AI News — Wednesday, July 29, 2026

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Cyera Acquires Oasis Security for $1 Billion to Bolster AI Agent Safeguards

Cyera has agreed to acquire Oasis Security for $1 billion, signaling a major investment in securing the rapidly growing ecosystem of AI agents.

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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence Model Released

A new 'frontier intelligence' model, Kimi K3, has been released, garnering significant attention for its capabilities.

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Google Redesigns Search Box for First Time in 25 Years, Signaling AI Integration

Google has unveiled the first redesign of its search box in 25 years, a move widely interpreted as a foundational change to better integrate AI-powered search experiences.

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Bot-Detection Startup Spur Secures $200 Million Investment from Insight

Spur, a startup specializing in bot detection, has raised $200 million from Insight, highlighting increasing concerns and investments in combating automated threats.

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Gemini API Managed Agents Updated with 3.6 Flash, Hooks, and New Features

Google has announced significant updates to its Gemini API Managed Agents, introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, new hooks, and other enhancements for developers.

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Slopsquatting: A New Supply Chain Attack Weaponizing AI Hallucinations

A new cybersecurity threat called 'Slopsquatting' has emerged, exploiting AI hallucinations to launch supply chain attacks.

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OpenAI Explores Scientific Computing in the Age of Agentic AI

OpenAI has published insights into how agentic AI is transforming scientific computing, suggesting a future where AI agents play a pivotal role in research and discovery.

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Urgent Warning: Audit AI Agents with Write Access to Public Repositories

Developers are being urged to immediately audit any AI agents granted write access to public repositories due to potential security vulnerabilities.

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AI Mode in Google Search Offers 5 Ways to Enhance Real-World Experiences

Google highlights five practical ways its AI Mode in Search can help users engage more effectively with the real world, from planning to problem-solving.

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A New Role for Relevance: Guiding Corpus Interaction in Agentic Search

New research explores how relevance can be redefined to guide AI agents in interacting with information corpora, enhancing agentic search capabilities.

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Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance in On-Policy Diffusion Distillation

Researchers are re-evaluating classifier-free guidance techniques within on-policy diffusion distillation, aiming to improve the efficiency and quality of diffusion models.

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HiFi-UMI: Learning Deployable Manipulation Policies from High-Fidelity UMI Data Alone

New research introduces HiFi-UMI, a method for learning effective robotic manipulation policies solely from high-fidelity unstructured multi-modal interaction (UMI) data.

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The Physics of Multi-Turn Long-Horizon Planning in Agentic AI

A new paper delves into the underlying 'physics' of multi-turn, long-horizon planning for AI agents, exploring pre-training and post-training via distillation.

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ClinFusion: A Vision-Centric Multimodal LLM System for Holistic Medical Understanding

ClinFusion introduces a novel vision-centric multimodal large language model system designed for comprehensive understanding in the medical domain.

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Mage-VL: An Efficient Codec-Native Streaming Multimodal Foundation Model

Mage-VL is presented as an efficient, codec-native streaming multimodal foundation model, promising advancements in real-time multimodal processing.

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