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Today's top AI news stories — 2026-07-15: 1. OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year OpenAI's first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won't have a screen, but will use a camera and additiona 2. Meta Sued for Biased AI Layoff Targeting Twenty-six former Meta employees filed a lawsuit alleging the company used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave for mass layoffs. The complaint claims Meta's internal AI systems made discrimin 3. SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage SpaceXAI's Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users' entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports that Cereblab published f 4. The Google Images homepage will recommend photos even before you search Google is announcing a big change to the Google Images homepage in honor of the platform's 25th anniversary this week. Instead of a mostly blank page with a search bar, the homepage will soon show you 5. DeepMind CEO Calls for Global AI Watchdog Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis published a proposal for an independent international AI standards body with power to regulate frontier models, modeled after financial regulators like FINRA. Hassab Full briefing: https://ainews.q-sci.org/blog/post_2026-07-15.html