NVIDIA AI Releases Molt: A PyTorch-Native Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework
Agentic RL research is constant algorithm modification, and in mainstream frameworks every change threads through trainer, distributed backend, and rollout glue. NVIDIA's Molt targets that cost with about 8.6K lines of RL code, composing Ray, vLLM, and NeMo AutoModel around one asynchronous loop.
MarkTechPost · Michal Sutter
Supabase Releases Evals: an Open Source Benchmark That Scores Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on Real Supabase Tasks
Supabase has open sourced supabase/evals, an Apache-2.0 benchmark and framework that runs coding agents including Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode against real Supabase tasks. building schemas, debugging Edge Functions, fixing RLS policies.
Computerworld NZ
Reporter’s notebook: In Dubai’s sun and sand, AI, server farms, and optimism bloom
Walking around Dubai, it’s hard to believe a war is still going on in neighboring countries. No missiles have struck the city, and it was clear during a recent visit that local residents are keeping to their routines.
Bloomberg Technology
Amazon AWS Growth, AI Demand Buoy 2Q Results
Anurag Rana, Senior Tech Analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence, breaks down Amazon and Apple earnings from his latest outlook report: Post-2Q Earnings Outlook: Accelerating AI demand and stronger retail execution can keep Amazon.com's underlying momentum intact despite softer 3Q sales guidance tied…
Google News AI
Trump's AI executive order nears key deadline as regulation debate intensifies - CNBC
Trump's AI executive order nears key deadline as regulation debate intensifies CNBC
EU AI Office · Anonymous
Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements on 2 August
Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements on 2 August Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/31/2026 - 09:00 From 2 August 2026, the European Commission’s AI Office, together with national authorities, will begin enforcing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act.
Computerworld NZ
Microsoft doubles down on multi-model AI as it builds a Copilot super app
All of the major AI providers want you to use, and ideally stay within, their super apps, and now Microsoft is looking to capture that attention, too. During an earnings call this week, CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that the tech giant is building a Copilot ‘super app’ that will be rolled out this…
Axios · Ina Fried
OpenAI launches free AI access program for academic researchers
OpenAI is launching a new program Wednesday that will provide 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its advanced AI models through 2027, the company told Axios ahead of the announcement.
IEEE Spectrum · Aaron Mok
Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for today’s workforce.
NPR Technology · Leila Fadel
Trump's AI review order raises questions about federal oversight
NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Punchbowl News tech reporter Diego Munhoz about President Trump's request for AI companies to share models with the government before their public release.
EU AI Office · Anonymous
EU launches AI Gigafactories call to boost Europe's computing capacity and unlock more than €30 billion in investment
EU launches AI Gigafactories call to boost Europe's computing capacity and unlock more than €30 billion in investment Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/30/2026 - 11:50 The EU today launched a call for tenders to establish up to seven AI Gigafactories across Europe, as part of its latest major push…
Tech in Asia · Ummi Amran
Our AI and ad pilots made $0. Here’s how we’re addressing it
We wasted thousands on our marketing efforts. To stop bleeding the budget, we shifted to a two-track strategy for real ROI. A work-in-progress.
NPR Technology · John Ruwitch
Allegations of AI distillation spark debate about IP theft. But is it illegal?
Distillation lets AI companies train new models using existing ones. The White House says Chinese firms are using it to gain an edge, raising questions about competition and intellectual property.
Axios · Madison Mills
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he does not support open-weight AI ban
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Monday that he has "never advocated" for a ban on open-weight AI models, rejecting accusations that his lab is seeking to shield its closed-model business from competition.
Bloomberg Technology · Madlin Mekelburg
Judge Voices Doubt US Has Justified Its Ban on Anthropic AI
A judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence “really justifying” its decision to ban the federal government from using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC by designating the company as a threat to the supply chain.
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With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook
Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals.
Google News AI
Congress hasn't passed AI rules for schools. So these 98 teens did it themselves - NPR
Congress hasn't passed AI rules for schools. So these 98 teens did it themselves NPR
The Guardian AI · Kaamil Ahmed
AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns
‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights Network Flawed and racialised models that underpin the AI-powered age-detection systems to be introduced by the British government will endanger…
The Verge AI · Hayden Field
AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance…
MIT Technology Review · Keegan Sheedy, Lucas Melo
Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI
For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across people, business workflows, data, and systems.
The Guardian AI · Reuters
Trump administration says 15 agencies will get $5bn in ‘AI for science’ effort
Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universities The US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, the Trump administration said in a statement on Wednesday.
Simon Willison
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Here's an entertaining perspective from Nik Suresh on the AI mania that is overwhelming the large companies that he consults with. It's crammed with spicy anecdotes from anonymous sources.
VentureBeat
The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem. and
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…
AI Business
How GPT-5.6 Reflects the New AI Regulation
The release shows the power the U.S. government now holds in the AI model landscape. ChatGPT Work highlights how OpenAI continues to evolve into an enterprise vendor.
The Spinoff · Joel MacManus
NZ Inc is going all in on AI data centres
The government wants $25-35 billion in data centre investment, and it just gathered some of the country’s most powerful business leaders to make the case.