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Wednesday, July 29

10 items
Tools and apps only one source so far

Bolt introduces ride booking through a plugin in ChatGPT

Bolt has launched ride booking through a plugin in ChatGPT, available in Czechia too. It displays the price, route and driver arrival, and the booking is completed in the Bolt app; according to the company, payment through ChatGPT is expected to be added later this year.

Regulation and law only one source so far

Analysis: the concentration of computing infrastructure and skills deepens global inequality in AI

An analysis by IEEE Spectrum describes deepening global inequality in AI: the concentration of data centers and cloud services in the USA, differences in digital skills, the withdrawal of the South African AI policy over nonexistent citations, and the Indonesian BRIN project for local communities.

IEEE Spectrum — Artificial Intelligence Details and sources →
Tools and apps only one source so far

AI-generated personalized children's books given as gifts spark disputes between parents and grandparents

Grandparents in the USA are giving children personalized books from AI tools such as Imagitime or Childbook.ai. Parents criticize the low quality of the texts and unclear handling of children's photos, while a researcher at Macquarie University confirms their lower quality compared with traditional books.

Wired — AI section Details and sources →
Tools and apps only one source so far

Guide: adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT in the web interface

Simon Willison described how to set up a custom MCP server in Claude.ai and ChatGPT. In Claude.ai, it takes a few clicks in the Connectors menu; in ChatGPT, you need to enable the hidden Developer mode, and MCP is referred to there as a „Plugin"; MCP does not work in ChatGPT voice mode.

Simon Willison — AI tag (leading independent LLM commentator) Details and sources →

Tuesday, July 28

14 items
Business and investment only one source so far

Startup Runlayer sues Rippling over alleged theft of an MCP gateway idea

Runlayer, a startup with a Model Context Protocol gateway, is suing competitor Rippling for intellectual property infringement. During nearly a year of product testing, Runlayer shared source code and plans with Rippling, but after unsuccessful pricing negotiations Rippling allegedly created its own clone. Rippling…

TechCrunch AI Original source ↗
Business and investment only one source so far

Investors are concerned about financial pressures in the AI ecosystem after Google increased spending

Google raised its spending estimate to up to 205 billion dollars; the article claims it will spend more than it earns. Investors are concerned about similar problems at Meta, Amazon, Microsoft. Nvidia guarantees OpenAI debt totaling 250 billion dollars. The article speculates about a surplus of data centers.

New models only one source so far

The OlmoEarth platform: Geospatial model inference at planetary scale

AI2 introduced the OlmoEarth platform for running Earth observation foundation models trained on 10 terabytes of satellite data. The platform enables continental-scale geospatial analysis in approximately one day at costs of fractions of a cent per square kilometer. Applications include monitoring…

Hugging Face Blog Original source ↗
Security only one source so far

AI is transforming healthcare, but not everyone will share in the benefits

The Canadian government launched the ‘AI for everyone’ strategy to drive economic growth, but according to the author — a physician and dean — it lacks a plan for equitable adoption. AI is spreading unevenly and in wealthier institutions; algorithms trained on data underrepresenting minorities introduce bias when they fail…

The Conversation — Artificial Intelligence Original source ↗
AI agents only one source so far

How Gemini Flash agents automated data processing on a Michigan farm

Paul Windemuller, a Michigan farmer with 260 Holstein cattle, created a multi-agent system with Gemini 3.6 Flash to automate processing of sensor, weather and milk quality data. Instead of manually merging spreadsheets every morning, the system now generates daily reports. Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper for agentic…

Google — Gemini blog (official release channel) Original source ↗
Business and investment only one source so far

Amazon scales back development of Nova models and shifts resources to Frontier research

According to Business Insider, Amazon is restructuring its AI strategy and scaling back development of Nova models (Premier, Omni, Reel, Canvas). The models remain in maintenance mode but are not being actively developed. Resources are being shifted to the Frontier Model Research group led by Pieter Abbeel. A new foundation model is expected at the conference…

The Decoder (daily AI news) Original source ↗
AI agents clearly official source

Gemini API Managed Agents update: Gemini 3.6 Flash, environment hooks and new features

Google expanded Gemini API Managed Agents with Gemini 3.6 Flash as the default model, added environment hooks for controlling tool calls (security gating, linting, audit), free access on the free tier and remote MCP server integration. Developers can choose Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite models.

Google AI blog (The Keyword — AI) Original source ↗