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Week 31 · 2026

July 27 – August 2

69 events

Importance: monitoring Regulation and law 1 source

Criticism: the global AI safety agenda overlooks deployment risks in Africa and the Global South

Analyst Liz Orembo (Research ICT Africa) criticizes the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva for focusing on risks arising from model capabilities, while she argues that actual harms in Africa are caused by deployment risks – discriminatory scoring, digital identities, translation errors.

Importance: monitoring Perplexity AI agents 1 source

Perplexity expands its agentic tool Personal Computer to Windows

Perplexity has launched Personal Computer for Windows – an agent with access to local files, applications and Microsoft 365. It is available on the paid Max and Enterprise Max plans starting at 200 dollars per month.

Importance: monitoring Regulation and law 1 source

Dario Amodei (Anthropic) denies supporting a ban on open-weight models, warns of AI misuse by authoritarian governments

Anthropic chief Dario Amodei denied that the company supports a ban on open-weight models, including Chinese models. He was responding to a letter from Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Hugging Face opposing restrictions. He sees the main threat in authoritarian governments, not in open weights as such.

Importance: monitoring New models ✓ official

Liquid AI releases two text understanding models with a context length of 8 192 tokens

Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M, designed to be fine-tuned for classification and other text understanding tasks. They support 8 192 tokens and, according to the company, process long inputs faster than the models used for comparison, even on a CPU.

Importance: important GitHub Tools and apps ✓ official

GitHub extends central management of Copilot settings to the Copilot app and the cloud agent

GitHub has extended central settings management (managed-settings.json) for Copilot to the Copilot app and the cloud agent - previously, it applied only to Copilot CLI and VS Code. Administrators can thus manage plugins, marketplaces and the bypassing of approval prompts consistently across clients.

Importance: monitoring Regulation and law 1 source

The Trump administration is divided over policy on artificial intelligence and China

According to Wired, the US government is divided over its approach to regulating AI and China – Commerce Secretary Lutnick, adviser Sacks, Treasury Secretary Bessent and others disagree on export controls, sanctions and the pace of open-weight model development.