🗞️ News Buddy — 2026-07-28 (8 stories)
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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI
TechCrunch AI · 2026-07-28
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system
TechCrunch AI · 2026-07-27
Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.
Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive
TechCrunch AI · 2026-07-27
Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.
PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
TechCrunch AI · 2026-07-27
The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.
Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs
TechCrunch AI · 2026-07-27
Meta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI assistant.
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OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control
TechCrunch AI · 2026-07-27
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.
Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing
TechCrunch AI · 2026-07-28
Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.
Google’s AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows
TechCrunch AI · 2026-07-27
Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.