AI Briefing — Sunday, July 26, 2026

Cursor Bridge – Run Unlimited Claude Code on Your Cursor Subscription

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Multiway Turing Machines (2021 pre-ai)

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack

"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"

The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.

A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.

I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers

The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview

Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data

Newer Models, Same Advantage

Security incident disclosure — July 2026

3D-Aware VLMs with Implicit and Explicit Geometries

Despite rapid progress, most existing vision-language models (VLMs) built from 2D visual inputs often struggle when handling various 3D tasks that require fine-grained spatial understanding and reasoning. To bridge this…