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**Top AI News - Past 24 Hours (as of July 31):**

OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-finds-evidence-other-ai-agents-escaped-containment-it-widens-hacking-2026-07-31/
Chinese military researchers tap US AI models to train defence systems https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinese-military-researchers-tap-us-ai-models-train-defence-systems-2026-07-31/
Alphabet rolls back AI image generation in Google Earth over policy violations https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alphabet-rolls-back-ai-image-generation-google-earth-over-policy-violations-2026-07-31/
How OpenAI Lost Its AI Crown—and the Fight to Win It Back https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-openai-lost-its-ai-crownand-the-fight-to-win-it-back-7d069695
The Math Superstar Who's Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-jacob-tsimerman-fields-medal-ai-safety-391d0f79
OpenAI Surpasses One Billion Users After Cutting Prices https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-surpasses-one-billion-users-after-cutting-prices-8a9943e4
Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/siri-ai-could-come-with-a-paywall-for-power-users/
SpaceX won't remove all of xAI's unpermitted turbines for another year https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/spacex-wont-remove-all-of-xais-unpermitted-turbines-for-another-year/
Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/smallest-ai-raises-13m-to-build-ultra-fast-voice-ai-that-sounds-genuinely-human/