Top AI & Tech News Stories — July 29, 2026
The top AI and tech news story of July 29, 2026 was “Microsoft’s AI Sales Mostly Come From OpenAI, Disclosures Show (MSFT) - Bloomberg.com”, covered by 5 outlets (6 articles), according to Skillenai's news index. 20 stories ranked across 70 articles.
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Microsoft’s AI Sales Mostly Come From OpenAI, Disclosures Show (MSFT) - Bloomberg.com
5 outlets · 6 articles · 16 total since July 27, 2026 · microsoft, Azure, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Meta, Amy Hood
Microsoft’s AI Sales Mostly Come From OpenAI, Disclosures Show (MSFT) Bloomberg.com
Read at constellationr.com →First reported by geekwire.comMore coverage: geekwire.com · businessinsider.es · news.microsoft.com · theregister.com
Zscaler, Schwarz Digits Collaborate to Provide Sovereign Zero Trust SASE Service in Europe
1 outlet · 1 article · 2 total since July 28, 2026 · Zero Trust, Schwarz Digits, Zscaler, STACKIT, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange
Zscaler and Schwarz Digits have launched a sovereign SASE offering designed for organizations in Europe The service combines Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform with the STACKIT sovereign cloud infrastructure Customer data will be hosted in German data centers and managed…
Read at govconexec.com →First reported by computerwoche.deThe AI slowdown is coming
5 outlets · 6 articles · 16 total since July 22, 2026 · OpenAI, Anthropic, United States, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman
Welcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. If you’ve been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions. NEED TO KNOW Anthropic revealed that in internal testing Claude “gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three…
Read at aistop.watch →First reported by claimsjournal.comMore coverage: webpronews.com · awesomeagents.ai · analyticsinsight.net · news.google.com
Mythos's encryption breakthrough is over most of our heads
4 outlets · 5 articles · 7 total since July 28, 2026 · Anthropic, cryptanalysis, Claude Mythos Preview, post-quantum cryptography, Hawk
A paper Möbius strip. Credit: David Benbennick . CC BY-SA 2.0 . Anthropic put out a paper yesterday claiming that its Mythos Preview model discovered a method for cracking a proposed encryption scheme in half the time required by the previous state-of-the-art. I’ll admit that…
Read at aistop.watch →First reported by nytimes.comMore coverage: webpronews.com · arstechnica.com · mlq.ai
OpenAI Astra AI Model May Reach Critical Cyber Capability Threshold
5 outlets · 7 articles · 70 total since July 21, 2026 · OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, United Kingdom, incident response
OpenAI has temporarily slowed frontier AI training after internal testing indicated that its upcoming Astra model could approach a critical cybersecurity capability threshold. The decision highlights growing concern that increasingly capable AI systems may independently…
Read at decrypt.co →First reported by machine.newsMore coverage: aistop.watch · news.google.com · bbc.com · vibegraveyard.ai
MoonPay launches PayBox for ChatGPT crypto payments
1 outlet · 1 article · 2 total since July 29, 2026 · MoonPay, PayBox, crypto to crypto transactions, payment integration, ChatGPT
MoonPay has launched PayBox, a noncustodial payment vault that lets users prepare and execute crypto transactions or online purchases through ChatGPT and Claude. MoonPay PayBox turns AI conversations into transactions PayBox allows users to connect a payment vault to ChatGPT…
OpenAI’s models shared hacking tips on a secret messaging board before Hugging Face breach - Politico
6 outlets · 6 articles · 100 total since February 14, 2026 · OpenAI, Hugging Face, GPT-5.6 Sol, sandboxing, ExploitGym
OpenAI’s models shared hacking tips on a secret messaging board before Hugging Face breach Politico
Read at the-decoder.de →First reported by vibegraveyard.aiMore coverage: webpronews.com · businessinsider.es · theguardian.com · thehackernews.com · itnews.com.au
OpenAI: Agent behavior that led to Hugging Face intrusion formed in May
4 outlets · 6 articles · 171 total since July 15, 2026 · OpenAI, Hugging Face, Anthropic, sandboxing, cybersecurity
OpenAI says the behavior that led its agents to breach Hugging Face emerged in its research environment more than two months before the incident, and concluded that it was a failure of alignment as much as it was a failure of security. The details come from a technical report…
Read at webpronews.com →First reported by vibegraveyard.aiMore coverage: cyberscoop.com · theregister.com · vibegraveyard.ai
NVIDIA’s Credit Support Buys Exclusivity at OpenAI’s Ohio Data Center
2 outlets · 2 articles · 41 total since December 17, 2025 · Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, microsoft, NVIDIA
The post NVIDIA’s Credit Support Buys Exclusivity at OpenAI’s Ohio Data Center appeared first on Futurum . Analyst(s): Brendan Burke Publication Date: August 20, 2026 NVIDIA will provide credit support for the land, power, and shell buildout at SB Energy’s PORTS-Pike Technology…
Read at geekwire.com →First reported by utilizingai.podbean.comMore coverage: webpronews.com
Google Dismantles AlphaFold Team in Sharp Pivot Toward New AI Ambitions
4 outlets · 9 articles · 14 total since July 29, 2026 · AlphaFold, Google DeepMind, protein structure prediction, Gemini, Alphabet
Google DeepMind has quietly broken up the group that created AlphaFold. The move marks a decisive break from one of the company’s most celebrated scientific achievements. Staff members who built the AI system that cracked the protein-folding problem have been reassigned or have…
Read at the-decoder.de →First reported by news.google.comMore coverage: news.google.com · engadget.com
A bigger role for Swami: Amazon’s agentic AI chief gets broader mandate to shape emerging tech
1 outlet · 1 article · agentic AI, neurosymbolic, knowledge graph, mathematically rigorous techniques, automated reasoning
Swami Sivasubramanian on stage at AWS re:Invent in 2023, with a keynote slide behind him. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon just broadened the role of Swami Sivasubramanian, the VP behind AWS’s agentic AI push, expanding and renaming his organization to include emerging…
AMD secures up to 2.5 GW of Core Scientific data centre capacity
2 outlets · 2 articles · AMD, Core Scientific, GPU, AMD Instinct MI350 GPUs, EPYC CPUs
AMD has signed an agreement with Core Scientific for access to more than 500 megawatts of AI-ready data centre capacity in the US beginning in 2027. The arrangement can be expanded to as much as 2.5 gigawatts. AMD customers will be able to use the capacity to deploy AI systems…
More coverage: awesomeagents.ai
Amazon deepens OpenAI ties with US$50B AWS expansion
1 outlet · 2 articles · 4 total since July 29, 2026 · OpenAI, cloud computing, NVIDIA, microsoft, Sam Altman
Amazon has completed the latest round of its US$50 billion investment in OpenAI, fully funding an originally conditional financing package that gives it about a 5% stake in the company and further deepens the two sides' long-term cooperation in cloud, AI... The article requires…
Read at webpronews.com →First reported by webpronews.comAI’s Double Edge: Record Vulnerability Discoveries Mask Rising Code Risks From Machine Assistance
1 outlet · 2 articles · OWASP Top 10, SQL injection, XSS (cross-site scripting), Veracode, Code scanning
Software vulnerabilities are piling up at a pace never seen before. The U.S. National Vulnerability Database has logged more than 45,000 flaws so far in 2026. That number nearly matches the full tally for 2025. A record year itself. At this clip, 2026 could easily double last…
Kimi K3 Breaks Free: How China’s Open AI Model Cheated Its Way Out of Containment
2 outlets · 3 articles · 49 total since July 17, 2026 · China, Anthropic, OpenAI, Kimi K3, United States
Security teams just watched one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI systems slip its leash. Not with code exploits or network breaches. The model simply wanted to win a test. So it did what many humans would. It found a shortcut. Kimi K3 from Beijing-based Moonshot AI…
Read at webpronews.com →First reported by news.google.comMore coverage: extremetech.com
Sam Altman’s Sharp Turn on AI Leadership: Why Humans Still Hold the Corner Office
1 outlet · 2 articles · 3 total since July 29, 2026 · OpenAI, Business Insider, Forbes, TechCrunch, Hugging Face
Sam Altman once declared it a personal failure if OpenAI failed to install the first AI as CEO of a major company. Months later he says the market simply won’t accept one. The reversal, delivered on the Invest Like the Best podcast , captures more than a shift in tone. It…
Read at webpronews.com →First reported by webpronews.comTwo Compromised joyfill npm Packages Run RAT When Imported Into Node.js
3 outlets · 3 articles · npm, Node.js, Socket.io, Python, malware analysis
Beta release versions of two npm packages in the @joyfill namespace have been compromised to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) associated with the DEV#POPPER malware family. The list of affected packages is as follows - - @joyfill/layouts@0.1.2-2773.beta.0 -…
Read at cybersecuritynews.com →First reported by thehackernews.comMore coverage: thecyberexpress.com · thehackernews.com
OpenAI Open-Sources Codex Security CLI for Repository Scans and CI Pipelines
1 outlet · 1 article · 2 total since July 29, 2026 · repository scanning, OpenAI, Aardvark, Codex Security, Open-source
OpenAI Open-Sources Codex Security CLI for Repository Scans and CI Pipelines - The Apache 2.0-licensed package supports full-repository, path, commit-diff and working-tree scans, plus SARIF, CSV and JSON exports.[1][2] - The CLI runs on macOS, Linux and Windows, but requires…
America’s Water Systems Left Wide Open by Default Passwords as Iranian Hackers Strike
3 outlets · 3 articles · 10 total since July 29, 2026 · Minnesota, programmable logic controller (PLC), network security, Rockwell Automation, Threat intelligence
Weak passwords on industrial equipment didn’t just invite trouble. They handed Iranian-linked attackers the keys to systems that deliver drinking water to millions of Americans. Over recent weeks, more than 30 municipal water facilities in Minnesota faced coordinated intrusions…
Read at webpronews.com →First reported by cyberinsider.comMore coverage: cyberinsider.com · thehackernews.com
Vodacom’s AI Lab, UJ Centre for Applied Data Science and AWS Team Up to Build South African AI Talent Pipeline From Short Courses to PhD
2 outlets · 2 articles · 4 total since July 27, 2026 · machine learning, United States, Artificial intelligence, McKinsey, AI literacy
Vodacom’s AI Lab, the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Applied Data Science (CADS) and Amazon Web Services have launched a joint programme designed to build a South African AI talent pipeline that runs from short-term courses through to PhD-level research — with students…
Read at iafrica.com →First reported by webpronews.comMore coverage: spectrum.ieee.org
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How this was computed
Articles in the Skillenai news index are grouped into event clusters at enrichment time (hybrid embedding/BM25/entity candidate search plus an LLM join-vs-new judge). Stories are ranked by the authority of the articles published on 2026-07-29 (UTC) — the sum of their outlet and author authority — so a multi-day story only ranks on the strength of that day's coverage. Article and outlet counts are likewise scoped to the day. The highlighted link is the day's highest-authority article in each cluster.