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Yesterday in AI | 20 July 2026
The Nationwide Data Center Protests and Capital One's AI Security Tool
The physical realities of AI infrastructure sparked a national movement this weekend while the cybersecurity market experienced a massive open-source disruption. This episode breaks down Capital One launching VulnHunter, an agentic security tool that completely changes how developers hunt for code vulnerabilities. We look at Patreon ditching policy files to actively block training bots at the network level, framing data scraping as a core consent issue.
We also unpack how the San Francisco City Attorney forced Apple and Google to quickly pull deepfake apps by targeting platform liability. Finally, we cover the unprecedented 142 coordinated protests across the country fighting hyperscale data center construction, and Major League Baseball's new rule banning real-time AI assistants in the dugout during live games.
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