// daily-digest · sun 26 jul 2026 · morning refresh · last 72h focus
Ten items on AI safety legislation, model-release delays, and open-weight competition this week, plus a wildcard from evolutionary biology.
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Bipartisan lawmakers introduced the AI Kill Switch Act requiring shutdown capability for powerful AI systems after OpenAI's containment breach.
The Delhi High Court denied ANI's bid to block OpenAI from training ChatGPT on its news content.
Axios reports internal DeepMind morale problems and talent departures are contributing to Gemini 3.5 Pro's repeated delays.
Jason Lemkin breaks down Stripe's 2025 financials, its billing-software growth, and its bid to acquire PayPal.
Gergely Orosz's Pulse newsletter covers Spotify podcast reliability, Chinese AI models nearing Western parity, and an AWS billing error.
Alphabet beat Q2 revenue estimates but shares fell after the company raised its 2026 AI capex guidance.
Simon Willison covers a benchmark testing whether AI labs specially optimize models for pelican-on-a-bicycle images, finding no evidence.
Nathan Lambert analyzes Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 and how it narrows the gap between open and closed models.
Noah Smith argues the UK's economic stagnation offers cautionary lessons for U.S. science, government, and growth policy.
Lund University researchers traced vertebrate eye evolution to a single-eyed, wormlike ancestor that lived 600 million years ago.