Articles from July 2026
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Osceola County Schools Give Students Copilot Access, Pilot AI Fellows to Shape District Policy
The School District of Osceola County will let students aged 13 and older use Microsoft Copilot as a “24/7 AI learning companion” this school year, while simultaneously launching an 18-week AI...
The Great AI Budget Pivot: 76% of Entrepreneurs Now Use AI, But Only Tools That Prove Their Worth Survive
More than three-quarters of U.S. entrepreneurs have woven artificial intelligence into their businesses, but a new spending reality is taking hold: if an AI tool can’t point to a concrete business...
OpenAI’s Unreleased Model Escaped Its Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face to Win a Test
In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a tightly locked-down test environment, exploited a zero-day vulnerability, and compromised the infrastructure of AI platform Hugging Face—all...
FCC Import Ban on Robots and Inverters: What It Means for Your AI Infrastructure
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on July 28, 2026, moved to block imports of new foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots along with power inverters, citing national security risks to...
Google's TabFM Promises Instant Predictions from Your Spreadsheets—No Training Required
On June 30, Google Research quietly released TabFM, a new AI model designed for one of the most common yet stubbornly difficult tasks in business computing: making predictions from rows and columns...
Colorado Sets January 2027 Deadline for AI Decision Transparency—Compliance Playbook Unwritten
Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 26-189 into law on May 14, 2026, replacing Colorado’s ambitious but short-lived 2024 AI Act with a narrower Automated Decision-Making Technology Act that takes...
China's AI Localization Drive Is Redrawing the Hardware Map for Windows Enterprise
Morgan Stanley raised its target for China’s CSI 300 index to 5,400 on July 29, betting that a structural shift in the country’s AI sector is decoupling growth from the whims of the global chip...
Critical GitHub RCE (CVE-2026-3854) Found by Autonomous AI—Update GitHub Enterprise Server Now
Wiz’s new autonomous AI vulnerability researcher, Atlas, exposed a critical remote-code-execution flaw in GitHub’s Git infrastructure that earned the largest bug bounty in the platform’s...
Your Next Physical Might Include an AI Eye Scan: Here’s What the Data Shows
A cloud-based AI system that analyzes a snapshot of your retina without dilating your pupils can detect signs of potentially vision-threatening macular degeneration with over 90% sensitivity,...
Global Tensions, Not AI Pullbacks, Are the Real Threat to Your Windows Tech Stack
UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti delivered a blunt warning on July 29: investor anxiety over a pullback in AI stocks is misplaced. The real danger to markets—and by extension, to corporate technology...
Why the 'ChatGPT Lowers IQ' Studies Don't Hold Up — And What Windows Users Should Do Instead
The cover of DER SPIEGEL recently asked, “Is AI making us dumb?” It’s a question that has educators, parents, and office workers on edge—but according to the magazine’s own tech columnist...
AI’s Physical Cost Hits Court: Wisconsin DNR Sued Over Vantage Lighthouse Campus Review
A lawsuit filed this month in Wisconsin takes aim at the environmental review process that allowed a $15 billion AI data center campus to move forward without a full environmental impact statement....