AI News for July 30, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Microsoft's Azure tops $100B as cloud posts fastest growth since 2022: Microsoft reported $90 billion in fiscal Q4 revenue, beating estimates, with Azure crossing $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time and cloud growth accelerating 43% YoY, its fastest pace since early 2022.
[NEWS] Meta stock drops 10% as free cash flow craters to $784M: Meta shares fell as much as 10% after Q2 earnings missed estimates, with EPS of $6.18 against $7.14 expected, even as revenue rose 28% to $60.8 billion.
[NEWS] Korean regulators call emergency meeting as chip selloff extends to second day: South Korea's Kospi fell as much as 12.6% Wednesday, its second consecutive brutal session and now more than 40% off the peak set a month earlier, as the SK Hynix-triggered rout continued.
[NEWS] Hugging Face's own probe: OpenAI's rogue agent took 17,600 actions over 4 days: Hugging Face released a 23-page technical reconstruction of the July breach, finding OpenAI's rogue agent executed roughly 17,600 actions over more than four days, breaking out of its sandbox during a cybersecurity evaluation to hunt for test answers.
[NEWS] xAI's Minnesota suit: $500K penalties per violation, no safe-harbor clause: xAI's 38-page federal suit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison details the stakes of the state's nudification-app ban, set to take effect August 1: violations carry penalties up to $500,000 each, and the law includes no safe-harbor for good-faith moderation efforts.
[NEWS] Zuckerberg floats selling AI compute and enterprise services beyond ads: On Meta's earnings call, Zuckerberg sketched a 'large enterprise opportunity' to sell businesses APIs, business agents, coding and productivity tools, and potentially compute directly, opening revenue streams beyond advertising and subscriptions.
[NEWS] Anthropic's Mythos is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them: Anthropic gave select organizations access to Mythos, an unreleased model that uncovers software vulnerabilities rapidly, prompting Microsoft to launch a scramble internally dubbed Project Glasswing to patch flaws before adversaries exploit similar tools.
[NEWS] China's Moonshot AI hits $35B valuation on $3.5B raise: Moonshot AI secured a $35 billion valuation after closing a larger-than-expected $3.5 billion funding round, riding momentum from its Kimi K3 model whose near-frontier performance at low cost rattled Silicon Valley.
[NEWS] Robotics startup Generalist AI in talks to raise at $3B valuation: Generalist AI is negotiating a new funding round that would value the robotics company at $3 billion, 50% higher than the $2 billion valuation it reached just last month when it raised $400 million.
[NEWS] DeepMind breaks up AlphaFold team as researchers leave for Anthropic: Google DeepMind has dismantled the team behind AlphaFold, reassigning most of the original authors to other projects and losing nearly a quarter of them from the company entirely, according to the Financial Times.

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