Daily AI Recap: Jul 26, 2026

Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.

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How to Efficiently Prompt Claude Code: Maximize your efficiency with Claude Code The post How to Efficiently Prompt Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science....
How to Give an LLM Agent a Browser: Building a browser-use agent with OpenAI Agents SDK and Playwright MCP The post How to Give an LLM Agent a Browser appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Cracking the Data Science Case Study Interview: Data science case study interviews are not just about writing code. They test how you think through a problem, analyze data, make decisions, and explain your approach in a way that solves a real busin...
Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others: A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor....
Sakana AI Releases Fugu-Cyber: An Orchestration Model Reporting 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM: Sakana AI has released Fugu-Cyber, a security-tuned endpoint on its Fugu orchestration model. It reports 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM, edging past GPT-5.5-Cyber and Claude Mythos Preview. ...

FAIRChem v2 UMA for Multidomain Atomistic Simulation across Molecules, Catalysts, Materials, Vibrations, and Molecular Dynamics: In this tutorial, we explore FAIRChem v2 and the UMA universal machine-learning interatomic potential as a unified framework for atomistic simulation ...
Induction Labs Photon-1 Simulates Desktops, Plays Checkers, and Models Billiard Physics From One Pretraining Run: Most agents that learn from video need to know what action produced each frame. Induction Labs is arguing that this requirement is the bottleneck. Las...
KwaiKAT Team Releases KAT-Coder-V2.5: An Agentic Coding Model Trained on 100,000+ Verifiable Repository Environments: The KwaiKAT Team at Kuaishou has published the KAT-Coder-V2.5 technical report, arguing that agentic coding capability is bottlenecked by training inf...
Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack: "The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"...
Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3: A Multimodal Flow Model for Image, Video, Audio and Robot Action Prediction: Black Forest Labs (BFL) has released FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, videos and audio inside a single architecture. It ...
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI: On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street....