AI News · Signals
4 signals from AI News.
July 31, 2026
What mattered
Selected reading from a source HRVSTR watches. Each link opens the original reporting.
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View image: ( Follow image link: ( Caption: Welcome back, Superhuman. How bad was this month’s stock selloff? Bad enough to force one of AI’s most talked-about hedge funds nearly out of business. Founded by a former OpenAI employee, the fund had soared roughly 1,000% since 2024 — but that momentum reversed practically overnight. Today: Freehand chases overdue invoic...…
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AI safety and alignment has been front and center these past few weeks. ShellyPalmer ( Think about this THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2026 Greetings from SLC Concourse A. I'm heading home from KPMG's Tech & Innovation Symposium. Huge thanks to Richard Entrup for the invitation and to the team at KPMG for an exceptional event. In the news: AI sa...…
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View image: ( Follow image link: ( Caption: Welcome back. After Claude Opus 5 set a new record on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark last week (considered to be the holy grail of difficult benchmarks), OpenAI managed to triple their score this week with a couple of minor tweaks. Sometimes the model m...…
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View image: ( Follow image link: ( Caption: Welcome back, Superhuman. AI just entered Black Mirror territory. We’ve seen it generate text, images, and lifelike videos. But digital people? Or two-person podcasts? Those are both new — and just dropped yesterday. Speaking of dropping, don’t check your stock portfolio if you own lots of tech stocks. To...…