AI News Archive: July 16, 2026 — Part 8
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- Dimon urges calm over fear about AI's impact on jobs: 'Stop being breathless over it'
Jamie Dimon urged calm over AI job loss fears, saying JPMorgan Chase reskills and redeploys workers rather than cutting headcount as technology advances.
- Alteryx CEO Andy MacMillan on finding the real value of enterprise AI
Alteryx CEO Andy MacMillan reflects on his first year in post as the company continues to refine its product offering.
Score: 45🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.techmonitor.ai/analysis/alteryx-ceo-andy-macmillan-on-finding-the-real-value-of-enterprise-ai - Foundation Launched to Standardize AI Payments
The new body, which will steward the x402 payments protocol, is backed by 40 members including Visa, Mastercard, Google and Microsoft.
- Ant Group AI Strategy Tightens: Lingguang Retreats as A-Fu Takes Center Stage
Ant Group restructures AI strategy as Lingguang general model pivots to exploration while health-focused A-Fu becomes main strategic thrust, with 28.97M MAU targeting medical vertical.
- CU Boulder Mandates AI Training for Students Before Using ChatGPT Edu
After delaying rollout of ChatGPT Edu for students this spring over various concerns, starting this fall, the University of Colorado, Boulder, will require students to finish a training module before accessing it.
- ZeOmega Earns Artificial Intelligence Accreditation from DirectTrust(R)
ZeOmega Earns Artificial Intelligence Accreditation from DirectTrust(R) USA Today
- Withdrawn App Code Hides Google's Gemini Prompting Techniques
Google's Magic Pointer for Googlebook uses Gemini to analyze your screen. A teardown reveals the feature is built almost entirely from AI prompts.
Score: 44🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulmonckton/2026/07/16/google-magic-pointer-gemini-screen-content-code-reveals/ - AI Meets ESL, and Teachers Are Intrigued
Can AI chatbots support K-12 emergent bilingual learners without widening gaps?
- Bill Could Require California Rental Ads to Disclose AI Use
While the state has already passed legislation that requires advertisements for property sales to disclose AI use, a new bill would extend the same rules to rental properties as well.
Score: 44🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.govtech.com/artificial-intelligence/bill-could-require-california-rental-ads-to-disclose-ai-use - Behind the Benchmarking Pipeline
Behind the Benchmarking Pipeline
- AI Without the Risk: A Small Agency’s Guide to AI Governance and Data Security
Most growth-focused agency owners in the insurance industry are eager to use automation for the efficiency gains it promises. But many are still stuck on one question: Is artificial intelligence (AI) safe for insurance agents to use with client data? …
- Anthropic’s ‘free’ Fable offer — a token lock-in trap for users?
It’s not so much generosity that’s behind Anthropic’s decision to extend free access to its most advanced model, Fable, for paid subscribers until July 19, analysts say. Its a last-minute move to grab users, data and model evaluation results. After the free-access period, Anthropic plans to convert Fable to a pay-per-use model, at $10 per million input tokens and a whopping $50 for 1 million output tokens. That is double the price of its next most advanced model, Opus 4.8, for input and output tokens. “We’re extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19,” Anthropic’s team said in a July 12 tweet . Anthropic keeps extending Fable because it does not yet know what its flagship is worth, said Sanchit Vir Gogia, principal analyst at Greyhound Research. “A vendor confident in its price does not move the same cutoff twice in six days, both times at the wire,” Gogia said. Anthropic is essentially pushing deadlines to test its products, while users gain by being able to put their toughest tasks to Fable, Gogia said. Anthropic, which did not immediately reply to a request for comment about the situation, has already seen plenty of action with Fable and its sister model Mythos. Both have been touted as the company’s most advanced models yet. Fable stumbles, then reappears Fable was officially launched June 9. Just three days later, on June 12, the US government put export controls on it after Amazon researchers bypassed Fable’s safeguards, prompting the model to identify software vulnerabilities and demonstrate an exploit. After Anthropic scrambled to address the issues — and after the export controls were lifted — Fable was relaunched July 1. Fable’s freebie extension comes after OpenAI’s latest model, ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, became generally available July 9. Sol is cheaper at $5 per one million tokens input, and $30 for 1 million output tokens. Anthropic and OpenAI are competing aggressively to build market share, said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates. “Anthropic and OpenAI are looking to go public and the more users they have, the more attractive it is — even if they are not yet producing income,” he said. In some ways, the two companies are following a well-trodden path to get customers hooked on their products and turned into paying customers. That’s what Meta, Google and Microsoft, for instance, have done over the years with various “free” offers that later morphed into paid products. Plus, said Gold, ”The more users you have, the better you can train your models across multiple data sets.” That’s a potential boon for proprietary large language model (LLM) vendors offering free tokens in a bid to lock enterprises and vendors into their AI environments. But numerous experts have warned enterprises not to fall for that tactic. Instead, they argue enterprises should diversify AI development across multiple AI and cloud vendors , and adopt open-source models. An LLM space race? According to LLM benchmarks maintained by Artificial Analysis , Fable is the most intelligent model currently available, with Sol just behind it in second place. One benchmark by LiveBench places Sol as being better in reasoning, with Fable better at math, data analysis, instruction following and language. Both models have advantages in coding. Meanwhile, Cursor and SpaceXAI on July 8 unveiled Grok 4.5 , which the companies said can “handle difficult, long-running tasks that require creatively using tools to solve problems, whether in software engineering, data science, finance, legal work, or anything else you do on a computer,” the company said in a blog entry . Its pricing is even more aggressive than Fable and ChatGPT 5.6 Sol. Grok 4.5 charges $2 for 1 million input tokens and $6 for 1 million output tokens. There are growing concerns about tokenmaxxing , where enterprises rack up billions of dollars in token spending, blowing past usage limits before finance controls are implemented. Enterprises might decide to spend more on models such as Mythos and Fable — if the benefits are tangible, said Max Leaming, head of data science and AI solutions at ManpowerGroup. Fable and Mythos may “actually be less expensive to use in spite of the spiked token cost because it’s far more efficient,” he said. A company might find that the models use fewer tokens, are faster, and can reduce compute time, he said. “Even though the per-token costs may go up, we may see overall costs go down,” Leaming said.
Score: 43🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.computerworld.com/article/4196912/anthropics-free-fable-offer-a-token-lock-in-trap-for-users.html - Wipro's AI-led deal wins grow, but revenue outlook remains cautious
Wipro's AI-led deal wins grow, but revenue outlook remains cautious Techcircle
Score: 42🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.techcircle.in/2026/07/16/wipro-s-ai-led-deal-wins-grow-but-muted-outlook-tempers-optimism - What does 99.9% uptime mean for inference?
Reliability numbers are easy to publish. We break down what 99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% uptime actually require, the failure domains each tier has to survive, and the questions to ask any inference provider before you commit.
- Top companies contributing to the AI trust and security ecosystem
Top companies contributing to the AI trust and security ecosystem USA Today
- China sends robots out into the world to learn how to be human
China sends robots out into the world to learn how to be human The Japan Times
Score: 42🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/16/china-robots-how-to-be-human/ - UH professor uses artificial intelligence to make roads safer
UH professor uses artificial intelligence to make roads safer EurekAlert!
- AI Has Upended Chip Stocks. This Chart Shows How Much.
AI Has Upended Chip Stocks. This Chart Shows How Much. Barron's
Score: 42🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.barrons.com/articles/taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing-chip-stocks-ai-bb1a044a - Portugal becomes first EU state to join HealthAI network
Portugal becomes first EU state to join HealthAI network Reuters
Score: 41🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/portugal-becomes-first-eu-state-join-healthai-network-2026-07-16/ - KAIST develops robot that judges its surroundings and walks, runs, and jumps like an animal
KAIST develops robot that judges its surroundings and walks, runs, and jumps like an animal EurekAlert!
- Slumping AI stocks drag down markets around the world
Slumping AI stocks drag down markets around the world AP News
Score: 41🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://apnews.com/article/stock-markets-iran-inflation-oil-e1c646be279423406586c67c79e738e4 - AI Must Solve Real Business Problems, Not Just Tick a Box: Ravi Pichan, CIO & Head of Digital Banking, RBL Bank
Exclusive interview with Ravi Pichan, CIO & Head of Digital Banking, RBL Bank The post AI Must Solve Real Business Problems, Not Just Tick a Box: Ravi Pichan, CIO & Head of Digital Banking, RBL Bank appeared first on Express Computer .
- Want to keep Gemini AI out of your Gmail? Here’s how.
Don't need Gemini in Gmail? There's a way to disable it. Here's a step-by-step guide.
- OmicsBox 4.0 Moves Omics Data Analysis to the Cloud And Adds AI-Powered Discovery
OmicsBox 4.0 Moves Omics Data Analysis to the Cloud And Adds AI-Powered Discovery azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- As AI Gobbles the Market, Make Sure You’re Truly Diversified
As AI Gobbles the Market, Make Sure You’re Truly Diversified Barron's
Score: 40🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.barrons.com/articles/retirement-savings-diversification-investment-strategy-ai-tech-bubble-21e8b69c - DexAnyTwist transfers twisting skills from simulation to reality (VIDEO)
DexAnyTwist transfers twisting skills from simulation to reality (VIDEO) EurekAlert!
- Lets Investigate The Hype Around Facebook’s Big Comeback With Muse Spark 1.1, Fact or Fiction
Meta put Muse Spark 1.1 into public preview on July 9. Continue reading on Towards AI »
- Whatnot acquires Madrona-backed AI startup Shaped to boost live shopping recommendations
Last year, Whatnot announced plans to significantly expand its Seattle engineering hub after leasing new downtown office space following a $225 million funding round. Read More
- AI analysis links pavement conditions to crash risk
A University of Houston professor of civil and environmental engineering is using artificial intelligence to make roads safer by connecting information that is usually analyzed separately. Lu Gao used AI to analyze large-scale roadway condition data, including pavement structure, surface condition, roadway geometry and crash records, especially police crash narratives.
Score: 40🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-analysis-links-pavement-conditions.html - 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. The characters include Fortnite staples like Agent […]
Score: 40🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.theverge.com/games/966815/epic-games-fortnite-ai-powered-personas - The Gemini theory of everything
Welcome back to Inbox , hope you’re having a great Thursday so far. Yesterday, like many people in the northeast, I woke up to smoky skies and an acrid haze I could practically taste. Things definitely feel a little apocalyptic, but at least we have a World Cup Final match to look forward to this weekend. Go Argentina! As a reminder, Inbox is the tech newsletter you should be able to read in around 95 seconds. We cover the most important 9to5Google stories from the last couple of days along with a few highlights from around the web. We publish every Tuesday and Thursday, and if you like what you read, please subscribe .
- Personal Intelligence in Search now connects to Google Calendar
Google AI Mode now connects with Calendar, letting Search create events and deliver responses tailored to your schedule and availability.
Score: 40🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.digitaltrends.com/phones/personal-intelligence-in-search-now-connects-to-google-calendar/ - ManageEngine OpManager Nexus Adds MCP, GenAI, and Autonomous AI, With AI Sovereignty Built-In
ManageEngine OpManager Nexus Adds MCP, GenAI, and Autonomous AI, With AI Sovereignty Built-In DevOps.com
Score: 40🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://devops.com/manageengine-opmanager-nexus-adds-mcp-genai-and-autonomous-ai-with-ai-sovereignty-built-in/ - For Apple to make its AI era succeed, it has to get back to its roots
Apple owns the smartphone. It owns the devices and the ecosystem around them. It owns the on-campus product launch. Steve Jobs built that, Tim Cook protected it, and now John Ternus has to carry it into the AI era. That’s the hard part. Especially when you consider that Apple is two years behind schedule when it comes to getting real AI into the hands of users. The recent Siri AI rollout everyone was waiting for didn’t change that. In fact, it felt to me (and many others I’ve talked to in the ex-Apple circles) like a starting point with potential, rather than a finish line with a plan. A key factor: Cook played his last keynote as CEO safe. If you’re optimistic, it’s easy to classify Siri AI as a credible path to Apple weaving the technology through every app, device, and experience over the next three to four years. My question is simple: Can the market wait that long? Even confirmation that Apple is building with Gemini fell flatter than expected. In the Steve Jobs era, partnering with Google in any way (hell, even sharing a parking lot) was unthinkable. I still have trouble accepting it as someone who worked directly with Jobs on the iPhone, iPod, and IPad. News that Apple is working with Nvidia and Google on top models operating within the Fort Knox-grade Apple labs should’ve knocked people off their sleek chairs in the Apple auditorium. Instead, it was met with a sleepy “Oh, wow, there it is.” That said, building on top of Gemini allows Apple to do what it does best: Perfect the user experience and application layer. So, what did Apple’s foray into AI accomplish? Rolling out Siri AI at Apple’s annual developer conference reinforced that success will require attracting and retaining technical talent with options to go to another Big Tech firm or hyperscaler at literally any moment. One area where it can offer something compelling beyond paychecks, real estate, and benefits: developer creativity. And this stems from the days of Steve Jobs expecting world-class products leveraging the best technology and software available and tested into the ground for user experience. If Apple wants the ecosystem dominance it had in the early iPhone years to carry into AI, developers need real tools and the freedom to build with them. Opening Xcode to third-party models, Gemini included, is a real signal that Apple knows the future of AI runs on access, quality, and creativity. Developers are the ones who’ll bring this to life on Apple hardware. For the Apple faithful. And for the masses. That matters. Siri is where regular people will actually feel whether this strategy works. We’ve all been waiting for a Siri that’s genuinely useful. The Siri AI rollout, while arriving a bit late, felt like a step in the right direction. As the AI boom meets the memory crunch, I’m left with two questions tied to Apple’s next phase: 1: Is Siri AI the start of a real shift, or still too incremental? 2: How fast can Apple get useful, trustworthy AI into every corner of the ecosystem? I believe the answers are in Cupertino. With Ternus. And, as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports , with a restored focus on building out the design team along with hardware, software, and services. The fierce battle for talent will carry through the next era of AI and hardware innovation. And things are already fundamentally shifting toward unexpected moves at a blinding pace. OpenAI recently announced a chip. Google is pivoting away from search. Intel and Qualcomm emerged from hibernation with new offerings designed to handle massive amounts of compute. But I’m encouraged that Apple will return to glory with a renewed approach led by Ternus to what made the company great under Jobs. My own experience working on the iPhone, iPod, and iPad in the early to mid-2000s tells me that the best Apple products have always come from one place: hardware, software, design, services, and developer tools all solving the same problem for the same person. Ternus knows this better than almost anyone. His job now is to make AI useful, trusted, and native across the devices people already live with—and to get Apple back to its scrappier roots, shipping things people can’t imagine living without. The encouraging sign is that Apple Intelligence, now anchored by Siri AI, is being treated as a layer across the whole platform. It just doesn’t feel like the organizing idea behind a new generation of products yet. To me, Apple’s Siri AI rollout felt more like a game of catch-up following lofty promises made by Cook in 2024, rather than category creation leading into Ternus’s tenure. I believe my old boss Steve Jobs would have pushed for a bigger leap—and I don’t think he’d have shipped Siri AI without a native agentic layer underneath it. But it’s a start.
- Micron’s AI Boom: Wall Street Breaks Down How High Earnings Can Go
Micron’s AI Boom: Wall Street Breaks Down How High Earnings Can Go Barron's
Score: 40🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.barrons.com/articles/micron-ai-wall-street-earnings-stock-63cb1793 - Birju Shah: Requiring AI audits makes sense. But Illinois legislators got the order of things wrong.
Birju Shah: Requiring AI audits makes sense. But Illinois legislators got the order of things wrong. Chicago Tribune
Score: 40🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/16/opinion-illinois-artificial-intelligence-innovation-legislation/ - How a Blind Professor Saw Through His Students’ Cheating
This is the end of the university as you know it
Score: 40🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how-a-blind-professor-saw-through - Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of RAISE Summit
Agentic inference is reshaping the center of gravity in artificial intelligence infrastructure. What began as a race to scale training has shifted into a phase defined by expanding context windows, memory‑augmented reasoning and the need to keep graphics processing units continuously fed with data. As enterprises push deeper into agentic systems, storage has moved into […] The post Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of RAISE Summit appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Score: 40🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/15/agentic-inference-reshapes-ai-infrastructure-raise-summit-raisesummit/ - Managers play critical role in a company's AI transformation - and they know it
More than two-thirds of middle managers are optimistic about AI's role in the future of work, and they feel personally accountable for their team's adoption of AI tools.
Score: 40🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.zdnet.com/article/managers-play-critical-role-in-ai-transformation/ - Why teens deserve access to safe AI
Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.
- What Is Inference Engineering? The Layer Doing 80% of Your LLM Bill.
FP8 KV cache, prompt caching, quantization, speculative decoding, MoE routing. The five 2026 levers between your model and your invoice… Continue reading on Towards AI »
- ETtech Explainer: Why AI startups like Emergent, Sarvam, UnifyApps are seeing bigger bets & soaring valuations
Indian artificial intelligence startups are experiencing significant funding and valuation surges. Emergent and Sarvam AI recently achieved unicorn status with large investment rounds. UnifyApps is also in talks for a substantial funding round, increasing its valuation. These companies benefit from strong investor interest in AI infrastructure and enterprise software. However, rapid AI advancements pose disruption risks for less adaptable startups.
- TCS, Google Cloud open Gemini Experience Center in Kolkata to boost agentic AI adoption
TCS, Google Cloud open Gemini Experience Center in Kolkata to boost agentic AI adoption Techcircle
- The 4 Layers Of Brain Behind One Of Europe’s Leading Humanoid Robots
I spent an hour with Humanoid's Sotirios Stasinopoulos in the company's UK headquarters. In spite of huge competition, their humanoid robot strategy looks impressive.
- Sharjah Maritime Academy launches "Majid" agentic AI assistant
Shaping the future of student admissions
- New Leadership Appointments at the Institute for Data Engineering and Science to Focus on Building Connections and AI Skills
New Leadership Appointments at the Institute for Data Engineering and Science to Focus on Building Connections and AI Skills Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 07/15/2026 - 20:00 Dateline Thu, 07/16/2026 - 12:00 Mercury ID 691134 Summary Sentence The Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) has selected faculty to serve in two associate director roles. Story Link Learn More Core Research Areas Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech Data Engineering and Science
- SA’s Cue raises $5m to accelerate customer service with AI agents
South African startup Cue, a provider of customer service software, has raised US$5 million in funding to accelerate the development of its AI-powered customer service platform as businesses increasingly adopt autonomous AI to resolve customer issues end-to-end. Founded in 2015, Cue enables businesses to help customers quickly and efficiently with chatbots and live chat on [...] The post SA’s Cue raises $5m to accelerate customer service with AI agents appeared first on Disrupt Africa .
- Professor Graham Cormode joins Oxford-UBS Centre for Applied AI as Research Theme Lead
Professor Graham Cormode joins Oxford-UBS Centre for Applied AI as Research Theme Lead Oxford Department of Computer Science
- We’re partnering with the Georgia Public Library Service for no-cost career and AI training.
Google partners with the Georgia Public Library Service to provide free Career Certificates and AI training to residents statewide.
Score: 38🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/grow-with-google/free-ai-training-georgia-libraries/ - Another AI data centre proposed for rural Alberta
Another AI data centre proposed for rural Alberta CBC
Score: 38🌐 MovesJul 16, 2026https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/yellowhead-county-alberta-data-centre-9.7271648