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Anthropic and Cognizant have expanded their partnership, making Cognizant a Global Premier Partner in the Claude Partner Network. More than 30,000 Cognizant associates have completed Claude training under its new Frontier Certified workforce model. Claude is being embedded across platforms including Flowsource, Neuro AI Engineering, and Neuro IT Ops. Client deployments include an agentic contract-intelligence system that cut biopharmaceutical contract review time by 40 percent, and a risk-navigation tool saving underwriters roughly eight hours per week.

Microsoft has launched MAI-Cyber-Flash, a compact security AI model integrated into MDASH, its multi-agent vulnerability identification and remediation harness. Announced by Mustafa Suleyman and Hayete Gallot, the model handles up to 90% of security tasks efficiently, reserving GPT-5.4 for the hardest 10%, cutting costs 50% versus the previous GPT 5.4 setup. The combined system scores 96% on CyberGym, beating Mythos, Gemini, and GPT, while Microsoft also launched Perception, a new agentic security monitoring system.

Nvidia has made a "substantial" investment in Safe Superintelligence, the secretive AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever. The deal gives Safe Superintelligence access to large amounts of Nvidia GPU hardware, increasing its computing resources by an "order of magnitude" and replacing its previous reliance on Google TPUs. The partnership mirrors a similar Nvidia investment in Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab in March. Safe Superintelligence, valued at roughly $30 billion, has raised $2 billion from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.

Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot is exposing users' conversations and creations in Google search results through public share links, according to 404 Media. Users who shared chats may not have realized the links were publicly indexable by search engines, making private-seeming conversations discoverable by anyone. The issue highlights a broader privacy concern around AI chat sharing features, where default settings or unclear disclosures can inadvertently make sensitive user-generated content searchable online.

Kimi has open-sourced Kimi K3, its most capable model to date — a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model featuring native visual understanding and a 1 million-token context window. The company claims a new architecture delivers 2.5 times the intelligence per unit of compute, not merely more parameters. Alongside model weights and a technical report, Kimi is also releasing high-performance attention kernels, an MoE communication library, and infrastructure for running agent environments at scale.

Librarians Charlie Bailey in South Philadelphia and Hannah Cyrus in Maine are hosting viral "Avoiding AI" workshops that teach attendees how to disable Apple Intelligence, Gemini, and other AI features forced onto their devices. Cyrus' Bangor Public Library sessions drew 70 attendees including a Zoom livestream, while Bailey's Philadelphia event earned over 2,000 Instagram likes. Both librarians frame the workshops as digital literacy efforts, helping people reclaim autonomy over unwanted AI adoption rather than rejecting technology entirely.

Midjourney launched its V8.2 image model on July 24, 2026, focusing on aesthetics, image quality, and personalization. The update promises more creative, bold, sophisticated, and edgy outputs while dramatically reducing random low-quality image generation. Personalization has been significantly improved, with the system better understanding individual user taste, particularly for users with many ratings on their profiles. V8.2 also features a larger, improved pool of images for building personalization profiles, made possible by community image ratings.

xAI has launched a free Grok add-on for Google Workspace, bringing AI assistance directly into Sheets, Slides, and Docs. In Sheets, Grok answers questions by citing specific cells, writes formulas, and inserts charts. In Slides, it builds presentations from outlines using web and X research. In Docs, it drafts structured content from notes and can pull from Gmail or Google Drive with connectors enabled. A single install from the Google Workspace Marketplace covers all three apps.

Midjourney has acquired personalized astrology app Co-Star, with the deal reportedly closing in spring, though financial terms remain undisclosed. Co-Star founder Banu Guler will retain leadership of the app while also joining Midjourney as chief design officer. Midjourney founder David Holz says Guler and her team will help build the company's first standalone apps, including one focused on image generation. Midjourney currently delivers its AI models via the web and Discord. Co-Star combines NASA data, human insight, and AI for daily horoscopes.