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Jul 29, 2026 66

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.

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Jul 29, 2026 69

Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his n...

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Jul 29, 2026 58

OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tue...

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Jul 29, 2026 83

Tested: Google SynthID works great, but labeling AI content may be a losing game

Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.

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Jul 29, 2026 60

We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety

Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It...

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Jul 29, 2026 63

As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it

Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4,...

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Jul 29, 2026 58

OpenAI report links coding agents to faster science software builds

OpenAI has released a new field report tracking eight scientific computing projects where coding agents cut runtimes. The report document...

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Jul 29, 2026 60

Google AI Overviews become more common in search

Google’s AI-generated summaries appeared in 43% of US searches measured by Similarweb, up from 15% a year earlier, according to the marke...

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Jul 29, 2026 59

The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI

It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better t...

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Jul 29, 2026 57

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.

AI News
Jul 28, 2026 59

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.

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Jul 28, 2026 64

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea

Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.