Daily Tech Digest - July 25, 2026
July 25, 2026 —
Rik Bon
Tags: tech, news, ai, linux, cloud, cybersecurity
TL;DR: 1. Runway Launched an AI Router for Generative Media (2 minute read); 2. Intel's stock jumps as chipmaker rides AI boom to fastest revenue growth in almost 15 years (4 minute read); 3. AMD and Cerebras Launch AI Inference Solution (10 minute read)
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TLDR AI Deep Dive
- Runway Launched an AI Router for Generative Media (2 minute read)
- Intel's stock jumps as chipmaker rides AI boom to fastest revenue growth in almost 15 years (4 minute read)
- AMD and Cerebras Launch AI Inference Solution (10 minute read)
- CoderPad's CEO says “AI fluency” is fake. The VP of Product disagrees. Watch them debate (Sponsor)
- Microsoft's New MAI-Image and MAI-Voice (2 minute read)
- DeepSeek's Huawei-Chip Training Claim Finally Gets Its Benchmarks, and Its Doubters (3 minute read)
- Agentic coding goes hands-free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live's full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop (5 minute read)
- A GPU-Hour Isn't a Commodity If You Need Four of Them (6 minute read)
- Understanding the AI economy (7 minute read)
- How to Build a Frontier Model Factory (48 minute read)
- Sierra acquires TakeOff, the long-horizon AI agent platform (3 minute read)
Techmeme Highlights
- I'm laughing at how Sol is in the lightest of grays on these graphs.
- OpenAI relaunches Apple Health-connected ChatGPT feature with expanded access
- Trump promises investigation into EU fines on US big tech
- Man charged for using phone's ‘duress’ password to wipe data
- One big holding here, that will likely escape some notice, is that one of the associational plaintiffs was foundt o lack standing altogether. That is big, decisions like this help shape who can bring challenges in the future. That kills several challenges to the law altogether [image]
- Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 with efficiency, safety improvements
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the AI Boom in South Korea
- Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning
- Wise Suffers Setback In U.S. Expansion As Regulator Denies Bank License
- Kimi K3 performs significantly below the most recent frontier cyber-capable models on preliminary cyber evaluations run by UK AISI / CAISI.
- Internet Freedom Foundation calls India's BitChat GitHub takedown order ‘unconstitutional’
- Meta launches Seller, a free standalone app version of Facebook Marketplace; Seller includes AI features that scan photos to fill out listings automatically