2026

Apple says security patches come faster due to accelerated AI hacking

Marc Andreessen says ChatGPT is better than 99% of doctors — data contradicts this

Chinese chipmaker Nexchip Semiconductor plans Hong Kong IPO for $890 million

Former AI head at Standard Chartered David Hardoon leads AI direction at Accenture

Digital Realty to buy Blackstone stake in Northern Virginia data centers for $7.8 billion

German fund Vsquared Ventures opens London office against Atomico and Balderton

How a Habr author created an AI assistant on Hermes Agent for family and support in Telegram

A Habr author shared how he set up a group chat in Telegram with his wife and AI agent Hermes Agent — and his wife started adding features t

01Samsung Galaxy Book6 Edge at $2,100 gets NPU with 80 TOPS and 16GB RAMJul 17, 2026·2 min 02INFERA AI.Firewall and Agent Runtime Security approach for protecting business AI agentsJul 17, 2026·2 min 03Blue Origin still doesn't know why New Glenn rocket exploded but plans another launchJul 17, 2026·2 min 04Canada introduces Bill C-36 to crack down on price discrimination based on consumer dataJul 17, 2026·2 min 05Habr author warns: thoughtless AI use leads to specialist degradationJul 17, 2026·2 min

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Court Rejected Elon Musk's xAI Lawsuit Against OpenAI over Grok Chatbot Theft

Court Dismissed xAI's Claims Against OpenAI: the Plaintiff Alleged the Company Attempted to Access Trade Secrets by Poaching a Grok Develope

01Sakana AI Released Sakana Marlin — an Agent for 100-Page Reports with SlidesJul 17, 2026·2 min 02Diasoft Explained Why It Chose Digital Q.Integration Platform over Traditional ESBJul 17, 2026·2 min 03AWS Will Allocate $1 Billion for Forward Deployed Engineering Following Palantir's ModelJul 17, 2026·2 min

AI Warehouse Agent in Jamix Gained Write Access: Security and Audit

Jamix Developers Gave the Spring AI-based Warehouse Agent Permission to Modify Data and Discussed Security, Audit of Model Actions, and Tran

HashiCorp Released Terraform MCP Server 1.0 — an AI Bridge to Terraform Registry

HashiCorp Moved Terraform MCP Server to GA: the Server Connects LLM Agents with Terraform Registry so AI Writes Current HCL Configurations R

How to Deploy AI Agents in Legacy Code to Avoid Silent Regressions in Production

Habr Translated a Guide on Deploying AI Agents in Legacy Systems: Testing, Documentation, and Compromise Boundaries to Prevent Agents from Reverting Refactoring by Thousands of Lines

Google Released Android 17 with Gemini Intelligence and Gaming Mode for Foldable Smartphones

LLM·Guardian

AI Drone with Thermal Camera Found Lost Tourists in Kosciuszko National Park in Five Hours

Developers Criticized Microsoft's Three-Year LTS Support Window for .NET Platform

LLM·3DNews AI

Model Z.ai from Zhipu AI Matched Anthropic in Code Vulnerability Detection

Robot Economics: Why Surgical Machines Pay Off, but Fruit Pickers Don't Yet

MTS AI Discussed on Habr How Training Methods for Luna Line CV Segmentation Models are Changing

Amazon Seeks Cheaper Claude Alternatives as Anthropic Moves to Token-Based Billing

Amazon is looking for cheaper alternatives to Claude after Anthropic transitioned to token-based pricing, which could significantly increase

01AI Agents in Production: Six Architectural Errors That Prevent Them From Reaching LaunchJul 17, 2026·2 min 02Solo Developer Sunarius: AI Didn't Make the RPG for Him, but Lowered the Entry BarrierJul 17, 2026·2 min 03Synthetic Customers: PwC and Bain on a New E-commerce ToolJul 17, 2026·2 min 04Midjourney vs Nano Banana Pro vs FLUX 2 Max: Comparing Image Generation AI Models in 2026Jul 17, 2026·2 min 05AI code generation quietly erases architectural understanding in development teamsJul 17, 2026·2 min

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PWN AI expert Artyom Semenov: how AI agents delete files and compromise themselves

PWN AI Telegram channel author Artyom Semenov told Habr how the attack surface on AI agents and MCP protocols has grown and why system promp

01Vercel launches Vercel Services—unified frontend and backend deployment in one projectJul 17, 2026·2 min 02Meta restricted engineers' use of Claude Code and Codex due to distillation riskJul 17, 2026·2 min 03Panasonic will ramp up battery production for data centers in U.S. by fiscal 2028Jul 17, 2026·2 min

Nvidia rival Etched raises $800M from Jane Street and TSMC partner venture fund

AI chip startup Etched, a Nvidia competitor in the inference segment, has raised $800M from trading firm Jane Street and venture fund Ventur

An AI agent is an LLM in a loop in 20 lines of code: where complexity begins

A Habr author explains how a real AI agent differs from a prompt and chatbot, showing that at the core of an agent is an LLM in a loop just

AI shopping outpaced search on Prime Day: Amazon received traffic from chatbots

According to Adobe Analytics, over Prime Day 2026's four days, Americans spent a record $26.4 billion, with some Amazon traffic for the first time coming via AI chatbot recommendations rather than sea

Meituan trained AI model LongCat-2.0 with 1.6 trillion parameters entirely on Chinese chips

Visa Names AI Investment and Online Competition as Keys to Global Economic Growth in 2026

Chamath Palihapitiya's 8090 Startup Raises $135 Million Led by Salesforce

After Harvey, Agriculture May Be Next AI Unicorn Worth $10 Billion

Meta Hired Contractors to Pose as Teens and Test ChatGPT

SAP Puts AI Products Under CEO and COO Control

Emily Bender Explains What 'Stochastic Parrots' Really Means, Five Years Later

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Japan to Award Rakuten Consortium Up to $926 Million for Satellite Network

Japanese government is ready to award the Rakuten Group-led consortium a subsidy of up to 150 billion yen for a low-orbit satellite communication network.

John and Mindy Gray Award $55 Million to AI Institute for Early Cancer Detection at Penn