators confirm

The Tesla driver who fatally struck a woman after crashing into her home “manually overrode” the vehicle’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology by pressing the gas pedal to 100 percent, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed in a preliminary report on Wednesday . After examining the car’s electronic data, investigators found that the Tesla…

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