AI News for July 24, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Alphabet's ~7% stock drop is its worst day since the tariff selloff as banks cut targets: Alphabet shares fell nearly 7% after its Q2 earnings, the stock's worst day since the tariff selloff, as at least six banks cut their price targets on the company.
[NEWS] Bipartisan 'AI Kill Switch Act' would let DHS shut down dangerous AI systems: Reps.
[TOOLS] Microsoft launches in-house MAI models, claims up to 89% cost cut versus OpenAI: Microsoft released two internal models into public preview: MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model for high-volume workloads.
[TOOLS] Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3, a multimodal model that generates video with native audio: Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model jointly trained on images, video, and audio that generates clips up to 20 seconds long with native sound from a single prompt.
[NEWS] Uber's customer service cuts come with a return-to-office mandate for remote staff: Alongside its 10% cut to customer service roles, Uber is requiring remaining remote employees on that team to work from an office three days a week.
[TOOLS] OpenAI opens ChatGPT Health to all US adults as a lawsuit tests its limits: OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Health to every US user over 18, letting people connect Apple Health, medical records from Epic and Oracle Health, and wellness apps to review labs, prep for appointments, and analyze their data in the main chat.
[NEWS] AMD touts Helios rack, Cerebras pact, and open-source AI at Advancing AI: AMD CEO Lisa Su used the sold-out Advancing AI conference to promote Helios, which she called the industry's "highest performance AI rack," and unveiled a partnership with Cerebras built around "disaggregated inference" that splits prompt-processing and answer-generation across different hardware.
[TOOLS] Anthropic brings Claude voice mode to Opus and Sonnet, adds app integrations: Anthropic upgraded Claude's voice mode to run on its more powerful Opus and Sonnet models for the first time, moving beyond the quick-but-shallow Haiku model it launched with.
[TOOLS] OpenAI brings GPT-Live voice to Codex and ChatGPT desktop for hands-free coding: OpenAI extended its full-duplex GPT-Live voice model to the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS and Windows, integrating it with Codex and ChatGPT Work so engineers can orchestrate coding jobs, review pull requests, and debug by talking.
[NEWS] Intel posts fastest revenue growth in 15 years as AI data center sales jump 59%: Intel reported Q2 revenue of $16.1 billion, up 25% YoY, with adjusted earnings of $0.42 per share nearly double Wall Street's expectations, sending shares up more than 11% after hours.

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