Federal agencies' 60-day deadline for voluntary frontier-model review under Trump's AI executive order arrives August 1.
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Ten items on AI policy deadlines, agentic security and robotics launches, a critical Rails vulnerability, and engineering essays, plus a wildcard genomics find.
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Federal agencies' 60-day deadline for voluntary frontier-model review under Trump's AI executive order arrives August 1.
OpenAI's EU compliance statement omits the GPAI Code's copyright and training-data transparency chapter.
Microsoft debuts MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and Project Perception, agentic red/blue/green teams for security workflows.
Google DeepMind's new model gives humanoid robots whole-body control and multi-robot task coordination.
Security patch fixes a critical Active Storage flaw allowing arbitrary file read and possible remote code execution.
Argues methodical, slow thinking under uncertainty distinguishes strong engineers from merely smart ones.
Podcast appearance discussing Kimi K3's open-weight competitiveness and the week's AI security incidents.
Rounds up July's Copilot updates, including generally available vision support and redesigned agent sessions.
Argues AI agents are driving renewed interest in ontologies and semantic-web-style structured data.
New genomic method finds modern humans carry DNA from two previously unknown archaic human lineages.